skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously no-one can predict the future, but a reasonable assumption (I think) is that a future AI will be able to de-anonymize supposedly anonymous posters to Kiwi Farms. If someone is posting terrible opinion to Kiwi Farms, why should they be protected by archive.org from reaping what they sow?

Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Archive.org now provided more shade.

What I don't know is if Kiwi Farms _requested_ to be removed from Archive.org. As a publicity stunt, I could see a request for removal and then a wailing that they've been removed.

There was a minor kerfuffle with Snopes and a fact check of theirs which embarrased them. They later revised their fact check to no longer be embarassing. Problem was, archive.org still maintained the original. You can no longer find the original article from 2018 on archive.org. I'm sure that the only people who wanted the embarassing fact check removed were Snopes themselves. Archive.org was apparently happy to help them revise their history, by limiting how far back you can see anything in their library from Snopes.com.
Yeah I think without dang, HN would be a very different place. The tone and guidelines enforcement is a result of the HN culture, the HN culture comes as a direct result of the moderation feedback dang and other HN mods have consistently given.

While I would love to join a community (I used to use writing.com a ton) of HN but for fiction writers not startup owners plus us hangers on, I don't know if that can be done without a good moderation team.
This is such a tired take. It's part of a steady stream of commentary that reads something like "non-engineering-role X is bullshit."

Here, we see engineers reduce the contributions of such common roles as: Product Manger, Program/Project Manager, Scrum Master, Marketer, CEO, etc., as fungible or run by the biggest boogeyman of all, the dreaded MBA.

These arguments most typically result from not an inability, but an unwillingness to understand, the complexity and nuance that goes into running a business, and to recognize that actual smart people can make real contributions in non-engineering roles.

It's just personal and professional immaturity. Every time I ready these comments and articles, I really hope that the folks writing them are able to grow out of this mindset. They'd be a lot happier and more productive.
Trappist is not a type of beer.

Ok I guess in English the correct term is indeed 'trappist beer', but in Dutch 'trappist' is used to refer to the beer as well as the monk/nun; there's a lot more talking about beer than about those monks obviously, so you can imagine that for me 'trappist' means 'beer' no matter what language so pardon my linguistic mistake :)
Suburbia also encroaches on wildlife habitat, reduces ground water replenishment, requires expensive infrastructure, and is material (not just energy) intensive.
Kind of difficult to measure exhalation mass without special equipment. And that's how weight must be lost: you have to oxidise the carbon in it and breathe it out.
Probable cause is not enough evidence to convict someone, but enough to conduct a further search to see if there is enough evidence for a conviction. See here (although this is US-focused, many other states have similar ideas): https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-rights/probable-ca...

Basically, they had the allegations and enough substantiating evidence to go to the point of looking for more evidence, but not to get all the way to an arrest/conviction. A search warrant is the next step.

EDIT: Also, the police have most likely downloaded the information, but you never know.
I guess the real question is does this actually solve a real problem people are having? An acquaintance of mine recently built a house, and constructing the outer 'shell' was by far the quickest and easiest part of the whole process.
https://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/the-chinese-mexican-fen...

You seriously read that "piece" and thought - here is some "analytical journalism"

Where is the analysis? Where is the journalism? [This is sarcasm.]
Some of the limits of human intelligence could be limits of intelligence, period.

Mathematically there is a continent of linear problems that are easy to solve, then some islands of other problems that have exact solutions and a large ocean in which there are no exact solutions. Close to the islands various forms of approximation are workable but get out in the ocean and you are lost.

Results by Gödel, Turing and others show there are hard limits to computation. No kind of "smarts" can circumvent these.
Probably just Windows Update /s
He just proposed a housing solution. Now you are complaining because he hasn't produced a transportation solution as well?
Oh hey, I've got one right here: https://github.onlineornot.com/

Based out of Virginia, USA for the initial check, followed by a random sample of 19 locations around the world to confirm it's actually down.
Of course some of those externalities are factored in. This happens via regulation. Here's one recent example: https://e360.yale.edu/features/at-last-the-shipping-industry...

Or do you mean all negative externalities? To me, that seems akin to the coastline paradox.
I agree, I think my problem is that the last few decades the returns on stocks and property has vastly exceeded economic which means that a) people have unrealistic expectations going forward and b) prices are bid up so high its likely future returns will be flat or negative for decades.
How is a reasonable person just coming across this brouhaha to determine what really happened? Apparently we are here to celebrate the primary source being deleted from what is effectively a museum. There is a reason that bookstores will still sell you a copy of Mein Kampf. I have no idea what a “keffal” or a “kiwi farm” is, and apparently now I cannot avail myself of a first-hand source. Screenshots can be doctored. I certainly won’t believe any of you about what happened. The internet archive always acted as a trusted proof of what really was present on a given site and when. Now, we celebrate destroying history and proof of alleged (and now unprovable) misdeeds. A dark day indeed.
Most taxpayers in western countries will pay for those costs in the next decades.
Yes, apparently there have been huge advances in the efficiency of heat pumps since then. And this is why ground source heat pumps are less of a thing these days: you don't need the help of that underground temperature as much.

This guy gets really excited about heat pumps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFEHFsO-XSI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43XKfuptnik
I don't see any toilets, kitchen, electrical stuff in that time-lapse. It looks more like a shed than a house :-)
How many has Facebook? Twitter? Back when I was in high school (graduated 2014), three students within my district committed suicide from cyber bullying conducted through these platforms, there wasn't even any bans!

Kiwi-farms seems fairly mundane based on everything I've read about it so far (not that I can even look at the site for myself now). Why is there a double standard here? How the hell did these random twitter users manage to gain the power to pick and choose who gets to be on the internet now?
Politics is something you do or something that is done to you is the saying no? Would you rather someone from engineering do your politics for you? Or someone from product or the business? I think the engineering person will look after you better.

Where it becomes fascinating is the 10+ year EM. They used to know what to do, but clearly don't anymore. They either accept that, and lean on their leads for technical decisions and just focus on politics, or dont accept it and thats what it can get bad fast.
A lot of people don't like to live in cities.
By “sequestering” the carbon in building materials, we’re merely kicking the can down the road by 20-30 years. At which point the house is torn down and goes off to the dump to rot away as normal.

And we’re already doing this for centuries - using wood for making buildings - so we’re merely continuing the status quo, not magically putting more carbon away suddenly.
>Screenshots are not a trustworthy medium.

Sure. That's why it's likely that - again, I don't know how this still bears repeating in this comment chain - IA still has the site archived, just not publicly accessible.
This.

Interesting that we talk about fat shaming and body pride. Why? It's not healthy, and it never will be.
>were verifiably doxxed, harrassed and threatened

Ηic Rhodus hic salta. Show how any of those claims are verifiable.
How the SQLite virtual machine works
Engineers that have to do management and paperwork stuff cry that they're so busy with paperwork that they can't engineer. So management hires a guy for them and they cry about how that guy doesn't do anything.
Meta shows model to predict based on EEG and MEG what a human was listening to
Those are tied.

It's impossible to service low density housing efficiently.
And of course, to run this yourself, you need to pay Apple 100 dollars for a developer account and even then, the app will delete itself after 7 days.

Youre brilliant, you paid for the watch, but you cant use it the way you want because of Apple.

Edit: I have been corrected. 100 dollars buys you 1 year. 7 days is 'for free', so it's basically a tithe.
I mean, a company is made up of a bunch of people, all with different ideas on how thinks should be done and in the end it’s often influence that decides the path forward.

Of course organizations have politics. It will always be that way unless you get rid of all the humans.
> why build out hardware vs. outsource the printing / mailing?

we wanted the handwriting to feel as real as possible. to that end, my cofounder wrote an algo that varied each character slightly, the robots held real pens, etc. We couldn't find anyone to outsource the fulfillment to that matched this level of authenticity. Some competitors used lob.com and simply print an image of handwriting which actually can work pretty well, but is definitely recognizable if you look closely.

> re: margins, you could have raised prices but that would have made you not competitive?

This was a big point of contention between me and my cofounder. We raise them towards the end some but not enough. After selling, the company that bought us raised them substantially and are doing very well from what I understand. We should have done this early on, but focused too much on winning the deal which is what burnt us out in the end (too much business too quick, lots of sleepless nights).
All excellent points, and why moisture vapour transmission direction/rate must be taken into account during a build. If you live somewhere where AC is the primary mode of interior conditioning, you will build to where the AC will pull moisture in from the structure for removal via the condensate line. If you live somewhere not so tropics, you're going to build where the moisture is pulled out of the home by the natural environment.

Building sciences are both fun and fraught with peril. I'm somewhat excited and cautiously optimistic about Boxabl from a housing manufacturing perspective.
To me MVP still means "Microsoft Most Valuable Professional".

I'm guessing that in this case it is "minimum viable product", as in "a service that is just barely useful and good enough that some people will pay money for it".
Another (long) hypothesis, based on the observation that even lab animals have gained weight over the years: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-p...

I'm not sure I agree all the way to the conclusion, but it's definitely worth considering that inter-country obesity may be linked to an environmental factor.
Yeah, I’ve given up every time I’ve tried to count calories, because inevitably, I end up having to “guess” because I’m eating stuff without explicit calorie info. I can’t eyeball volume/mass of food, so converting based on a known value for a portion of food wasn’t really an option.
That’s an idiotic saying which justifies criminalizing hundreds of thousands if not millions of people for something they have no control over. In none of the cases that I mentioned are these ideologies anything but an extremely fringe and non-influential minority.

Is it so impossible to imagine that it was arranged for some of these fringe individuals to appear and then be over-represented in media coverage? What easier way is there of immediately discrediting an anti-establishment popular movement in the minds of witless liberals? Let’s recall that the funding and utilization of Nazi and extremist groups by five eyes intelligence agencies around the world is well documented.
Taking north Korea as an example is not a good idea. Also they still import allot through backallies. I don't see anything good from north Koreas way of doing things unless we want to go back 200 years
This joke is more beaten than Github at this point.
I love a good technical explanation like this. I don't plan to implement a Galileo position calculator any time soon, but it's still fascinating all the same to know what's going on behind the scenes.
I like that this seems to have ways to address two common problems with tree diffs:

1. The nesting/unnesting/merging/splitting problem that many tree diff algorithms have a hard time with are handled here by allowing the diff to see insertion/deletion of delimiters. I guess one way to see it is that the tool is doing a text level diff augmented with the tree structures to calculate the cost of diffs and choose the cheapest one it can find.

2. The problem of syntax errors. I think this just depends a lot on how well tree sitter copes with syntax errors (or weird syntax that’s hard to parse or eg a committed merge conflict) but my understanding is that it is designed to cope ok with syntax errors.

I basically felt that tree diffing was not very viable because of these issues but seeing this project I think I’ve changed my mind. I guess it remains to be seen how good performance is though (maybe this isn’t good enough yet if it can sometimes be very slow).
Sending out a “hand” written thank you letter long after a transaction is completed and real time customer service at the time of transaction are not comparable actions of customer service.
I'm not sure "new tooling" (if you're contrasting language-specific with linux distro tooling) does give more visibility though. How well does "new tooling" track root certificates being up-to-date and available for example (ca-certificates is explicitly mentioned in the vlc dependencies in the link as an example)? Or across language/ecosystem boundaries? It would be interesting to compare vlc dependencies on Windows, MacOS and one of the BSDs, as unlike linux distros, there is a explicit and somewhat complete core (which would likely remove or at least reduce the number of "system" dependencies on the vlc list).

I do think better tooling can exist (and is being developed), but it needs to track the whole system, not just a single language.
If you think of beliefs as infectious diseases, you're not respecting the autonomy of other people.

If I need to be prevented from knowing what the monsters say in order to avoid turning into a monster myself, then I promise you, we've lost. The monsters are going to eat us all.
Well, that's my point. We went from

>these nodes are run by an anonymous collective

up until around 2017, that's how blockchain worked and gained traction.

And now most high level entities in blockchain tech now have identities/companies and individuals associated with them. Twitter has allowed these identities to stay 'psuedo-anonymous' sometimes but their 'identities' and leadership influence over the chain/ pools and infrastructure has remained.

>That’s a regression in the trust-value chain for most real world applications

Blockchain trustlessness is the whole value.
Not a Wheelchair
Robots Now Will do Your nails
*watchcraft
Apple has purposely neutered the WatchOS API in all aspects for the sacred cow of battery life. They will never open up the hardware to what it can truly do. So we’re stuck with nothing but stupid fitness apps.
As an aside, I've noticed a common and extremely effective strategy frequently used by the alt right and other fringe ideological groups (not just in American politics but also in Europe and basically everywhere) is to first stir up a big stinky controversy, wait for the predictable social media overreaction, and then to just withdraw and completely refuse to engage, making their critics look like a bunch of lunatics raving at windmills (because the over-reaction is a hundred times much more public than the controversy), while also keeping the critics on their back foot, always reacting rather than acting on their own terms.

In practice: The abstract entity KiwiFarms takes all the shit, very few of the people actually constituting its membership seem to take much flak; meanwhile its critics look completely unhinged, even though they're absolutely right and KF is incredibly reprehensible, they still do their best to undermine the credibility of their own cause by acting and behaving like a frothing at the mouth lynch mob much more interested in power-tripping and revenge than truth and justice.

The strategy is straight out of Sun Tzu on how to deal with a stronger army, and I haven't really seen any examples of anyone handling it well.
My manager joins our stand up and basically just says “had some meetings yesterday, have some more today”. No wonder why we think the job is BS
It's unfortunate we think of management as "keeping bullshit at bay".

I much prefer "clear the runway".

The great teams I've worked on, shared context oozes from the team and managers often don't know what that shared context is, but they protect it.

Once one studies complexity science, it becomes less "bullshit" and more "navigating complexity" and that's how i approach it.

You're gonna have a bad time in engineering if you think everything not engineering is BS.
Misleading title; rates still have a ways to fall to regress to the pre-covid mean.
Yes I meant "minimum viable product"
> does this actually solve a real problem people are having?

And does it solve it at a price point that makes it practical in comparison to other high efficiency house building technologies?
yeah "favela" is usually the metaphor I use, but it's the same general gist, if a little messier.
QA Wolf exits stealth with an end-to-end service for software testing
This mindset exists in every occupation. And it's always superficially true.

Everything would grind to a halt if it weren't for people who do X. Everybody else exists because X people are doing X.
Right, most people significantly underestimate their calorie consumption.
Sincerity under payment has to be taken for what it is. I expect and appreciate to be treated nicely when going to a restaurant but I'm under no illusion that it's because I'm going to pay for it, otherwise I doubt all that people would be cooking, serving and cleaning afterwards with a smile in their face while I sit there saying thank you.
RFO is being phased out due to regulations.
For anyone 100lbs overweight, suspend insurance coverage (and premiums) unless they are losing 5lbs per month on average for the last 6 months. Weight loss & nutrition counseling are always free.
Not sure if your statement is true even if I can see some relationships to be mutually beneficial. However, the term frenenemy exists for a reason.
I think some part of oneself is always calculating one's own value and power in relation to others. Some of these mechanics only become apparent if there is a big change in a relationship like one of your friend or family member becoming very successful for example.
Your brain may subconsciously adjust your activity as a result of dieting, but that doesn't change the fact that it is physically impossible for your body to store energy you didn't consume.
If you were to host your own forum, and people began using it to dox trans individuals with the explicit goal of harassing them, how would you react and what action(s), if any, would you take?
I built a tool for benchmarking CO2 emissions for Go programs once. It was done as a joke for a meetup once, but is now more relevant than ever.

https://github.com/zegl/co2go
They say that the upfront carbon cost of building a WikiHouse is - 17T CO2, compared to a normal house of + 30T CO2. This is so fucking misleading, I've just lost all respect for the makers of this.

I'm not sure what "upfront" means here, but it makes sense if talking about overall net CO2 usage. The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere after building would be 17T less than before the tree started growing. Ie the tree absorbs 17T more during its growth than is emitted during harvesting, transport and construction. Whereas an equivalent brick building puts 30T more into the atmosphere than the (unharvested) tree absorbs.
Ask HN: Best PHP tools to improve code quality?
I've been working at a PHP shop for the last year. I think it's a fine language, but a lot of things I've grown to love from other languages aren't supported out of the box in PHP, like unused variable warnings.

I recently set up PHP CS Fixer for my team, and I'm in the process of setting of PHP Stan for our IDEs and CI. Are there any other tools that will seriously improve the quality of our code and provide better static analysis that we're missing at the moment? I've read about PHP MD, Psalm, Phan, and a few more, but I'm not sure which are just competitors of each other and which ones we'd benefit from having together.

We don't use a framework, by the way.
"Ora et Labora" is an old but virtuous cycle.
If your node operates on wrong or outdated data, it is very much possible to stake on invalid or wrong blocks, leading to the network acepting your stake, declaring you a bad validator, and witholding your stake (because that is axactly what the stake is for: don't stake on invalid data, or lose the stake)
And it doesn't need to mean low density housing.

This is a ~80 meter, 18 storey hotel built out of wood:

https://prismpub.com/mjosa-tower-brumunddal-take-title-world...

https://thetravelbook.world/2020/10/17/wood-hotel-brumunddal...

(It's also on booking.com; search for the location "Brumunddal" and/or "Wood Hotel")
Are construction methods the bottleneck though? Habitat For Humanity is an excellent example of communities building things for themselves and others. What problem do you see systems like this solving?
I agree with you but I think one thing that might help people fear this change less is reiterating that the density necessary isn't Manhattan or Downtown Chicago. There are a lot of ways to make an efficient urban area without being a massive megalopolis. Neighborhoods like Park Slope in Brooklyn or Sunset in SF are good examples. Multifamily housing doesn't have to mean high rises.

People also don't have to live in what we think of as cities at all. Rural living is fine if people live closer together in those areas. Such that they live in walkable towns that don't require driving and can be easily connected to other towns and cities via a bus or train. Europe is much better at this but you see vestiges in New England. It's just nobody should really be living beyond walking or biking distance of core services (transport, shopping, etc). The benefit for those who love nature is more untampered natural beauty in the surrounding areas. If anyone has ever been to a place like Banff it's lovely when fine right.
Oh please, there's a reason why those comments exist - because more terrible managers exist than those "good ones" that you allude do. I would posit a guess that most, if not all, engineers on HN have had to live through at least one terrible manager that has soured/tainted the position. Speaking for myself, I've lived through many and it's a miserable experience to be under these people.

Nobody is saying that the functions of these roles aren't necessary, they're saying that the people who live in these roles are overall bad, don't know how to effectively execute these tasks and present an aura of superiority over the technical roles when they're providing very little value at all.