skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a full fledged scraper but IDS[1] has great heuristics to figure relevant content/information behind HTML code therefore lesser/no iterations needed in case frontend code changes.

Would be cool to reverse engineer it and probably plug it into some JS rendering testing solution (say Puppeteer, etc.)

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/instant-data-scrap...
I didn't lie on my tax returns, either. In 2011 the IRS kicked off an audit, saying that I owed a little more than $50k in unpaid taxes because of inappropriate deductions. (The auditor was a contractor, who's company I found out later, was paid based upon "successful" claims against taxpayers after an audit.)

After contacting the accountant that does our taxes and asking her to represent us, she showed up in the guy's cubicle, filed the paperwork for dispute, and started the audit process.

A week after she showed up to represent us, we received a letter from the IRS stating that we now owed north of $100k. Felt like intimidation to me. After a week of our accountant going over each and every scrap of paper with this guy, turned out that the IRS owed us $2300, which we agreed to give to our accountant for representing us. The contract auditor, according to our accountant, was belligerent and abusive. (edit- we wouldn't have had a chance against this guy without our accountant)

Yes, there are plenty of people that lie on their returns, but I've come across many, many stories like mine as well. Telling the truth on a return is no guarantee that the IRS will not audit you, and I believe that uncalled-for audits are much more prevalent than is generally believed.

(Edit) Not exactly the same thing, but when you say "... because I don't lie on my tax returns." it reminds me of "If you've done nothing wrong, you don't have anything to worry about".

The question I ask to both of those statements is "According to whom?"
> it is also not rocket science to take words literally and not look for subtext

Has it occurred to you that just as it is difficult for you to adapt to the communication styles and thought patterns of allistic people, your manager experiences the same difficulty adapting to those of autistic people?

While I believe organizations and managers should try to accommodate neurodiversity and help all types of people be successful in the workplace, it's not unreasonable to expect you to expend some effort adapting as well.

In all your follow-up comments you seem to have some excuse or clarification for why you don't need to adjust your behavior and the problem is obviously that your manager isn't trying hard enough.

When your manager asks a casual question, he is not asking for a formal document describing pros, cons. He's looking for you to make a judgment call, express an opinion, or for you to say "hmmm, I might spend some time this week looking in to that."

Reacting to a two-sentence exchange by spending a week working on a doc is a communication anti-pattern.
I just looked at my older Walmart receipts. The cost of milk went from $1.35/gallon in February 2020 to over $4/gallon in 2022. Milk is just a quick and easy example. I’m sure I could find countless other examples if I took the time.
Getting started with Sylver – Part1: Building a JSON parser in 49 lines of code
This was pretty well illustrated in the novel Flowers For Algernon, an overall excellent read FYI.
Supermarket food could soon carry eco-labels, says study
No victim, no crime.
As Russian missiles struck Ukraine, Western tech still flowed
I've been playing with hydroponics for the past three years outside. It became my lockdown project. [0] I tried four different methods: not-exactly nutrient film, kratky buckets, ebb and flow, and areoponics. I personally, couldn't get the buckets to work, but most people do. Probably just mistakes on my part.

This year it's been strawberries, eggplants, cucumbers, and kale. It's not hard. just check the water every day and top it off it if you need to. (You'll lose water due to transpiration during the hottest months.) Change the water ever couple of weeks.

I know I'm not being the most efficient with it. Like I should check the pH levels, and electroconductivity, but I don't. I did the first year, but I haven't checked this year at all, and it works fine. If I was doing this for a job, or was a bit larger scale, I would, but it's not really worth it, especially since what I'd really want is a mass spectrometer or something to identify specifically which nutrients need added, instead of just when to chuck the whole water supply and start again.

My main advice is make holders for small plants (i.e. Things in 3 inch net cups) if you're using ebb and flow, or simply keep the biggest plants in those. Otherwise, they'll flip, and you'll lose the plants. (This becomes obvious after an hour or so., so it's not really that useful.)

[0] https://twitter.com/jonathankoren/status/1265181119508439040...
CareRev (YC S16) is hiring Ruby/Rails devs to transform healthcare (Remote US)
Yes. Yes they are. On some teams.

On other teams, they put out revolutionary products/developer tools.

It comes back to management, and talent self-selecting itself. Truly talented people won't be content to waste their career, and will leave poor performing teams to join high performing ones.
Plus accusing the mainstream scientific community of "blindly and religiously believing in [...]" is a page taken directly from the Crackpot Index [1].

"They are suppressing my work!"

"They do not want you to read this!"

Etc.

[1] https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
The Big Acquisition: What Nubank's Cognitect Acquisition Means for Clojure
Disclosure: I recently joined Cognitect, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of NuBank.
theres a difference between stated preference and revealed preference, most of us aspire to more but we all regress to base instincts.

also what suits you may not suit others. if you pull up a list of their top tweets of all time its all memes. the crowd has voted. and it got them enough of an audience, that when it comes time to launch their stuff, people actually pay attention: https://twitter.com/supabase/status/1554542300713426950 and they actually drive traffic to their videos https://twitter.com/supabase/status/1556201229222662155

supabase are executing on social media at a higher level than stripe or snowflake right now. arguably at some point their brand may have to "grow up" but the underdog relatable feel is definitely a fit for getting developers invested in their journey/growth as a challenger brand vs Firebase and eventually AWS RDS.

as a business person/marketer you learn very quickly to distinguish personal preference from what is effective for the audience you are trying to serve (not saying that you should do anything and everything that works, as that path leads to darkness, but as long as it is authentic and has results there is some overlap).
Basically the conclusion of the Stoics, and why stoicism as a philosophy continues to be useful.
Right; I've never met anyone who carries an entire spare chain. It would not even slightly make sense.

If you put a new chain on old sprockets, it will likely skip, particularly on the rear cassette. This will go double if you're someone who allowed the chain to wear for so long that it just broke. That chain will only work with the sprockets that it is on and vice versa.

If you damaged a newer chain due to some freak accident (like cross chaining while shifting under load or something: shouldn't happen on a quality, well adjusted drive train) you probably don't want to replace it; aside from the bent/broken link, it is good. Splice the damaged link out and get moving.

Swapping in a new chain could be extra work. It likely has excess links which you have to remove and set aside, and may have stuck links that have to be identified and massaged into releasing.
You have the life experience to know what will and won't affect you, and you've found an equilibrium of control and impact that apparently makes you happy.

That's very you specific, not really related to your age, other than that it took you until your 30s to find that equilibrium.

There's nothing at all written down anywhere that ensures such an equilibrium for everyone, however. Especially for folks who represent a minority in their society, life is a lot more threatening and a lot less controllable for them, typically.

For some, that equilibrium may never come, and while that doesn't invalidate your experience, it certainly doesn't support the idea that "you'll calm down when you're older".
Yea, the expert class is under idealogical capture
You got fraud in many fields like social science. depression, and Alzheimer's research were the hot fraud of the last couple weeks.

Experts are just spinning things to fit their idealogies.
Regular folks must start evaluating how inflation is personally affecting us and make noise.
Thanks! will check these out.
Physical hearing damage is something I would hardly refer to as just "stress response".
Iraq? From 1958 to 2003 Iraq preserved its cultural heritage fine. Then the UK invaded and the Iraq museum treasures were lost. The UK of course blames this on the Iraqis. The country is thrown into turmoil, to a tut-tut by upper middle class white westerners about how the Arabs aren't preserving their cultural heritage. This is why Arabs fighting against colonialism and imperialism fly planes into the Pentagon.
Long-Covid treatments: why the world is still waiting
Now this is a very sobering anecdote- I am legitimately sorry you had to deal with this. Even more disgusting is that it was farmed out to a company that is incentivized to bully money out of people.

Thanks for sharing.
I think there's plenty of people that would crank out code* given a sane supporting organization. The issue is that most organizations aren't sane and there's little incentive to crank out code. Incentives are generally (1) finish 5 points of stories per week and (2) build a resume/promotion package. Both of those sound okay but tend to be wrought with perverse incentives.

(1) leads you down the path of padding estimates so you don't miss. It also means if you finish early you don't really want to pull in more stories. That tells people you're padding estimates and they'll push you to lower estimates or take on more stories. Then when you need that padding it's not there. So if you finish your work on Wednesday it's better to chill and look busy instead of doing more.

(2) is just obviously bad. Delivering complicated projects and supervising other employees makes you look better. So projects get complicated and teams get bloated.

*Crank out code should probably be "build functionality according to good practices" but doesn't really change the point.
> the least ambiguous format is to use DD-Mon-YYYY

I consider YYYY-MM-DD to be the least ambiguous. But now that I look at the above, I guess the author is saying that since MM-DD could possibly be considered as DD-MM? Yuck.
Framework for modeling post-earthquake infrastructure resilience
That might be true. But I don't think there will be ANY of the model of fridge I had running at 20 years old. Survivorship bias can't account for plastic that crumbles from being heat-cycled.
Maybe you could outrun a fully-grown T. rex. But what about a juvenile?

This is a great zoom talk by Dr. Thomas Holtz about the role played by sub-adult tyrannosaurids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwxaEsLcU_w

Holtz looks at the hypothesis that juveniles and sub-adults filled the niches that medium-size predators occupied in ecosystems with no tyrannosaurids. If so they'd have needed to have been fast enough to catch smaller prey.
The most surprising part of the article, for me, is the population estimate of T. Rex to be in the billions.
It doesn't matter whether end (you) to end (facebook) encryption is enabled or not. That only protects data "in transit". The information is still accessible in to facebook "at rest". Enabling E2EE should give you absolutely no sense of privacy from Facebook because it doesn't exist.
I wanted to read more about this 'Mond' thing and found this article <https://phys.org/news/2022-07-dark-ditch-favor-theory-gravit...>, which seems to be well written and at my level.

And this wikipedia article, <https://phys.org/news/2022-07-dark-ditch-favor-theory-gravit...>, seems to give a more balanced appraisal.
I'm getting a 503 error right now, but here is a cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
> Being charged as a minor is usually because one assumes minor lack the judgement of adults

how does that sentence mesh with:

> But if a young offender clearly acted with premeditated malice

How would you be able to determine if a certain case is a result of the incomplete development of the child's brain/mind, versus a 'clear premeditated malice' ?

If a minor acted with 'clear premeditated malice', couldn't you always argue that that in itself is a result of the fact that a minor's brain/mind isn't fully developed yet? And was unable to oversee the results of their actions?

I understand that sometimes teenagers can look very adult-like, but even if their brains would be fully developed they still lack experience, might still be very hormonal, and are interacting with other undeveloped teenagers on a daily basis.

You probably yourself know that however adult you felt like when you were 17, you probably were not.

As far as I know we've all agreed upon an age where an child turns into an adult, so I can't wrap my head around why judges would seemingly willy-nilly allow kids to be tried as adults.

IDK if you're knowledgeable about this; do they perform assessments off the child's development at all? maybe by a developmental psychologist or something? Or is it really up to the judge?
I'm extremely skeptical of a 'simple test' which proclaims to overturn decades of scientific knowledge. Why did it take until 2022 for someone to think of this, and not a hungry grad student in the 80s looking to make a name for themselves?
> every experiment ever done

But that is manifestly untrue. If every experiment confirmed Einstein we would not even be talking about dark matter.

> one guy with a half-baked argument

But that "one guy" happens to be an expert in the field. And his argument sounds fully baked to me.
Join a toastmasters asap.
The public speaking exercises will get you want you want
when you put it like that, i'm glad they went with acid.
> Maine, Alaska, Hawaii... what's the point of being a far-off-forgotten small population state to a superpower if the other neighboring nation is offering better protection of my interests?

That's like asking, what's the point of Truckee being a far-off-forgotten small population city of California if the neighboring state of Nevada is offering better protection of their interests?

Well, for starters, Truckee leaving CA and joining NV would require an awful amount of paperwork (and good luck convincing even half of the population that it's worth the hassle), and what would NV offer that CA doesn't? Instead of being a forgotten small population city of California, now it gets to be a forgotten small population city of Nevada.
One of the core fundamentals I want from a sit/stand desk is that it adjusts low enough. Most people have their keyboard too high up in relation to their elbows - the standard 30" desk we all know was created for writing, not using a keyboard. I currently have my desk set to 26.6in. I care about ergonomics and health, so this is essential. I don't want a desk that displays health information - I want better health!
The different between the UK and the US is that the UK is trying to limit free speech via a law. In the US free speech is limited by the revolving door between silicon valley, government and political activism.
Amazon Kindle Moving from MOBI to ePub File Format
Apple Maps shows reviews from Yelp, at least for the POIs I’ve seen. Although I don’t trust Yelp reviews entirely, I trust them more than Google reviews.
For books you load into the Kindle Device.
As a fellow Londerer please please expand on this. Like, why, what were the returns, what'd you peer into?
The comment you replied to never said it should be made illegal.
Here is the thing. Most online speech is garbage and very little is going to be lost if it's regulated. The hypothetical argument that after banning tons of racist scumbags some government agency will accidentally ban the wrong website is just that - a hypothetical. I've been hearing about this hypothetical for as long as the web exists.

If you want "free speech" so much, then why aren't you on 4chan and instead post on a highly moderated website like this one? It's the pinnacle of hypocricy.
Western companies mentioned:

* Texas Instruments Inc

* Altera, owned by Intel Corp

* Xilinx, owned by Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

* Maxim Integrated Products Inc, acquired last year by Analog Devices Inc

* Cypress Semiconductor, now owned by Germany’s Infineon AG,

Another photo here: https://medium.com/@x_TomCooper_x/ukraine-war-early-august-2...
Seems to be intermittent at least.
The theory of gravitation is not at question here, it is in fact the basis for proposing the existing of some yet-unseen matter to account for why the observed galaxies behave. Someone proposing that there is no such thing as the thing we have never observed is... a pretty "baked" argument.
i honestly hate when everybody's answer to inflation is "just make a budget lol". i haven't used one historically bc i'm a pretty thrifty person but i decided to take somebody up on it and actually make one. you know what i found that could easily be changed? not a damn thing. like i'm a 20 something bachelor so basically my only luxury is buying new guns (which i don't do unless i have a lot of extra cash) and going out with friends (does not eat up much $). so am i supposed to cut like my 1 luxury and just be a machine who goes to and from work? aint like i got a bunch of streaming subscriptions or whatever to remove instead. i make my own coffee at home instead of starbucks and don't eat avocado toast... your move boomers, what's your solution now?

anyway sorry for the vent/rant, but what we need to do is stop loose monetary and fiscal policy that transfers wealth to people who got assets like real estate and stock (boomers, the rich) from people who don't (young people, the poor). but nobody wants to do that...
Edward de Bono, Serious Creativity: How to Be Creative Under Pressure and Turn Ideas into Action (Paperback). March 5, 2015
https://www.amazon.com/Serious-Creativity-Creative-Pressure-...

The book cited above is to help with 1. and 2. in your list.

YouTube video: Edward de Bono 'How to have a beautiful mind' at Mind & Its Potential, 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbsKQQGwsMg

The video above features Dr. Edward de Bono talking about the thinking processes and creativity.
This is what happens when your government regulatory agencies gets captured [1] by corporate interests.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
This is a huge annoyance. If you long press and select "Open in browser", this redirect doesn't seem to happen.

I'd love for a Firefox Android extension to remove this, alas it doesn't seem to have been 'blessed by Mozilla' to be available on mobile.

This shouldn't even be necessary. I get that Google already has the link cause it's in Gmail.
I used to think that as well, but I've seen three crosscut saws that all lost the thumb switch button, and the general build quality just doesn't seem up to what I would expect.
There aren't really any satisfactory alternatives to dark matter. The question is what exactly is it, and how did it get there.
Research seems to have calculated a bound on the large scale distribution of dark matter that shows it doesn't exist in extragalactic halos.

Article makes hyperbolic claims that "dark matter doesn't exist". This is junk, sorry. And that article makes me deeply distrust the otherwise-reasonable-seeming research.
Dark matter has always smelled of phlogistons to me. It's this mystery substance that solves all of our problems, and doesn't make any predictions. I have no idea what a more accurate explanation for the observations would look like, but dark matter can't be it.
Emails that can be changed after delivery eliminates one of the huge benefits of using email, though. It's a bad thing even if there are no privacy concerns.

And how could there be no privacy concerns? At a minimum, a server somewhere is going to be notified every time you open the email, so it can check for updates.
As much as I hate the high price where I live (Canada) I assume that Internet and wireless phone service is expensive because the country is so large that the build out cost is expensive. The USA is running 3/4 in the list of largest countries by land area and Canada is 2nd[1]. Maybe I'm naive in my thinking but I have family in a teeny tiny European country and they all have 1Gb fibre optic service for cheap-cheap.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
You're focusing on how socially valued your creative work is (and how it ranks relative to others), which is an external factor. I tend to find that if you justify doing creative work on whether it'll be better/more interesting than others or you think it'll increase your status somehow (popularity/wealth), it's not as fulfilling and you'll probably never create anything.

What I find more fulfilling is creating for its own sake and for myself. Completely abandoning the thought of whether what I'm making will have utility for the whole world and I'll be lauded for it. Creating things that I find interesting, and also abandoning the view whether others will find it as interesting or high quality. For me, I've realized that I feel more fulfilled if I'm doing/creating more and consuming less. The mere act of doing/creating something in of itself is the end I try to seek.
Reminds me of Steve Peppers "The TAO of Topic Maps" [1]

[1] http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lapalme/ift6281/TopicMaps/TAOTo... and https://ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tao.html
Thank you! I'll try it out this weekend.
From what I understood, manager in this context is not technical at all. They read somewhere their competitor using a new technology, and asking if it makes sense if they use that too.
Smoke Pot check your knot!
"Stable diffusion runs on under 10 GB of VRAM on consumer GPUs, generating images at 512x512 pixels in a few seconds. This will allow both researchers and soon the public to run this under a range of conditions, democratizing image generation."

Oooooh I can actually run this at home!
Oh man ! I have an old android device hanging around.

I will give this a try. Will be a great experience to experiment with building simple circuit again.
This is how the ISPs work as well, typically 10 years is common ROI for any neighborhood and 5-10 years for multi-family housing (apartment) runs. This is also the reason AT&T/Comcast won't run new installations to small (less than 40 residents in my experience) or rural neighborhoods since the ROI time gets longer the fewer potential customers they have.
> a model universe in which the normal matter we see around us in the form of atoms makes up only 5% of all the energy in it. About 20% is made up of exotic dark matter particles

> for each gram of normal matter there are 25 grams of the exotic dark matter

20% is four times 5%, yet there is 25x difference in mass? How does that work?
Tell HN: Network solution added .online to all of our domains
We have a number of very old domains that have been with network solutions since the late 1990s. Today we get a renewal notice for olddomain.online

log into our account to find all of these, and being redirected to our domain.

After like an hour of trying to track down the various people in our org who could have possibly done this. Our accountant find an email sent to her, saying as we have been "upgraded" as part of network solutions "Brand Protection Program"

Anyone else with network solutions notice this on your domains?