skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a browser extension, there will be hundreds of alternatives within a week.
I never understood the organ grinders. Why would you ever want a North Korean general cranking a music box while you eat? Thankfully everyone under age 50 agrees.

Great website.
Python is my daily driver, but I briefly experimented with R and had a delightful experience with ggplot2. The ‘grammar of graphics’ was hard to leave behind when I switched back to Python, until I heard about Plotnine [1], which brings much of the same grammar and functionality to Python. It’s built on Matplotlib and a few other common libraries like Pandas.

[1] https://plotnine.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
What companies even care about gpa
Long article that doesn't provide the answer to its own title, but a lot of nonsense.

Wechat is not a super app, it is a browser.

It is popular because China is mobile first, you search within wechat instead of in a browser because the web is not mobile first but apps are.
Personally I can't stand plotly. The only thing plotly does better is give you a nice interactive tooltip. While I wish matplotlib were better in that regard, it's usually not enough to get me to switch. Off the top of my head, these are the main pain points I have with plotly:

- It's slower than molasses in January for anything more than a few hundred data points. It regularly crashes VScode with the jupyter notebook plugin if I try to plot even 10 minutes of 100 hz data. That alone makes it a cheap toy. In gradschool, I was plotting hours of 25 kHz data in matlab with no problems.

- It's display mechanism is to show you plots is a web browser. I can't stand that. It's really slow to open a new browser tab for every plot. They don't re-use browser tabs, so after iterating for 10 minutes you have 20 open tabs.

- It's basically useless outside of a Jupyter notebook. If you try to use plotly outside of a jupyter notebook and want more than a single plot, good luck. At best you get different plots in different browser tabs, which is useless. Or you end up wasting time creating a web app just to view data.

- It's missing really basic functionality, like separate legends for different subplots.

- Maybe just personal preference, but I can't stand it's declarative interface. It leads to way more duplicated code and is too inflexible.
I remember when Oracle acquired MySQL.
You're reducing this too far. It's simple. Advertisers may have several reasons to not be shown on sex-related content. Regardless of how mundane that content may be. The first and most obvious reason is demographic. People who tend to be sex positive (or whatever the term is now) tend to have certain purchase patterns associated with certain lifestyles, political ideologies, and age groups. They may not sell a product and don't want to pay for ad space. Next, it may be off-brand for them to do so anyway. It might make sense for Trojan to place an ad on a video about the proper use of condoms, but not Cheerios. Third is political neutrality. Since our current society is on a perpetual witchhunt and reduces people and entire companies into the sum of their political views it's often easier to simply take no stance. It's better to not do anything then do something and then tomorrow it's "bad" or wrongthink.

Finally, sex-related content is a hot button issue related to children. One "sex positive" state, California, just passed a law to come up with yet another way to "protect the children". If you demonetize all of the content with broad strokes you can go to the states and say you comply with their rules.

It's far, far more complicated than "collective normalization". One could even argue that could have blowback that we can't measure. Sex-related content extends far beyond a simple female breast or a tutorial on using a condom.
Fixed now? Told me about crows being the smartest animald.
Definitely. Biology is no calc, biochem takes a good degree of calc but these fields have quite a different depth of underatanding
This comment just seems so at odds to the linked video and the interviews Channel5 did in it.
Page 3 states that the cost of the Titanic, "fully equipped", was 1.5m pounds sterling.

According to:

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/in...

this equates to around 120m pounds sterling today.

It seems to me that there's no way you could construct anything like her for that amount of money today. I wonder what gives.
I had no idea that there was a `--clean` option in vim!
Ask HN: Investors essays for Kindle as done for Paul Graham?
I guess the only reason I read all of Paul Graham's essays was because I had it avaiable in Kindle format[1].

I've been trying to find kindle format essays for other investors such as Marc Andreesen, Sam Altman, Naval, etc but I couldn't find it. Does anybody know of the existence of such?

[1] https://github.com/ofou/graham-essays
I'm pretty baffled why you seem to think Richmond VA, which was the capital of the Confederacy, is not the South.
They do make tens of millions of dollars.

1. Most of the major criminal groups have turned their eyes toward crypto. It’s more lucrative than ransomware. See sources below for the huge lists of hacks and scams.

2. Not every group is in it for money. The major nation state attackers (besides North Korea) are in your system for information.

3. When you haven’t stolen money or a money equivalent, it can be extremely hard to fence the assets you’ve stolen.

SOURCES:

- https://blockworks.co/the-nine-largest-crypto-hacks-in-2022/

- https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=day-of-defeat-project-rug-p...
Did you actually read [3]? I think that contains lots of good examples of what Gerard describes as "bizarre conspiracy theory economics".

That article centers around a political map by Balaji, which presents this weird idea that the New York Times (and woke-ists) controls the US in a balance of three competing ideologies, the other two being crypto-anarchists and communists. Even if we ignore that the political compass is an obvious oversimplification, Balaji clearly doesn't even understand the political compass: the communists are presented as being authoritarian social centrists, why the NYT is presented as being just anarchist as the crypto-anarchists, despite the self-evident incorrectness of also saying that they control the US.

Buterin himself seems to understand that a lot of what Balaji is saying is, well, crazy, so a big part of that article is giving alternate arguments for his idea of network states so that people can still agree with Buterin, without agreeing with Balaji. But, while Buterin does present 4 critiques of Balaji, notably absent from those critiques is this bizarre map of the political landscape.

Does Buterin actually agree with Balaji's map? And even if we generously assume Buterin doesn't agree with Balaji on that, why even bring Balaji into this? The ideas Buterin actually does espouse didn't originate with Balaji--surely Buterin could have found a less schizoid starting point for his presentation.

As for your links [1] and [2]: sure, those are great, but Gerard is specifically talking about Buterin's philosophical writings. While I do agree with Gerard's point that some basic education could have prevented some of Buterin's bad technical ideas, I generally do think Buterin is extremely technically intelligent, and I don't see anything that indicates that Gerard would disagree.

Finally [4]: never, ever, is calling someone out for motivated reasoning a good argument. You're also guilty of motivated reasoning, as is every human that ever reasoned.

Showing my own hand here: I tend to disagree with Gerard on almost everything, but I'll at least give Gerard credit that my disagreements with him tend to be pretty nuanced. Buterin, on the other hand, I tend to agree with on technical points, which is most of his writing--but his philosophy tends to be pretty wacko, as Gerard points out.
> The harm is that a corporation would be compelled to host and display speech that they disagree with.

That's not a significant harm. Corporations are given certain privileges (limited-liability, very much what section 230 is an extension of), we can outline certain responsibilities in exchange.

I don't want the phone company deciding what can be talked about over the phone. The technology is absolutely there for the phone company to start disconnecting conversations that it finds suspicious (for its own unaccountable, unauditable reasons) by algorithm, just like youtube taking down videos or twitter pulling down accounts.
Thats a concise and correct way of putting it.

The techdirt poster ironically wants to claim there's a difference between censorship and editing, but the thrust of his argument indicates an utter disregard for any distinction. They want tech companies the ability to edit, while posing as a platform that is supposedly inclusive. You can't have it both ways.
I’m not a ‘gamer’ and haven’t played much since multiplayer Quake once upon a time. I recently bought a PC with a 3060ti to experiment with ML, and thought I’d try a few recent games to stretch it. I found a few of the recent big games (Doom, Cyberpunk 2077) pretty disappointing. I tried Factorio (HN’s recommendation) but found it frustrating as the complexity hit a certain level.

Mindustry is my crack-cocaine. It’s wonderful, but honestly, do be careful if you’ve got any trace of an addictive personality and have ever enjoyed tower defense games!
Not all grievances are best suited for court, and courts are not always impartial. There are also legitimate reasons to exclude someone from a gathering without them breaking laws.

I'm sure it's nice to be able to put your feet up and ignore that whole messy social justice thing, but unfortunately a lot of people don't have that opportunity.
That’s like saying the Apple App Store is a browser.
>It is like saying, we don't sell our soda in the EU because their health requirements are too strict.

No, it's like European banks saying we don't serve US customers because their financial requirements are too strict.

Oh wait, that actually happens. Let me guess, someone is going to rush in and tell me why that's different (it's not).
May I ask if you have tried using Copilot? Because this sounds exactly like the kind of response I would have had half a year ago. It makes many mistakes and can by no means write code by itself. But that doesn't change the fact that it's orders of magnitude better at it than I thought possible.
I see this as actually an argument against communities being that large rather than an argument for moderation in most cases. To some extent moderation has tamped down the natural limiting of community size caused by aholes, which has fed the viral growth of these tech companies to the point where they have massively excessive market power and ability to influence vast swaths of the population, which is really unhealthy for a democracy. I haven't figured out what the solution is yet, but to me limiting aholes and allowing communities to grow far beyond where they would have without that problem doesn't seem like a solution that causes massive problems of its own.
I think the parent is suggesting they should be paid more.
> You probably can't cook a meal without multitasking

But cooking a meal is a task in itself ( consisting related of subtasks). When cooking a meal it is a good idea to avoid attempting other unrelated tasks such as responding to emails and such as the quality of the original task will decrease
More recent (as in, published September 14, 2022) article from Biomass Magazine https://biomassmagazine.com/articles/19339/eu-vote-allows-bi...

... USIPA said in a statement. “Primary woody biomass provides 20 percent of the EU’s renewable energy ...

Also: “This new measure will make bioenergy from primary woody biomass the only renewable source not eligible for support, creating an uneven playing field with other solutions, and this is not acceptable,” [Bioenergy Europe] said in a statement.
It’s currently 100% legal (at least in America due to the first amendment) to be a nazi, anti semite, or racist and to express your opinions as such. So following the law doesn’t do anything for this community.
Thanks for taking me back to 2009* (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc)
I have a friend who worked at FogBugz and left when they were sold. The new owner sounds like they suck.
You are mistakenly (or deliberately, I guess) conflating ethics with legality. Rape is different from homosexuality because homosexuality isn't harmful or morally wrong.
Lots of Video and Audio Devices come in 1/3rd and 1/2 rack sizing, this would be good for Blackmagic Ultrastudio type devices. (8.27" wide and need airflow side to side)
Faster than Cool Reader but storing my books in the cloud? I'm sure it's what normal people do. I'll keep synching with Syncthing.
This is a little bit more work, but you can copy and paste the text into a text file and convert that to Kindle format if you so choose.
Is “no?” a suggestion that VA is not the south?

As a modern concept it is:

https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/maps/reference/us...

As a historical concept it was:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%E2%80%93Dixon_line
The sell on wood pellets is that the pellets are generated from industrial by-products. While that is true, it is also true that some percent is sourced directly from forests (which may or no also be byproduct from forestry activity). I'm not able to find a source to understand the big picture, but my impression is that pellets aren't all from waste.

Another selling point for wood pellets is that they are sustainable. That may be true as long as the total use is lower than the growth rate. But sustainable isn't low-carbon. The energy source is still the recombining of carbon and oxygen that some plant broke apart earlier. At best this is carbon neutral atmospherically, at worst it is greenwashing.

If you think that none of your personal wood pellets are sourced from the US, then welcome to a globalized commodity market where your purchasing power comes in part by some neighbor of neighbors purchasing from somewhere other than Poland.

Do the math on your pellet use. How many acres of trees are needed to sustain your energy operation? If you think that they all come from waste, then multiply that number by 10 to account for the volume used industrially. If Poland is 312,683 square kilometres, and 100,000 are forest, then how much of that can be sustainably harvested?

https://e360.yale.edu/features/wood_pellets_green_energy_or_...
I used to bring a book or a notepad and pen.
> Wechat is not a super app, it is a browser.

...and a payment service, and a search app, and a messaging app, and a social media service, and a video calling platform, and a VOIP calling service, and a video sharing platform
Double will be matching people with others that are performing similar tasks. In this way, we will be able to foster communities of people that have similar goals.

Down the line, we do have ideas on incorporating “hosting” a Double to help give a sense of service and further reinforce the community aspect as well.
I would go further and say most people get away with bullshit, which is why human civilization finds itself slowing circling the drain like a turd in the toilet.
The Hacker News comments of user dxbydt
Labor laws, mostly.
No, I was not talking about any politically driven case at all.
As a quick reference for easily verifiable biography in an internet discussion forum, it’s fine.

If you want more proof, then fly to Bry-Sur-Marne and interrogate everyone there about the provenance of the only existing Daguerre panorama.
https://museedebry.fr/#/homepage-daguerre/en
Ah sorry dang I didn't know such a rule exists. Thanks for editing the title.
Have you watched TV in the last 50 years? All television, radio, etc relies on ad revenue. The difference is that those ads tend to be better targeted because the channels/stations tend to be granular enough to figure out good things to run.

The problem is, now, that any advertiser can run on any video. If I am watching a woodworking video I shouldn't get an ad for dawn soap. It would make sense for a brief ad on tools, or a wood supplier, or something which I might even appreciate because it lets me know something exists.

It's not ads. It's the increased quantity of them and the low signal to noise ratio. Ads are useful, being inundated with them is not. It's further made worse by the average youtube video's quality going straight down to nothing over the 10 years. It's mostly "professionals". At this point, I'd rather go back to watching TV.
"obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harrassing, or otherwise objectionable"

Nonething in that description pertains to someone's opinion. First amendment allows you to hold nazi beliefs in principle, no matter how someone might perceive them as offensive.
Buterin's a great writer on technical topics, which is all you've pointed out here.

But the critique in the article which you're responding to, is about Buterin's writing on philosophical topics.
The Organ Grinders are the worst! When I visited some of them were so out of tune that it hurt to listen to them. Couldn't help but feel happy when the website said they're losing popularity
Lots of ventures that have made “investing” in a given real world persona; for example:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_Index

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitClout
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At least for me, your site loads for a split second, then goes completely white; might want to do some cross browser testing, especially on mobile.
The article all but claims the judge is an “activist judge” for the Republican party.
We already can...?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_biology
Virginia is in the south.
Nevermind, I'm so used to reading in another language on my phone that, when I went to look up a word in your app on my laptop, I forgot I need to right-click, not just highlight the word...

It works fine.
If I had created such a company and I couldn't work on it any more, I would prefer to close it completely than to sell it to crooks like that.
Okay, direct question: in your own words, what was your relation to the Scott Alexander / NYT interaction, if any?
No one is citing it as a higher power, simply an easily accessed central repository. I didn’t fly to France to verify it as a primary source for a comment thread but I already knew Daguerre was an artist. This isn’t an academic paper.
I would love nothing more to learn that a debt collector got screwed buying up these accounts, but how is that not fraud on the part of the company, since the resulting debts are clearly not valid?
Cities: Skylines
Thanks for the post that makes sense. Maybe I'll consider it.
NICER Sizes Up a Pulsar, Reveals First-Ever Surface Map (2019)
that is cool. You have link?
Oh seaborn does look like an improvement.

Honestly there is no need to update it because it is already perfect. It is like TeX in that way.

However there is some missing stuff like contour plots.
Noita is a fun “roguelite” game that is different than anything else I’ve played.

2D pixel physics + spell casting

Death comes for you pretty quickly.

Join r/Noita to see fun death gifs
Services like FeedBurner used to be needed for Podcasts because badly written podcast catchers would poll the RSS once a minute without any regard for caching or taking any indication of when the next episode is due. Is this still the case?
You better not play Tennis Clash, then.
The capitol of the Confederacy was in Virginia, so I’d say it’s kinda in the South.
Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax
I've never understood how we got to this place where _some_ content on youtube is advertiser friendly and _some_ is not, and that is viewed as actionable information. I guess my whole mental model is you run ads on the whole network, and advertisers have nothing to do with the content being shown, and only an idiot would look at an ad and think, oh this brand is knowingly sponsoring this content. Advertisers used to be content with that, and wouldn't dream of being choosey about what content their ads run alongside of. However we got to this place, it's done a lot of damage -- would much rather live in the world where there is no concept of demonetizing a particular video or channel, and ads just run on the entire network. Caving to advertiser demands is the #1 best way to make a platform worse for the actual users and content creaters and slowly drain your value. Note that for example google AdSense could run alongside _any_ content that appears on youtube probably without issue. They've just created this different, pickier world when it comes to video ads.

What's worse is youtube entirely controls the market, and they opened the floodgates of caving to advertiser demands. Now advertisers expect it wherever they go. They should be 4th class citizens if anything, not a meaningful constituency. As long as youtube keeps driving users to the platform, that should be the only concern.
Yes, and...

In the 50s, 25% of software engineers were female; now, it's, what, 3%. Why is that?

The "meritocracy" position focuses on who can produce the best code _now_. What if we take a longer view?

I would love it if we planted the idea in 9-year-old girls' heads that Computer Programmer is a job they could do. That way, in 15 years, we'll have a broader talent pool.

I'm skeptical that is quantifiable. But would the "meritocracy" advocates accept some level of token hiring, at some level of reduction of quality now, in search of a greater meritocracy and greater quality in future?
Free speech isn’t a privilege we give companies, it’s a right they have as collections of persons. Nor is section 230. Section 230 clarifies their behavior to the benefit of society: without confirmation in section 230 about the governments handling of responsibility for user generated content, the internet wouldn’t be able to exist (because companies would be at risk of liability for the speech of their users).

The test for first amendment restrictions also isn’t “will the harm caused be significant”.

Phone companies handle point to point conversations; they don’t have or need this kind of conversation because I can’t pick up my phone and publish a message under my phone companies’s banner.
Unfortunately the irony of European countries asking India to stop burning coal for power is lost on the leaders of the same countries which are now burning wood...
Why not? I like it better that way anyways.
Much of it coming from US does not mean more than 50% of it coming from US, it means a lot of wood chips are going to EU from US.. that is it. The qualitative aspect is open to interpretation.

My second point, If imports from US are to be scrutinized, when I have no clue, I would start with the richest countries and move down the list. Meaning Poland may not importing anything from US, but how about other 20+ odd countries in EU many are much more richer and have bigger international trade foot print.
Haha thank you! I'm sure your friend will like them, if not amused.
This is obviously brain-structure dependent. I for one would take 10x more time to learn python if some teacher decided that the best way to do it is to write out python by hand on paper for instance. (But this probably does work well for some brains, maybe more towards 'word rotatators'.)
IMHO, the deeper aversion is because user-driven moderation goes hand in hand with user-driven ranking.

Which is turn makes it harder to non-obviously put your hand on the scales and insert paid content into high visibility feeds.

If TikTok inserts a well-matched piece of paid content into a feed, who would even recognize?

If HN inserts a piece of paid content onto the front page, people tend to notice.