skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And this is why I switched to kagi.com. Also, helps the search results are better.
I belonged to a gym that couldn't be cancelled by phone.

You had to send a certified letter to headquarters.
Are you advocating for returning to the way people lived millennia ago? You’re free to do that. I’m going to keep enjoying penicillin.
This is like saying an athlete should try to impress his coach more than win games.
If this decision is premised on the Fourth Amendment, would there be any analogous argument preventing private universities from continuing the practice?
As a paying subscriber, I 2nd this - it's great.
Good point, though I'd say the major factor is dealing with hardware, not necessarily being regulated. You can't just push a hotfix to a million of on-premise devices with one click.
A worm on its own is faster than a horse in the mill stone .
It's bad mindset to think that all software companies are the same , there are some companies which ship things other than CRUD apps on the web(shocker !!) .

My main gripe is the statement of ask for forgiveness than permission, that mindset does not work on projects like the 737max . Anything of value is built by teams and as such hero worship should be avoided whenever possible. Good work should be rewarded but don't skew the social dynamic to the point of "hero said it so it must be true".
I had a company try to do this for job interview.

I did not go through with it.
It already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_Horizon_Telescope
While I agree with you generally, one could make the argument that if your aim is to drastically disrupt some domain, you may wish to adopt a riskier but faster path even if you're working in a safety-critical field, because the "slow and safe" route means more lives lost / negatively impacted while you slowly perfect your solution.

If you'd humor my extreme utilitarian view for a minute, I would argue both autonomous self driving and some medical endeavors could save many more lives if we, as a society, said "you get a budget of 10k. 10k lives you can severely negatively impact to deliver impact greater than that number" - basically giving you an investment/debt you repay to society via your future impact.
Currently, traffic fatalities are at ~38k/year in the US (with over 2M/year injured), and the numbers for leading medical causes are staggering (heart disease ~700k/year, cancer ~600k/year, etc.).
I would argue our current processes for breakthroughs in areas where health or safety are involved simply lean too far towards the "safe" end of the spectrum.

One anecdote I can share is a friend who worked for over a decade on a system where patients could buy a medical test at a pharmacy, take a urine sample at home, and get lab quality results using their phone's camera. The tech was ready in their first year of running. They built a suite of validations and tested things across hundreds of phone models, they really did their part well because they truly care.
Getting things FDA approved and in patients' hands took much longer, because the processes are extremally slow and designed to reduce risk by almost all means necessary. While that's a good idea in theory, it didn't stop a scam like Theranos (because when you're intentionally dishonest rules don't always help), and it did make it so my friend's company took a lot longer before being able to get fast, accurate, test results for many different metrics to rural and poor communities where lab testing can be an issue...
> I agree the M2 numbers were not amazing.

What other CPU core design iteration managed to improve performance while also cutting power draw?

Anandtech's deep dive on the performance and efficiency cores used in the A15 and M2:

Performance:

>In our extensive testing, we’re elated to see that it was actually mostly an efficiency focus this year, with the new performance cores showcasing adequate performance improvements, while at the same time reducing power consumption, as well as significantly improving energy efficiency.

Efficiency:

>The efficiency cores have also seen massive gains, this time around with Apple mostly investing them back into performance, with the new cores showcasing +23-28% absolute performance improvements, something that isn’t easily identified by popular benchmarking. This large performance increase further helps the SoC improve energy efficiency, and our initial battery life figures of the new 13 series showcase that the chip has a very large part into the vastly longer longevity of the new devices.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16983/the-apple-a15-soc-perfo...

Intel and AMD seem to have both returned to the Pentium 4 days of chasing performance via increased clock speeds and power draws.
There is a tiny caveat in here that has yet to be discussed: freely available to US taxpayers.

How will this be implemented? Will there be controlled access by SSN? Restrictions against public release? A world-wide license agreement?

What about SBIR work?

It will be interesting to see how this plays out legally.
https://www.defensivecomputingchecklist.com/

That's an exhaustive list and more than most people will read, but it's got some good content. Looking forward to someone replying with a simpler version that we can pass on to friends who type google into the chrome address bar.
Although I am generally supportive of research products (data, papers, reagents) being broadly open, I think there is the possibility of a perverse incentive to free-ride on the scientific funding of other nations. As the velocity of information (i.e., faster spread) and international mobility of academics increases, the perverse incentive goes up.
I pay for this and use it regularly. It's awesome!
> So they’re “hiring” and “laying off” simultaneously. What a confusing time.

I don’t think it’s that confusing. Companies need people, they take them on board, they find out they’re useless and they fire them first chance they get.

At least where I’m contracting now, that’s what happened. Big batch of starters around the start of year, half didn’t make it the first month, rest got dropped at some point after. From the February batch me and another guy remain. Same story with the June batch. It’s august now, from 6 joiners only 2 are left.

Same thing I heard from friends in different companies. And the same thing is happening in other industries too. My cousin has a bed and breakfast. He’s having trouble finding people for cleaning and washing. And when he gets someone, either they move on really quick or he needs to fire them cause they’re lazy.

And just as a quick aside cause I saw quiet quitting mentioned. There is definitely a problem with this.

So, we had a cluster down, some point close to eod. I’m working on bringing it up, whole team’s on it. We had this zoomer asshole who had a 5pm alarm. As soon as his alarm rang, he was out. Now, I don’t like that, I don’t do that, but I get it. He wants work life balance, sets his boundaries with the alarm. Fine. I never said anything about it. Until his fucking alarm rang while everyone was trying to get the cluster back up. I swear this literally happened, while everyone was trying to get production back up, he just gets up, says goodbye and leaves. I told him not to bother coming in the next day.

If you wonder why there’s a big churn rate, it’s people like him. It’s one thing to enforce some boundaries at work and a totally different one to let the whole team down. That’s just unprofessional. Companies need reliable people and the fact is, there is a drop in how reliable people are.
Headline: Too many Americans living where they choose to live.
Wow, super cool stuff. Would love to know more about the server-side architecture and how you handle security in your VMs. Also, loved the interactive sandbox demo.
It exist, just someone's pussy is exposed out of contest. Kind of when bad student steals parts of someone's thesis without proper citation.
I actually experience this in the exact reverse from the way you are proposing. I’d argue that this is specifically referred to as “content” because it is generated en masse, as opposed to something carefully crafted. This is they way I see most “content” on the internet. For instance, TikTok video that is made in a minute? Content. Pixar film that takes >100 minutes of work for 1 minute of film? Art.
Please don't make stuff up. You can read the law here: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/940/i/04

Here is the important part:

This section does not apply to a therapeutic abortion which:
(a) Is performed by a physician; and
(b) Is necessary, or is advised by 2 other physicians as necessary, to save the life of the mother; and
(c) Unless an emergency prevents, is performed in a licensed maternity hospital.
It's the same in Japan (15yrs in Japan)

That is not to say you can't find people of both sexes into anime. But, when I've asked at parties, unless it's specifically a nerd party, 19 out of 20 times people say they don't watch.

Back in the USA, at least at my age, it's frustrating being on the dating sites, in particular OkCupid, which has the questions "Would you date a comic book geek?". If I filter on that question it goes from thousands of people to just 3 in a 50 mile radius of SF. This dispite the fact that many famous people, especially famous movie and TV series directors are comic book geeks. Maybe the wording "geek" is enough to influence the result.

Another interesting one is "Would you enjoy a night playing video games". Just 2 women. This dispite the fact that the gaming industry says 45% of gamers are women. Either that stat is BS or else all the gaming women are in relationships.

Another one I find even more alarming and makes it feel like something fishy is going on "Do you like to wear a costume for Halloween?", just 3 women. But go to any Halloween party and it's fully mixed and seeing the Spirit costume shops all over the place someone is buying these costumes. Again one guess is that the people fun enough to wear a costume are not on the site.
Kagi (https://kagi.com) has very similar tools with their "Lenses" and customizable prioritization of specific domains.
Amazon subscribe and save is the same thing.

I use it for toiletries and other routine consumables at home. Amazon trucks are going to be on the road anyway; may as well save my car trips for actually interesting trips.
> it often has no ads

At least 95% of what I watch on Youtube is educational or technical. It's self-teaching material, math, science, that sort of thing. Most people would find it dry but I enjoy it.

Still, I wouldn't call it entertainment.

I assure you it has just as many ads: pre-roll ads, clickable ads below the fold, interstitial ads, and "a word from our sponsor" ads as everything else on YouTube.
Take a look at Eufy. My use case is likely different than yours, in that I rely on the Apple HomeKit Secure Video (might have the product name slightly wrong), which Eufy supports. So the video does go to iCloud, but AFAICT Eufy never sees it. And without going to Eufy's web page, I'm pretty sure they don't care to see it, as they seem to make it a point of "no monthly fees, no cloud" or summat.

Anyway, check it out for yourself, see if it fits your parameters. The one thing I'll caution is that their battery estimates are outright lies if you access the camera on a regular basis. I'm about to run USB power to the two cameras that get hit the most, just so I don't have to recharge once/month (as opposed to Eufy's estimate of twice a year.)

Signed,

A Dude Who has Gone Through Way Too Many Security Cameras
Says who? I certainly don't believe this at all.
What about RAM usage?
rule 34?
Well, there's a mechanism for that. I believe other states' residents don't care as much about these things, though. For instance, the amount of work required to make this law in North Dakota is pretty low, but I don't think it's going to happen.
It's interesting that this uses a distributed P2P index. That's a very good idea and one of the things that has held me back from even thinking about trying to build my own tech-focused search engine.

One thing I was hoping to see in the FAQ was how they prevent rogue nodes from inserting spam or other kinds of mischief into the public index.
This is Salesforce we're talking about, the company that pledged not to do any layoffs during the pandemic, then announced that they were laying off 1000 people literally the day after announcing what they called "the best quarter in company history." [0] Worst of all? Many of the people who worked at Salesforce found out they were laid off _by reading the news article_ (source: I worked at Salesforce at the time, and there was a _lot_ of commotion internally to try to track down which managers had the audacity to give the laid-off employees advance notice before the public announcement, and lots of internal all-hands-meeting outrage directed at people who dared to "break trust" by telling reporters that they had been laid off).

[0] https://abcnews.go.com/Business/salesforce-announces-layoffs...
I was granted an SBIR grant for a small biotech that I previously worked for. We were very careful about what we funded on the grant, because even under the current rules that government can use the research, if they choose (although I think this is rare).
Markets work by way of hype. Among that artificially creating the impression of wanted hotness, by hiring student extras camping in front of the store, which opens the next day.
They may be aware that if their colleagues get fired, then they probably will too.

They may be thinking that they'll be competing for jobs with people in lower cost of living locations and that this is likely to affect their career earnings and/or ability to stay in their current high cost location.

They may just be lazy and find their job easier in the office.

Note these are all entirely selfish and nothing to do with whether the employees are more productive - I think this kind of explanation is more likely to be true!
How is helping a pregnant woman "deceiving them out of medical care?" that's quite the word soup.
Apple isn't going to somehow make 64 bit ARM in to something proprietary. Sure, they have their own special instructions for stuff like high performance x86 emulation, but aarch64 on Apple is only going to mean more stuff is optimized for ARM, which is good not only for Linux, but for other open source OSes like the BSDs.
And “check if the handle opens the door” explains the problem and avoids it happening again?
Amazon chooses shipping defaults to benefit themselves.

With prime I have to manually select the shipping speed to get it the fastest.

Without prime, it defaults to faster shipping that you pay for. You have to manually select slower shipping to get the advertised "free super-saver shipping"
Me too. I really wish I could buy a Samsung Galaxy Book Go 360 which is ARM and has amazing battery life, and install Ubuntu on it, but I don't think there's a known possible way to do so.

I really want a competent, high-end ARM Ubuntu laptop to happen. The Pinebook Pro has shitty specs and looks like shit with the 90s-sized inset bezels and 1080p screen.
Sounds like this person got their job at the company through nepotistic means, because no one of merit would ever think that way. I feel they're a liability to github.
I'm not sure we're really disagreeing at this point. Density has a bunch of effects. It creates congestion. But it also creates opportunity. Without the people in New York, there would not be opportunity there. People _wish_ their front door led to downtown Manhattan, and their backdoor led to 100 pristine acres in rural Montana. What people _want_ is what they pay for. And that is to live in places with big network effects, which require large populations.
That's awful! I'm sorry you had to go through that. The intent isn't usually malicious, but some teams (esp larger ones) are really disorganized and don't value candidates' time enough.

My team is doing our best to create the "perfect" take-home experience and reduce the frequency of these horror stories.
Adding an android logo reduces the price by $100. You could add 69 android logos to that phone and bring it down to $0!
Why not, you know, interview them? See if you like them, see if they are reasonably knowledgable about what you need them to do. Putting people on the spot doesn't mean they can or can't develop software or solutions. Sending homework is even worse though.
It’s not a great deal if you don’t use it.

I don’t use Prime’s content features and the handful of Amazon orders I make a year usually get free shipping anyway.

I’ve definitely accidentally signed up for Prime and the confusing screen is always a reminder that I should try buying my [whatever] elsewhere. Sometimes it works and I find an alternative, sometimes I find the opt out button and finish my purchase. But their scummy tactics have probably pushed a few $k in annual purchases off Amazon for me.
This should be fixed now...

FTR: The correct address is ospo-heroku-credits@salesforce.com
>The policy’s previous ban on “claims that COVID-19 vaccines do not reduce risk of contracting COVID-19” has been changed to a ban on “claims that COVID-19 vaccines do not reduce risk of serious illness or death.”

The Ministry of Truth at work.
Yeah, my head hurts. May have lost the thread here.
I wish you could do this with Brave (without uBlock Origin).
Depends how you define left wing.

It was highly collectivist and little private property. It was also working hard on building the new homo sovieticus. And the idea of world domination never really went away. It was also equally poor, especially if you skip party elite. Capital was not a thing. Well, social capital did play a big role :)

I can’t agree that left wing is for equality while right wing is anti-equality. Unless you’re talking about equality of outcomes, which is madness IMO.

I’d rather say that left is for equality and right wing is for fairness. Equality leads to unfair outcomes for better-equipped. While fair treatment leads to unequal results. Both has pros and cons.
Yes the agencies will have to survey all the ways that their spending goes into research. Some of these will be obvious like NSF grants. Others will be more gray area like R&D contracts. They will have to modify the rules for each of these processes, and train employees on the new rules. There may be existing contracts that will have to be renegotiated. Some of the agencies may have legally mandated processes they have to follow when making changes to rules, which may include public comment periods. Many agencies will be able to make the change within a year, but some will have legitimate reasons for taking longer. Three years is generous, but not ridiculous.
I was waiting for the first person to say this, which is why I explicitly wrote "black" when describing the disproportionate rates of sickle cell in black children vs. white children. This isn't some rhetorical game. We know what "race" is, intuitively, and we know that it correlates strongly with real-world biological outcomes.

These guidelines are gaslighting people into ignoring broadly useful categories because we don't have a reductive way of defining them. We don't have a biological test that defines race (yet), ergo, it doesn't exist. Except that's wrong. It's absurd.

> In studies of conditions like sickle cell anaemia or lactose intolerance or skin cancer it would probably be more useful to relate those to particular genotypes and/or phenotypes rather than relying on which "race" field each experimental subject selected on the intake form.

If we could do that -- relate the (known) gene for sickle cell to some other "genotype" that captures the racial bias we know exists -- we'd have a strict biological definition for race, wouldn't we?

Aside from that, we know the "phenotype" that correlates with the illness. Black people have it, at high rates.
Exact same question. I'm glad I'm not alone.
Everyone is dumb one way or another. Especially those who are specialized in an area of expertise. That’s when we over-estimate how much we know about adjacent specialties.

There is definitely a type of content that works on all of us collectively. It’s like catnip.
Ask HN: Any Good Prerender.io Alternatives?
We have been using Prerender.io since a while for prerendering our React-app pages to bots who don't execute JavaScript.

Now, starting from September 2022 Prerender forces us to their new pricing which would mean an increase from $21 to $220.

Do you know of any prerendering services which would be more affordable? (we are not looking into SSR / NextJS)
Koyeb[1] looks interesting. I haven't tried myself, but looked similar.

[1] https://www.koyeb.com/pricing
[1] Thank you for sharing that interesting article!
"Heroku is now Salesforce Cloud" is an easy-bet prediction, just like "ExactTarget is now Marketing Cloud", or "Pardot is now Marketing Cloud Account Engagement".

When something gets the "Cloud" rename, you can bet it's on the way downhill.
This is a lot of words to say "entropy and thermodynamics also directly apply to social phenomena."
I do quite like their "subscribe and save" system though.
Sign up for the costco-sized packs of stuff you get through, and guess how often you want to receive it. Then once a month it tells you to check - and you see what they're planning on shipping, and can skip stuff you've got and pull forward stuff you're running out of.

Always thought it would be quite nifty if you could make a site like this for third-party services. I might see my 2 audible credits on there, and decide I've got enough, or need more. Or maybe apple could offer a free month - so I might pause my netflix.
Could even combine stuff (free $10 Dominos credit added for each month of Netflix after month 12 etc).

Whole current system of every service having their own UI, is just a pain.
Worked out paying for stuff works better then you can just stick it all on the same card - so why not manage it all from one place as well?
There is https://simplelogin.io and https://anonnaddy.com

Which support custom domain and more features, and not locked to a specific browser.

Both open source and self-hostable, SL is by Proton(Mail).
I'm glad that this talk continues to inspire people!

FWIW, there's previous discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26723886
I’m downvoting this because it says nothing. Unpopular (or popular) opinions without explanation are boring.
Last Pass Incident
USG already publishes a ton of free data, like weather and maps. The ecosystem of repackaging and building improved services seems to be working fine because it opens up a broad range of competitive options, not a paid embargo to a few.
I lived 22 years without a car in Boston. I finally got one a couple of years ago and also love having it, despite the fact that I only use it about 3 times each month. I don't know if I'm anti-car, but I'm definitely a strong advocate for the vision that cars shouldn't be required to live a full life in more places, especially in the US. In the US, there's so few places where living without a car is feasible, and all of them are incredibly expensive, so clearly there are Americans who want this. But for some reason we still seem to design new communities around the car.
The reason why there aren't any 1-star projects isn't because they don't exist, but because we didn't think anyone would want to see them. Cataloguing these was a ton of work (we sifted through hundreds of tests). Including the 1-star ones seemed like it would only shame companies who used them.
Your data is in a piece of software controlled by Oracle. They can easily create a backdoor designed for NSA use. Whether they "have" your data on their hardware or not doesn't make much of a difference in this case.
Thanks! Is there anything specific you want to learn more about?
At a high level we run a fork of Chromium in the cloud, capture the desktop using gstreamer and stream it back to everyone using Mediasoup.

The folks at SideGuide made the interactive demo for us — we love it too.