skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People outside the US/Canada who might not be otherwise eligible to be hired as a W2 or T4 equivalent employee.

If you have a US resident's stolen PII and can somehow set up a bank account to receive ACH direct deposits, and are a good enough social engineer, can possibly get hired under that name.
See sister comment re Hispanics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31911584

Also what does being descended from someone who worked as a slave have to do with anything?
What the supreme's did in practice was look for abstruse excuses to justify changing. First, all the republicans claimed they would follow precedent unless there was a really good reason. The earlier draft which quoted philosophers from more than 400 years earlier as a cause was a laughable example. They now claim the limits of our rights were set in 1868. They ignore precedent, including in the published writing of the founders that describes how to cause an abortion (Ben Franklin). Will they now say slavery is legal except for the 13th amendment, women can be controlled by their husbands, Jim Crow type laws are apparently legal again? Is the Civil Rights Law of 1964 now disallowed, because we didn't have civil rights for blacks in 1868?
Here I thought we were talking about protecting lives in the world as it is. Not just babies in an idealized world that doesn't reflect the US' current or projected state.

Anyways. Have a great day.
Ahhhhh thank you! Do you mind opening a PR or issue so I can get to that? Thank you for noticing!!
The War on Drugs has to be one of the biggest blunders of the 20th century. Attempting to block fentanyl at the borders is a fool's errand and blaming Mexico for supplying US demand is misguided and unjust.

The reason the pandemic is winding down is thanks to the vaccines being pushed. Exercise and a healthy diet was Michelle Obama's pet cause, but that didn't get picked up during the next administration.
Yeah, in that case it could just depend on how up to date their map of your nearby access points are. I haven't seen the “United States of Secrets” Frontline special, but I see it's on youtube so thanks for that!
Does this mean that Ontario, BC, and company get to put English-first laws into place?
The alternative is to encourage people to not overdo follow-ups. Those with a strong moral compass with understand your words and play fair, others won’t. This will place the former group at a severe disadvantage. The only practical way to level the playing field is what the article suggests.

Edit: now that I come to think of it, another potential solution might be to encourage the people who receive a lot of emails/messages to ignore follow-ups and only recognize the first piece of communication that was sent to them.
In theory yes, but in practice the majority of modern SPAs are slow and bloated.
18% of the world population, but what is relevant is the % of web users. This country denies its citizen the benefits of an open web and treats the ability to route around censorship like a bug to fix. Why give someone a seat at a committee steering something they openly want to sabotage?
Platform definitly looks cool, if I was in the mood for hunting for those kinds of jobs.

But a bit off-topic, anyone know any platforms that are doing the opposite? Meaning, I'd like to avoid companies who just raised more money (or have VC investments at all actually), avoid companies that are growing the headcount crazy fast and so on.

Is there anything that is like the opposite of Maasive?
> If US data were broken down by state, we'd probably see life expectancy in some states more like rich northwestern European countries, and some states more like poor southeastern European countries.

This is true.

- New York State life expectancy is 81.4 and the Netherlands life expectancy is 81.41

- Hawaii life expectancy is 82.3 and Spain life expectancy is 82.33

- Mississippi life expectancy is 74.9 and Lithuania life expectancy is 74.93

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_...
They can remove explicit images from DALL-E 2's training, but they can't remove them from the future of AI image generation as a whole. In the wise words of Avenue Q, it's what the internet is for.
Wasn't able to watch that far
Yeah. It really is sort of it's own blog post or Medium.com jeremiad. Thanks for at least entertaining the idea of viewing it on a small screen.
I assume you're referring to this: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/9zr3h3/commen...

It's pretty low on google without the "your" and doesn't even have a knowyourmeme page, so I don't think it's a big deal.
> Also, how big is the market for methanol?

"Methanol serves many uses: it comprises gasoline and fuel, facilitates energy generation and forms many chemicals and chemical products, including plastics, paint, resin film, windshield washer fluid and numerous pigments and dyes. Methanol ranks among the most valuable substances due to its wide range of uses in various industries. It classifies as a basic alcohol, making it a cost-effective choice for producing gasoline and synthetic fuels."[0]

Seems pretty useful to me

[0]https://www.reference.com/science/methanol-used-eedca1b7f9f2...
i think this is a preposterous over-exaggeration of the situation. it's just people sending emails to each other for goodness sake.
How China is policing the future
>You could probably grow a farm of deep fakes on some social media site, talking to each other about peculiar niche things using language models, and once that farm is big enough use it to shift opinions/attack. It's scary how small groups of people, or even an individual could do that.

You've just described half of Twitter's MAUs.
I'm reasonably happy with qmetaobject crate of rust to write gui in qml. All logic in rust, all presentation qml
This is a great article. In just looking at the lists of where/why ICs get stuck I feel enabled to grow as an IC.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31911684
Have recently been getting pretty deep into Hugo for a 3rd project and while I love how fast the static sites Hugo builds are. I absolutely hate how every tool I love using takes hours to setup and how it take hours to debug random tooling integration issues between Hugo and node like postcss etc. so much so that despite how much I know Hugo and static sites in general are more often than not the way to go for a lot of things I have been recently reconsidering how much perfect optimization is worth if it takes so much effort to get when something like fresh can deliver what looks like a much better developer experience though perhaps without the perfect optimization
> It's neither redundant nor highly available. The power source isn't, the internet connection isn't and it's also located in my basement and not multiple regions.

For a lot of projects this doesn’t matter. The cost of downtime might be lower than the cost of high availability and occasional downtime is OK.
Are there any examples of things made with Fresh available?
Throwaway Development Environments with Nix
Thank you. I'm using SQLite3 to keep deployment simple, which unfortunately doesn't support stored procedures. Do you have any other suggestions to improve this code?
If you want people to live in your neighborhood and not be "transient" (aka not homeowners), it might help to build enough houses to let them live in them. Although I don't know what being a homeowner has to do with being transient, as you can always sell the home again.

This kind of opinion being popular suggests many Americans would love it if we had a China-style hukou system; if you could forbid other Americans from moving to your town you'd never have to see a younger person again.
> I'm currently losing money on Legible News

> The news content and links from them are from Wikipedia

How are you losing money if all of your content is from Wikipedia, and presumably free?
The matching works well I'll be using this to source jobs in the future especially if I can just get a weekly email.
> what exactly do you do when you have failure

Same thing you have for failure when your pg instance is running on a single node?
Echoing other's comments... I'm happy you did this and hope to see more content like it!
It is the most precise measurement of the energy input required chemically. It says nothing of the efficiency of the process. The energy required to get to 21 bar and 300-500C and maintain it while that energy input is being provided for that specific chemical reaction.

I'll reiterate, I have no issue that it's inefficient, that's to be expected. It's not hard at all to give a net energy input for the entire process. In fact that would be the easiest part of the paper. If you're giving your research to your press office to make a statement about "climate protection" I damn well expect that number to be provided. Powered by nuclear as you propose is wonderful, btw. I personally would take nuclear waste over atmospheric CO2 every day of the week.
What's with the influx of interview related topics?
Ask HN: How do you go about starting to develop an application for Kubernetes?
I'm curious, what's the typical lifecycle of a developer in the space of K8s?

Imagine this scenario: Your manager said "hey we are taking a bet on Kubernetes, now go figure out how to run our apps there."

Do you:

1) Start by setting up local dev environment, use docker locally, build manifest/helm files and test them in a local minikube, and finally think about now moving your code from local dev machine to a cloud managed K8s provider? (AKS, EKS, GKE, etc)

or

2) Go create a cluster first on the cloud (AKS, GKE, EKS), and then learn that you need a docker file, manifest files, etc from the portal and then use the portal as a way to help develop your app?

or 3) Something else?
How would you make that program fair and balanced between all specialty farmers?
I think that really depends on who has access to the AI, and what it will be used for. I've been playing computer games for 40 years, and have seen some highs and lows. But with all the technical advances over those years, the storytelling / character interactivity has generally stagnated or gotten worse.

Sure we've had a few gems here and there, but in general it's much more profitable for a company to cap any novel, exploratory gameplay or story at 10 hours, so that after a day of play it just becomes another online interactive generating subscription and DLC purchases.

Will AI be significant in improving game story quality and play-ability? Provide us with worlds we cannot even imagine, infinite explorations?

Or will AI be used as an excuse to avoid employing expensive and risky human imagination? Instead push everything to a bland middle-ground, lowest common denominator based on the safest and most profitable options determined from the training set...

We're already there, considering most games people play are some kind of optimized hyper-addictive candy crush with guns.

Sure, I can imagine a new Elder Scrolls installment where each npc was actually unique, with meaningful interactivity possible with every contact. Where every side quest is challenging, interesting, and fills out the story universe with depth.

But will we actually get that? Technology tends to be used to increase breadth rather than depth. Quantity, rather than quality. What we'll get is more of the same, Skyrims with ever bigger and more realistic (but not deeper) worlds, optimized to find the cheapest and easiest way to keep you subscribing.
Apple's native apps need to finally break free from iOS updates
I’m very deeply familiar with reStructuredText, having bent both it and Sphinx to my will in great detail a decade ago.

A decade ago, I thought that maybe if reStructuredText had had a non-Python implementation (most significantly at the time, PHP and JavaScript) it would have conquered instead of Markdown, given how clearly superior it is.

Now, I’ve decided that the fact that reStructuredText wasn’t ported is actually bound up in the reason why it didn’t conquer: it’s too fancy, too complex. Markdown is an awful kludge that was built on regular expressions, duct tape and HTML and knows it’s unsound. It’s very strongly web-native. reStructuredText is beautiful elegance and perfection of form, but aggressively medium-neutral, painfully so when you only care about the web, and difficult to implement, and unforgiving of content errors.

So I still wish reStructuredText had won, but I can understand more clearly now why it didn’t, and in fact never really stood a chance.
How is she doing now? Sorry to hear that have had similar issues myself
Why is diversity and size of the country more important to life expectancy than other criteria such as wealth of the country? The US is a much richer country than Brazil, roughly 10th in per capita GDP vs 90th depending on what list you use. That wealth should theoretically allow for better healthcare.
I would not care about farmers at all. Farmers can respond to supply and demand.

Society’s goal would be to increase demand of healthy foods, and decrease demand of unhealthy foods.
I don't buy it. Some areas of the US have obesity rates similar to western Europe (and let's be honest, when your obesity rate is 1 in 4, you don't get to brag about it being low). I suspect there are other indicators that an experienced person could use to identify nationalities without requiring a verbal conversation first.
Great round up on these , I had missed the AWS Organizations updates.
oblig DNA

Man has always assumed that he is more intelligent than dolphins because he has achieved so much--the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But, conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons.
Current BTC price levels are being closely monitored as a potential location for a macro Bitcoin price trend reversal.
> single and willing to learn

Do you say this because of the time commitment in learning french or because Montreal is a fun city to be single?
I think of that song by the Talking Heads Psycho Killer that has the line "Say something once, why say it again?" which sometimes seems like the most sensible thing anyone has every said.

That is, a "news" application should work a bit like Tinder. News articles should slide through and be either accepted or rejected: you should never see the same article twice in the "new" feed.

This counts for sites like HN and reddit too.
When you say losing money, do you mean opportunity costs from your time developing it?

Because running a website like that should cost basically nothing.
I gotta say, it's pretty cool how nice young people have it these days with what's available in terms of stuff like Hack Club. The whole scene has become WAY more inclusive as a result of things like that, and the acerbic hacker archetype who snaps at you for not knowing things the way they do is so dead as a result - that to me is great, I don't miss those guys and their gatekeeping.

If you want to check out some fun assembly code in a larger program, I suggest checking out the leaked furby source code. [1] The assembly for the lunar landing modules from the 1960s is also pretty wild [2]

[1] https://www.seanriddle.com/furbysource.pdf

[2] https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11
/offtopic
What happened to the ranking of this post? It was top 3 (yeah!) and now it’s suddenly 40+ … How can this happen? Dang?
I have been looking for this with my friend for the last 6 months. I saw it on HN about two years ago and have shown it to him. Neither of us were able to find it again, especially since we thought the title was `Going Viral`, which made it especially hard to find given the COVID's pollution of the search keyword space.
I exclusively use Firefox on Android because of the addons. For me it's the killer feature. Dark mode, ad blocks, YouTube while screen is off. It's made android so much more enjoyable.
Increase your surface luck area.

Put this in your HN bio: "I'm available for short-term MacOS / React consulting for $100/hr. Contact me at: <email>"

Obviously, adapt this to whatever technology / price is good for you. The point is: make it clear what you offer and at what price.

Do the same for every other place: GitHub bio, Twitter bio.

Put this as a banner bar on your website.

Add a page on your website where you sell yourself i.e. describe your relevant achievements.

Put a link to that page in your popular open source repos.

Every month HN has "who wants to be hired thread". Post there. Research all other freelance websites (upwork, fiverr, codementor, https://remoteok.com/ and many others) and post there if relevant.

Continue refining how to "sell yourself" i.e. how best to describe your skills and achievements to convince people to hire you.

You wrote open source libraries.

Write a blog post about each library, promote it on relevant reddit etc. forums, and at the bottom add "I'm available for contract work" and a link to that page on your website where you sell yourself.

This is now a process: write useful, technical blog posts, promote them at relevant social forums, add a link to your contracting offer at the bottom.
Close to zero income plus hosting fees most likely. If I built something like this I’d expect to lose money on it for awhile as well. I’d also expect to have to deliver a bit more “product” but I feel this guy is having a ton of fun with this project. I’d love to see it grow and develop into something amazing.

In fairness, it doesn’t seem to be offering much at the moment, but I’m genuinely curious about the directions the owner imagines taking the project.
I don't know many people that are either super fit, or super fat. A few of each. Perhaps 99% of my friends & family group is just average people. Could stand to lose 10 or 20 pounds, no doubt, but that's not at all unique to America.
This post reminded of a /fun/ bug I ran into at my last job. The root of the issue was our server was returning a 408 timeout error when something timed out on the backend. Astute readers might immediately notice an issue with that code, mainly that it's for a /client/ timeout not 504 (server timeout).

Since we controlled the client and server you might think it doesn't matter much, as long as the client knows how to handle a 408 everything should be fine right? Well not exactly. We had a number of pages/endpoints that would be overwhelmed when there was too much data on the backend for a given user/company (which was it's own issue but let's just take that as fact for this and move on). We dutifully sent back 408's and knew that we needed to optimize or chunk those endpoints in the future.

The problem was the code that timed out would keep running until it finished (or hit a different timeout). On it's own this isn't the end of the world, the server does work that never gets sent to the client and essentially is thrown away. The problem was some of these endpoints would run very heavy queries that could bring down our database if enough of them were run in a short window. Even more confusing it appeared as if our server was running multiple of these queries for only 1 request.

We were using Akka (Actor-based) in our backend and thought maybe something was misconfigured or that we might accidentally be dropping duplicate messages into the queues that caused multiple queries to get fired off. We fought with this on/off for months (you know, something else is always a higher priority). Finally we tracked down that the browser was sending multiple requests. This was only clear when testing in a isolated dev environment with no other traffic and you could clearly see a second request being made after the first one timed out. What was extremely frustrating is Chrome did not show this second request in the dev tools, it only showed the initial request.

After more digging and a little luck I stumbled across a "feature" of browsers where they will retry the same request under certain circumstance and they wouldn't show that in dev tool. A 408 was one of those cases. Switching to the correct code, 504, immediately fixed our odd self-DDOS against our DB.

Obviously this was the fault of whoever initially defined `TIMEOUT = 408` somewhere in our HTTP error codes class but to this day I feel like Chrome should have had some indication that it was firing off another request. If you left the tab open Chrome would just keep retrying and slowly overwhelm the DB with heavy queries until it fell over.
There's a good yt video debunking all the myths that surround him.

Tesla Fact vs. Fiction: Why the Public Perception is Wrong
https://youtu.be/6331JXvOUGY
I gave it a try weeks ago and it's not working for me. It keeps using only the addons I had before I attempted the suggested procedure.
> Servers can also be liability. You need to document, implement and maintaing hardening, have a process for regularly patching os and apps, […], have backup and disaster recovery procedures, regularly test the procedures, […] and so on.

Much of this complexity I eliminate by using the Immutable Server pattern:

Specifically I deploy my app as a Docker container hosted on a virtual machine cluster managed by AWS ElasticBeanstalk. OS upgrades and patches (outside the container) are done by AWS.

If anything goes wrong with a VM I just terminate it and a different fresh VM spins up to take its place.
Running on a platform of doing a big study and deciding policy scientifically is like running on a platform of wanting to spend more time with your family: people will like you for it, and vote for someone else.
> If US data were broken down by state, we'd probably see life expectancy in some states more like rich northwestern European countries,

Here[0]. Hawaii is the highest which is between Finland and Belgium (24/25 respectively)[1]. California is second and comparable to the UK (29).

There definitely is a divide in the rich and poor, but it does appear that there are plenty of poor European countries (as well as some non-European) that are fairing much better. So I don't think we can conclude that this alone accounts for the disparity. There's clearly other important causal factors at play. I'm sure we can guess what a few of them are.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/demographics/life-expectancy/
honestly, we can probably create a category of something like, "steady growth, incredible culture" -- would that be interesting to you?
I've donated plasma a couple of times. The machine they use to separate the plasma from your blood cells will give you your blood back. They mix in a non-coagulating agent. This can give a tingeling feeling in your lips, that is best alleviated by eating chocolate or drinking chocolate milk.
You must not have attended Catholic school as a child.
> Majority of user never used addons

Do they get those numbers via telemetry or from the server-side? If the former, those stats may be skewed by the overlap between the users who use several extensions and those who disable all telemetry.

In a mozilla bug report where they discuss removing user.js, they point to telemetry that indicates that no one uses this functionality. I'd argue that the Venn diagram between users of user.js and those who disable telemetry approximates a single circle.
Arm’s Immortalis GPU is its first with hardware ray tracing for Android gaming
At that point does the language become archived?
MASM and the Intel assembler were already rather high-level compared to other assemblers, with a type system, procedures, records, etc. Those later versions of MASM added things like automatic allocation of structs on the stack and for loops. Depends on what features Sawyer used, but that assenbler in particular is a pretty advanced tool.
A supposed leak of a joint declaration:

https://twitter.com/ragipsoylu/status/1541856195257966592

Seems relatively mild from a Nordic perspective. I think the US intervened.