skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not true.

It had nothing to do with sucking less or being better (whatever that means).

Sometimes success is about doing enough important things well enough while your competition does less or simply gets in their own way.

That was the case for IBM back then. I remember buying my first original IBM PC. The experience was definitely what one expected from the International Businesses Machines corporation. Not what that market ultimately needed. They started it, failed to execute and lost prominence. Microsoft took advantage of that, and more.
lol that’s pretty funny. forgot he’s the type that just wants the govt to keep printing money despite the massive inflation. that’s the number one goal in his life.

and yes fox news is right leaning but atleast they’re open about it. and a 10% drop after a 2x increase isn’t that exciting
Is it crypto-"Amish", because you're religious, or is that just code for "we're critical of technology"?
Acquisitions can make it positive sum.

Imagine 2 companies (A and B) raise $1 each from investors in their IPOs (first capital raised). A does well over a decade and has $20 cash on balance sheet with no debt. A acquires B and pays $15 in cash for it.

A then dies a slow death over 50 years, never paying a dividend. $2 went in, $15 came out.
My uncle is self-employed as a driver for the Amish. My aunt describes him as the “Amish Uber,” since his customers will call him up on the phone to schedule trips.

I’m not sure if this is the case for all Amish communities, but in our area at least they do not own cars but will hire someone to drive them when the situation calls for it, such as when they’re attending a wedding or other event that’s far enough away to make buggy-driving impractical.
I thought this article would go into how exif data is stored in different image formats, different value types, interesting peculiarities with the format etc. This article is not interesting enough to be on hn.
I read somewhere that basically all essential oils are dangerous because they are so concentrated. They have to be diluted to be safe. The article claimed that some individuals had given themselves an allergy to lavender by using the essential oil undiluted.

Unfortunately I don't have a reference (read that a few years ago). Would be interested to know if it's true.
This is just my anecdata, but over 30 years of driving, it's only the last 2-3 that have felt like a large percentage of driver no longer care about traffic rules.

It used to be it was rare for me to see a major violation. Now it's is literally every single time I go for a drive or ride my bike, at least in the city of San Francisco, that see (a) someone running a red light, (b) someone turning right from the 3rd lane (meaning they should be in the first lane), (c) someone turning left illegally before the on-coming traffic when the light turns green, (d) driving for blocks in the bus only lanes, I even saw someone drive down the wrong way down a one way street to take a short cut. Often I see 2 to 3 of these during a single outing.

If more surveillance would stop this then I'm for it.

I'm curious what changed (a) my noticing ... I really don't think that's it but it's possible (b) people for some reason no longer giving a fuck (c) too many video games (half joking, half not, personally love video games but of course in a video game you drive however you want. Of course you also kill people in video games (d) cycling culture bleeding into driving culture. (e) ....
for good reasons...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_trifluoride
You're right, cheating has always been there and nobody cares about anything but the piece of paper.

I think we greatly need to reduce the scope of what we test and require for a job.
Maybe create smaller project based certifications that prove you know X.

I don't need a graduate to know that much in software, they already know very little of practical utility straight out of uni.
Other professions are different and you need to know more fundamentals before doing something productive.
I guess I don't pay that much attention to usernames. I've been browsing HN since 2011 and I recognized 5 usernames after scrolling (fairly fast) through the whole list.
I expected to read about the legal and licensing aspect.. e.g. is Metadata of CC Images also licensed under CC? I never found a proper answer.
The NodeJS alpine base image is only 40 MB.
So, do you have a plan?

I mean, mine is pretty random but has somewhat become routine. I come to Hackernews, browser, and read as part of my email reading routine. Then, before I retire for the day and sleep, I submit the articles I read during the day which I believe are interesting. The next morning, some of them usually sip through, and I see them on the front pages. The best cases I have seen so far are four stories amongst the top 30 at an instant.

Hackernews is perhaps the last frontier of subtle tech fun these days, without the overcrowded cheesy slapstick jokes around the Internet.
> by winning at evolution

You may roll down a hill but it doesn't mean you win at gravity theory.
'Lifetime' one time payments end up being converted into monthly subscriptions. Always... Best example is Couchsurfing.

They broke the contract. The contract is the contract.
Well, the API was. There's still bits of it internally driving the menu and event systems, and a lot of app/icon/Finder behaviors.
Yes, that's possible and works really well.

I've written this library [1] as a clean reimplementation of a more complex beast we created for a (now dead) startup. Although the reimplementation has only seen very light use, we've used the concept extensively, and it's a joy to use. Take a look at the examples [2].

[1] https://github.com/vanviegen/aberdeen
[2] https://github.com/vanviegen/aberdeen/tree/master/examples
But that was the entire point of SIP, wasn't it? To mitigate the impact of a compromised root account. If it doesn't work, then what's the point of going to all this effort in the first place?
I lose 20IQ point each and every time. The industry is plagued with company that refuses to just hire engineers.
Layer 1 Blockchain
Buying liquor is voluntary. Alcohol taxes are still taxes.
Think SELinux.

sudo is bad, but it is not worse.

Like SELinux, you are not supposed to be able to disable without reboot.
I think there's just no single good answer for this. Up to 2560x1440 on a 27" screen I much prefer bitmap fonts. Above, for e.g. 3840x2160+ at the same physical size I think vector is better.
This guy is (maybe?) more pessimistic than most climate experts, and his warnings are more direct, but the headline still doesn't really match his thinking:

> "The future is forbidding from this perspective, though McGuire stresses that if carbon emissions can be cut substantially in the near future, and if we start to adapt to a much hotter world today, a truly calamitous and unsustainable future can be avoided. The days ahead will be grimmer, but not disastrous."

I suspect his book (and this headline) are an attempt to snap people out of their complacency. It's an admirable goal, but I'm not sure what to do to accomplish it. This headline itself seems to suggest we should all give up, even though the journalist and subject disagree.
Nice, I made the list. Thanks for putting this together.

Interesting backgrounds, and also the spread between those rankings. I guess this is also good motivation to finally finish my draft blog posts.
Someone else scraped HN users in September 2020 to determine which posts were most favorited (by the top 10k users per most comments weighted by number of favorites, then dang shared most favorited globally):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24351073
And this Chinese rocket stage won't burn up completely?

Do all other countries' rocket stages burn up completely?
My bad. You're absolutely right: Dopamine, not serotonin.
very nice! I stumbled on your post right after submitting this, thanks a lot for sharing I’m gonna try this out
Sorry, I misremembered all that. It's hard to find the original information. One of the devs revealed that he was working OpenMCL on a Mac ... but then Reddit was actually running with CMUCL on FreeBSD. (Yes, really!) He couldn't basically even run all of Reddit in the dev environment.

(Regarding "commerical Lisp"; that's what some Lisp people were saying should have been given consideration.)
I love this. Could it be embedded for use in other software? Curious as we might have a use case if so.
I think you and I have a different definition of "know".
No, I don't expect the exact languages/platforms/tools they learned in Uni to be of significant practical utility. But I certainly expect a student's ability to impose self-discipline, to find/figure stuff for themselves, and to think critically and analytically to be well-developed after passing a university degree. Ideally they'd have learned some basic software engineering principles too, but honestly if they'd done a pure mathematics or science degree that'd be fine too.
How is that not a form of slavery?
I attended a cheap university (it's free if you're free enough) and I did it just in case I wanted to work somewhere where they required it. I managed to work a software develope job instead of attending lessons and find a way to pass exams (cramming, cheating, etc).
Projects were the best part of the course as they resembled real work and not studying crap I mostly didn't care about.

Most people did it for getting a job.
Oh no, whatever will the world do without Prettier turning nicely formatted JS into a pile of unreadable shit because line 218 was 71 characters long instead of 69.
Well, to some extent it is a simple calculation. Depending on the amount and radioactivity of an isotope, you get a certain amount of heating.

If you go past some amount, you start requiring active cooling to stop it from increasing faster and faster in temperature and reacting more violently - this may happen in traditional power plants. If instead you limit the reactor to a much smaller amount of fuel, it starts losing more heat to air than it produces from radioactivity, and this problem goes away.

Of course, the problem is then to obtain that heating while the reactor is operational, but I understand the solutions are known.

This is similar to why fusion reactors are not a risk of becoming nuclear weapons: the system requires external power input just to keep the reaction going. So, in the event of a problem, you'll lose the reaction, instead of it running away uncontrollably.

Of course, there are other risks. For example, a fusion plant may suffer a breach of the reaction chamber, and all that energy will violently explode, releasing radioactive tritium and bits of radioactivated materials from the reactor structure around. I would guess MMRs have similar bad-but-not-catastophic failure modes.
My respect for the Amish is huge. I grew up not far from a few rather large settlements.

The breadth of knowledge they have, as a group at least, is impressive. You could buy handmade furniture from them. And cheese. You're doing yourself a disservice if you've never tried an Amish cheese. And, they built my mother's house. A truck drove them in and picked them up each day. Just watching their work and attention to detail was something else.

If nothing else, they're a very self sustaining population.
What if they can't save themselves? Paying out dividends at this point makes more sense than investing capital on which they'll earn a low or no return.

Does anyone believe Intel's problems are a lack of capital?
I had never been so motivated to re-activate my website until I saw people with less karma than me making a list of 340 interesting HN users that I was excluded from!
“Warship” would be the correct colloquialism, I think - battleships were specifically characterised by heavy armour and large caliber guns.
Or I can just use Homebrew with a Brewfile. Sure, not nearly as powerful, but does the job..
It's not just you. I have no idea how this is interesting or useful. Plus it's pretty fucked up.

This, along with the meat article, makes me wonder if the IEEE has lost their mind.
Your shareholders aren't going to be happy about that last one.
We don't need VDOM, but we can't live without it either. The problem is too many people are bought into not just React, but all of the open source components out there too (not a problem persay, it's created a ton of value for many). React does have an elegant API surface, not sure how possible is to keep that, but then somehow give it Svelte-like functionality. React is the golden handcuffs of front-end today.
Rant: could we please stop referring to a collection of <X> as an ecosystem? Node has a collection or environment of tools, frameworks and libraries to support it. An ecosystem is something living, a biological system, typically with a set of symbiotic properties within it.

The trend is the same in business. Stripe no longer has business partners; they have an “ecosystem.” The same with banks that provide wholesale banking services through a set of retail businesses - they are no longer wholesale banks but “ecosystem players”. This kind of jargon really dilutes the meaning of words and makes it hard to understand what is really meant.

Rant over, sorry.

Apart from my rant, it’s funny to see Node and JavaScript doing what almost killed Perl 20 years ago. There are so many ways of doing things, so many bespoke frameworks and packages (doing OO in Perl, anyone?), so many odd dialects that it fragmented the language and people got frustrated. The same is happening to JS right now, although with some important differences. There is hardly a fragmentation of usage via formal “dialects” in JS; rather, the problem is in the sprawl of libraries and “infrastructure” services, many of which are solved problems (e.g. Gulp reinventing what Make is really good at; Yarn reinventing what npm is supposed to do, etc). The supposed “ecosystem” is fragmenting day by day from its inherent complexity, and it’s exactly what caused web developers to flee from Perl to more simple, consistent alternatives.
During the ten years it takes to build a nuke, 100% of the power it is hoped to displace is supplied by fossil fuel. The thousands of tons of concrete are produced by cooking limestone with, again, fossil fuel. And the thousands of tons of steel are refined and smelted with, again, fossil fuel.

Most of a nuke plants' cost is in construction, but that is not because its operating cost is low. It is just insanely expensive to build. Then, its operating cost is high. Each moment it is not producing at 100% rated power, its per-kWh cost increases accordingly. Its operating cost does not decrease proportionally when it operates at below rated maximum power, so the operating cost per kWh is multiplied by the difference. And, operating at below rated capacity, the construction cost is amortized over fewer kWh, again making the per kWh cost greater.

You already well understood all of the above, but evidently hope readers will not.
There is no evidence at all that Internet usage, social media, and non-arranged marriages make people statistically happier.
Let me translate from PR to human:

"stickers that can see inside the body" = elastomer adhesive
This assumes Intel is constrained by capital. I don't believe that's even close to correct.
I don't recall correctly but there was this patent/paper discussing how Facebook (& perhaps a few others) use the EXIF data to confirm and expand your social graph. I guess processing the pictures already gives them everything they need to identify different people who were at the same place at around the same time. But all that meta data like timestamps, geolocation, camera make and model etc. must definitely provide them a great deal more info to be sure about that.

And if one company can do it, I don't see how others can't or won't do it in the future. And only God knows in what all other ways this information can be exploited.

I recommend everyone to clean up EXIF data before they send out files to friends and family or upload backups to the cloud.

I found the CLI tool at https://exiftool.org/ to be very useful. It helps remove EXIF data from a wide variety of file types and comes with tons of filters and features to observe and selectively manipulate & remove EXIF data.
Hydrogen (or Methane) are an existing storage solution that scales very easily. The truth is that currently we have so little renewable generation capacity that we save more CO2 by building more wind turbines and PV per dollar than by building storage.
It feels nicer to use functional components with declarative state than set dom attributes imperatively.
What does this comment have to do with what the parent comment said?
Youtuber Peter Santenello made a web series about the Amish last year. I found it really interesting: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEyPgwIPkHo7lOk-72-tX...
The NuScale design requires 3 people on shifts to operate a 12 reactor fleet.
No one anymore buys a apple laptop with the intention of upgrading it and it can be repaired just fine with a m1 board
6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11512455
Having kids is probably no more work for them that it is you, and probably less. They’re willing to put kids to work doing substantial jobs from an early age.
Probably the dumbest thing I've said, but, just skim read as I'm no expert and these detailed reports go over my head.

Why is it such a bad vulnerability if it requires a sudo command?
"Right now". Right now all the nuke plants you are talking about don't exist, so produce exactly 0 watts.
I used to prefer bitmap fonts too during the transition period. But after using vector fonts for years, it's hard to look at them now. I don't even use particularly high dpi screens.

Either way, I think for default the dev should just go with the norm (i.e. what is popular for the majority). Users can always change to bitmap fonts if they want.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-to-gas
If there is, this story isn't about that. The US has about 900 million acres of farmland, and this privately funded nature reserve is 450,000 acres, or 0.05% of that.
Uh oh, you have tinnitus

https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/psychopathology-tinnit...
In a pre-AST project 2 world, I've found the following 4 languages work well for programming (non-frontend) use cases, based on my startup experience:

- Java (with JOOQ): As a high level typed language (similar to Hack for Meta's use case. If Golang's generics help create a JOOQ equivalent in the future, then this would be Golang).

- C++/Carbon: As a systems/performance language. (We haven't tried Carbon yet, but this I feel would help beat Rust for this systems category)

- JS/TypeScript (Node or Deno or zx): As a scripting/tools language.

- Python: As a data processing and machine learning language (primarily thanks to the JIT computing and data libraries for Python). (This list ignores CUDA :))
Not mentioned are things like sidecar files with expanded exif data.

An example of that is Panasonic Lumix cameras would take a JPEG+raw. The raw is a .rw2 file that is pure metadata, but carries enough information about the camera and lens ability and parameters used to allow effective transformation of the JPEG as if you truly had the raw.

In those cases you had two files with exif data: the JPEG with basic exif and then the sidecar file with a really rich exif.

Raw drivers for Windows by Panasonic Lumix were really just sidecar parsers.
Just the turbine part of any power plant that converts heat to electricity is expensive enough that it has problems competing with PV in sunny locations (if you only include a little bit of storage in your calculations)
It used to be called Windows Defender, until they renamed it to Microsoft Defender some time ago
> scientific and technological advancements.

sure, it does not matter that things that we pay for and consume ends up having a million things that makes us sick in multiple ways, and if you are in some developing nation, you would be hard pressed to find food to feed your babies that is not laced with some kind of harmful pesticides or fertilizer, but hey, we can always pay more in healthcare to extend our diseased misery. We are doing just fine, in the mean while, there are more and more existential threats as the day progress, but hey, say it with me, we are JUST.DOING.FINE.
I thought Amish people can't use any technology, including phones?
> Are the free countries in war with Russia?
> Is US in war with Russia? Is EU in war in Russia?

Yes.

> If so, should we already send nukes?

No.
> Again, you’re gonna need some data. I would consider 1 in every thousand people being a homicidal maniac held in check by the the threat of force to be an extraordinary high incidence rate.

I wasn't making a claim about the actual rate, I was contending your claim that

>>>> Or at least a logical explanation, as to why you think the majority of the population are homicidal maniacs, held in check by the threat of prison time.

The GGP only claimed that the homicide rate will rise if there was no punishment for it. You decided that he meant that the majority of the population are homicidal maniacs.

I was merely pointing out that even with a small percentage (0.001%) being homicidal maniacs, the rise in homicides will still increase by two orders of magnitudes or more.

> Such a rate doesn’t even vaguely match up with my experiences of people.

Well, of course - people are punished for being homicidal maniacs so I don't expect them to go around advertising the fact. Your experience of not knowing very many matches the reality that those that do get found out are removed from society.
From the article:

>Reasons for Population Growth. The primary forces driving the growth are sizable nuclear families (five or more children on average) and an average retention rate (Amish children who join the church as young adults) of 85 percent or more. A few outsiders have joined the Amish, but the growth is almost entirely from within the Amish community.
You may go back to your freshman physics textbook.

If you get a professional engineering license without recalling basic Newtonian physics, that just tells us the licensing process has utterly failed us.
https://www.ft.com/content/eccf5514-8b83-4d85-8305-f882adf5d...

Fake news. There is a legal issue and publishers are suing and the eu is launching an anti trust investigation targeted at the removal of 3rd party cookies.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_21_...
> Nearly 64% of bottled water in the U.S. comes from municipal tap water sources. Which means we often pay for water that we could drink for free from our tap. Companies that sell bottled tap water, collect the water and treat it before bottling.

https://waterpurificationguide.com/brands-of-bottled-water-t...
I had this once happen to me when I hosted an executable file for direct download from the same IP serving the website. For some reason, Google thought the executable was malicious and flagged the domain for hours until I removed that particular file.

I hope this helps.
Same here - I went into science thinking that it would be all about trying new ideas and pushing the boundaries of what we know. And while in a certain sense that is still present, it takes a back seat to the perverse incentives you describe.

This was one of (and unfortunately not the only) reason I decided to leave academia after my Ph.D., leaving my field entirely and going into software engineering rather than taking a postdoc position. Academia isn't for everyone, and neither is industry... but wow, I sure am happier where I am now.
Seems finally my chance to ask about this.

My bike cameras, Cycliq (https://cycliq.com) when I view the clips on a file system have the right date/time "Get info" on macOS, but when imported in to Apple Photos are 10 hours in the past and I need to manually correct it. It seems like they're importing as the time, but UTC+0 (I'm in +10)

I've never had this problem importing photos/videos before.

What's going wrong here?