skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If speech is noise, how does noise help anything?

Hitler was a popular charismatic figure in Europe before the war.

Would you have made sure that his big Prime Time speeches were lined up with broadcasting so that everyone in Europe had the opportunity to hear what this wonderful man has to say in 1936? Because he bought network time on the Radio? And bought placements in all of the cinema theatres?

Or would you let the press do a little summary and put it in a few newspapers and maybe that's that?

What about the extra few hundred thousand people who are going to die from a disease, because some wayward doctor is running around telling people 'the government created the vaccine to control people' and 10% of the population believes it. What 'more speech' is going to convince those people of the truth, when 'more speech' from any rational, reliable medical source only makes the idiots more suspicious? Do we just let them die?

'Freedom of Expression' is a very important right, but now and again, there are issues we have to contend with.

Information is power, the press knows that very well, which is why even though they guise their narratives in 'pretty much mostly facts' - they can still drive bias and manipulation through.

We have to contend with the reality that 'the truth' - which is probably what we are all seeking, is somehow not well communicated in the commons, terribly communicated by politicians, somewhat well communicated by our the government (depending on the area), and reasonably well communicated by the mainstream press, but with large swaths of bias. And yes, generally defer to 'Freedom of Expression' as a hugely important pillar of freedom.
I learned how to program basic on my 83 over a weekend between my track and field events. Made the calculator much more usable.
Ok, tell me the tool they could use instead of git to handle and overcome the type of organization and technical they are experiencing
What standard flat fees are you talking about? Escorts don't have standard flat fees, different escorts charge different amounts.
I interpreted that to be an example reason, not an example workload.
>We eat a credit card's worth of microplastic every week

No, we don't. Here is a 4 minute video explaining how this bit of misinformation came to be spread across the internet.
https://youtu.be/2Ntp6BqhSng
thank god honestly

i really dislike the prospect of a search engine turning into a one-stop shop; im convinced (intuitively, with absolutely zero hard evidence), that settling on an instinctive default of "punch it into google" rots the brain, maybe because when i was young my dad asked why the hell i was typing $WEBSITE into the browser search bar (remember when those were separate?) instead of just entering website.com directly into the url bar
...but what does React.createElement compile down to? HTML and JS. Whether you do it with a clientside runtime or a serverside render, it still gets compiled or transpiled down to DOM objects in the end.

I think of "pure JS" as something more like a standalone node function that takes an input and gives you some abstract data output, vs templating code whose main purpose is to define elements in the DOM.

That you can intersperse with JS with DOM-like props in a JSX component (styles, states, handlers, whatever) doesn't mean that JSX isn't a templating language. It's just one that also accepts inline JS. Hell, you can do that with PHP and heredocs/template literals.

Aren't all templating languages "syntactic sugar"? Isn't that their point?
Been a while since I worked on WebApps. I agree with your sentiment that a lot of up front and then small changes over time. VDOM and Just refresh the whole page seem like consequences of how we express our DOM construction.

I'm curious if anyone is working on and had success with using differentiable (in the math sense) expressions of dom construction from state/events in order to allow the runtime to easily calculate diffs given state changes/events.
Design and Evaluation of IPFS: Measuring the Deployment and Performance [pdf]
A Surprisingly Common Condition Has Been Linked to Dementia
I am a former engineering operations manager with 30+ years of high-tech product development experience in both hardware and software. I would define an effective engineer as one who can:

A) work together effectively with other engineers, scientists and team leaders;

B) define the problem being solved in detail (requirements) through thorough investigation and analysis;

C) devise a safe, cost-and-time efficient solution (design) that addresses a majority of the requirements using fundamental knowledge of math, science, logic and prior engineering solutions;

D) carefully estimate the cost, schedule and labor/expertise required to build the proposed solution;

D) document and articulate the design and cost/labor estimates for others to review, analyze, and provide feedback and expert opinions so the design may be improved and the cost/labor can be minimized;

E) build rapid prototypes for part or all of the design to reveal hidden requirements, flaws and/or potential design nuances that can be better understood by engineers and the customer;

F) devise a way to test the proposed solution so that all requirements can be demonstrated as complete;

G) build and/or manage the labor team required to build the solution with an eye for quality and maintenance of cost and schedule limits;

H) test and/or manage the testing of the as-built solution; and

I) be able to communicate effectively during the entire engineering process with the customer, other stakeholders and corporate management.

This is what is required to be an “engineer,” whether that be an electrical engineer, a mechanical engineer or a software engineer. Anyone not meeting these qualifications is a technician and not an engineer.
I don't use AWS but I was curious about this. Seems like they wouldn't pull the rug out from under people like this quite that easily.

That being said, worth getting the upgrade done as soon as possible for GP's reason and others.
I suspect they need portability more than most projects.
Can we stop calling stuff like this a "study"? This is not science, this is essentially journalism.

I mean technically yes they are "studying" a subject but this is not a scientific experiment, but it will almost certainly be cited as such just because it's called a study.
There’s a lot of assumptions baked into what you said. Your own repulsion towards age, and sexualizing older people. Your own desire for youth. Lots of other stuff too (perhaps a fantasy of being an exception for any sex worker you’re with? The use of the word “viable” suggests some biological essentialism at play)

I’m not saying you’re wrong 100% of the time, but I’d be willing to bet a significant portion of sex workers wouldn’t see things that way at all.
How is n8n? I've been wanting something like Zapier but I can't seem to do HTTP calls to endpoints not in the list of actions.
Using JS is not enforced on anyone. Several (successful) websites are powered by alternatives to JS. Infact, HN itself does not use JS.

You could argue there is a lot more economic incentive to use JS to to the sheer number of jobs, but no one is being forced.
For x11 to survive it needs people motivated to maintain it
Take a look: Rare film of Market Street in San Francisco in 1906.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG9XXbKuYfA
It's a flat fee when the escort charges the same identical fee whether you are a 91 year old or a 19 year old.
> It is funny how it is the "conservative" supposedly "old ways are the best ways" people who would absolutely riot if you restored the order that we had before 1920 with pedestrians taking precedence over cars.

Let's leave partisan politics out of HN, shall we? Plus, the "conservatives" you are referring to have never believed that "old ways are the best ways" in relation to technology. They're not making some kind of exception for cars.

> The radical experiment of constructing our society entirely around single occupancy internal combustion engine vehicles has failed. Lets go back to the old ways.

What does that even mean? Ban non-electric cars? Ban all cars? What old ways?
Freight rail, not passenger
GoGoGrandparent (YC S16) is hiring a lead full-stack engineer
About us:
We're a digital caregiver that helps older & disabled adults avoid retirement communities and age well in their own homes. We tailor on demand APIs from companies like Uber and Instacart to the needs of people living with cognitive, visual, mobility and dexterity impairments. We're operating profitably with millions in revenue and growing quickly. Our company is remote first. Total engineering headcount, including this position, is eight.

The position:
FULLY REMOTE | Full-time | US, UK, or able to work 4+ hours overlap with mainland US

Lead the engineering as the first Tech Lead (full-stack) at the rarest of things - a Silicon Valley startup that is both wholesome AND profitable. We are also looking for a Senior Backend Engineer.

Tech stack (*required): Back-end heavy (Node*, Typescript*, MySQL*, REST*+GraphQL), front-end (Vue), deploy (AWS, Docker/K8s)

Minimum 6 years software experience (4+ using Node). If full-stack, you must be strongest on the backend.

2-stage interview process.

If you want to help older adults and people with disabilities, send your LinkedIn/CV to william@gogograndparent.com (keep it brief) or apply at https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gogograndparent/jobs (UK jobs can be applied for from anywhere and salary ranges can be adjusted for location/the right candidate)
I remember when these started taking over. Last semester's calculus class became next semester's "calculator" class. Okay for a few budding programmers; an educational decline for everyone else. And I never understood the programming appeal. Circa 1996, a thrift-store commodore was still a cheaper & better programming experience.

I was also fairly pissed about having to pay $100+ on a calculator which was wholly unnecessary for learning "area under the curve" and "slope at a point". College is such a shakedown.
"really cheap ones marked “BLOCKED BY AMAZON”; I decided not to go for these since theoretically they might have been stolen."

I'm not sure Amazon even has any way to report a stolen device to them so they can block it. I have a blocked Paperwhite(1st gen), because Amazon sent me a new one as a warranty replacement, but they specifically said that I don't need to return the old one - it's just blocked from accessing their servers. I imagine that's exactly what those cheap kindles on eBay are.
There is the Kit framework https://kit-clj.github.io/ which looks promising. It is rather new, and the documentation is quite limited, but I think it has a good chance at growing into something new people would find an accessible starting point for Clojure web development.

There is also a project called Coast which appears to be a direct attempt to make a Rails-like framework. However, the repo activity seems ... quiet. Granted, Clojure is special for having a lot of libraries which are quite old and appear dead but are instead apparently complete or satisfactory, and as such they don't get new commits.

I'm still waiting for a configurable platform (in any language) which allows you to specify the things you need, and it provides the working foundation. It then has a plugin structure so you can build your business logic in any of several languages, and importantly it doesn't suffer from the usual code generation problem where it only works one time (the first time). Wordpress is sort of this, but it's slow and architecturally awful.
There's even more pressure on a subscription service to deliver value, since you can cancel and the business makes less than selling MSRP (and this usually means losing money on the customer after customer acquisition costs).

I can't think of a single subscription service I use that doesn't continue to deliver new updates and value on a regular basis, and other than Adobe's bullshit "annual masquerading as monthly" drama I haven't come across something I wished was still packaged.
> Instead capitalism is reducing people's horizons and impoverishing their choices of vocation and lifestyle

Compared to what?
I completely agree with you. If we’re just going to allow “AI” to eat into all human data and remix it in a way that only the 20 people involved in programming it make money (instead of the 2 million who were used as sources for the human data) then that is just the biggest stealth theft of wealth in recent human history.

It’s the equivalent of the technological enslavement of most humans who will be told that their inputs used in the AÍ “have no value” while the AÍ aggregates it all.
To me, conservativism is just cherry picking.
My pet theory is that just like everything in nature keeps evolving into crabs, eventually every mode of personal transportation evolves into a golf cart.

The Japanese have kei cars, the Dutch and other people living in bicycle-centric cities cargo bikes - sometimes you just need the extra luggage space.
> It is funny how it is the "conservative" supposedly "old ways are the best ways" people who would absolutely riot if you restored the order that we had before 1920 with pedestrians taking precedence over cars.

It’s not funny at all how condescending almost hateful people this comment is to “conservative” viewpoints. Quite an assumption you make.

Rural (>80% conservative) populations cannot function without cars. So yes, they get concerned when government makes it more difficult / expensive to have cars. That said, I don’t think most have an opinion on city transportation. They take trains and buses like everyone else from what I’ve seen.

That said, this article is a fluff piece. For context, these cities had a massive amount of pollution from the horse poop. The argument to allow vehicles was literally to solve the horse issues. More than that, it was also argued in a free society everyone should be free to move as they wish. Horses weren’t even mentioned in this article…
Aren't you rather confirming that Adams quote? Young people want change, old people want to keep it the way it's always been (in their lifetime).
Water cremation – A sustainable option for what to do with our remains
Proper wood burning devices can actually be as, if not more efficient (fuel consumption wise) than gas furnaces. Given that they also don't live in high density areas, any particulate is basically just fertilizing their crop fields.

Compared to natural gas and propane, which realease a fair amount of methane (not to mention just as much CO2), and it's not the slam dunk criticism that you're thinking it is.
I imagine the context for something like was they put in place blanket regulations for food safety; kitchen must have a drain to make it easier to clean, water must be hot enough to sanitize, must be inspected periodically, food must be tested and labeled before sale. It's often later they come in and make exceptions for low-volume, low-risk situations. I've noticed "cottage food laws" have popped up over the past decade (California passed some back in 2012).

A similar example is home brewing beer. Obviously, Prohibition happened in the 20s and 30s and it was heavily regulated afterward. It wasn't until the 70s when it was legal to home brew beer. You still hear craft brewers complain about the laws around distribution for smaller guys.
I'll do that, thanks. I've never had feedback that's indicated people wanted to know.

It uses NTP's clock synchronization algorithm to get the servers' time. This is done over a websocket as it's twice as fast as a typical ajax request/response. Then all changes are made using the browser's idea of server time.

At the bottom of the page, you can see your computer/phone's time offset and precision.
What I'm Frustrated by in Crypto
EVs lower dependence on oil, but we'll have to keep begging Saudi Arabia and many similar countries, which was the mistaken assumption of the comment I am responding to
It will definitely be interesting to see how WASM changes the landscape. But if I were to bet my money, I'd say JS will survive well even in that age. The huge huge ecosystem and with TS being pretty conducive for large teams to use is just a pretty large momentum on JS's side.
You can also just search 6min timer on duckduckgo, still works there
It’s a skillful writer indeed who can toy with or break these rules without invoking the reader’s ire.
I'll point to the simulation site I always link to: https://model.energy/

This uses real weather data for various countries and optimize solar + wind + batteries + hydrogen to provide a constant output at minimum cost. The results are interesting. You can tweak the cost assumptions.
Coincidentally, just last night I watched this video from Stumpy Nubs showing how to create loose tenon joinery without the Domino. Of course, it does have some complexities, and assumes you have a table saw and plunge router.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx1Mg2mTMO0
This project in Tempe, AZ markets itself as the first planned car-free community in the US:

https://culdesac.com/

I’m hoping that if it is successful, developers will build similar projects elsewhere.
> America got to be car-centric not because of nefarious car companies or other special interests, it got to be car-centric because cars work very well for our use case

Orr it could actually be that they paid for advertisements and politicians just to do that. If you don't want to read about it, here's a video that explains it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOttvpjJvAo
Does anyone know of a convenient eInk display where you can bypass the driver circuit, and apply your own voltages to the cells directly?
> Your own repulsion towards age

It's not me, it's Nature has a repulsion towards age, especially as it relates to sex and sex appeal. That's why people lose sex drive and attractiveness as they age, both men and women. Civilians and Sex workers alike.

> perhaps a fantasy of being an exception for any sex worker you’re with?

I just don't want to subsidize horny grandpa. Trying to be the exception and becoming friends with benefit as of today is the only rational way to go about it given the flat fee
Beyond a lack of memory safety, C has another issue that makes me dislike it for this kind of application: C has a very minimal set of built in data structures. Combined with a lack of generics, this means that using, say, a dictionary means that quite a bit of the implementation gets hard coded into every site that uses the dictionary. This is almost invariably done with lots of pointers (since C has no better-constrained reference type), and the result can be bug-prone and difficult to refactor.

For all of C++’s faults, at least it’s possible to use a map (or unordered_set or whatever) and mostly avoid encoding the fact that it’s anything other than an associative container of some sort at the call sites. This is especially true in C++11 or newer with auto.
I've started using plain old CDN-served React/jQuery/Lodash to do everything, with no build system, and daring my employer to fire me. So far so good.
So the 20 million immigrants from Ukraine left their crypto in Ukraine, because the National Bank of Ukraine said so?
You have the choice. If you've weighted your options and decided to stay on social media because you value what it gives you more than what it takes, that's your choice. But you do have a choice.

Also, if your friends disown you because you choose not to use social media, are they really your friends? If they don't respect your decision, are unwilling to speak with you except through social media, then I personally wouldn't consider them friends. But that's up to you. And you can always make new friends.
I posted a math video and it only got 2 views. I’m probably terrible though.
Renewable energy production takes a minuscule amount of land compared to agriculture, and a lot of that land can be things like parking lots and roofs.
Great project. While on this subject, see https://hypercard.org/
It's basically their goto strategy though. For instance, responding to third party payment provider laws by saying "okay, but you still have to pay us 27% anyways" is pretty much purposely intended to respond by following the letter of the law and not the spirit of the law, forcing lawmakers to go back and be even more clear on the demand.

They know the law was intended to address their abusive pricing arrangements, but they decided, of course, to thumb their nose at it and add a new "platform fee" instead.
If Wayland is useless without GNOME, that's reason enough to maintain it.
Obviously it's not a big deal if you're already intentionally moving away from Google, but one of the oddest things about the legacy free G Suite changes is that after months and months of upheaval and uncertainty, they just allowed personal-use users to keep it indefinitely anyway.

I half wonder if it was a purposeful scheme to knock out the biggest users and have them "voluntarily" migrate while ultimately not booting off those who waited around and were the most averse to change. But it really didn't feel like strategy, more like lurching between possible ways forward.

Google is definitely getting out of all those spaces where it just "generously" allowed free stuff all over the place: obviously the shuttering of many services, but the things like G Suite and Maps billing and the general crackdown on storage... I don't think the economics of the business really required such changes but it's more a philosophical change? Or preparing for leaner times ahead?
Cars are faster in car first environment, hmmm.
Building a Standalone Rust Binary for a Scratch Docker Container
This is very relevant to my interests, but there is no contact info in your bio...
It's particularly fun for them to introduce this in a point release. If this didn't warrant a major version bump I'm frankly not sure what would.
The entire value proposition of SIP is that it can supposedly protect you from certain attacks even if the attacker has root.
$1mm at Google scale is absolutely peanuts; it should be crushed.
You say this as if the only places that can be walkable are metropolitan downtowns. Small towns and villages used to be pleasant and walkable too. Many had single-line streetcars.

There has never been a time in US history where the majority of people living in rural counties were farmers. The USDA estimates that the population of rural counties who actually work in agriculture peaked at around 40% in 1950, it's now more like 14%. Most people in rural areas live in towns, and they shouldn't be forced to own cars either.
The point today, yes. The point when it was invented, no.
Tell HN: LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings into company profiles
I work at a company that is not actively hiring, so imagine my surprise when I see 5+ job postings on my company's LinkedIn page.

It appears that LinkedIn is automatically importing job postings from other places on LinkedIn and other sites such as angel.co if the company name of the job posting matches your company name on LinkedIn.

After importing, the job postings will display your company logo, company description, profile pictures of your connections that already work there, etc, just like a real job posting. The "Apply" link redirects to the original job posting such as from angel.co.

The only reason I was able to tell these are not legitimate is because the descriptions of the posts clearly describe a different company.

So it seems to be a phishing opportunity is to create a profile on LinkedIn or angel.co with a company name that matches your target company. Write some job postings with descriptions that look like a job posting that the company would actually hire. And now those job postings will be reposted onto the official LinkedIn pages of the company, and applicants will be redirected to your phished webpage.
What about it makes it not science?