skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>they also get point increase for the number of subcomments, it is not solely based on votes. It is also the case that it requires more votes to get a single point the more votes you have.

Is there a source to read on this?
> also heavily imply that biological sex is mostly meaningless

This is a puzzling statement to me. The whole concept of being trans requires that there is a distinction between gender identity and biological sex. If the latter didn't matter at all, being trans wouldn't exist. If anything, trans people would surely be the most aware of biological sex and it's impact on them, as they are not happy with it?

To me, it's like saying an adoptive parent is trying to imply biological parenthood is meaningless. Surely those who wished to have biological children but could not and adopt instead are often the people most sharply aware of it?
I run a similar sized software business and found generatepress.com. I set up a wordpress site using their visual builder tools and pre-made components, hosted on wpengine.com so everything is always up to date. Took a few weekends, but this is more than adequate these days. Logo came from upwork.com

I also feel your pain. I've had a bad experience with a top python/django agency that turned out to have a CEO "incubating" several startups to compete with Amazon, while also running an agency. I got bad vibes early but kept pressing on, and learned my lesson the hard way.
Yeah. It's really frustrating to deal with. When anti-queer hate becomes a focal issue, many people treat the hate as half the problem and our existence as the other half of the problem. And it thus becomes untenable to simply move on to bigger issues, because the middle ground that this implies is very dangerous to us.
I find that there are many things controlling this not covered here.

1. Fanboys - if an article about an apple product is posted, the very idea of constructive criticism is somehow an affront to Steve's ghost. Same can be said for everyone except Google which seems to be the universal punching bag regardless.

2. Shilling - I'm glad that you are the creater of BloatJS and are willing to answer any questions that show your product in a positive light but you are also on the front page of /r/technology and 20 other blogs because you are trying to get VC funding. Maybe a few of these would be fine but it's hard not to see this suspiciously sitting in the top 5 on any given day and then see the author fumbling to answer the universal question of "what did this solve?"

3. Astroturfing - pick any major article, pick your poison, you will find the comment section littered with suites of all shapes and pay doing damage control with unsubstantiated claims that then cause argument loops that derail useful conversation. Someone will ask for a summery and a well thought out response will get a few bumps, meanwhile Tom who works in marketing has 136 replies to his "rebuttal" that things are fine at BloatSoft and word to the contrary is simply twitters fault.

It's not just HN it's any site that gets sufficiently big but the saddest part for me is how transparent it is. The size causes people who don't use these technologies to lurk around all day and people who make them to defend it all day and the margin of actual people who don't have some axe to grind gets fewer and fewer until they, intelligently, realize one day it's all fluff and not worth their time.

People get called out for just reading the headlines of articles but when half of them are false advertisement and a good chunk of them are just literal ads no wonder...and mercy be upon anyone coming to the comment section for clarity.
Maybe "well thought out con" is a little strong here. I see it as more likely the consulting firm has learned this behavior over time and it has rewarded them well. I imagine that if they're normally dealing with large contracts, those companies footing the bill are probably easier to string along like this. Just do enough and promise enough that they keep you on and only budge when they get more serious about potentially terminating the contract.
Interesting snippet but I wish they had given us more detail about the clubs!
For those not familiar with UK media, The Guardian (better known as The Grauniad due to the frequency of spelling mistakes in its pages) is a very left-leaning paper.

Therefore topics such as private members' clubs are to be considered fair game for The Guardian as its the sort of place their readership would not be seen dead.

I would suggest that the truth is somewhere half-way between two sides of the proverbial coin.

There are some clubs that do indeed have a bit of a reputation. The Carlton Club mentioned in the first paragraph for example. As one Londoner put it to me in relation to the alleged Pincher incident, "if it was bad enough to raise eyebrows at the Carlton Club, it must have been bad".

Moving more to the other side of the coin, the Reform Club also mentioned in the article is not particularly controversial. Sure some of its ways may be old-fashioned my modern standards (e.g. wearing of ties by gentlemen is NOT optional). However for the non-Londoner for example, membership does have its benefits in that they have a small number of accommodation rooms available at a nightly rate that you would be hard pushed to find in such a central location, especially during peak season.

Finally, firmly on the other side of the coin are those clubs that try to scrape by a living by catering for pursuits that are rather more rarified in the modern age. For example, anyone who's anyone in the Bridge world will know of the Portland Club, the main parameter for membership there being a (very!) decent Bridge player (a fact that will need to be vouched for by your proposer and seconder). You won't find any debauchery at the Portland Club, its a serious club for serious people !

Other examples exist, but point being to take The Guardian's opinion on such matters with a pinch of salt.
The scroll-bar reminds Apple of when their primary product was desktop computers. They're now an AR / Autonomous Driving / Cloud / Streaming company. Anytime anyone intimates they once made computing hardware, it lowers their multiple.
That's a great point. Often the perceived agency is an illusion.
There’s an audio version of the same point here: https://podcast.strongtowns.org/e/the-drip-drip-drip-of-traf...

A ”best effort” summary of this article: if thousands of people die in once place, it’s one of the great tragedies in American history. However if thousands of people die in thousands different places, it is ignored and considered a fact of life.

When a plane or train crashes, we stop everything and redesign the entire network to prevent this from happening again. But each individual death from car accidents is not enough to trigger the same response in cities, planners, and civil engineers.
That's great, but if Ctrl+R is for refresh, what combo you would use for 'Rename'? To get to the address bar? To view a file in `mc`? Dev tools in browser?

And the thing is, this is a muscle memory from almost the three decades of usage[0]. I don't have a problem hitting Fn+F1/F2/F3 for Mute/Vol-/Vol+ but I would have a problem if hitting F5 would turn off my WiFi.

And by the way - I have big hands but even I struggle to hit Fn+F12/whatever key on the top right. Therefore I bought a laptop with a second Fn key.

[0] Edit: and most of them are in CUA or de-facto standard ones. I still hit Ctrl+Ins/Shift+Ins sometimes. Not on the modern laptop keyboards, of course...
You also don't see the people who assume you don't pay well and "meh" you due to the lack of a range. If I see a firm that isn't well known with no range, why would I think they pay enough to make it worthwhile? Chances are we'll both waste time.
The rise and fall of InVision (2021)
There is a lot more complexity to this.

For example, I used to work in a SCIF for a government contractor in Northern Virginia, making 95k. No windows, no internet, no cell phone, no outside software without an approval process (had to manually burn linux packages to a CD, often multiple times a day because of dependencies).

Then I got a job at Amazon in their Austin location, essentially almost tripling my salary with the stock growth pre pandemic, with way better work environment, way easier work, but also with teammates with way less skill (after all, writing java web services isn't that hard)

So naturally, as my team and teams around us were hiring, to take advantage of the referral bonus, I contact all my old teammates, who would have easily aced the interview because they all had plenty of experience writing low level C code that was highly optimized, to suggest they apply.

Should be a no brainer, Austin had low cost of living back 5 years ago, no state income tax, your would be making way more, right?

Out of the 20 that I contacted, of them wanted to join. A lot of them were either single or with girlfriends, i.e without family, so relocation would not have been an issue. But they were perfectly content being way underpaid, living in a shitty area with high CoL. Still to this date don't know why. Seems like people value a certain things other than money.
> That being said, _requiring_ cars and _allowing_ them are very different things. Being anti-bulldozing city blocks to put in 6-lane highways isn't anti-car, it's pro people!

That's a semantic argument that doesn't address the real problems that skimping on commuter infrastructure can cause. San Francisco and Seattle have both achieved some of the highest housing prices in the nation thanks to chronic underinvestment in highway infrastructure.
So you should really drive to central america, I guess?
This doesn't seem like a very high bar to pass. Around here a drivers test involves a short stint on a low speed closed course with a few intersections and then a parallel parking test. Our current self driving systems should have no trouble with that once they are informed what you expect.
Yeah, I looked at that but don't want to go full-on pencil & sketch for the design of the thing. I'm actually planning on switching the CSS framework from Bulma to Tailwind because its much easier to deal with.
Having worked in this space for decades, I think most people I've met agree it's ludicrous, but there's strong pulls to keep it in place.

The most compelling argument I've heard is "we get so many applicants at $bigcompany that we need a fast and objective way to filter people out". And sure, that works, but think of the masses of great people you're turning off with that approach? Most great devs I know won't put up with that crap, including myself. Not a problem if you've optimized your company to build masses of code with early-career employees I suppose.

Knowing the tradeoffs we're making in data structures and having a broad understanding of different algorithms to throw at a problem is very handy. It's also almost completely unnecessary at the typical web shop (like you say). I use these things a bit in my work (not the typical web shop), but mostly indirectly via DBs and similar tools where I need to understand the tradeoffs. I'm certainly not implementing anything with red/black trees, making my custom bloom filters, etc. We have an ecosystem of tools for a reason, that would be silly to reinvent the wheel everywhere without a damn good reason.
I agree, it's one of the things that I think of often... it's not logical. My condolences to you and your family... :`(
After inflation, people making US minimum wage are earning less than 60 year ago
I had no idea what ELI5 is either, but after asking $searchengine I have no idea why your post is at reduced saturation.

It's either a) extremely funny, or b) shows that you are too lazy to search (like many are, myself included), or c) an experiment to verify the karma gain through posts asking for an explanation.

The most likely explanation for the downvote I can think of is that the downvoter perceived it as c) and wants to mess the result of your experiment.
hey since looking at your site, i have seen about 10 of your TinyPilot ads.
I am certainly not in the market for one of these and probably not that many other people who viewed the article site are, so i suggest you dial back on the retargeting budget following this hacker news traffic, save yourself some money.
The hacker news readers who are in the market have already seen your best piece of marketing for the product today, this article.
You will never be able to look into every intersection, even very open ones. You will never be able to look out for cars traveling 50kph/30mph unless you literally stop before entering every intersection.

You also don't have any control over how far behind other cars are. The only thing you can do is to drive faster or to let them by by stopping or changing lanes. The latter is highly dangerous in fast flowing traffic on single lane roads while the first will almost never help as the other car actively wants to go faster.

Being in absolute control is you can drive as defensively as you want, in the end a distracted idiot can take you out and the only thing you can do is minimize the risk.
I made some edits to my parent comment to further explain my pitch and what the benefit to my hypothetical example city would be if they were to be a Framasoft / Peertube customer.
We should start a business selling data intelligence to solve this problem.

Maybe call it... business intelligence?
How about if you use your computer to generate the key and sign transactions? Sure, the private key is stealable now, but at least you know what coude you're running..
How We Sent an AWS Snowcone into Orbit
How many years is a few? It has been a year and a half since his first action so I want to know when Biden is to blame.
Fed Officials Preparing to Lift Interest Rates by Another 0.75 Percentage Point
Intentionally diverting resources and skewing research from one of the most biggest growing epidemics of our time seems seems like huge crime against humanity that has not been criminalized yet.
Sure, but I think "the lower end of the range is too low" is basically equivalent to "the salary range is bad".
What (if any) recourse is there against those who have falsified scientific data? It almost feels like fraud on the {scientific research} market. Billions of dollars and, perhaps even worse, countless human hours, have been wasted in reliance ob completely fabricated information. For what? An ego boost? Citations? I don’t work in science so I truly don’t understand the motive(s) on the other side of the equation.
I disagree with the cheap developers point. I've just hired a Pakistani designer/web developer team. They were committed, fast, cheap, wrote high quality code, and delivered more than what was agreed at the start.

It was a closed price project though, which I think is a better way in general to get a better deal for everyone involved.

It wasn't perfect. But I can fix the rest.

How cheap? $950 for a new logo and branding guide plus two responsive html pages with custom graphics.
That level of scale always boils down to partitioning work. The fact that these partition are distributed across regions is done for risk mitigation (e.g. what happens when AWS's eu-central-1 catches in fire). Architecturally, nothing really changes if you stuffed them all in the same region.
When I started reading the article I thought the title was a bit click-baity for Science. But then I noticed that the theory it refers to was not the amyloid hypothesis itself, but the toxic oligomer hypothesis that emerged later. That theory is pretty much the main potential explanation on why every single drug targeting Aβ failed that still keeps Aβ fibrils relevant. It's a very convenient theory because it keeps the main original observations about the fibrils relevant while explaining why therapies that target them don't work.

One part that is really important that is mentioned in the middle of the article is that these systems are very difficult to handle, and it's almost impossible to make many of them nicely reproducible. Fibril and oligomer formation depends a lot on the environment and reacts to tiny differences.

I find this kind of fraud deeply frustrating, there is so much wasted effort in the wake of faked high-profile results.
US Jobless Claims Rose Last Week to Highest in Eight Months
Great example of how most of the fluff around decentralized finance being more fair just because it is public and “open” is naive at best and a wolf in sheep’s clothing at worst. They claim that regulated banks are a moral evil and “wouldn’t you want something neutral and open and transparent,” conveniently forgetting that this will always favor those with money to market, attract, and sell to potential “buyers” (scam victims, really). Especially with the use of bots and crypto’s rather insular and hype-driven community, it becomes dangerously easy to get tons of dumb money, almost entirely from people who are desperate enough to believe it.
> And Socialism is not Communism.

A lot of that crew would call themselves Marxists, no doubt. Maybe not "commies" if you mean they're not shipping people off to gulags, ok.

> Nationalism isn’t the same as Nazism.

I agree, but I think you could ask you average college Democrat and they'd equate the two.
https://archive.ph/2cJhb
No, I'm the person who doesn't know the great things to buy with my Raspberry Pi. Thanks to great predictions from Amazon's part, they get me to buy more. Similar to how Netflix does a pretty good job of recommending movies.
Even just #4 (the tire part) applied / enforced would help tremendously.
what are you seeing right now with the whole cloud/MS/CQRS scene? Seems like after serverless took off more companies are pondering whether they need kubernetes at all.

Yet I still see K8 positions without salary expectations. I wonder if companies will be able to afford the upkeep with these shops that hopped on the K8 wagon early before serverless was a thing.
Neutron stars: New telescope detects dead suns colliding
Same exact experience - I finished my CS PhD in 2005 and thought I would go into academia, but decided not to given how much of academia seemed to be just writing grant proposals vs. actual research.

FWIW, also decided not to go into academia because of how much smarter I realized I needed to be to be a top tier academic!
You can use any store you want on Android, and yet you can get Outlook, WhatsApp and Maps from the Play store. Why would it be different?
If the posted salary is too high I'll probably assume it's a scam or you plan on doing a bait and switch anyway :)
I have this book laying around here. Read the first page and did not understand anything.

Quarks are named after a line in this book so I thought: well give it a try.

Do you have any idea how to tackle this?
the difference is the illusion of control. you can’t talk yourself past raw statistics that way. you might make a marginal difference in risk, but the bulk of the risk is beyond personal control. even with attentiveness, if you’re 1 of 100 drivers on the road, you’re at best controlling for 1% of that one risk.

and i’d argue attentiveness (anti-distractedness) is the most important mass mitigation we could make, but it’s also practically impossible to maintain over a driving lifetime and nearly as impossible to enforce (without significant rights violations).
> One thing that pseudonymity will do is allow you support positions you don't actually hold. To steel man them. To really stretch your brain to find the best way to present and argue in favor of them. Doing so pseudonymously means never having to explain yourself to friends, family, employers, or three-letter organizations later.

Anonymous posts also allow honesty which might otherwise be impossible. Job safety, physical safety, and protection against embarrassment etc are potentially easier when anonymous.

I have a generally pessimistic outlook but do see a positive here.
They're fat piggies with big mean guns and given where it happened, I guess they could be going to a movie or something IDK
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Even if that happened, how many people can seriously be injured in a bus accident in a city? Not talking of bus going through mountains and losing breaks
Adopted parents/children often feel uncomfortable being reminded of the "truth" of their biological parenthood. While we should absolutely focus on being accepting and treating adoption as just as valid as biological parenthood (because it is, just as with gender identity), it would also be cruel and unreasonable to intentionally go our of your way to point out someone's lack of a biological relationship with their parents when there was no need for it and you know it causes them to be upset.

Largely, this is a problem with society for telling them they are lesser for that, and people having treated them badly because of that, which they have then internalised as shame or a feeling of being less than.
As far as I understand this is not about the Aβ hypothesis itself, but the toxic oligomer hypothesis.
"We" don't ignore them. Every major government has a body dedicated entirely to automobile safety.

In the USA, this is NHSTA - National Highway Safety & Transportation Administration. They maintain an information system of traffic fatality statistics in the USA, called FARS (fatality analysis reporting system). This system is used to determine new safety devices and standards for vehicles and to test their effectiveness.

And they are a powerful organization. A car cannot be sold in the USA without NHSTA approval. At the tap of a keyboard, they can cost a company billions of dollars. They power reaches far beyond the USA as well. Not too long ago, the NHSTA issued a recall that bankrupted the largest producer of airbags in the world.

I'd say the USA focuses a lot on reducing automotive fatalities.
I wish the train was more economical then I could take the train more but it is not economical (on the west coast of the US). I live approx half way between Seattle WA and Portland OR and there is a train station within walking distance of my home. every time I have checked the price of a Amtrak ticket to either city it was significantly cheaper to drive and pay for parking then to buy a single train ticket.
Because even 40,000 people is only a lot relatively. It is just 0.012% of the American population and 0.00051% of the world population.
Archived link: https://archive.ph/qnJbQ
Solar flares could cause delays on the railways
Exactly, but it's not ultimately convenient. Control ends where convenience begins (that's not to say its totally accurate, but the phrase looks nice).
Firefox on Android could easily offer something similar for the web part. Sounds like a quick win to get some attention.
The Wordpress equivalent of YouTube, with discovery and federation plug-ins. Anyone can host a Wordpress instance, but you can also pay Automattic to host it for you (your data is also portable and you can move from hosted to self hosted and vice versa).
Check out the book! You'll get a lot from it I think -- even if it's just a better understand of a different viewpoint :)
Votes allow people to express agreement/disagreement without cluttering the discussion. In old-style forums without votes the same sort of basic agree/disagree dynamic actually took up screen space. You'd have people writing "+1," "me too", "so true" (or "I don't think so", "educate yourself", "yeah right"...) as separate comments, each of which you'd have to skim past before finding the next bit of real conversation. You can't eliminate the human impulse to express disagreement, but you can try to channel it out of the way so that comments are longer and more substantive.