skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm of the exact same opinion, but I've mostly given up on repeating similar notions. I think it's unlikely to change: I read something once that there are about 20 devs on all of twitter that generate 90% of all the tech chatter and hype.

Some days it feels the everybody software industry puts their trust in a handful of famous ex-<insert FANGG> here or famous youtubers / bloggers and takes what they say as undeniable truth (Though this is true for nearly everything nowadays, everything trite, washed down, and summarized with no heart or nuance)

There's a great saying in German: "Die kochen auch nur mit Wasser" - They also cook only with water. Sure, some of these youtubers and bloggers are super smart and helpful, and there are brilliant people who have worked at Silicon Valley companies. But there are smart, helpful, and brilliant people at nearly every company around the world. It just so happens that not all of them blog, have a twitter, or have youtube channels.

Sorry for the oldmanish grumbling but the more I learn about this industry is that everything is about picking the right tool for the job, documenting the arcane decisions made, and managing all of those decisions. When you really start getting into the weeds, the (IMHO) junior level ideals of 'perfectly clean code' and '100% code coverage' rapidly go out the window. We're _maintainers_ of complex systems, not wizards with panaceas. 100% of the time it is picking the tool for the job, and know what you are doing with that tool.

Experimenting? Great. Learning something new? Great. Just don't lumber into your organization one day saying "we should do X or Y because its the hype, or Z said so". Many painful stories can be shared on this type of mentality.
Yup. aka Citizens' Assembly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens'_assembly

One example is Oregon State's Citizen's Initiative Review process, which is just like you describe.

https://medium.com/participo/citizens-initiative-review-help...

https://ballotpedia.org/Citizens%27_Initiative_Review

https://healthydemocracy.org/podcast/2020/01/06/podcast-demo...
The same mechanisms which are going to help you, help scammers. The difference is the intent. So, in law you really do have to be associated by name with your registrations for company name, registration number &c. You can put them behind a legal barrier, but it can be uncovered. This is important.

If your risk is being seen by your employer, then the cost of an intermediary shouldn't be too high. Family trust? You're paying somebody for the incorporation of some entity, to be the holding entity, come what may (ie, nothing is free)

Domain names: easy. Just chose the 'hide registrant' options in the domain registrar.

The hiding wont stop you falling afoul of IPR contractual obligations. If you signed the form, your work may belong to your employer come what may. non-compete clauses too. Deliberately trying to avoid this, by "hiding" is not sensible. It will only increase your burdens in law if it goes there. (it goes to intent)
I've seen this claim a lot lately that Chrome is the new IE. I don't think it holds water.

First, IE was bundled onto virtually every computer at the time and Microsoft went out of their way to stop you from replacing it (eg system actions would use IE).

Second, Microsoft's anticompetitive IE behaviour was aimed at protecting its Window monopoly. Microsoft was worried that the Web would become a device-indepndent platform and that would obviate the need for Windows at all.

Third, is Chrome actually bundled to any large degree? There's enterprise bundling but how significant is it? There are Chromebooks but I feel like they're not a huge factor. I guess there's Android. Chrome's desktop share seems to be 68% [1]. That's impressive for an action people have to take to change the default.

Fourth, Google doesn't have the same motivations as Microsoft (in regards to protecting another platform). There are other much more real issues (eg favoring their other properties like Youtube) but crippling Chrome doesn't seem to be something that aligns with any of their interests. It seems way more likely that Youtube (etc) will work better in Chrome. While that's bad for other browsers, it doesn't have the same negative effects as what Microsoft tried.

Fifth, the core of Chrome (ie Webkit but also V8) is both open source and the core of other browsers (notably Safari and Edge) so it's less likely Web developers will end up in a situation where they effectively have to implement something twice, once for Chrome and once for the rest. That was pretty much the situation with IE.

Will it be a big deal in the future? Maybe. I don't really see this being a big problem anytime soon however.

[1]: https://backlinko.com/browser-market-share
There is a small park in south Denver where numerous bike trails converge. Years back, I once saw a young child selling lemonade there on a day when the temperature was 95F. He was charging 5 dollars for small glasses of lemonade. But it was so hot and there were so many bikers out anyway... he had a line waiting. I have no idea how much money he took home, but I am sure he was having a great day.
In a discussion about encouraging browser diversity, are you seriously arguing that it’s an unreasonable burden on web developers to ensure their websites work on more than one browser engine?
Again it was you who said goodbye yet because of your obsession you are still continuing this conversation.
I have a small question: Can I anyhow sideload the real Fifefox on iOS?
No, of course that is a large part of the story, but things like the Willowbrook expose also caused left-wing politicians (in that case Robert Kennedy) to also attack institutions.
I think part of the problem is the opposite: most styles of Western music are composed based on fairly common patterns to to the point it's possible to generate perfectly adequate music from rhythm/instrument/scale/chord templates without the neural net.

Training neural nets on MIDI files seems to allow them to pick up these structures (better than unpicking them from raw audio) but it's a lossy format which misses all the unique instrument sounds and nuances of playing and sounds of the human voice.

The Bon Jovi / Chopin crossover here isn't particularly musically interesting, but mainly it doesn't fit the prompt because MuseNet has no idea what Bon Jovi's voice or guitar tone sounds like https://openai.com/blog/musenet/
And yes, it's also unimpressive because a toy script could add drums and bass and variations to the piano hook...

By analogy, I guess it's like training an AI image generator on polygons and textures. You'd end up with coherent geometry and the ability to look at the asset from different perspectives which might be useful to generate video as well as static assets, but the images would look like late 90s computer games, not photographs and wouldn't be difficult to procedurally generate in other ways.

Training on raw audio could pick up the nuances in tone and timing but lose the differentiation between instruments and notes in the mix which allows the music to be rearranged. I guess an idealised training set would include track by track raw audio and notation: but good luck getting the music industry to licence that as a training set...
Meta wants to create a metaverse, AI generated content like texts would be very helpful to make the metaverse more fleshed out.
So with you.

I'm just exhausted with Google. Seriously. Yet another, "Upgrading from Duck Fuck to Fuck Duck".

Enough. Just fucking stop it already.
I wonder whether it could be as simple as getting a loan in USD requiring stricter terms: he seems like the kind of guy who’d balk at doing more work to get less money, even if that’s ill-advised from a risk perspective.
+1 to phrasing blocking/mandatory change requests as "We" rather than "You"
Not in the US you can't. Even if you curate the list, a list of facts can never be copyrighted, only creative expression can be copyrighted.

But other countries have different rules.

See here for all the details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....
For what it’s worth I also remember hearing that the Jaguar was incredibly buggy. If they had more time they probably could have corrected that so developers didn’t have to worry about it.
You absolutely can copyright lists of facts in most jurisdictions outside the US

In the US it is pretty hard[1], but most other jusdictions find that if the list has some "creative" or "work" element (ie, it isn't just a list of everything) then it can be under copyright (eg [2]).

[1] https://www.justia.com/intellectual-property/copyright/lists...

[2] https://www.smh.com.au/national/list-makers-on-solid-copyrig...
I don't see it being buried (author), it seems to stand at neutral karma.

But usually such opinions are fairly controversial, which suggests a clash of deeper underlying values.
What? I don't see how this let you advance further. May be it's a good advice to expand your taxi driving to day time, too, firstly.
The two subclauses of "when we" are joined by an "or", so only one of them has to be true to fulfill the "when" condition.
Probably just because it isn't a very high bar. "People who eat McDonald's linked to fewer car accidents." I mean some data might just show that, but causality is a lot further away there.

Hence, while a correlation might be interesting, when presented we need to also understand the methodology and go into the detail a little bit to see how extra factors have narrowed down that finding.

E.g, without looking into any of the data, 'more Flu shots reduces risk of Alzheimer's' might be because people predisposed to Alzheimer's have a poor diet and the flu shot just counters some other terrible health effect. So first bit of detail to look at is whether the selection factors for diet, comorbidities, environment, general health, history, etc.

Not saying anything about this article, but context is always important, hence those claiming 'correlation !== causation' are only correct as far as not looking any deeper. Same for 'well it could be' is useless without knowing how close to 'could be' it is.

More critical imo, is the use of '40% reduction.' If this is relative risk (this study is not, it's absolute), the actual risk could be 0.0037%, where a reduction of 40% is practically nothing. So next check is: is this relative or absolute risk? If relative, relative to what baseline? So many studies are distorted by using relative risks against a meaningless baseline.
Optimization runs the universe and our lives
> 21k lines of Perl

GLORIOUS

$10 says this was made by someone who worked at an ISP.
If the miracle cure for the obesity epidemic was “eat any food you want until you’re not hungry, just as long as you don’t eat processed food” then we wouldn’t have a mystery or a problem. We'd just have one set of people who knew how to prepare unprocessed food, and one set of people who chose to continue to eat processed food (and thus remained obese.) We could then deal with the obesity epidemic the same way we dealt with smoking.

But things are not that simple. There is no evidence that simply removing processed food is an effective enough diet to produce the sustained 10-20% weight loss (or more) that many obese Americans would need to experience in order to weigh the same as their grandparents. And in fact there is overwhelming evidence that this modest intervention (and several more extreme calorie restricted versions) tend not to produce durable weight loss in anywhere near that amount.

PS Don’t take this the wrong way. I really really wish that that diet did work. I would pay you literally thousands of dollars to make it work. Because our grandparents ate a very filling and diverse diet, and that diet would be effortless to follow.
On my desk I have 6 of these same LG 5K monitors sibling comments are talking about, 2 to a 2019 MBP16, and 4 to a Mac Studio.

On the MBP, I need one TB3 cable to each side of the MBP, not both to the same side. MBP screen is active as well, so it’s driving all three.

On the Mac Studio, I run 4 x TB3 cables into the back. Occasionally (once a week?) the four monitors sometimes seem to wake out of order. I tap touch ID twice to off-and-on-again them, second time’s a charm.
I think the author misunderstood Epic's use of 'Creator': It means Content Creator, as in Youtubers and Streamers. This 5% is basically a referral or affiliate bonus.

By contrast, Amazon only offers 1% for video games: https://www.smartpassiveincome.com/guide/amazon-affiliate-pr...
learn to say no, how to negotiate and how to sell.
The slogans are sometimes a bit like barnum-statements too.

i.e. They are designed so anyone can read them and fit their already held beliefs onto them. There is a some kind of interpretation of 'My Body, My Right' that can fit to almost any view on the whole political spectrum.
This supports my point about the cheapness of nat gas. Higher demand AND lower prices.
> Unlike gold which can be mined in the trillions from asteroids.

Congratulations, this is the stupidest thing I've read on Hacker News. Asteroid mining is not feasible and may never be.

If an argument was valid in 2014 and the logic behind that argument has not changed, it remains valid. People are still making pointless coins and getting big-name social media personalities to promote them.
Anyone know if this contains information on biooengineered ingredients? Seems like everything I buy now says this but it doesn't say which ingredients are bioengineered.
A live animation of Starlink satellites on orbit
I had a similar case recently where I was getting the magic link in an email on my phone, and needed to copy it into Slack so I could click it on the laptop I wanted to actually log in on

This... was impossible to do, because by long-pressing on iOS to get the Copy prompt, iOS also goes ahead and opens a preview of the link next to it
Property values generally go up with bike lanes?

https://www.icebike.org/property-prices/

I get that article is probably biased, maybe you can find the opposite "proof"?

I'm kind of addicted to "Not Just Bikes" (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0intLFzLaudFG-xAvUEO-A) and he claims studies show massive increases in property prices with more bikable / walkable areas.
Exactly! We have a small amount of carbon budget left before we exceed 2C. Using it needs planning. If anything, global warming is a sign that we have basically failed at planning as a species. We glorify our past ability to build but we fail to see that we have overbuilt to the detriment of our future.
I wouldn’t attribute to malice what could be more easily explained by incompetence. There are a ton of broadly agreed upon tweaks that could in aggregate fix a lot but none of them are big enough to campaign on, and they don’t fit neatly into either party’s platform. For example funding more residency positions could drive down the cost of delivering a lot of services over the course of 10 years, but that’s at the edge of CBO accounting and doctors are maybe mildly against it. It’s too free market oriented for dems and a little to spendy for Republicans.

I could go on, but the point is a lot of fixes just aren’t sexy, we elect dummies, and well intentioned people make mistakes.
Ask HN: Why are EVs significantly more expensive than Gasoline Vehicles?
- fewer number of parts
- faster manufacturing since IC engine has a lot more parts
- Battery manufacturing has been a while now (EVs still same cells as other applications)
- In general, much lower BOM (Bill of Material)
- granted, Software is more advanced but if we take Tesla out of picture, rest of the EV companies, have standard software
- Is due to economies of scale problem?

Please ignore current supply chain shortage issues as that is temporary (hopefully) and EV's were expensive prior to covid as well
Does anybody know of a good place to get seasonality information for fruits and veggies?

I found an open source application[1] for showing that stuff, and have been looking around to be able to add information for the North America region. [2]

The FDA database is good and this one is too, but they don't offer any seasonality about fruits or veg :/

[1] https://flunzmas.com/seasonal-foods-calendar/

[2] https://github.com/seasoncalendar/seasoncalendar/issues/115
congrats on the launch, excited to see where y'all go!
a cloud spreadsheet that works and is not screwed with every 6 months
It's very easy to achieve if your process is designed to be correlated with success on the job.

Most aren't though, they're designed as a contrived game that's tangentially related to performance on the job. Which works decent enough if you fire the bottom 20%, but is totally avoidable

Having an authoritative body to make the final hire/no hire decision is important too. Needs to be tightly controlled and consistent. Letting random HMs make the decision will inevitably lead to decline in quality.

If somebody who's good at their job can't do well on your interview without studying, it's a sign your process is not assessing what matters. A good process will select for people who are good, despite whether they study beforehand or not.

I've never had high conviction in a hire and have them underperform on the job. If you do, you need to reassess what criteria you're using to make hiring decisions.

(Never recently, in the early days, yes)
Could you submit your work as prior art?
Clothes are part of self-expression and play a role in a lot of social dynamics.

Wearing swag is as much as a signal as wearing "fast-fashion" clothes or insisting on wearing a shirt and tie on places that do not require it.
A complementary (and fairly easy to demonstrate) theory is that few would be using Next if it weren't for the paid promotion. Doesn't that basically make Vercel a kind of shitcoin?
Ask HN: Author of a Book or App. Which do you respect more?
Curious to know which title garners more credibility... having authored a book or an app.

Which do you respect more?
Worth nothing that Libby also does audiobooks, which I've done a lot more of in the past few years.
> Every system I'm aware of has 128-bit SIMD implemented

These still come in handy on embedded systems where there isn't a vector unit
How do you prove that someone is changing requirements/what was decided previously if you can't show the recording?
> Wearing swag is as much as a signal as wearing "fast-fashion" clothes or insisting on wearing a shirt and tie on places that do not require it.

Vast majority of people are genuinely just wearing some clothes and are not signalling anything.
I'm not super impressed with this paper. It doesn't appear that they've done any tests on actual SSDs. From the paper:

> we evaluate three representative WL techniques [3, 6, 7] that have been compared against a wide variety of other WLs

and

> We extend FTLSim [9]1 for our experiments.

So they picked some algorithms and implemented them in a simulator, with no validation that this is what actual SSDs do?

Also, the code repo that they list consists of nothing but a readme file:

https://github.com/ZiyangJiao/FTLSim-WL
How about "none of the above"?
I think just collecting also counts.

I don't think you can own rights to something other people collected and curated though. Though you can own rights to the individual components, but in this case that would be the specific price of something, which doesn't seem like it should be subject to copyright.
I get it now. Thanks for explaining. That particular problem is solved by rounding up to the SIMD-width for all SIMD-allocations.

Ex: 13-size gets rounded up to 16-sized alloc. 25-size gets rounded up to a 32-sized alloc.

This, in combination of "processing of garbage" and "Valid" flags, should cover all the cases.

EDIT: At least, for the "dynamic" strings that are loaded into memory. Someone elsewhere has brought up compiler strings, which seem complicated to me (I'm not sure if we have any alignment guarantees, and therefore are forced to process strings sequentially, one byte at a time if they're from the compiler).
you don’t need tech interviews to get a job or take contracting gigs.
I don't know, there is something about illegally acquired evidence, and that's the kind of technicalities attorneys love to use if it can benefit their clients.
I look at it this way, when you 1099 yourself you represent yourself as a mini business to your employer. You're responsible for the overhead and risk of that business. That additional cost and risk could easily could represent 2x what a standard salary rate would be for the same position.

Keep in mind contractors can't be expected to be employed consistently, so they have to bake in additional income to tie them over between jobs, or handle the possibility of being unexpectedly terminated. They're trading additional income for added risk and uncertainty.
As a NIMBY, for some things, and a YIMBY for others, I sense my power in this situation is significantly smaller than other costs and consequences. Nothing I think seems to be vested with much power.

Do people think NIMBY have more power than YIMBY? I think it equalises. It might be NIMBY power is indicative of risks, and unassessed costs and consequences?
Clearly money isn’t relevant, because Microsoft failed and Mozilla (which had plenty of money) is circling the drain.
I am familiar with the concepts.

But you've focused on a severe edge case, rather than the discussion at hand.

Moving the goalposts can be fun, I guess. Please do continue, as it's mildly amusing.
> I've seen people say that apartments that are being provided to the homeless for free should have granite countertops or GTFO

This is a common problem in American policy. You're going to have the thing and it's going to be nice, or you're going to be priced out of having it at all.

See minimum floor space regulations, (non-fire related) residential occupancy limits, regulations requiring certain coverage in medical insurance plans, etc. There is a reason that short term insurance plans (STLDIs) that are not subject to as many regulations are much cheaper.
I guess, the Warsaw Pact – as Helmut Schmidt (German chancellor 1974 - 1982) had been a strong supporter of NATO's Pershing II rearmament?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Schmidt
I think F1 teams would figure out how to change batteries fast and recharge them off-track. Mechanical replacement is the only way to rapidly renew the energy density without new chemistry (like you allude).
show code, open source or not, and talk about it.
I feel like 95% of people are friends or family anyway. 5% are hired off the street.
3AC was active in alt coin trade. They definitely knew what they were doing, they have been trading crypto since 2012. They were probably temporarily shorting it on a rotation trade. They got blown out bad by the Luna debacle and then dragged down with it.
why not go the other way and pay politicians well, and with that you can be really hard on all the soft corruption too. don’t we want the best people?
It is in fact possible to extract a destination URL from a Safelink one without clicking it. For the full link this can be tedious, but identifying the domain can still be done quickly.
They used to have a port of Safari for Windows. It was as popular as you'd expect. Having said that, WebKit - the engine underpinning Safari - is open source with BSD and LGPL 2.1 compatible licensing (https://webkit.org/project/). In addition, they make the engine available for use on Linux (https://webkit.org/downloads/). Gnome Epiphany is a browser based on WebKit (https://github.com/GNOME/epiphany). According to their manifesto, they support Simplicity, Standards Compliance and Software Freedom. Specifically, "Epiphany opposes the dominance of the web by proprietary software web browsers. Today's chief offender is Google Chrome, a browser that purports to be open source, yet actually includes several proprietary components."
https://github.com/GNOME/epiphany
I've noticed Office 365 Safe Links makes an OPTIONS request, not GET. So, restricting the endpoint to GET, via [HttpGet] decorator for example, may be a quick resolution.
Why does it matter where the library's budget comes from?