skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Code here https://github.com/parseablehq/parseable

Written in Rust.

GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
This was a big reason for me continuing to do open-source work, while I managed my development team.

My managers actually deliberately tried to interfere with my technical competence. I'm an ornery cusshound, though, so it didn't work.
Google makes every security researcher sign up as a vendor inside their procurement system, SAP Ariba. Seems likely that a payment for another vendor got misdirected by the procurement team as a result of this.
Virtue signaling is all about saying you did the nice thing without showing you did the nice thing.

If a company really did the nice thing then it should be visible and they wouldn't have to tell everyone about it. It's that aspect of virtue signaling language that rubs people the wrong way.
The ESP research? Is a bigger story than some readers may realize.

The "ESP guy" is J.B. Rhine. Not everyone knows/remembers that ESP was considered scientifically verified for a good couple 20th century decades, such that many people who considered themselves scientific thinkers felt they had to accept it's validity even though they had been suspicious. It was not just one study to be "debunked", it was literally a whole field (although granted one mostly controlled by Rhine, but that was not that unusual of scientific fields back then, not sure about now).

Makes you think about the whole endeavor of science. On the other hand, it was eventually abandoned (not with a big debunking bang so much as just kind of forgotten). One thing it does is make me wonder what things today are accepted that won't be in the future.

I'm not totally sure what the conclusions should be from the "ESP guy" thing. I think they include bigger questions about epistemology than simply "good research design" -- although on the other hand, research design was definitely a part of it, and pre-registration specifically actually specifically relevant to Rhine. One of the debunking claims of his critics is that he achieved his positive results by burying studies that didn't have the results he wanted (or even not being hygienic about what runs were part of what study), just keeping the ones with positive results.

Pre-registration actually might have nipped him in the bud... (unless he was willing to be just plain fraudulent of course; there are few guards against that except discovering it; I think Rhine did not think he was being fraudulent, he was just conveniently sloppy in a way he didn't think mattered... to discover fraud you have to have a common understanding of what constitutes fraud, which pre-registration is part (just part) of developing I think)
Very cool site indeed.

Looking at photos of the F-150 Lightning chassis, it seems like a pickup truck's body-on-frame design has a nice unintended benefit of being easy to convert to electric. The "frame" doesn't look so different from the "skateboard" EV design that's common.

A lot of converted gas to EV cars like the Genesis Electrified GV80 rob interior space for shoehorned batteries, but the F-150 is all gains with that massive front trunk.
HBO Max is another bad example, such a huge step backwards from HBO Go.
I've never had my breaks fail on me. I also don't use the parking break that often. I would be so proud of myself if I realized what was going on, remembered that the e break exists, and used it before hitting the back wall of my garage.

Good on you.
The worst thing about data driven UX - especially with porn - is that it's often a self fulfilling prophecy. Trends that are likely side-effects are considered to be primary factors driving engagement.

With porn, it's usually a fetish that is only moderately popular, but broadly unoffensive. Because the average person who isn't specifically interested in the fetish isn't turned off by it either, that fetish gets more positive engagement relative to other fetishes; which drives studios to make more of it, and tube sites to advertise it more.

This pattern likely started with foot fetish, but really took off over the last few years with "step sibling" porn.

No one I've talked to is actually interested in the step-sibling fetish, yet the overwhelming majority of content being made and advertised - especially by mainstream studios and well-known actors - is step-sibling themed. Why? Because these studios are deciding what to make based on what's popular on pornhub, and what's popular on pornhub is literally anything these studios make. I sincerely doubt that they would see a drop in engagement if they diversified, but trends in data will never drive diversity faster than they drive convergence, because convergence is essentially the goal of data driven production in the first place.

It's also worth noting that the near-monopoly status of Mindgeek in the casual porn streaming industry has amplified this pattern. Their recent decision to stop hosting unverified content - good or bad - has had a pretty serious side-effect on the singular greatest driving factor of internet porn: piracy.

If a porn studio or independent actor doesn't want their content floating around pornhub, they can simply refuse to post it. Anyone who wants to upload a copy without their consent will fail verification.

So now, the only content being shared on pornhub is what creators hope will be interesting, and never what consumers want to share.

Most new competitive content creators are more concerned about getting paid than getting advertised because they don't have the financial buffer that established studios have; so they are less likely to put their content on pornhub, and less likely to by found by the casual consumer.
A noticeable reduction in steering effort and weight shifting sounds like the new tire was inflated a few PSI higher than the old. Every motorcycle I've owned takes the corners MUCH easier with 2-3 more PSI in front than the manual states.
> What alternatives would you suggest to introducing beginner developers to open source?

Alternatives to what? Hacktoberfest doesn't actually introduce beginner developers to open source at all. It only acts like a carrot on a stick by offering a T-Shirt for your contributions, anything else is exactly the same regardless of whether Hacktoberfest is there or not. So I guess no alternative needs to be suggested for what you asked for, as Hacktoberfest is pretty much all about providing external motivation. Generally, all contributions that are welcome during Hacktoberfest would be welcome without it as well, so as long as you want to contribute you can, Hacktoberfest being there or not.
> As soon as you say, we took into account peoples race when deciding who should be fired, it is racist, period.

Oy. I expect better from HN discussion, because this is a solved problem.

Auditing your decisions for implicit bias along racial lines _is not racist_. In fact, it's the opposite.
Patterns in the Sky: Natural Visualization of Aircraft Flow Fields [pdf]
My Coworker said this exact thing to me in 2019, that now was the time to buy because not many were talking about crypto and many had written it off, but that it worked in 4 year spikes. Wish I had listened to him then haha.
You nailed it about the appeal of W3: It's quick to get to the point.

I can read the first para and figure out what I'll be learning. The code examples are interactive and visual, and help enormously.

MDN reads like a technical reference. Wordpress documentation is similarly structured, but it has a comments section with a lot of sample code for different use cases, which helps me figure out whether the function I'm looking at will help accomplish what I am trying to do.
Yeah if someone can't handle it in Roblox, they're going to have similar problems almost everywhere.

Good time to learn a lesson.
In the short run, shifting from Google to Apple is probably the best of both worlds: Apple can provide those Big Data benefits without the data landing in Google's warehouse.

(In the long run, of course, if the set of Apple users approaches "everyone" the risk model shifts considerably and simply becomes, not unlike Google, "How much do you trust Apple isn't just lying to you?" Google also publishes various documents on how they protect user privacy, for example https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/whitepaper.html... The issue they encounter is people just don't believe them).
I think platforms for contract work are designed to turn things into "a complete race to the bottom".
>Seriously, why couldn't your relative send you a check?

We wanted it now and I was 1000 miles away. A wire transfer before 2PM local time would have been in the bank that day. They getting a MO or Certified check and sending it overnight now costs more money and adds a possible 24 hour delay, AND some banks do not cash cashiers checks, but put a hold on them. They CAN (IIRC) hold it for 9 (yes NINE, I have literally had this happen) days before cashing.
Maybe, but I can assure you from back when I tried to engage in good faith it's pretty damn accurate. It doesn't hurt that HN's a target-rich environment for such a detector, of course.
The GP edited their comment after I posted my reply.
also, ask them for 7 one hour sessions of leetcode and a behavioral interview and then send them a nice email saying you are passing on them and wish them the best of luck on their journey.
It’s not only European revenue. If they leave the EU, the EU becomes a place where future competitors to their other revenue can grow.

Imagine Samsung (maybe not the best example, given their track record in software) stepping in with a fork of the open source parts of Android, to be sold in the EU.

That will be inferior to the full Android, but wouldn’t be killed by it because EU customers wouldn’t be able to choose it.

Over time, it could get closer to Android and, at some time, Samsung could start selling it successfully in Asia or the USA.
Thank you! I think I first started to collect the generated images 2 months ago, with the help of some scripts I wrote — I have a list of prompts (around 350), a list of subjects (5 currently), and then I rename/check all of the saved images to find the ones that are missing.

Thankfully, DALL-E 2 includes the prompt text in the image filename when you download them. This was very helpful!
Your tagline seems strikingly similar to Loki’s tagline. What benefits does this provide that Loki doesn’t?
For millions of people, crypto-currencies are the most convenient way to buy lots of things. I've been buying things regularly with cryptocurrencies since 2011. Domain names, video games, hosting, consumer electronics, clothing, airfare, etc.

2017 marked a pivotal point where Bitcoin specifically abandoned catering to the brick and mortar and e-commerce use cases, and started focusing on large scale financial services. It was a frustrating development for sure, but people all over the world are using various smaller cryptocurrencies to buy groceries every day.

Cryptocurrencies might not be useful for you specifically, and that's fine. Maybe you're not one of the various under-served target demographics. Complaining about that though is a bit like complaining that Yen is useless because you live in the US and none of the businesses you frequent accept Japanese currency. It's undeniably a trillion dollar global economy that provides a massive amount of value to millions.
I take issue with that assessment. Porn sites exist in a fiercely competitive environment AND they are profitable. These are two features that Youtube lacks and their presence on porn sites reflects (at least partially) favorably on their engineering quality/innovation.
Terravision existed prior (https://www.dailydot.com/debug/google-earth-sued-patent-infr...)
Watch video with accurate subtitles in the target language.
This isn’t true in my experience in the US. House purchase wired to slightly wrong account number. Stressful that money hadn’t shown up at closing, but it was resolved within a day.
I wonder how their ad spend compared to Apple's.
Degrees and other circle-like things often interchange 0 and 360 depending on what "feels right" at the time.

The way clocks are built the first number is "hours since midnight/noon" depending on if it before or after 1 AM/PM heh.
I cancelled cable many years ago due to lack of time and the amount of ads I had to watch.

There are alternatives like Rumble that I would consider moving to if the difference is that I have to watch 1 ad instead of 5.
> Would Google never licensing Android to EU firms have avoided this fine in the first place?

This particular fine, possibly, but they’d get some other fine then, for something else. The process here is outcome oriented, not about law or fairness.
Cars are regulated by license plates. Do you feel removing license plates from cars would be a good idea? It would certainly be a boon for privacy but at what cost?
Sure but even there computer viruses have changed a lot since the 90s and 2000s. First they were purely destructive classical viruses and worms, then they shifted to extorting people with fake antiviruses and trojans, and now they are mostly ransomware.

Malware is much more rare but also a lot more dangerous now.

Will we see some similar shift in advertising?
Interesting opt out of tracking they have there. Asks for my name and email ?!?

Guess I’ll never read the story.
It could be optimal for the site if the site monetizes via monthly subscription fees. Giving the user what they "want" as rapidly as possible would allow them to save money on infrastructure costs.

Still could cause some interesting 2+ order effects though!
Metaculus hits 1M predictions and becomes a Public Benefit Corporation
> If you had the private info to apply for a loan in someone’s name, you also have the information to create a bank account in someone name.

Creating a bank account (fully, not just the application to do so) generally requires going into a bank branch. At least in Australia and UK anyway.

Going into a bank branch would mean real potential risk for a scammer, as they'd then be caught on camera. And if the bank figures out they're a scammer before hand... potential police waiting.

My point being that the post you're replying to makes a good point. A scammer could do a bunch of things that aren't all that risky, compared to creating an account in person... which seems like it would introduce a _lot_ more risk.
The linked paper in the comments by Betancourt is here:

https://betanalpha.github.io/assets/case_studies/principled_...
How does this differ from something like Loki + Thanos/Mimir?
Ask HN: What is generally accepted as “good” path fwdfor Python environments
There are so many various options.

I know this is throwing in a grenade and walking away but what are most people doing?

Specify github repos within meta.yaml for a conda env?
Hosting a local pypi server and intall via pip?
Using cloud artifacts and also isntall via pip?
Local conda index?

None of the above and something else superior?
Lol the greed is real
No, because the internet is actually useful.
Science goes too slow for the news
To be honest, these comments here on hacker news is the first time I have ever heard about the concept of cashier's checks. If someone had tried to hand me one of those for something expensive I was selling before today I would have thought they were trying to pull a fast one and scam me.

I feel like I would need to see the law guaranteeing these cashier's checks before I could put any trust in them. If they are just another financial product then I don't see how they supposedly are any safer than the other dubious financial products that banks dream up.

I have always just used transfers, even for large amounts, they are mandated by law to be same day here.
You can apply the "conceptualization" criterion retroactively to any successful project. They all started as an idea that someone noodled around with for long enough to decide to pursue it further. You can draw the line where that initial noodling ended and serious work began pretty much anywhere you like.
Virtue signalling is normally seen as putting on a façade around a virtue, for example Disney claiming to promote LGBT but only doing so in the US not in nations where doing so would hurt the bottom line

in this context "Anti-Racism" has become movement of actual racism, so when companies us the term "Anti-racist" is perceived by a lot of people (correctly) be anti-white/asian racism, as the main actor(s) in the movement openly claim that is the purpose
Evaldas Rimasauskas was sentenced to 5 years in Federal prison, two years supervised release, and had to forfeit ~$75M out of the $120M he stole. I don't know what happened to the other $45M, but if he somehow kept it, that doesn't seem like much of a deterrent. I bet I could find millions of people willing to go to a minimum security Federal prison for $9M a year for a few years. I know I would.
Go tell that to the population of Germany in the 1930s.
I think an easy way to at least prove to yourself that it is happening is to ride a bicycle with just one finger of one hand in a straight line, then very slightly push the bar with that finger. Pushing to the right (ie with your left index finger) will initiate a left lean and turn. It’s more obvious that way than with a normal grip.

The simplest way to understand it is to consider that if the bike did not do this, it would be unrideable. The bike tends to return to center. If turning the wheel right initiated a right turn, the bike would just fall over.
To be fair, that was from an internal email that (I assume) they're legally required to disclose to the SEC. It's hardly shouting about it.
Because it actually sucks. Pages and tabs are much more useful.
20% of business accepting bitcoin is just crazy high. Living in Germany it seems that 20% of business don't even accept regular credit cards yet.
An even simpler design is to assume that the car can only start moving when there is power. If there is a loss of power while moving, then you can use the energy in the HV capacitors in the inverters to make a bootstrap field. That can be maintained till the car stops (and the user still has control of when/how much to brake). When the car comes to a halt, the parking brake is applied, and it won't move again till repaired.

All of that can be done with software-only - no hardware changes needed.
How much of the core of HTML/CSS/JS has been deprecated?

Somebody going to W3schools probably isn't looking for the latest and greatest. The person who is looking for that would already have a good grasp of the fundamentals, and would have graduated to looking elsewhere, like StackOverflow or Caniuse.com.
PythonFiddle: Fully private client-side sample code execution and sharing
Right. In the two cities I have personal experience with, the tracks and/or sleepers are still there, just paved over. They are evident (and briefly verifiable) when potholes develop or roadwork excavations go into those areas.

Regardless of whether it's more suited to OSM or OHM, I just think it would be a neat feature to have on Open Railway Map.
results! thanks
https://tealpod.com/compressor/ for Mac OS is made with JavaFX. Windows version is developed on .NET MFC.
> This seems to be a very big fine

it does?

https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-faces-254-bln-dama...
I hope you’re so wrong.

W3 schools is a wonderful, excellent site.

Dropping w3- in front of their classes is so you can drop it in anywhere. It’s actually rather brilliant and has been helpful in many cases for me.

I don’t get the w3 schools hate-flex. Programmers judge other programmer choices too much.
oof. what made you make this jump. I might have to go down this path soon due to family circumstances .
I find it fascinating that there's so many Netbeans fans here on HN. Been doing software engineering professionally for 20 years now and ever since IntelliJ started becoming popular around 2005 almost every single dev I have ever worked with couldn't look at anything else. I've been through 7 companies and tens of projects and met a single Netbeans enthusiast.

These days Jetbrains is just a default option for C/C++, Rust (Clion), Python (Pycharm), Java (IntelliJ).

Wondering what's so specific about HN crowd that makes Netbeans so popular here.
AHA... That helps clarify a bit. Thanks.
While on the other hand the need to stealthily deliver smaller payloads into protected airspace went away with the end of the cold war, for now. It might become again a necessity in the future.

On the delivery large bomb payloads into dominated airspace the B-52 is unbeatable so far.
If the government turns against its people, we have a bigger problem that will not be solved with some made-up currency or money laundering for the masses. Don't be a fool.
An angle to this is that even if you're gonna pay the fine in the end, there's a huge incentive to delay that, due to inflation. As long as your legal fees are lower than fine currency's inflation, you're better off delaying. E.g. we're close to 10% annual inflation in the euro area, and euro is also set to fall in relation to the dollar.
What people mean is that they've done nothing wrong, not that there's nothing they'd rather keep secret. "Not like that!" means they're annoyed you're focused on their words instead of their meaning. They're about to write you off and walk away with their beliefs even stronger.
spies can find the irl identities of otherwise anonymous dissident accounts, for one. i've read stories about chinese students in the USA being confronted with their post history by govt agents despite impeccable opsec.
Alphabet's EMEA revenue last year was $79.1B.

EMEA also includes the Middle East and Africa and some non-EU but still European countries, however the bulk of that revenue is realistically from the EU.
The sexuality and race is kind of irrelevant to the point, but I agree with the rest. It is really just a "I'm too comfortable and lazy to do anything to better the rest of civilization."

It's the same thing with guns. If you're a fudd and you have your grandpa's old hunting rifle, but you think AR-15s are "stupid and pointless and only the uncorruptable government should be trusted with them!" and you refuse to stand up for their rights when tyrannical law strikes, then they won't be there to back you up when they inevitably come for your hunting rifle.

Same for privacy and encryption, and getting off of big tech services and platforms. If enough of us get off now, we can be a force for change. But most people are content with sharing everyone they hang out with, what food they eat for every meal, and all of their life details publicly every day.
Cool, the examples do not look that great, but I can see the potential. Why material is poorly weighed is still a mystery though. As in this post.
> When crashes do occur an engineer needs to spend time to diagnose how it happened and what caused it. Since Pingora's inception we’ve served a few hundred trillion requests and have yet to crash due to our service code.

> In fact, Pingora crashes are so rare we usually find unrelated issues when we do encounter one. Recently we discovered a kernel bug soon after our service started crashing. We've also discovered hardware issues on a few machines, in the past ruling out rare memory bugs caused by our software even after significant debugging was nearly impossible.

That's quite the endorsement of Rust. A lot of people focus on the fact that Rust can't absolutely guarantee freedom from crashes and memory safety issues. Which I think misses the point that this kind of experience of running high traffic Rust services in production for months almost without a single issue is common in practice.
VW? The VW fiasco was SO BAD that I generally disregard people that drive VW's. The duplicitous VW management forced their software engineers to implement "inspector mode" and then allowed those engineers to go to jail to save their own asses. VW is a despicable company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal