skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hydration, lazy loading, managing flashes of unstyled content, a lot of this is built to address things that wouldn't be problems if we treated the browser as the dojo that it is and not be so dang wasteful.

What's your point here, exactly? That if random wordpress blogs and recipe websites were less wasteful, the problems these solutions are addressing would not exist?

I can make you an extremely non-wasteful webapp which still needs to display a hundred images on a page (because reasons), so lazy-loading the images is still important.

I can find you a very well-optimized website that is only a few kilobytes, but still loads slow as shit because their network is bad and I'm on a terrible 3G link. FOUC would still be an issue.
Not available for OpenSUSE and Fedora.
Another good example.
I agree that atheists are irrational and biased too. We can't assume politicians to behave as cold calculators, whether they're atheist or not.

However very religious people are dogmatic (almost by definition). As such, they are less likely to review certain positions based on facts.
Marc Andreeson's peers in Atherton blocked an infrastructure project which would have allowed Caltrain to electrify, apparently.

He's likely part of the problem.
Looks like it stopped for a bit, then came back in the mid-2010s (see another Atlas Obscura link[0]) and the last mention I find is for 2019.

0: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fleeting-wonders-those...
Developers, just coding their websites, not a toolchain in sight.
The recent evolution of JS frameworks has been really nice. Performance is basically getting identical to desktop.

The three recent developments I've noticed:

- "Islands" in Deno https://fresh.deno.dev/ and https://remix.run/ where only small isolated parts get hydrated, instead of the whole page

- Using http://linear.app style data-flows ala Replicache (https://replicache.dev/) where JSON data is preloaded for all sub-links and stored offline-first like a desktop app, so clicking on anything loads immediately w/o waiting for network requests to finish

- Now with 'resumability' where the server-side framework was built with client hydration in mind and delivers the bare minimum event/DOM data necessary to make the page interactive (instead of just being a glorified HTML cache load before the usual JS activates)

For people not following JS these might all seem like constantly reinventing past lessons, but there is a logical evolution happening here towards desktop-style performance and interactivity on the web. Or pure server-side performance but with full JS interactivity.

The next set of frameworks is going to be as big of an evolution the way Angular/Backbone->React/Vue was ~8yrs ago. But it's going to require new backend server frameworks, not just a new client framework. There's probably a big opportunity for the project that can combine this stuff properly.
Ask HN: To what degree should one lie about experience when applying for jobs?
Been thinking about this one lately and I'm sure the HN community has some interesting opinions on this...

It's widely accepted around here that hiring in Tech is pretty broken. Good engineers are routinely rejected due to asinine HR requirements such as not having experience in a particular technology or for taking legitimate career breaks. Plus, most job postings are already inundated by CVs that range from those that have minor embellishments to those that contain outright lies. (Not to mention the fact that employers are often engaging in deceitful behaviour about the nature of their own roles)

Given this, engineers that elect to be more honest are potentially putting themselves at a significant career disadvantage.

In light of all this, if one is certain that they would be a good applicant for the job:

A) Is it unethical to lie about one's experience in order to get the job?

B) Is it smart to do so given the risk of getting caught out?

"Lying" here could mean anything from listing experience in a (easily learned, possibly adjacent) technology, to things such as listing fake jobs or using a friend as a job reference.

For those with spotty resumes, is this an allowable form of deceit?

If one believes that "lying" is acceptable to some degree, what techniques are fair game? What should be avoided?
The bulky part that worries me (and is why I don't use "bit drivers" usually) is right at the tip - it gets wider within an inch of the screw, which can be highly annoying.

I prefer the "longer bit" drivers that you can find (Milwaukee 48-22-2131 for example) but the best drivers in my experience are the screwdrivers with really long thin shanks.
They say as much in the abstract:

> The water world candidate TOI-1452 b is a prime target for future atmospheric characterization with JWST, featuring a Transmission Spectroscopy Metric similar to other well-known temperate small planets such as LHS 1140 b and K2-18 b. The system is located near Webb's northern Continuous Viewing Zone, implying that it can be followed at almost any moment of the year.
I think almost everyone has associations between things of different "categories" (you can almost smell the grass if you picture yourself in a field). As a synesthete, I have both kinds of associations (synesthetic, and non-), and many lie in the spectrum between.

The strongly synesthetic associations are 1) always-on*, 2) automatic and immediate, even for novel stimuli**, and 3) consistent over time***

* You can turn your focus away from them, like focusing on a person's voice in a noisy room, but you're still aware of the noise.

** You won't experience the smell of grass looking at a photo of a field, if you've never been to a field before. But many synesthetic associations occur immediately even for new stimuli, especially if it's a simple input like sound. If it's a complex concept like someone's personality or an algorithm, they are initially in flux and solidify as understanding of the concept improves.

*** They can change very slowly over time (years)

The above is more of a personal definition from my experience, and not a clinically accepted one.
So its a droplet, were a small moony core tumbles around in the crushing depths?
Yeah :D was just trying to say that people with phone are killing all sort of fun / life, in any context
I don't agree because I've seen plenty of consumer-grade tech that uses flat-head screws. It's becoming less common but as one example I have a couple of external USB-nVME enclosures that came with flat-head screws to open the external casing. Inside it's Philips.
> This is reflected by the views of the President of Israel, who is openly against miscegenation.

Sorry if this is nitpicking, but who are you talking about here? The President of Israel is Isaac Herzog, formerly the leader of the opposition and on the left side of the political map. I'd be highly surprised if he held such opinions.

If you are talking about the Prime Minister (Israel is one of those countries where the Prime Minister has the most power and the President is mostly a ceremonial position, so maybe you got confused due to that?) then the current one is Yair Lapid, which I'd also be highly surprised if he held such opinions.

Maybe the previous one, Naftali Bennett? I guess I could believe that, though I'd love to see exactly what public statements you are referring to.
yea of course https://video-diffusion.github.io/

we are going all the way to the holodeck (my guess is latent diffusion on weights, aka hypernetwork, of a 4d NERF)
Can't tell if this is is a joke or not lol
This has always been how abandoned communities are offered a chance to stay alive...at least for the last 15(?) years or so.
There are two trends around NSFW images.

(1) If it wasn't for the second there would be a gold rush of firms trying to replicate the success of OnlyFans, that is, there is already a huge business and the possibility of a much larger business.

(2) There is also increasing trouble around NSFW images. Consider CSAM. The trouble with CSAM is that CSAM is documentation of child abuse and that's why it has to be prosecuted. On the other hand people don't really get in trouble for child pornography which is hand drawn because the forbidden desire isn't the problem, the original crime is the problem. With AI image generation people can generate unlimited quantities of "child abuse free" CSAM which might reduce the market for real CSAM but will vastly complicate the problem of managing CSAM.

I think people will find other reasons to crack down on pornography. As ugly and stupid as traditional pornography is (e.g. consider the 'pigface' scowl that was routine in Penthouse and Hustler and is still common or the many conventions that I think are completely unarousing but seduce people in the perverse manner of 'this is common in pornography so it must be arousing'), I suspect the OnlyFans model is actually more harmful to users.

Payment networks are cracking down, for instance the polymorphous perverse site Danbooru got cut off. AI generated porn is just going to lead to more fear of things getting out of hand and swifter and more complete crackdowns.
Tech Companies Slowly Shift Production Away From China
What kind of vehicles - if not trucks - should be used to move items from the old landfills to a recycling/processing plant?
You could say the same about virtually all marketing. A product should let its product speak. Marketing is the art of shoving a sub-par product down users throats despite better alternatives existing.
People have been making these kinds of excuses about trading autonomy for short-term profits for at least a century.[0]

At the end of the day all that matters is that a nation is self-sufficient in the essentials and participates in the global economy that augment that self-sufficiency without damaging it. Anything else is hubris because you're just doomed to repeat history, and it's outright greed because the people making the decisions aren't the ones going to bear the brunt when they inevitably fail.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/idUS74746206720140627
When I interviewed for my current job, I asked the HR rep and the hiring manager if they were happy working at the company. The question seemed to surprise them. Both smiled, thought for a moment, then responded positively, with some details about why they enjoyed their jobs and this company. That was 11 years ago and we're all still here.
Raised by wolves
Still, would help to know more about you, your skills, experience, passions, etc.

Not to overgeneralize here, but a lot of the HN participants are technically skilled, even to the level of "nerdish", enjoying making things that amaze and amuse. Where does that fit into your life's experience?
I could see the argument for SQLite driving an SQL renaissance because of its popularity in mobile development. A lot of developers who would have written no database code were exposed to a good, easy SQL database.
"We passed a bill to show those right-wingers that we mean business!"

"Did you consider <insert obvious edge case here>?"

"Oh..."
Why don't you solve the problem on the supply side?
That's called civilization. I know this is controversial right now but this is pretty much the process by which we left the hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
Understanding Time Differently: Human Time vs. Clock Time
Legendary Film Critic Serge Daney on Coppola’s ‘Apocalypse Now’
The most sophisticated demonstration of the bi-directionality of these ports is the RetroVox. Quite a remarkable achievement really.

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/332849-retrovox-wip/
At the very least, I feel talking to users will give you decent hypothesis to test.

The creation of hypothesis is often glossed over as a trivial first step in scientific or data-driven decision making, but in fact, that's where the magic lives.
> If you're spending $100 on a backpack you can afford the extra $3 that's baked into the price for a nice zipper.

Either $100 for a nice backpack is conservative, or I'm way overpaying for backpacks.
> There's also no reason to think that the immune system is so easily split up between systems that respond to parasites, bacteria, and virii.

Well, sure. We essentially have multiple "immune systems", with overlapping goals. (Sort of like having both an anti-virus and anti-spyware scanner installed, as well as a system integrity checker, secure-boot verification logic, etc.)

Some immune responses are good at stopping all sorts of things (e.g. xenoreactive antibodies, which attack both parasites, bacteria, and cancer cells.) I wouldn't suggest doing anything to these. Conveniently, these processes don't tend to cause many long-term health problems, save in edge cases (e.g. xenograft implantation.)

Other immune responses are more specialized. And — also conveniently — it's the reactions/systems that specialize in responding to things we see almost none of in "city living", that seem to do bad things for longevity.

Parasite-specialist immune cells (mast cells), for example, cause a lot of chronic inflammatory problems. We've been preventing mast cells from doing their jobs for a long time now — that's the point of taking antihistamines — with very little negative to show for it. I don't think it would be much of a stretch from there to a treatment for allergies that's just a siRNA that "NOPs out" the entire immune-response functionality of mast cells. (Or even a "permanent" treatment for allergies, via CRISPR gene edit to rub out the definition of mast-cell antigen recognition receptors from the body's vocabulary.)

And I would also say that it's not much of a stretch to hypothesize that people who had this done, would, under longitudinal studies, show increased longevity / QUALYs. "Never having an [even sub-clinical] allergic reaction" would do really good things for the body. At the cost of — for most people reading this — just having to avoid sashimi.
If the heat is high enough, A/C runs all night, and if the amount of peaking power plants is down, then they could lose enough capacity overnight to make it still a problem.

If someone wants to dig into it, here's the data: https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx
Maybe the problem starts with talking about grown women using "girls".
Yeah, I could see the internet playing a role. At the same time, it shouldn't really be a big deal if someone took your picture at a nude beach since youre fine with the public seeing you that way... except for how some in society would use it against you (fired from a job, etc; ex pornstars appearently have similar issues). Perhaps we just need more protections from discrimination based on the activities one performs outside of work. Although that may be hard to enforce like most other non-discrimination laws, but a step in the right direction.
Humans created machines to do various work: to lift heavy weights, to go really fast, to fly, to float on water etc etc. It's not surprising that humans created machines that calculate real precisely, then machines that play chess and finally machines that create art. No surprises here. However, competitions have other purpose. I can easily "outrun" any marathon champion using a car (or even a bicycle... maybe). Will they admit me into marathon on a car? Of course not. I must run myself. So this case is real easy - the man was cheating and should return the prize.
Show me the numbers that say producing the fuel and the equipment to mine and transport the ore to produce 200,000 tons of rare earths a year from the moon to the earth is less damaging to the ecosystem than ocean floor mining would be. As my mother would say, the math ain't mathin'.
The other day, embarking exhaustedly from a nine-hour transatlantic flight, I said to my wife: "They really need to hurry up and invent teleportation - what's taking them so long?". She replied tiredly: "I hope they won't. Once we have a way to get to work instantly, I'll have to work even longer hours"...

I feel this sort of fatalism is rather pervasive. I'm a huge fan of 1950s technology ads, showing housewifes kicking back with a cocktail inside the airconditioned glass bubble on top of their lawnmower. But this promise of technology to improve your quality of life and to let machines do your work while you relax has largely been replaced by a promise to let you do more work, consume more content and improve your overall efficiency.

There's a weird conflict here. We can empirically prove that life has gotten meaningfully better on a large number of metrics (the Steven Pinker message) - but our perceived reality has been heading downhill for decades, and there is a pervasive sense that every additional technology accelerates this process.
For the visual people, here's a london pattern handle: https://www.benchcrafted.com/londonpatternhandle

You can find the same shape in mass produced modern tools with plastic handles: https://www.sears.com/craftsman-5-pc-slotted-screwdriver-set...
Judge not, lest ye...
And Interstellar
I hear you on the importance of food quality. If you don't have good food or service, no amount of marketing is going to save you. I also think that there is a fine line that you don't want to cross when it comes to the number of marketing messages that you send to customers. Every 2-3 days would annoy me personally as a consumer too. Anything more than once per week is way too much for such a direct channel

Since this is an opt-in program, only the people who really want to receive texts from a particular restaurant will participate. If that's not you, that's totally fine. Either way, we appreciate you sharing your thoughts!
I suspect this is a theme in the western world globally.

Energy demand over that time is down in the developed world - the UK for example peaked in 2005 at ~400 terrawatt-hours to ~330 terrawatt-hours in 2021 (with >10% increase in population).

https://www.statista.com/statistics/323381/total-demand-for-...

Edit: I dont expect this trend will remain, cars switching from liquid fuel to electricity and heating from gas to electricity is going to accelerate at some point and cancel the efficiency savings.
Whether this comes across as stalking or courting depends on how weird or creepy you come across. Basically, once you leave university, your ability to spend a lot of time with people you're allowed to date kind of dries up, because people don't want to be counted at work.
I went to visit a doctor recently, and booked the appointment online. As a result of that I received:

- An SMS confirming my appointment.

- An SMS the day before reminding me of the appointment.

- An SMS the morning of the appointment inviting me to checkin.

- An SMS after I left asking me about my experience on a scale of 1-5.

That's four SMSs relating to one appointment/visit. The moment I read this post I could just imagine a similar situation - I make a reservation online for a table, and I'll get spammed indefinitely about offers, and invitations to leave a review.
"No true builder" fallacy.
This is repulsive, anti-intellectual gaslighting.

'This if fascism, and if you don't agree you're a fascist'.

My god man.
To save the deep ocean, we should, first and foremost: Reduce, reuse and recycle.

* Less use of metal + switch to renewable materials where possible.

* Design metallic articles to be amenable to dissassembly for later use of the parts; also perhaps standardize more metallic parts.

* Extensive recycling of metal instead of dumping it in landfills and the ocean.
I find it incredibly annoying that I have to have my own garbage truck. It literally takes up my whole driveway.
A pound for pound exchange should do it. Might even be able to stop the Moon from moving away in a few thousand years.
You start with a truism/No True Scotsman, then overlay a theory of everything without any evidence to suggest how construction deaths Are comparable to natural selection.

I don’t disagree with you - but it would be worth revisiting how you make this argument. You took all this time to write a nice comment! & here I am, criticizing it, but I think you may need some refinement.
Those are tough questions someone else will surely answer some time in the future.

In the mean time we get to pat ourselves on the back and feel good for ditching those icky internal combustion engines!

On a more serious note - and people wonder how we end up where things like this get so dire? Here we go again!
> meetup.com thinking our meetups would be destroyed at some point

That seems naive, you created a meetup on a free platform that is built to bring users together. You are just the initiator, you don't own the community.
Whoa whoa whoa, let's not get carried away. The peak of technology obviously occurred in $YEAR_AUTHOR_GRADUATED_UNIVERSITY and it's all been downhill from there.
You're not wrong, the websites I enjoy the most are basically all static.

I think the problem is that the "web fundamentals" aren't that good to begin with. A web application is very often the least bad solution, but you're not going to have "rich" web applications without tons of JS. Show the average user HN and they won't like the interface.
This is a really good analogy (gas station customers) that I haven’t heard before. I’ve often tried to describe this ‘low intent’ group but never had a good way to make it relatable.
It’s also that these interdependencies guarantee peace to some extent. The current dynamic is the most dangerous since WWII, much more complex than the Cold War actually.
> if we treated the browser as the dojo that it is

I have no idea what this means. Isn't a dojo a place for learning or meditation? I don't understand how that fits the browser, the internet, or web development.
Apparently you missed the part where it is integrated into Java libraries via JNI.

Kubernetes was originally written in Java and rewritten in Go after some Go advocates joined the team.

Docker was originally written in Python and rewritten in Go after some Go advocates joined the team.

Don't mix technical capabilities with people wanting to refresh their CVs.
We had a separatist movement, it was called the Civil War, and did not end well for the separatists. US states do not have any legal mechanism to exit the union, although Texas claims it has that right.

We do have a lot of nut jobs, particularly in low population rural states like Idaho, and they have ideas. One idea is to split off parts of California and Oregon into the state of Jefferson. Another was to split California into 6 states. All of these schemes just happen to give conservatives more power in the Senate, and are unlikely to ever happen.
This company opened an office in my city and proceeded to send some of the spammiest recruiting emails I've ever received. I spent all of 10 minutes reading up on them, and blocked future emails, since I did not expect them to survive past the year.

That was this January.
Might I suggest volunteering?
Libraries have lots of events where you can talk. They've had to reinvent themselves a bit since the internet and are a bit more of a community center nowadays. I wouldn't dismiss them out of hand.

I went to a travel blogging meetup at one last year (hosted by library staff members), some events on making podcasts, regular board game nights at another, and there's a whole maker lab set up in the basement of my nearest library, with 3D printers, multiple sound recording rooms, multiple video recording studios, a vinyl cutter, a laser cutter and computers with Adobe suite installed on them that you can use pretty much whenever.

Just looking at next month at adult events at my nearest library: yoga, drawing with pencils and charcoal class, conversational ESL, STEM workshop, a DIY craft event, a cooking class, photography club, meditation class, mixing live albums with Logic Pro class, dungeons and dragons event, coffee and conversation event, business topics workshop, folk art craft diy, trivia night, open mic night, aztec dancing event, line dancing, toastmasters (public speaking), film club, financial planning talk, 24 hour comic book creation event, state paranormal history talk, knitting, writers group, and several book club events. That's not even the kid or teen events. That's a lot, and a wide variety of things.