skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can implement a jury trial system - have a pool of moderators, select a few at random and have them look at the account, only flagging it if there is a consensus that it’s a scam account
It would be pretty trivial to create a legal framework that would work.
I think it is pretty common in places where the mid day sun makes working difficult and dangerous.
I haven't done any maths but I bet the order's of magnitude in terms of energy flows are wildly different for human usage vs solar + geothermal flows.
I'm of the comfortable opinion that legality and biology should not be so tightly bound, and that the more complex a law becomes to maintain, the less likely it is that it should be a law. It's a bit of a cop-out, but I believe localized tradition should rule the day-to-day for most people, most places. Laws and those who work in them are far too full of themselves, imo.
Grid connections, turbines and BoP equipment reused from a coal plant is not a minor cost saving.
If Ford had really wanted the Focus RS to succeed they would have just built more cars. Dealer markups only happen on models in short supply. There just aren't many customers willing to pay even $40K for a small Ford hatchback, even though it had good performance specs.
I Love Ruby: 65LOC for Neat Atlassian Document Format
Don't get me wrong, I'm rooting for them and all others trying to make such solutions happen. I just hate these handwavy breakthrough-like press releases which get published 100 times a day.
This is queries per second (as in I run a search engine), not requests per second.
Speed reading - tips on how to process letters and words, skim paragraphs for the key points, etc. Stuff I learned in an extra curricular class in high school that has served me my entire life.

Of course being curious about the world and willing to read just about anything goes a long way too - if you aren't motivated to keep learning there isn't much of a reason to be reading stuff :)
The two types of software quality
Banks already offer various notarizing services. If you want to require some sort of physical proof of identity, that's probably the most reasonable path that isn't too onerous outside of situations where everyone to a first approximation is in the same location anyway.
Apple fought alleged sex-abuse victims to enforce ‘code of silence’
Review is the key. They're using it as an indicator of bad behavior to provide direction where other bad behavior may be.

The IP didn't identify the person, but it did potentially implicate accounts that needed to be reviewed or that may have been compromised.
Helping students and freshers build a tech portfolio
Dependabot now alerts for vulnerable GitHub Actions
Right but isn't that a legal problem not a biology problem? "Lol sex is gone now" doesn't sound like the right solution. Just make an other option for people who are born like that, kinda like how we use month 0 for people who don't know their birthday.
I've spent a lot of money on several HN posts because I came across a service or product that was advertised, so pretty sure people on the other end made some money. (And I was happy to do so.)
That really depends on what “work” means. Categorising people is easy; categorising them correctly in every case requires a very careful definition and an ability to correct mistakes.
Elon Musk's Twitter countersuit due by Friday as acrimony grows
I think the other commenters here really don't get what you mean or have never been to a retirement home. For people that really don't understand how this is not a good example: retirement homes reek of death. Even if you yourself are still fit, most people there won't be. This means that even though you would have the (mental/physical) capacity to enjoy your time there, you first need to find the few people that have that as well. Compare that to a college dorm, where almost everyone wants to socialize...

It really isn't just about mindset! Sure, that will have something to do with it, but it's really a minor part, and even then, it will be much much much harder to have a positive mindset there then in a college dorm. (Again, I'm not saying it's not possible - I'm really just trying to make people empathize with older people that don't want to go into a retirement home. I think that it's a really reasonable thing not wanting to go there)
It was the same with my lawn mower. It only gets used maybe 6-8 times a year. For some recent years here were how many days it had been idle before each use: (245, 22, 14, 15, 14, 33), (258, 24, 12, 13, 17, 11, 38, 71), (167, 21, 21, 20, 15, 61).

Two simple things fixed that:

1. I switched to gasoline that does not have ethanol added.

2. Once every 2 to 4 weeks in the off season I start it and run the engine for a minute.

The container I use to store gas holds about two years worth and the mower runs fine on the the two year old gas. I do add fuel stabilizer. The bottle of that claims it is good for 2 years but my previous bottle was 6 years old when I replaced it and the mower was fine on 2 year old fuel with 6 year old stabilizer.

If you live near any body of water big enough to attract boats you might try at marinas. CENEX also often sells it. Here's a site that can help you find it locally if you are in the US or Canada [1].

I do not do any winterizing procedure for the off season. I asked the repair place I took it too one year when it would not start before I started doing #1 and #2 if winterizing was necessary if you were running it occasionally, and they verified that you only need winterizing if it is going to not be used.

[1] https://www.pure-gas.org/
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This article reads with so much ego I have to wonder if Vice is planning on starting a "climate satire" column. The biggest irony is at some level the axis of control here is the government, a government which uses more fossil fuels flying weapons around than all of the ludicrously rich expel flying their expensive aeronautical toys combined.

It's Vice, so unfortunately I'm just not that surprised this article sounds like it was written by an irate english major who just discovered /r/socialism - who would proceed to yell at engineering majors on campus interning at Boeing because they're "complicit with ruining the future".

Improving education is how we avoid this kind of dissonance among people who actually want to improve the world or effect actual climate progress.
I'm also curious how they would deal with rock deformation as it reaches the point of becoming less solid and more squishy. There would need to be a mechanism to maintain hole integrity post-drilling.

To your question, I'm wondering if they simply pump down water and extract resulting steam once it reaches the point of vaporization? The steam condensers and everything else are already built on-site for coal generation.

One difficulty would be handling any accumulated minerals that got into the steam loop from interaction with the rock in the hole. Unlike traditional closed-loop steam generator, an open system would pick up contaminants and eventually cause scaling.
This.

The existing infrastructure of gas stations is not comparable to hydrogen.

- Consumers don't wear cryo gloves as they fill,

- tanks aren't pressure vessels,

- kiosks (and attendants) aren't monitoring pressure

Something governments really need to consider implementing are superfund cleanups of the existing tanks. While some stations ( (especially those at highways where 100+ mile trips are likely) may convert to electric or possibly hydrogen, we have only 2-3 years before 50% of 80% of trips can be "fueled" fromm home.
Ask HN: What do I gag gift when someone say they want “nothing specific”?
Hi guys, what do I gag gift someone when they say they want "nothing specific" for their birthday?

Something simple, gag, and affordable.
The planet is expected to still be mostly molten by the time the sun swallows it, so there is a huge margin. I think people underestimate just how much energy there is down there.
You're read correctly about the challenges available. A new one ships next week!

Today it takes us ~2 weeks to build the "core" parts of a challenge (planning, stage instructions, tester etc). From then on, the changes are incremental (adding support for more languages, better hints/instructions, getting experts to provide feedback on solutions etc).

Hard to say how much time the incremental changes take because they’re done over a span of months, but it’s definitely work. At times our community pitches in to add language support: https://github.com/codecrafters-io/languages

Paul also did a series of tweets when we were building the SQLite challenge if you’d like to see what the challenge-building process is like: https://twitter.com/RohitPaulK/status/1421517393780740100
I posted a comment in "Who wants to be hired?" and now I have a job.
It's 15 search queries per second, not requests per second. RPS is usually 10-20x higher.
> “The most privileged people should be the ones who start sacrificing first,”

He's right but, unfortunately, this is one of the best jokes i ever heard. The most privileged people are also the most greedy.
Of course it’s invalid. Either there is something about the substance of the article that is debatable or there isn’t. Other opinions are completely irrelevant.
1:4500 is just one possible definition. They also mention 1:100 as most inclusive. While this might be a bit too extreme, I could imagine the number to be much higher than 1.5M.
It's not only TikTok. To an extent, nearly EVERYTHING entertainment is designed to be sticky. Candy Crush, Sports Betting, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube...all are designed to maximize engagement.
After watching a talk from Kevin Hale (former YC partner) on How to Build Products Users Love, I decided to write about quality applied to software and technical products. I would love to hear your thoughts about this piece.
you WILL be surprised, and you WILL be delighted
I read this as skepticism about the timeline - which is 100% valid. Nobody's downplaying the validity of the research.

But perhaps being optimistic about timelines is how you secure funding? Couldn't say.
Same here. I now recommend https://git-fork.com – great client, much more sensible pricing model.
> you mean they used ocean freight on tiny light components (maybe hundred kg per 10K cars) to cut costs? :)

No… they used ocean freight because that’s how you ship assembled shit from China. This whole chip shortage thing is bullshit, it has nothing to do with the chips themselves, and everything to do with the cheap labor assembling hundreds of parts - many of them chips and electronics, but also not - into a single “part” to dodge import restrictions around how much of a car is made “foreign.” It’s insane how hard this is to communicate to people and how hard they’ve bought into the absolute bullshit.
Work as a contractor/consultant for a while. You'll run into problems that are not already well solved.
> It is much easier, and safer, to tap solar energy. If we pour research into solar efficiency and house-scale batteries, we could provide all of the electricity needed for U.S. homes and have enough to sell to Canada and Mexico with only 16k sq miles (the size of Nellis AFB).

A million times this.

We have solutions at our hands, but we're not willing enough to use them
"vicious"
Think you meant to say "vacuous"
Wouldn't the availability of energy at this scale drive people and organisations to use it?
I've come to think PoW stands for "proof of waste", it's just wasting electricity.
Turning a boolean into a tristate value is just as difficult as getting rid of it. There's no easy options! You need courage.
120% on board with this. why can all these woke celebrities and politicians tell me I cant buy the car i want but they pollute the equivalent to 2000 people a year each.

maybe they should be first to make a “sacrificel
That’s what carbon taxes are for.

I mean, of course you have to track where the methane came from but that’s pretty easy.

There are also ways ways to make hydrogen that emit lots of co2. So either way you have to track and tax.
Again, what's your point in trying to change the topic of the discussion? You certain Xi is going to further trash his own economy merely to further hurt the US economy?

For that matter, I think your original proposition has been partly proven wrong, the traffic jams at West Coast ports have deprived the US of timely container deliveries from the PRC and Asia in general. Some high value low weight and volume stuff got through via air, but somehow we continued to operate a modern technological industrial civilization.
> women with male cells forming neurons are more "male brained" or vice versa.

According to gender theory itself, a woman is purely someone which identifies as one "socially", nothing makes a woman but the way someone identify has, which means what a woman is is purely an opinion. What does an opinion have to do with male cells or female cells?

Of course that whole premise is absurd at first place.
Interesting, DALL-E Mini / Craiyon actually generates a pretty accurate result for "a monkey touching an iguana" (at least semantically):

https://i.imgur.com/Oq62gQI.png
I think the thing that helped me most was simply to learn more about English (I am a native English speaker) so that I could get an understanding of consistent tense, tone, narrative etc.

I suspect there are good general books on English writing but now I have learned how to write better, I can't believe I found it so difficult before.
Yes I don't think we want to wait for them to decide to care.
DSPs are the part of adtech that match your data to an advertising campaign and then bid to serve you that ad.
Giant viruses build a cell nucleus surprisingly like our own
Fzf: A tool that will transform your CLI life
When it's relevant to the conversation, I mention and link to my side project. I used to just mention it, not wanting to be seen as spammy, but I kept getting replies saying I should link, too. So I've kind of gotten over that.

And usually when I do so, again, provided it's relevant to the conversation, I get a lot of traffic, which sometimes translates into a few sales.

I think that, provided you are indeed contributing to the conversation, and what you're linking to us genuinely helpful and relevant, people on HN are usually pretty accepting of you promoting it occasionally.
SDF is still around. I recently recovered my account and spent a lovely afternoon hanging out on their chat
I used to do it with PHP but the problem is that then you can't cache the HTML (varnish or other solutions). Javascript don't have that problem and the added benefit of stopping bots that don't run javascript.

In the error message I have a friendly texts for human to turn on javascript if it is off and a <a href="javascript: history.go(-1);">Go back and try again</a> making them not loose the text that they have typed.
You can't rake grass clippings off the sidewalk.

But... I suppose you can sweep them with a broom.
They're not "experienced engineers" but I could see this being useful at the new grad/early career level - where people can code (and leetcode) but there's maybe a need for a more guided class-like experience, especially when it comes to breaking down tasks and working on a larger piece of software.
If you hadn't made well over $1M over years just off the "Who's Hiring"/"Who's Freelancing" threads (let's say you made $0), would HN still be one of the best communities in your 25 years? If so, why?
More HN threads:

"Tips for Writing a Technical Book" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20070558

"How to write a programming book" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23281568

"Learning technical writing using the engineering method" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22283919

And a GitHub list: https://github.com/jenniferlynparsons/awesome-writing
Heat Map Shows Clear Trend in Global Temperature Change
I wrote hundreds of thousands of words on role playing forums back in the day (Freelancer Discovery RP was a great time).

Writing ~100 pages per semester in university also helped.

Publishing a book made me realize how bad my writing still is without editing.

My advice, is to write more and be systematic about how you think it is bad. Attempting to quantify that can be helpful: "I think my work is bad" is different from "2/3 friends who reviewed this draft were confused by my lack of headers".

Also maybe do an edit pass yourself before taking it to your wife. Waiting 24 hours and then editing can help a lot!
Oh god no please no. The web is already heavy enough to browse.

Sincerely,

A user of a 7 year old smartphone.
Stardom is so odd. People will go see movies based largely on the presence of an actor they like looking at. Actors prize "range" in themselves, but people don't much care. We say that actor has "charisma" or "star power" or just "it" -- we can't say what it is but we know it when we see it.

Studio executives are constantly looking for it. When they find somebody, they stick with them, casting them in role after role (suited or not) because they're convinced people will see it. Movies who don't catch the interest of such a person don't get made, or are relegated to ultra-low-budgets and minimal distribution. And that's usually the correct economic choice.

It's not just the stoic roles that kept Willis' career going, but the fact that people wanted to see him in these movies. In Willis' case they may well have kept going longer than he was actually profitable. The "direct-to-video" market is a pretty ugly thing.

I wish it there were a way around that "stardom" thing. It's real: stars really do "open" movies. It bugs me to see stars do very good work in films where another actor could be at least as well, but isn't a star. Maybe they could be; stardom is really hard to predict. I believe all those out-of-work actors have a fair number of potential "stars", if only they'd shine a spotlight and do all the other things that make the big stars so glamorous.

And I really wish I knew what it was. As an actor and director myself, I know when I've got somebody the eye is drawn to. I wish I could teach it to others.
I've been following Quaise for a while and I have never seen any mention of such a plan. Oil and gas is into vertical drilling and fracking, which these people have little use for so the applications aren't that similar really.

There are other geothermal startups doing more O&G-like drilling though.
The most important thing I think DALL-E shows is that it has a model of our world and culture. It's not intelligence, but it is knowledge.

Google can give you endless pictures of giraffes if you search for it. But it can only connect you to what exists. It doesn't know things, it knows OF things.

DALL-E has knowledge of the concept of a giraffe, and can synthesize an endless amount of never-before seen giraffes for you. It actually knows what a giraffe is.
Dormant project means no writes. Dormant project can still have a lot of reads
Yeah, devs use `border-bottom` to get fancy but often don't test edge cases where it causes a strikethrough instead of an underline
They don't give a reason for the low rate of vaccination.
Germany and the End of Globalization
>Where can I move to escape the leaf blowing?

1. Rural areas where each lot is >1 acre. You might get some weed whacking, but it is not as obnoxiously frequent as fastidious leaf blowers.

2. Move to the desert where there are no trees. Bonus = no mosquitoes.
I have considered skipping the regular fingerprinting, geolocation, captcha, hashcash, email verification, payment required, etc... mitigations and instead requiring people to drop into a public chat room (or pm/chat the support team) to have their account activated.

The number of languages supported would be small to match whoever helped moderate this, but it would at least require speaking to someone. A PM thread or live chat would be an instant way to find out if someone can string two sentences together and might be worth allowing into the site. You could even have them create an account and solve a single captcha prior to getting access to the chat.

It's not perfect by any stretch, but might be worth exploring having humans-verify-humans.
Perfectly valid reaction, and one I personally share. It's a delicate balance to support innovative minds and ideas while simultaneously insulating oneself from baseless corporate marketing hype.
Where do you see DALLE automating away jobs?
I'd add that it's obviously the client software's job to decide what timeouts (and what behind-the-scenes retries and fallbacks) are appropriate, and when a timely response has arrived or not.

The end user doesn't need to know whether, say, waiting 15 seconds is sufficiently generous: there are software engineers for that.
If you've done sightseeing in most major EU countries, go back to your favorites or dive deeper into something of interest. Maybe do/see something related to a hobby?

For example I've gotten into woodworking recently but on a previous vaca to England years ago it wasn't a hobby. If I were to go back, I might look at things in museums or just old structures/furniture/architecture differently and get a different level of enjoyment out of it.
I double my reading speed by using Meta guiding technique
Hello everyone,

Meta guiding involves visually guiding your eye using some sort of pointer (finger, pen or this ReadingPointer app) for the eye to move faster along the length of a passage of text.

The point is to decrease distraction and focus on the specific words to increase your reading speed. Try to keep moving your pointer slightly faster than your comfort zone to increase the reading speed.

I've practiced this method for months and doubled my reading speed.

Then, I created a Chrome extension to have an online pointer. The extension's name is Reading Buddy.

You can use it for free here
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reading-buddy/mlfigafgefbkdmppofpcfbckkbfdjmjj

If you have any questions about this Meta guiding method, just leave a question.
AMD follows Intel in warning that the PC market is falling apart
Happens to me too -- it's a great way to make new things. However, the "creation" I'd argue happens when you look at the pile of random stuff and generate a new understanding, and decide that it is valuable. The difference between trash and art only exists in the head of the artist. Same thing happens with DALL-E output, really.
https://bankstatementconverter.com/

Interesting stories, I read the one about HSBC statement, what a mess.
The price for 3mo doesn't seem high to me at all IF that ought to be enough to complete a single project with 1-2h/day. Coding books cost upwards of $50-80.

So I would prefer a per project pricing.
And a trial that doesn't require credit card.

Awesome idea! I'd love to contribute somehow.
Zentail (YC S12) Is Hiring a CTO
What UIs are people using these days other than this? I'm mostly using command line but I like having something simple for commit editing and reviewing diffs file by file. I was using gitg for the last months on a linux laptop for this, which is fine but not spectacular. I got my new mac (finally) after waiting for that for several months yesterday and to my pleasant surprise, gitx is still being maintained and getting updates: https://github.com/gitx/gitx

I've used that for many years and I love it. But curious to hear what others use. Closed source is a bit of a non starter for me usually.