skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only hill I'm willing to die on anymore is the now-accepted use of the word "literally"

Oh, $DEITY. That one really pisses me off; but that hill is almost a guaranteed death sentence. It's in Merriam Webster, saying it means one thing, as well as it's negation. I'm sure there are better hills to fight for.

You can call me a deserter or a fugitive, if you like. I don't care. I won't die on the hill called "literally".
On paper, sure. In practice government doesn't really have to worry about government trying to make an example out of them though and has access to the kind of violence and benefit of the doubt evil corporations could only dream of.

Frankly I think it's a bit naive to imply that big government organizations aren't just as evil and terrible and self serving as big corporate ones. Their error bars of evil overlap a lot.
Animal Farm was an allegory for communist dictatorships, and most large organisations are internally run like communist dictatorships.
these cowboy builders should learn to code
I'm not talking about people who have technical side projects.
Then say that and don't blame employee laziness for poor planning.
FDA Monkeypox Response
Got it, there's no "LIT w/length" instruction in LZSS, so it's logically a new compare-and-branch every time a literal character is hit. I hadn't regarded it as a performance-wise argument, but size-wise for some reason.
It's mostly not enabled by default due to uproar from politicians and organizations like NCMEC on how it would protect child abusers. I expect that they are currently working on features to help address that and will enable it by default when those are ready.
From the data I've seen, the strongest predictors of happiness are maintaining strong social ties. Children are only one way to do that. I've seen no data suggesting having children specifically is associated with more happiness at any stage of life.
I am interested in ; Business Analysts: business analysis, documentation, team and tool design
What do you mean by "applied to the existing telecoms"? For this RDOF subsidy, no major telecoms have been given any money.

It's totally fair to criticize subsidies that have been historically given major telecom companies when they failed to deliver (and they have). But, I don't think it's fair to say "historically the US government has given subsidies to telecoms that have failed to deliver, so you should keep doing that".
I've seen people with 6 figure salaries say this, without realizing that they're voting with their wallets, causing the slow demise of all the entertainment content that they love.
GIMP really bothers me. It makes it really hard to recommend.
I very much agree with the thematic sentiment you shared that leaving certain rural folks in the dust because they can't hit an arbitrary 100mbps down (but maybe could get 20mbps instead) is a flaw in this whole program. But note that other more capable providers can bid on those census blocks now that Starlink is in default.

> Do you actually have reason to think they're maxing out potential bandwidth right now in 12-18 GHz or 26.5-40 GHz right now vs that being a tech limitation that will be improved with better phased arrays and bigger sats like v2.0?

I do think its a tech limitation, yes. The capacity limitations in many new RF solutions are unrelated to the theoretical max of any of those bands (re: Shannon limit). As to whether the that can be improved, that depends on where the bottle necks are. I brought up the mac layer note for that reason, I don't know that they're enveloping ethernet frames over that link, but if they are - what is the strategy there? TDMA? CDMA? There's just not a ton of public information out there to make a deductively valid argument that the FCC should expect it to improve.

(EDIT: Realized that I didn't convey my point well. It is a tech limitation imposed by the physical limitations of the medium itself. No matter how much spectrum you have, you still need a modulation scheme to allow for multiplexing over that spectrum. There are limitations there where the implementation details really do matter.)
Diaspora is an extraordinary book and I second your recommendation, but I didn't think of that as one of its primary themes. Although it does fit.
I'm honestly not sure it is a good idea to use really old clothes for quilting. The fabric ages and becomes thinner and thinner, and a quilt is a lot of work. Do you want to produce a quilt out of already weak material?
Talking about “the incentive problem” as if it’s some minor fixable issue ignores all of human psychology and economics.

The climate crisis is a somewhat comparable example - it requires changing behavior on a massive scale for abstract benefit. In the climate case the benefit is much more fundamental than what semweb promises. And despite massive pain and effort we are very very far from addressing it. Thinking semweb would happen just cuz it sounds cool is super naive.
I remember a story, perhaps apocryphal, of an Austin-based startup that crashed in 2000. At the company meeting where layoffs were announced, the floor was opened for questions. Someone asked "does this mean the rock climbing wall in the cafeteria won't be completed?"
> plain ol' mob violence

Alternative slates of electors, contingent elections, principled opposition from within the party -- you know, just plain ol' everyday mob violence things.
The sheer number of traffic and data … if one company knows if we are heading into a recession it’s Facebook!
He broke the TOS repeatedly, and since the beginning. Twitter was in the wrong because he should have been kicked out way sooner.
Repeat-based holocentromeres influence genome architecture&karyotype evolution
but lack of access to time sensitive care isn't one of them. if you feel things are going too slow, you can go online and google the names of different doctors to see.
Not the person you're replying to, but if you're willing to do that to your walls, you're probably willing to pay for an external antenna and internal transmitter
I don’t put much stock into play to earn and current VC funded blockchain games.

There’s two areas of blockchain gaming I think are interesting to explore:

1. Decentralized games like Dark Forest that allow a game developer to set rules in smart contracts, and users to build around that game permissionlessly.[1]

2. A new model for marketplaces, particularly user generated content. This could be for a game (eg: mods), or game engine (eg: unity assets), or just an app (eg: Figma plugins). The primary benefit here is minimizing the 2-30% take-rates of current intermediaries, adding interoperability across ecosystems (such as ownership of an asset across multiple competing app stores), faster settlements, and trustless withdrawals. This is probably another couple years away from happening as it requires robust zkEVM/zkRollup tech and better privacy features, which are currently constrained by computation & regulation. I wrote about this idea here.[2]

[1] https://blog.zkga.me/

[2] https://gist.github.com/mattdesl/ec2bf085b19407695b23cb90f6f...
It's complete willful ignorance to mock or dismiss this. It may not be a 'dangerous at any speed' scenario, but that's only a difference of scale because there aren't a lot of Teslas on the road and because FSD is an add-on. If Tesla were allowed to keep releasing such an untested product with such a poor safety track record without repercussions, it could set the tone for other auto manufacturers to do the same. Luckily other auto manufacturers aren't being as reckless.

FSD is dangerously immature software that is not anywhere close to road ready, and yet we are supposed to trust it not to kill or injure people.

Some examples:

- Teslas can't distinguish yellow stoplights from the moon.

https://twitter.com/JordanTeslaTech/status/14184133078625853...

- Numerous examples of near-misses where it decides to veer into pedestrians

- They are demonstrably much more dangerous than other cars:

https://www.tesladeaths.com/resources.html

Aside from the software, they also aren't safe on a mechanical level either, since for instance, they don't have good mechanical safety mechanisms as a fallback for when the electronics fail, and people are trapped in burning cars.

https://www.autoblog.com/2019/02/25/fatal-tesla-model-s-cras...

In my state FSD/Autopilot luckily isn't street legal, but if it was and I saw another Tesla on the road, rather than take my chances I'd pull over if I wasn't able to keep sufficient distance from them. And I certainly wouldn't want to take my chances near them as a pedestrian.

I will give Tesla credit for popularizing EVs and innovating auto design, but that doesn't make up for such poor execution in manufacturing, safety design, and alpha-quality software being trusted to make decisions that can kill people when.
That's why in RDF you should really be using a well-modelled ontology.

As for performance issues, using a dedicated Quad store helps there, rather than one built on top of an RDBMS (OpenLink Virtuoso excluded, because somehow they manage to make Quads on top of a distributed SQL engine blazing fast).

It's been about 6 years since I've been in that world, so things might have changed wrt performance.
more accurately, a lot crass (i personally generally enjoy it)
> Because nobody here is talking about lifting the sanctions to please Russia

Right, as the ball is in Russia's court to appease the West to see them lifted, and so what political, material, or territorial concessions are being made by the West to avoid conflict? In reality, Russia is the one who must concede on Ukrainian territory for sanctions to be lifted.

> The only way you could see Russia as not the aggressor here is if you think Russia is justified in its invasion of Ukraine...

This is a logical fallacy. One's feelings towards the matter have absolutely no relevance to the topic at hand.
And of course, all those ways to bypass e2ee are properties of e2ee itself (or of common features required for usable e2ee like being able to add devices), not properties of facebook or facebook's implementation. e2ee generally should not be considered to be protecting you from a malicious messaging service.
I don’t think rail will handle the last mile in all cases, but I also don’t think the last mile requires trucks. It’s the last mile. There are so many options besides semi trucks.

It’s worth looking at Switzerland where they have many electric spur lines that do handle the last mile.
Take it up with Dang. Could be a monthly post like the hiring posts. Probably rig up a poll for voting on next month’s book. You could make your own posts, but they would never get traction without some HN leadership blessings.

HN used to have book recommendation posts pretty often, but maybe we’ve gotten less literary over time. I’ve read about a dozen books that were recommended here and they were all awesome.
Blind is interesting. I'm grateful for the insights into total compensation it granted me, and Blind combined with a managerial stint gave me a very solid feel for both industry and company-specific bands. I also got notice of an impending reorg that was coming my way, and started early in looking for another home.

On the other hand, it only exacerbated the cynicism and burnout covid and WFH brought. Trolls are rewarded with attention through "engagement" with their incendiary posts, misinformation and speculation passed as dogma are rampant, and as you mentioned the collective priority in "the community" is this egocentric worship of money. It reminds me of the subreddit /r/relationships, where the number one piece of advice is to obviously break up or divorce because you're getting screwed over. Blind's number one piece of advice is to obviously grind leetcode and start interviewing because you're getting screwed over.
Both this and Haxe seem like undiscovered superpowers. What's the catch? And why the focus on game dev specifically?
What About Chernobyl?
I don't immediately understand why Kaizala is a stupid name, in or out of English.
A former coworker called these people professional meeters. Had an EM like that. Either he was in a meeting or he was walking around and talking the ear off of whichever unfortunate soul he bumped into. Tangible output was basically 0.
How about if "locally" is a handful of servers reachable by ssh?
> Going from no voting to every adult can vote is probably too much.

Could you expand on this a bit? Why?
TIL. I had no idea the market had changed this much. I'm not in the Ferrari demo
But if the company itself isn't the actual customer, you don't lose anything by upsetting their legal/marketing team! And if the account's a free trial account, you're not losing any cash even if the individual account owner gets offended on behalf of their employer...

The other wheeze for startups with few or no customers who want some recognisable badges on their home page is padding the "we work with" section with logos of companies where they use that company's product rather than vice versa...
Well this sounds incredibly horrible in every conceivable way.
> Generally the people who were most concerned about others well-being were gifted with a light and pleasant demeanour

Kinda like the light and pleasant demeanor of Robin Williams? This is crazy ovservation bias, you have no idea of the actual, lived experiences of these people. Honestly, my experience is that people who really suffer with depression are consistently some of the nicest, most thoughtful people. They understand how shitty it is to be down and do as much as they are capable of to try and stop the spread and help themselves, and being appreciative and positive are, as you point out, pretty excellent at making one feel better. People who are constant downers and negative, in my experience, are more self-obsessed and trying to get something.
If you're using "function normally" as a euphemism for "be android," then you're misusing "perfect as the enemy of good," because if you wouldn't be satisfied with a non-Android phone, you certainly don't consider it perfect.
So... no one within range of being able to catch a bus is a serious cyclist because they have an out? No one who can call a friend for a ride can be serious about cycling? I don't think this is typically what people would mean by that phrase.
Which is why a lot of fiber roll-outs happen when electrical, water, or gas lines are already being replaced.
> Whilst if one is working for a hos, pital or a stopping-online-manipulation department, not good for society, right

Oh definitely. I'm under the (maybe wrong) assumption that the majority of people are not doing this. I believe most my peers in the silicon valley bubble I live in aren't really moving needles that benefit humanity.
talk about taxing unrealized gains
Terrorism has been around a lot longer than 2001.

It was a terrorist attack, the same as this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Justice_siege
With Steering wheel position, speed, and charging history, I am pretty sure I can figure out where you live and every where you have ever driven.
Usually the degrowth people also advocate for massive redistribution so that everyone would be equally poor. I doubt that's politically possible in most of the world so the alternative would be feudal degrowth which, as you said, is evil.
Yikes, that's just asking for mental illness.
But running an ISP requires a metric ton of capital upfront. No matter the motivation, how do you get that capital?
When the title said "Android alternative", I was actually expecting an alternative OS (like Sailfish or Ubuntu Touch), not a mere LineageOS fork. That's like calling Ubuntu a "Linux alternative".
I don't understand why this is a surprise. Is it that no one from FAANG upper management visited HN? HN general position is:

* get a job at FAANG

* do nothing, other than show up and do some minimal work

* collect mad money

* when bored go to another FAANG

Compared this to startups:

* get a job at startup

* work work work work work

* collect OK money

* go back to work

HN advice? Get a job at FAANG!
It’s funny seeing so many people promote “use them as rags!”!
Sure that’s possible but it’s not an absolute.
We can use old electronics as a paper weight (“and more!”) if we want to but people don’t normally promote that.

Presumably natural fibers (wool, cotton, hemp etc) can be composted (conveniently ignoring buttons etc) and everything synthetic can just be landfilled (what else can we do with plasitcs).

Im a bit of a cynic but it’s acceptable to “dispose of” items. Hopefully we can keep in mind reduce, reuse, and recycle but there’s a functional limit to those things.

It seems likely any “trash handling technology” to arise to settle this has bigger fish to fry than just clothing - if any “plastic eating microbe” was employed commercially it makes more sense to me to stick it on the landfills rather than an old laundry basket
> I work on a Humanities based project which uses the Semantic Web (https://github.com/cyocum/irish-gen) and I have looked at TerminusDB a couple of times.

I had never come across anything like this before, but this is a wonderful project.
I love the alpine butterfly. It also helps improve the security and strength of a trucker's hitch compared to the usual slipped overhand knot loop which can be handy occasionally with heavy loads!
I'm in a condo here, with an HOA / board, and it was a pain in the ass to get fiber brought in from the local telco. They wasted months sending out letters, waiting for people to give input, votes, etc. until they finally agreed it was a good idea. The telco pays for the whole install: trenching, digging, running fiber between the buildings, etc. That doesn't matter, because you still have people complaining about the utilities messing up their lawn.

It's been over a year now and the project still isn't done. The fiber is right on the street, not even 30 feet from my unit. I'd have paid a couple grand to get my own conduit brought in, if that was an option.
Love reading an entire article on Twitter. I'm sure that's what Tim Berners-Lee had in mind when he was coming up with the Internet.
I work for a company where the VPN sucks so much that we find ways to work outside it. Shadow IT is a thing here. I'd say some of our most productive and value-creating employees may go months without logging in internal systems, because things that are inside the company are able to pull their work that they do outside, so they don't have to deal with the shitty Windows-centric IT.
Having to log in or sign up with a Google account? Thank you, but no.
I learned how to do a so called amish knot at the Oakland Public Library last month. The materials were discarded clothes, sheets, and other cloth. As well as plastic bags and I think there was some plastic cord. It was pretty cool, I only made a small little roundish mat, but you could turn old cloths and plastic bags into little rugs with the technique pretty easily. The woman who was teaching it also noted that it didn't need any tools except for a poker you can make from a paper clip and the scissors (as opposed knitting needles or the hooks for crochet). A local art collective rocks paper scissors has a fiber arts thing once a month in the library, and they bring in sewing machines that anyone can use if you need to fix up your clothes or put together a pattern.
And there is no evidence to prove this as the article shows. The headline is clickbait.
You don't feed livestock soy, it's too expensive. The animal feed that contains soy is made from the stuff that humans can't eat - roughly 80% of the plant mass of soy is simply inedible by humans.

If you've got a clever trick for using this without running it through a cow, you'll be rich.

Otherwise, what are you going to do with it? Pile it up and let it rot, releasing even more carbon dioxide and methane?
Why does anything exist? Funding.
Your employer isn't your partner, they're your John. They get what they pay for, and that's it. If they want you to perform gratitude to stroke their egos, then they can pay extra for it.
TC or GTFO.

Honestly I've been in markets where this worked out. You pay a lot of money to get someone good who's motivated and does great work. Tech recently though has been a game where you get a high paying job and you just spend a year trying to get the next one rather than working.
blank is dead, long live blank
This must be one of the most awful sentences I've ever read. There is so much stink crammed into so few words, that I'm actually slightly in awe of how terrible it is. There are so many ways its bad that it feels like a rich knot of bad actions that you could unravel for a whole day and never be bored. At the same time, one of the biggest headlines today is about how Zuckerberg thinks WFH is wrong. I'll tell you something: this is is what's wrong. The people involved in whatever this was should be the ones to be fired most of all.
7x? I probably have too many clothes - we cull some every year or so, but my wife gets me a couple new things so it almost evens out. But probably half of what I wear in rotation is at least 3-4 years old, and some items closer to 10. I have a few items from 20 years ago, but I don't fit those so well any more (but keep for sentimental issues). That 'rotation' means I wear most of these shirts and pants 20-30x per year, at least. So most of the items I have get a minimum 50+ wearings, many over 100, and they're generally still quite wearable and 'newish' looking. I can not imagine wearing something 7x and claiming it's "old". Sheesh...
I did, thanks. For the record, my post was missing "change" before.
This seems like a non-issue. Where's the damage? I'm tired of people using children and a miniscule population of users w/ severe content sensitivities as excuses to justify features that are really just tools for asserting norms. The children are fine. We've been talking about how bad the internet is for children so long that those children grew up, led fufilling lives, had their own children, and now those children are apparently being ruined by the internet. What children need isn't more protection it's an escape hatch from all the forces trying to manipulate them during their most vulnerable years.
> But if our universe is contingent, then it must be contingent upon something that is necessary

You say that as if it was a obvious why, but to me that looks like a baseless assumption. The way I see it, if our universe is contingent, then that’s all we can know, the journey ends, there’s nothing else we can deduce. I simply can’t “assume” that there’s a “necessary substrate” just … because.
I have been using LOS since 17.1 on OP3T and OP6. How would my experience with /e/ differ?
That's probably true. Not that there aren't bits of Google doing fun and interesting work, it's a massive company after all. I've worked at a few, what I would consider to be large orgs, but my experience of Google was that it's truly on a different scale when it comes to bureaucracy and company politics.
Apologies for the shameless self-promotion here but it was this very problem that I built puppeteer-heap-snapshot. It decouples the HTML from the scraper and instead we inspect the booted app’s memory. Not near as performant but a lot more reliable. I wrote about it here: https://www.adriancooney.ie/blog/web-scraping-via-javascript...