skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since you agree that the maintainers don't owe us shit, we are on the same page. I guess I took issue with this -

> OSS is supposed to be a collaborative environment

OSS is supposed to be what the OSS authors and maintainers want it to be for their project while satisfying the terms and conditions of the license they have chosen for their project. It does not have to be a collaborative environment. Yes, it will be great if it is. Many authors just don't have the time to do collaboration after they have made the initial few releases. But that does not stop others from collaborating on it or forking it and improving it.

I am sorry if this sounds cynical. That's not my intention at all. I genuinely like that the open source licenses gives a lot of rights to the user while also including disclaimers that the author is not responsible for troubles you face with the software. Far from being cynical, I find it very beautiful actually. It allows the authors to be creative and publish software when they can without worrying too much about support and maintenance. Of course it would be nice if the authors also support and maintain the software and many authors do but it is good to know that it is not necessary and the licenses say so too.
Can you offer an example of any consumer product where you have to "demonstrate a need" before you're allowed to purchase it?
> It is though. It is alleging racial discrimination. It is literally the first line on Wikipedia.

It is an allegation that has been determined twice by courts not to hold water.

People can allege anything, and they often do for political or pr reasons (politics being the real reason for this case, imho).

> Not sure what is the cause for your defensiveness

I have lived in Asian for 9 years of my profession life, and I am active in parts of the local Asian American community. My concern/defensiveness is that this claim of discrimination is widely repeated despite being refuted by the courts. I appreciate that you want people to read the case details themselves, but most people don’t do that, and they defer to people (like me and you) who do read the details for thought leadership.

In California, where I currently live, there are very real, irrefutable acts of discrimination happening against Asian Americans. These really need to be dealt with. Admissions at elite schools is not one of them, and repeating a claim on this topic that has not been supported by the courts or the case details (at least imho) is just adding fuel to the outrage fire as well as taking attention away from real discrimination that is happening.

That’s just my 2 cents. I don’t feel the need to persuade anyone in particular, but I really wish HN folks would discuss this topic in a more informed way. I add my contributions so that folks can see a more detailed/nuanced side to this issue that is rarely presented in the press. Do with it what you will.
While not exactly mRNA vaccines, I think we will ultimately see the use of RNAi as a way to modulate gene expression in humans. It's already being done in many organisms. Imagine a technology that can perform RNAseq via some wearable instrument like an apple watch or an implant. We'll collect temporal gene expression data on important physiological functions, and address the results with a pill containing some stable RNAi molecule which will downregulate that function.
I love this concept made by dance a rental e-bike startup from berlin. They offer their bikes in all major cities in europe now.

https://twitter.com/ericw/status/1554445703891533824
I use Hasura for this purpose. With some hooks, you can achive offline mode, too.

You need a bit tricky hacks to use Hasura permission system the way you want, though.
I need to install a browser extension to use an email forwarding service? What information could DDG read from my emails when forwarding?

This blogpost does a REALLY POOR job to explain what, why and how to use this. Hope someone can clean this up and simplify what this service does.
Why Big Tech’s purge of ‘alpha male’ influencer Andrew Tate is disturbing
Yes, perhaps focus more on those and less on becoming an arbiter of what is culturally appropriate for the moment.
i bet these teenagers attacking boats were hurt by a sail once… or some of them were and taught others (orca attack in Portugal region are not a phenomena exclusively to the article publication year) . orcas have different behavior patterns on different groups roaming the ocean
I have gotten into fishing this summer and _damn_ do those pro/YouTube dudes know a lot about fishing. They study bass behavior and do all kinds of experimentation with tackle and lures and the time of day and every conceivable variable that could affect the bite.

When I was getting into weightlifting, which I had always dismissed as a pursuit for dumb bro types, I was similarly impressed with the knowledge out there about nutrition, anatomy, the way that muscles tear and repair and grow, etc.

I think it's an all too common "nerd social fallacy" to assume that people who don't have that "traditional" scientific/math intelligence aren't smart, but as I've gotten older it seems to me that, on average, most humans are pretty damn smart about one thing or another.
> If you were to send a question like "Who is Barack Obama?" you still will get a list of links although google knows there is a canonical answer.

For that specific search I would start at Wikipedia, but for more general "data search" I lean towards Wolfram Alpha, which has some usability issues, but interesting maths engine for queries.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Barack+Obama+vs+Donald+...
It's been noted that American tourists absolutely love the charm and density of European cities when they visit but somewhere over the Atlantic, they forget that they could have that at home too, if it were legal to build.
Salesforce bought them in 2012 and didn't do anything with them.
A City without Cars could look like
> What does kubernetes do that docker, AWS, Nomad, et al don't?

Most of your comparisons are at best apples-to-oranges.

For example, AWS also offers a managed Kubernetes service, which makes your comparison meaningless and just a keyword dump. Worse, AWS also offers its Elastic Container Service.

Docker supports Docker swarm mode, which is easier to setup but inter-node communication is extremely slow and barely supports anything beyond launching containers.

But to answer the question of why bother with Kubernetes, the answer is obvious: Kubernetes is the first coherent abstraction over heterogeneous clusters of COTS hardware, including networking, which just works and offers plenty of very useful features such as reversible deployment history. Deployments are entirely defined in code in a way that you can treat both deployments and infrastructure as cattle.
I went to a pretty fascinating talk by a Green Hills engineer a while back about memory barriers and how compilers treat them. Definitely a good company's careers page to keep an eye on. Good luck!
> At the end of the day, a journal has a great ethical responsibility for the impact of what it publishes, and is within its rights to say "no" on that basis.

You state this like it is or should be fact, but this is precisely the problem. Science should be the beginning of a chain starting at knowledge and leading to policy: science -> politics -> policy. It is not the job of scientists to try and predict or assume reactions to science; that partially inverts the flow: politics -> science -> policy. By placing politics first, science becomes politics, as nothing disapproved will reach the science phase of the process.
That’s because virtually every country on earth only allows you to be an employee of a company with a local entity OR a contractor. Thus you are only “legally” allowed to work if your employer has an entity in that country and hires you from that entity. Otherwise, you MUST be a contractor.
Both can be easily defeated. You can easily manipulate a reputation system one way or another with a botnet. And just because you can authenticate that a message was signed with a public key says nothing about the veracity of the content in the message.

Despite all of its shortcomings, Wikipedia has been a relatively successful model. It is decentralized with an army of volunteers that try to stick to reliable sources. It leverages the fact that honest participants greatly outnumber malicious ones.
> the tests were done on a private field, so the FSD stays off

In the first tweet linked in the article it says the test was run on a public street
This is my problem as I'm evaluating competitors. I have a few tiny services that don't need constant uptime (the heroku sleep and wait-to-wake was perfectly fine).

Most places charge per-service and it's not clear that I can have 8 services that mostly sleep (and use less total uptime than a single always-on service).

I'm fine to pay a bit to keep these running, but $7 / service / month doesn't make sense for little toys (an actual business is a very different story)
I didn't say that you must support a party -- not being from the US myself, I hear pretty awful things about them all the time. But most political causes are not party politics (you'll never hear this from the parties, of course).

As an example, I have never read about EA support for worker unionization, which would be a pretty effective way of increasing worker access to food, shelter and healthcare. It's not even a new, unproven idea! Workers in the US were much more unionized in the past, with a measurable QoL impact. However, since this an issue that can't be solved with monetary donations, plus it requires rocking the political boat, EA advocates are functionally blind to it. These are the types of things I think about when being "anti-politics" is mentioned as a feature.
Clicked thinking this was something about getting a database of spice circuit simulations running in your browser.
Dirty in, Clean out = Laundering
Piku :)
I would guess we're too early to see much if the truly long term affects, if there are any. The data quality of VAERS is a joke, so anything sufficiently rare that has other normal causes will likely be hard to find.

As an anecdote, I had months of intermittent inflammation in the armpit and chest on the side I recieved the vaccines in. This had never happened with any other vaccines. The doctors had no explaination and ran multiple tests. It wasn't until the ultrasound tech mentioned the shots that it crossed my mind it could be them. No idea if I will have further issues, or if months of inflammation could lead to longer term issues.
I have not yet found a single planned 3rd child among my colleagues and associates in situations where both husband and wife work full time (without live in help, or at least someone who comes to the house full time to watch the kids before and even a little after the parents come home). Not saying it won't happen that I will eventually find one, but I find it to be the single biggest predictor of having more than 2 kids.
Paywalls aren’t setup by first parties here. And likely all content isn’t either.
Having done a short stint dealing with this stuff I am glad something is being done. NIST/NSF funded several studies that I was close to that were suddenly owned by a journal who did nothing but provide a place to put it.

Public money should always mean public access. Not just for journals, but for anything. If one red cent of taxpayer money goes to it, the taxpayer should get it for free. Hopefully the trend continues.
> Doesn't loan forgiveness just encourage MORE lending? Does a rational person base their lending decisions on a chance of politically precarious one-off presidential forgiveness?

The average person has more loans than were forgiven and the plan included more than just forgiveness. Again, it's a start.

> Should we cancel child support debts for any 18 year old who knocked up a girl after she begged for it? Just trying to figure out when 18 year olds are allowed to be held responsible for their debts. A child is also a big gift and investment worthy of society investing in, so if education is worth society paying for without 'trapping' the 18 year old, then we can also excuse 18 year olds of 'predatory' child support.

You're taking this to the extreme position that I want us to hold 18 year olds responsible for nothing ever. Also you seem to not understand that malicious contracts exist or that they can be invalidated even when signed. Maybe you just don't believe it's predatory in this case. IDK. Anyway, I refuse to entertain that student loans are comparable to child support so I'm done here.
I feel like this has had more threads on HN but here are the related ones I found:

Larry Ellison's Oracle Started as a CIA Project (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28386824 - Sept 2021 (4 comments)

Larry Ellison's Oracle Started as a CIA Project - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8342091 - Sept 2014 (1 comment)
The book “Surveillance Valley” makes a compelling case that the Internet was created with surveillance as its goal from the beginning.
Distrokid et al. Easy
Definitely agree it's a good thing - my libertarian core can't help but wonder if the white house has (or ought to have) the power to unilaterally declare this, though. Would much prefer this had been voted on by congress.
This feels like it was written by someone who started learning C++ the day before he wrote this tutorial
Right. Like many commenters on this thread, people tend to pick apart these types of messages from these now-woke institutions from a logical perspective, which is a huge mistake. These are effectively religious tenets; they aren't issues of logic but issues of faith.
Never heard JWT pronounced "jot", I've always sounded it out letter by letter. But nor have I ever considered encoding a JWT into a URL!
I don't understand why the objections would be moot; they would be the same. The "EA charity" would still invest significant sums in things like AI safety and still be driven by the same ideas that people are criticizing.

Also, fwiw, this is effectively already true. The main EA organizations are operating funds you can donate to directly, which they will subsequently distribute.
MyFitnessPal’s barcode scanner made counting calories easy – now it’s paywalled
I find it extremely condescending to say you understand and empathize with something you have no direct experience with. Like put your money with your mouth is. Instead of telling people to live a certain way, live that way yourself and get back to me. Imagine we were talking about something else, say race, instead of of child rearing. Would you really consider the opinion of a white person saying “I understand the experience of black people in America because I have a lot of black friends” valid? Sounds pretty crazy to me.
I think what mschuster91 is saying is that there are regulatory functions that, if an impartial government doesn't do it, will be done by big corporations in the space, or it's just a free-for-all where trolls roam free.

Exercise to the reader as to whether the EU, US or Japanese model is most effective.
NYC only maintains their system because it's subsidized by non-residents.
> It is an allegation that has been determined twice by courts not to hold water.

That describes vast majority of SCOTUS cases. Not surprising. That's kind of how cases reach SCOTUS (except in rare occasions when SCOTUS grants writs of certiorari to a district court case).
I am getting dumb-funded by the obvious senseless thinking in the title:

Science is about the mechanisms of natural worlds. It's the foundation of human civilization. It's the basis of human thoughts and the ideology etc.

To say Science must respect dignity and rights of all humans, it's like to say nature must respect the dignity and rights of all humans. But Science is the rendition of natural world's mechanisms, they do not have personality and emotions. They cannot respect anything!

It's reasonable to say "scientists must respect the dignity and rights of all humans". It's senseless to say Science must respect the dignity and rights of all humans.
This is just wrong info. Search HN comments from ‘craigkerstiens, an early employee. Significant innovative product development continued for a few years after the acquisition.
Not if one of the people who would do that is currently on a boat in Lake Winnipesaukee.

Not if {insert 20 other sources of complexity that exist in the real world}.
It seems like the language of the XO could simply specify "six months, or the soonest time which would be allowed without penalty by the relevant contracts, but in no case longer than three years."
Oral caffeine metabolite associated with slowed myopia progression in children
Your understanding of the world is rather primitive if you think there is systemic mass murder ongoing where there isn't any. After countless investigations have come up short I don't know why people like you continue to spout mistruths. The propaganda you have been fed is hard to see past indeed.
> You can't have 5 research universities in a country of 5 million people.

Really? I'm counting at least 7 research universities (ranked <200 globally) in a country of 8 million people.

https://www.google.com/search?q=switzerland+population

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/sw...

https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2022
Since they specifically called out abuse of free services, I wonder if they would be open to continuing free dynos for paying customers. It'd be worth reaching out at least.
Noise pollution: Caused by what? Probably cars . . . rural and suburban living doesn't make you immune to the sound of . . .

Noise pollution in the city is just a fact of the population density. Speaking from experience, if you've lived there for some time your hearing won't even be sensitive enough to truly appreciate
the difference in a rural area.

It's just never going to be <35db in the city like it is in the rural community that I live in where I get to wake up to bird song. It took me 3 weeks when I moved back from living in the bay area to "hear" how quite it was, years of living in the city had desensitized my hearing. Sure, cars and especially fast moving cars contribute to the din of the city, but considering how loud it was even when the streets were empty in the middle of the night, I think that HVAC, elevators, and subways along with people being people create plenty of noise.

In the rural area I live in I can hear a car coming down the road from over a mile away at night, even with terrain in the way, and because of the low density most of the time throughout the night there are no cars. There is just no way you are going to be able to attain that level of quite with urban population densities - the 24/7 public transit would be louder.
Yes, it produces profits which indeed can pay for advocacy and also has jobs and where there are jobs there are congresspeople with people who might lose jobs in their district and therefore a potential wrench in any policy change.

Edit for data to paint a clearer picture: The co I know best in this space is Elsevier which according to their Wikipedia has more than 8,000 employees. I don't know where they're distributed (it's a Dutch co) but if you represent a certain district or consituency and all of a sudden your area might lose thousands of jobs, you listen, even if you don't particularly like that industry.
Is it any more or any less racist to enslave people on skin color vs nationality? The romans enslaved germanic peoples. I feel like this is the same amount of racism as anything else.
This actually seems a reasonable enough solution to the bot problem, but doesn’t address the fake content problem. A human can still upload fake stuff.
I apologize, but your post is so far out of the reality that I, my family, and my friends lived, that I am not sure we are talking about the same country.

> The malls

Where did you find a mall in the USSR? I do not remember even the concept of such a thing existing in the 1980s. There were only department stores (универмаги).

I suspect you may be misremembering and mean a large department store located in an >1M population city.

> were full to the tilt

Full of goods or of people? Were those people from out of town, taking a day-long train ride because in their small towns/villages there was little for sale besides vegetables and bread?

> the prices within reach for everybody no matter their occupation

For an ordinary engineer, a new color TV set cost something like 6 months of gross income. A set of bookshelves (стенка) was 1.5 years. A new car (Zhiguli) was around 5-6 years - and even if you had the money, you would spend years waiting for your turn to have the right to buy one!

> Education was free, hospitals were free, people had house, car, etc.

Education - sure, that was a true Soviet achievement. Hospitals, while free, were horrific. Housing was heavily subsidized, but there was a terrible shortage of it; it wasn't uncommon for whole families to live in one room of a communal apartment (sharing the apartment's one bathroom with a half dozen other families). As for cars - a car was a luxury (although attainable with some effort) and a status symbol.

> The only things you could not freely buy were some of the "designer" goods that belong to the "want" category (not "need").

Replace "designer" with "not falling apart the day after purchase and not looking 20 years out of fashion".

> And I also recall that the USSR propaganda was working full-time to dissuade the common folk to avoid the trappings of the Capitalist societies.

The propaganda kinda lost its effectiveness after the 1960s or so. Certainly by the 1980s few, if anyone, believed it.
Literally, design by resume. I see it at my current workplace. Top talent guys are fucking around wit K8s even though we really have no use for it and could host the whole shebang on a single EC2 instance and be no worse off for it. But that "won't scale" I'm told. Never mind our startup has a TAM that involves no more than 1,000 customers with maybe a dozen accounts each.
What's your startup? I'd be interested to see the cost. Persistence gotchas, encryption / security.
From the above link, In-Q-Tel was involved in Keyhole, which was acquired by Google. Can you show a source that In-Q-Tel directly invested in Google earlier?

> In-Q-Tel sold 5,636 shares of Google, worth over $2.2 million, on November 15, 2005.[10] The shares were a result of Google's acquisition of Keyhole, Inc, the CIA-funded satellite mapping software now known as Google Earth.[11]
are you talking about a private IRC server or using a public one?
>Visa and Mastercard won't processes payments from dispensaries even though they have (effectively) no limit on the number of transactions they can support.

>Visa and Mastercard threatened to cut-off OnlyFans unless they dropped "explicit content".

I also, think that this should not be allowed, although the first one is a little more murky, due to possibly moving money across state lines where marijuana is illegal.

However, at the end of the day no one is stopping you from using cash, which is an inconvenient, but reasonable alternative. If a few large scale web infrastructure companies team up, you are fucked, there is no reasonable alternative.
>>Life is very short. If living in a walkable city is a major goal of yours, just move to one now rather than waiting and hoping your not-walkable city will transform itself.

I agree, and not really sure why there are so many posts on this topic on HN - there are plenty of places to move and live if you want to be someplace where you can walk to or bike to.

There are also plenty of places where you can move to, buy a bit of land with a SFH and enjoy that lifestyle if that is what you prefer.

Why do some people have such a strong need to tell other people how they should live? or expect them to change to suit someone else's idea of what is 'better'.