skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't read through all of those but did want to add that it may be warranted to have this discussion ("is HN becoming reddit?") at different points in time as both communities have changed a lot since 2007 - i.e. its possible that HN was becoming what reddit was in 2007, and again in 2012 or something, and again in 2022.

It might be an interesting conversation to have: has HN trailed Reddit over time in some of its more negative aspects? The guidelines dismissing this I think is wrong.
Really having trouble parsing this sentence:

> In Canada, there is this weird faux pas where asking for market rate gets you flagged for a position that requires in reality less than 4 years of experience require significantly more as it is very much still a employer's market.
Lol, don't justify shit. What andrewmcwatters said is all you need: "We update our rates in response to market changes and on a regular basis as we continue to improve our business."

If that's not cool with them, wish them luck in finding someone else who will accept whatever they've been paying you.
Yeah, you hid the salary and got applications from people who would have passed if it had been available. Congratulations, deception and trickery get leads.

Candidates is a red herring. What was the quality of the actual hires from one branch versus the other?
A potentially larger reason is that we've decided car deaths are acceptable -- perhaps because the alternative implicitly might be some kind of impingement upon personal-car-culture, and that is pre-decided as unacceptable.
This person just missed the agency that _actually does this already_. It's not the NTSB, it's NHTSA. There's a database of every fatility that happens in a vehicle on American roadways. You can download it. It's amazing.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/research-data/fatality-analysis-report...

Every fatal accident is documented. Often in incredible detail. I'm annoyed that this is often overlooked. Particularly in this case.

And yes, drivers get blamed a lot, because drivers are most often at fault. Drugs or alcohol and/or speeding are factors in the majority of fatal accidents.
This is already known.

For an article that's attempting to so strenuously walk the high road, the omission of these facts is bizarre to me. How serious can they be?
Integrated graphics is just not really an option anymore for anything but a cheap web browsing device. Practically every other laptop at this price point has a 3060 or 3070.
your sales game needs to be world class though. that’s all that really matters.
Azure is having capacity problems right now so you don't have to wonder.

More likely all the chips would go to the cloud and none would be available for others. We've already seen stories that you can't buy Ampere Altra because Oracle/MS/Google are buying all of them.
> We are at a point unusual in history where the polarization of the electorate maps well to the polarization of the major parties

No, that’s normal, not unusual, and key to functional democracy (even with a multiparty system, you need the parties to each reflect coherent ideological positions and to critically represent the alternate positions on salient divides in the electorate.) The long 1930s-1990s realignment was a historical aberration, and neither a normal nor a desirable condition.
We got Obamacare passed, but not a law codifing Row vs Wade. Its almost like its about money and power, and not personal freedom
I found great enjoyment in reading the spec for the double ratchet mechanism. So interesting.

https://signal.org/docs/specifications/doubleratchet/
Just curious, which OSS CMS would you recommend for that kind of site?

I work with Drupal and WordPress, but would not recommend them for user data or transactional data (although in my case, we bridge Drupal/WordPress with CiviCRM, and that works relatively well).
>I don't understand what PeerTube is for, concretely. (I've read parts of your docs before, and understand what federation is.)

I get the impression that it's for personal video sharing. Technically competent users will host their own personal instances and host instances for their communities. These instances are federated into larger social networks where users can interact across instances.

>I would like to be able to host videos inexpensively, perhaps in an s3 bucket or on a raspberry pi. The free / cheap version needs to scale to at most 2-10 concurrent viewers (a more expensive version that scales indefinitely would be nice for commercial use).

I do not think something proprietary like an s3 bucket would be compatible with Peertube, but I have not maintained an instance. The system works with webtorrent (a version of BitTorrent that runs over WebRTC), so it depends whether the concurrent viewers are all watching the same video or not (because then they will seed the videos to each other using webtorrent).

>It would be optionally password protected in a way that is client side encrypted (probably in a way that is transparent to the end user; such as via a key in a url, that loads a bit of javascript that fetches and decrypts the video). That way, amazon or whoever won't accidentally decide my video is a pirated win95 iso or whatever.

The fact that your VPS host is untrustworthy and temperamental is not peertube's fault. Consider a better VPS provider perhaps.

>I should have final say in whether the content is taken down (and own the domain name, in case I want to move to a new cloud provider).
>It should be trivial to set up.

These two things are in conflict. Merely getting ahold of a domain name is non-trivial, although I suppose you could operate it as a Tor onion service or something on the other end of zooko's triangle.
A sedentary lifestyle will increase the chances of circulatory diseases though, so close to 100% survival rate, but not there :)
Nobel Prize winner John Nash, and his wife, both died as backseat passengers when their driver lost control, hit the guardrail, and they were thrown from the car on the way home from the airport.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash_Jr.#Death

Needless to say we should wear seatbelts even in the backseat of an automobile.
I worked for companies like these. They Used every trick on the book to make the client dependent on them on maintenance. Including making it deliberatly slow to increase speed over the years.
Did you read the title?

When I was at a consulting firm in London that I wont name, I was charging them 700GBP a day, and they were charging the end client 1500GBP a day (I saw this on an internal presentation slide I was not supposed to see)
How would one do this?

you're right in that, the illusion of transparency actually gives the sophisticated players cover.
100x cheaper.
Sounds about right. I have never ever seen a web consulting group deliver anything that isn't complete trash, late, never, or some combination thereof.

Individual consultants can be okay. Consulting firms tend to be complete trash and make a living off the technically ignorant. Seems to be worse in web than other areas.
The information was on a secret chat limited to a short list of employees, that this one was on.

There isn't any internal control, short of bionic implants, that can prevent this.
Generally no because the facts don’t call for it. Eg two Ohio drivers get in a wreck in Ohio.

However, consider a Delaware corporation contracts with a Michigan corporation to build a building in California. The check, drawn on a Florida bank account bounces, which causes a charge in Michigan corp’s Nevada bank account. Furthermore, in the original contract is a forum selection clause that says litigation is to occur in Kansas. Kansas may apply 1st 2nd or 3rd Restatement principles.

Which state’s laws apply? Which have jurisdiction?
If you've never worked for a big consulting shop it's hard to explain what it can be like. I BILLED 2,800 hours my first (and only) full year, and spent most weeks out of town. They love to take you out for dinner with your consulting coworkers while on engagement, but you quickly realize this is to (a) keep you onsight until 7 or 8pm, (b) prevent you from developing a life outside of the company, and (c) hey, maybe we should head back to the office after dinner for a little bit... It's fun for a while when you're young, single and stupid.
This some breakthrough in corporate communication. It feels real. It feels human.

No wishy washy BS.

Emirates is pissed at LHR and they are open about it.
On the flip side, I think people assume that FAANG process is easier than it is so when they see any leetcode style question process they assume it is "FAANG expectation" when it might be an easier question.
I think it is entirely accurate right now though that we aren't yet in a recession.

Interest rates are still low, the yield curve is only flirting with inversion and there hasn't been any negative employment numbers.

Which means that it is accurate to state that if we're going to hit a severe recession/depression (and I think the Fed is 100% telegraphing that they're going to cause one in order to depress wages) then the worst is still to come.

It is being a little bit too cynical to just wave this off as entirely propaganda to cover over the economic conditions.

And you missed all the talk of a "soft landing" followed by a "v-shaped recovery".

IOW: we've had 2 quarters of negative GDP growth and we're not even in a recession yet, so buckle up...
what I'm saying is, use the relational DB for OLTP, but export in a JSON document format to NoSQL in whatever document shapes are efficient for various services. And that can be multiple different shapes generated from the same set of relational "ground truth", if various services need different "views" to run efficiently.

The idea is you always have a relational "source of truth" and optimize that for OLTP, but also get the scalability benefits of documents/microservices/etc by having data already pre-coalesced/pre-digested into your correct format(s), so you're not doing complex analytical/window/aggregation queries on the RDBMS for every request. You run the analytical queries once, convert the result to json, and store that in the NoSQL.

Of course you still potentially have some "sync time" between the OLTP and the final commit to all the various nosql collections... unless you hold OLTP locks until everything is synced, which would be excessive. But this goes back to CAP and there's no magic wand for that - you can either put everything inside the RDBMS and take the performance hit, or you can have external nosql read replicas and accept the inconsistency due to the sync time, or you can hold locks until both systems are consistent at the cost of "availability" (updatability).
What are you insinuating precisely?
Oh boy. If anyone's in need of some web design services, I know people who'll keep the customer frustrated for a far more modest sum.
Which is something that a cheaper, more basic Honeywell model with way less surveillance potential can also do...
Wow. There is another project doing a similar thing, but they don't have bluetooth nor an OLED display (they reuse the same display) so it's not nearly as useful in daily life, though still very impressive work nonetheless.

But this is really amazing work. I hope you find some collaborators to continue!!

I recently got an F-105W which I had when I was a teen (which is basically the F-91 but with a cool glowy EL backlight). And one thing that really surprised me how small that thing is. It seemed bigger at the time.

I'm really amazed how much technology this project managed to fit in that tiny case. Battery, OLED, bluetooth.. Just wow.

I would pay for this, I was thinking of buying that other project on crowdsupply but without BT connectivity I just don't really have any use for it.
Might be more useful for the audience here to link directly to the GitHub repository:

https://github.com/Gedsh/InviZible
At El Celler de Can Roca (3 Michelin Star restaurant in the northeastern coast of Spain) you can not only smell old books but also "eat" them: https://www.finedininglovers.com/article/roca-brothers-are-q...

The Roca brothers managed to create a device (Rotaval) used to distill essences from different objects, after rubbing them with fat and dissolving it in alcohol.

Low quality video from the device (couldn't find any better): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blB7VYQCxZw
> Youtube acts like a neutral party that won't cheat, because it has no reason to.

Actually it has a huge reason to, and sometimes large advertising companies do get accused of such cheating. [0]

You're right, though, that getting accurate numbers is hard even for companies with large budgets to invest in stopping "fake" clicks, which usually involves all sorts of fingerprinting and surveillance tech.

Trying to recreate all that in a transparent and privacy-preserving way, across a network of nodes in different jurisdictions, and with no contractual obligations, is... well, if not impossible, then let's just say it's going to need a lot more blockchain to make it work. ;)

[0] https://www.marketing-interactive.com/facebook-sued-for-alle...
Or people just buckle the belt and then sit on top of it. As insane as that is, I've seen plenty of grown ass adults do it. An older person I knew went so far as to find a seatbelt at a junkyard, cut the buckle off, and leave it in the holster permanently.
Have to admit, when I saw the two screenshots, I thought the OP's problem would be exactly that, not the agency process. Original design not great but has a big picture of a hardware device, an unmissable order button and some explainer videos. New design much more visually appealing, but looks like a different company, potentially even a different class of product and whilst the order button isn't exactly difficult to find, it's not shouting as loudly to act.
Please don't post nationalistic flamewar comments to HN. We ban accounts that do that. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'd say recreation.gov by Booz Allen Hamilton is pretty good. Some of the policies are disputed (e.g., racing for camp sites), but the technology works very well.
You can predict a present state of affairs if they are unknown to you.

I predict the weather in NYC is 100F. I don’t know whether or not that is true.

Really a pedantic argument, but to appease your phrasing you can reword my comment with “We predict an increase in conversion rate if we assume the user is interested in feature x more than feature y”
> It has been unfortunately necessary to downplay cases of debilitation

I don't think it was necessary at all, and instead is very counterproductive. Many people know they're not being dealt with honestly by the government and media, resulting in more distrust and resistance to vaccination, than there otherwise would be.
Exactly. Having a sclerotic space launch industry has really hampered NASA in many ways. I have hopes that Starship will be able to change this.
It is annoying to to have to perform a UI action to see the scrollbar (or to see if there is a scrollbar) instead of it just being there. Also, many people work with a regular keyboard with mouse, and may be operating mostly with the keyboard, and now have to reach for the mouse just to see the scrollbar. The scrollbar is an important UI element even if you just use PgUp/PgDn etc. to scroll by keyboard.

You might as well argue that it is not necessary to have the status bar always visible, or any other type of indicator.

I also don’t buy the “crowded” argument, because scrollbars were perfectly fine when we only had 14" monitors with 1024x768 resolution.
Just came to say the same. It's absolutely refreshing.
Only when data is supplied to it to match the trained pattern,

ML is pattern recognition. Anything outside of that is still AI, but it isn't ML. I can think of very few feature sets we could supply to help predict someone will be deployed to East Asia for a few days other than scraping calendars and mail for religious and military organizations.

From a design perspective, Nest and others are either additively learning in situ to enhance a base model or they are working from a base model that doesn't directly learn, just classifies workflow to categorize observations on a base model. I doubt heavy training is occurring where the Nest and similar is treated as the central compute node.
Then you won't get there and the accident will be less fatal.
The Roca Brothers Are Quite 'Cooking the Books'
I was billed out at around $300 an hour and paid salary of 75K plus porfit sharing (sometimes) and bonus based on billability
Exactly. I know someone who does this for a certain class of loans, based on data sold by universities (and more).

Philosophically -- personally -- I think this is just another way big data erodes our autonomy and humanity while _also_ providing new forms of convenience. We have no way of knowing where suggestions come from, or which options are concealed. Evolution provides no defense against this form of manipulation. It's a double edged sword, an invisible one.
The idea you’re describing sounds similar to Satisficing Theory [1]. I agree this approach does a much better job of describing real life decision making than the traditional rational actor model. Unfortunately, Satisficing rarely gets discussed (at least in my experience) in mainstream economics/psychology, despite having been around since the 1950s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing
Individual deaths can result in local change, perhaps mediated by liability concerns.

It's become the cynic's take to point out how quickly an unprotected pedestrian crossing gets a traffic light after a fatal accident there.

The media makes the thousand deaths at once -- and its response -- more salient than a thousand individual deaths.

There is a decent bit of literature around the role of the human and his/her purported error in a plane or train crash, compared with the culpability of a negligent operator (i.e., driving drunk) of a motor vehicle. Also, the FAA and NTSB have a very broad mandate when it comes to regulating planes and trains, while the NHTSA has traditionally not been willing to impinge on individual rights, perceived or otherwise, in the name of safety.
> It's a historical relic and it increasingly does not serve science well.

It's also pretty devastating evidence that the world is not going to improve in any sort of an organized way if the experts that we would expect to lead the effort for a rational world can't clean their own house. It's hard to trust academic systems to design ways to improve society when the academic system is built around an irrational base in journals.

An academic system that exhibits the same shitty array of characteristics as every other corrupt status quo institution doesn't give me a lot of hope for everything else.
> We got Obamacare passed, but not a law codifing Row vs Wade.

Codifying Roe v. Wade only makes sense as a symbolic act of protest against a court ruling against it when you lack the votes to do anything meaningful. Preemptively, it makes no sense, since a court that would reject the right held to exist in Roe as a 14th Amendment right is also sure to rule that no power granted to Congress allows it to curtail the powers reserved to states by codifying Roe.
Myth: https://www.nrel.gov/news/features/2021/even-in-frigid-tempe...
half of all accidents involve an idiot, but there only has to be one idiot in a two car collision.
Not true https://www.nrel.gov/news/features/2021/even-in-frigid-tempe...
To my discredit, I was one of those people. I stand corrected.
You sound like someone I would never want to work with and certainly for.

Tenure is not equivalent to performance, contra your "inexperienced kids" rhetoric. The idea that you can judge someones performance well enough in 1 month to fire frequently within that time frame sounds like bogus to me.
sad that it is no longer. I would have been there by now.
Seconding this.

I've never worked with a mobile wifi adapter that wasn't miserable to try to put connect the antenna to.
HN prioritizes content with more upvotes than discussion. This is a very common "algorithm". Lobsters uses it, Twitter users call it being "ratio'd", etc. In my experience it works great. Most link aggregators try to optimize for good content, not good conversation starters.
Why you keep spamming that link here?
That twitter thread is built on a layer of conjectures with nothing tangible.
What if that were a fecetious argument proposing a situation that does not happen in real life that people bring up when speed governors are discussed?
Awesome! Although I am personally a fan of the japan only F84 myself
Android has had the ability to turn off notifications since Android 4.1 (July of 2012) and I'm pretty sure the ability to turn off notifications on iOS was added in iOS 5 (October 2011)

iOS only added permissions at all in iOS 6, before that apps had access to photos, calendars, contacts and reminders automatically.
Seen this way too many times to recount in a comment. Stupid company hires stupid company to do massive project, neither side is competent to do anything but waste/collect money.

I talked once with an airline who had outsourced their entire dev and dev management to some foreign companies; they wanted to hire a mobile dev to go to where the team was and try to figure out why nothing was getting done, as they had no in house knowledge about mobile at all. I said hell no. Nothing ever shipped that I saw and I think they gave up and went back to in house again eventually. Just because you are a big company doesn't mean you have a clue.
Except when there are sufficient cases of people seriously injuring or killing themselves, then the area is typically fenced off/given restricted access.
I've been reading up on this as a potential solution; I may have to finally take it seriously and try it out.
I'm not sure what you're trying to point out. I've only been to Japan out of those, and public transport might be fast and clean, but it is much less comfortable and a much worse experience than driving a nice car.

Unless I'm in a hurry I rather have a comfortable private ride, than a less comfortable quick ride packed around strangers.
They said "Then we have a few relatively minor infrastructure funding bills" after summarising categories of bills in the past year as if there weren't other non-minor infrastructure bills like the whopper of HR3684. There's no mention of any non-minor infrastructure bills. The clear implication is that after reading the 100+ bills in the past year, the only infrastructure bills worth mentioning/summarising are relatively minor ones.
People shouldn't really drive 300 miles in individual private vehicles.

Apart from the chance of accidentally killing oneself or others, it's hugely inefficient.

If we changed an interstate full of cars to high speed trains (or hyperloop or whatever) which depart every half hour, it'd be safer, cheaper, cleaner... you name it.
It's pretty clear; their partners screwed them and they suffer even when having plenty of advance knowledge of the passenger surge.
I was working on a custom YugabyteDB rollout last year. Part of that work was building some custom Postgres extensions for additional multi-tenancy enforcement in a distributed cluster.

I must admit that the whole extension ecosystem in Postgres is amazing, even without any additional language layer.

I don’t write C very often but writing Postgres extensions was so easy to approach, it blew my mind!
I completely agree in nearly every respect. Especially notable is the fact that they sell replacement hinges. Considering that every one of my preceding non-Apple laptops has failed at the hinge, this is huge.

Support for suspend in linux is definitely shaky, but a (eventually fixable) firmware issue. On the other hand, I am concerned with the company's commitment to upgradability. Since they announced the 2nd generation motherboard some months back, the only way to get one has been with a brand new laptop around it.