skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, the fact that I haven't noticed significant moderation on HN is a sign of really good work by that team. Also, it's a sign of a community, while not perfect, is at least trying to be a community.

I would like to read the moderators take on getting through the pandemic on HN. The toxicity here hit new highs for me during that period. God help you if even dared to muse that you may consider thinking about lockdowns as maybe not the perfect answer. Further, even whispering "lab-leak" is still a crime although not as punished as it once was.

Even through that period though i will say HN is the best large-scale forum i've ever found.
Documented meaning I need to have all my previous job contracts/documents? What if the companies don't exist anymore?
In the early aughts it was fashionable for web sites to have elaborate "intro" pages, usually animated using flash. They were so ubiquitous and annoying that someone created a parody at skipintro.com. Does anyone know if the skipintro animation can viewed anywhere today? It looks like the Wayback Machine has snapshots archived, but trying to load it returns an error.
Also, off by one errors, which is implied
>>Really, needing a wire in 2021? It's nice to have the option, but it shouldn't be the only way.

Nice copypasta. Edit it better next time?
In theory I agree. But in practice, where I grew up, it was pure suburbia. I lived a few miles from school. No sidewalks, and roads very car centric. In elementary and Jr high I used to bike to school, regularly, and I don't remember it being abnormal; I remember a lot of kids doing it. I remember my dad commenting on it being weird that there was a crossing guard we had to wait for on our school corner (which crossed a 4 lane busy-ish street) on one of the rare days where he picked us up in his car.

I think a big part of this is just our risk tolerances change. We naturally want to protect kids, and looking historically we've taken safety to relative extremes compare to 20 years ago (and similarly before then). Its natural to want more security, and its obvious how it helps. But its not as obvious what we've given up in return.

Interestingly, I moved to Portland recently, and live mid way between suburbs and downtown; its fairly dense but mostly SFH or townhomes in my neighborhood, many businesses, some homeless. Kids of all ages walk to school and are... just everywhere, around here. Its quite normal to see people walking with their kids too. Its just got a really great mix of urban density -- you can walk to stores, bars, school. There's a few high traffic streets, but they are not large and the speed limit is 20mph. I think what this neighborhood has taught me is, while our risk tolerances are lower than ever, its still a bit of a design and culture choice to not let kids walk around. Its nice to see here, in Portland of all places, there's a bit of a counter trend going on. I hope its what the future looks like in other places (here and elsewhere) too.
Ironically, most complaints I see about Threads (as a still-active user) is that it has too many users (chronological feeds pushing content too far down, overwhelmed by advertisers already, and little to no sense of community).
Well said. I had not made the parallel between genetic diversity and preservation of code, but now that you've put it like that it makes so much sense. I mean, I'd always cared about conservation, but this gives me yet another way to understand and explain its importance.
I wouldn't call 'Threads' the forefront of technology. And I'm sure people in Europe have no regrets over their decision to better control their data. Not over a product from Meta anyway.
The worry is real. You cannot find a decent mission burrito afield. It really a local specialty of San Francisco. I suspect the same is true for burritos found in San Diego. And those tacos in Texas, on flour tortillas, well those aren’t tacos at all but incomplete and unfinished burritos. OK if you want to rebrand a half assed burrito and call it a taco go right ahead. And none of it is a sandwich - not burgers, dogs, falafel, shawarma, gyros, burritos or tacos. A taco is not a sandwich
People tend to either over or under indulge while traveling too (I always lose weight when I'm on the road myself) and that's never awesome in either direction
Hmm, not for me. I’m a pretty casual IG user, but I am following 500+ accounts, all of which I enjoy. My first experience with Threads (despite importing my IG profile) was a feed full of accounts I had never heard of before, and almost nothing from the accounts I follow. Granted, that’s probably because the accounts I follow weren’t posting Threads yet, but but even now things haven’t changed much in that regard.

Additionally, 90+% of my Threads feed is photos, so, like, what’s the point?

I’ve opened it a couple of times and scrolled for maybe 30 seconds and lost interest.

I’m sure if I put a little effort into it I could find more interesting accounts to follow, but at least in my experience the “bootstrapping” hasn’t really worked.
> When people say "trust" in the context of Bitcoin, it's about not having to trust a middle man

That's all fine if you're a cryptocurrency guy, but in terms of what ordinary people mean by "trust", I don't see how cryptocurrency removes "the need for reputation and trust." You still need those things.

> neither does cash

True. Which is why cash also has a need for reputation and trust.

All I'm asserting is that the need to trust people is not eliminated by using cryptocurrency. How is my assertion wrong?
> Apparently conditions in Korean prisons are such that an agreement like that is necessary.

I don't know the current state of them, but you can tour Seodaemun prison (operational 1908-1987; it's now a museum/memorial). They make no attempt to hide the fact that the conditions were historically even worse than you're describing-- basically concentration camps sans gas chambers. Food was watery gruel, toilets were rat-infested holes in the ground, etc.

Visit in the winter when it's 30F out for the full experience; the prisoners weren't given adequate clothing for the cold themselves so even bundled up to the teeth you can appreciate their misery.
I wouldn't be so sure. Tesla lowered prices and the press made the same kinds of predictions. Come earning season Tesla clobbered its competitors.
Let them play monopoly with allowance money?

/s

In all reality the most effective drug and vice talks I ever got were in High School.

The first was from our school's substance counselor who was a former crack addict, and mother of one of our fellow students. She just told her story, and talked about all the horrible shit she saw, but never once told us drug war lies.

The other was from my English teacher a few weeks before graduation. The gist of it was: "there's nothing I can say that will stop you from experimenting with drugs. A little bit of drugs probably won't ruin your lives, and might be fun, but pay attention to the people who don't moderate, and the people who do. The results speak for themselves."

What it came down to was it was the two people that were honest with us who got heard. Some DARE cop lecturing us from a DEA handout about how marijuana addiction would ruin our lives didn't work, because kids aren't stupid, and they know BS when they hear it.
If the world is going back to microblogs — does that mean we need something more akin to Yahoo/Geocities than to Google/Facebook?
Downy Unstoppables Cause Allergic Reaction
Welcome to Hacker News, where you curate your experience mostly the old-fashioned way - in your brain.

It doesn't always work out great, but no one ever promised it would. About three days in five, I look at the front page and shake my head. But the other two, it's worth more to me than any of the newspapers I actually pay for.
Where is this proof?
Thinly veiled classism
What I said was a matter of opinion, I didn't quantify it in any way, so I'm not sure how you can say that, but I will elaborate more so you have something to really disagree with :-)

Sure, of course the different multicellular eukaryotes vary, but the diversity is very low compared to what we see across all life, look at Figure 1 here for example [1].

I am looking at it from the perspective of the structure of the metabolic network, as this is my area of research. There is a huge amount of diversity in the fundamental structures of metabolic networks, types of metabolites and enzymes produced, etc. across all life, but from that perspective the differences between one multicellular eukaryote and another are slight in comparison. Multicellular eukaryotes have evolved very different behaviors, shapes, sizes, etc. from a relatively conserved biochemistry. When taken out of the context of an organism in cell culture, the cells are similar enough that their behavior under diverse experimental conditions can be predicted by nearly identical metabolic models, whereas you would see nothing of the sort with distantly related bacteria- the metabolism can be massively rearranged.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nmicrobiol201648
Show HN: I made a little tool to practice country positions on the world map
Hi HN,

I built a little tool to help me get better at remembering country locations on the map: https://learn-worldmap.netlify.app/

It's made from plain HTML/CSS/JS, and not intended to make any money or anything. Just thought that maybe someone else may enjoy it. Also of course happy about any feedback!

Cheerz.
I am not convinced in that circumstance I would have been worse off in an F-150 or any other modern body on frame construction.
Smart, but they just alarmed the thieves about it.
That would require the UK government to fund the police properly. And the courts. And the judiciary. And the prisons.

For a political party that likes the cliché "tough on crime", it's kinda surprising how far on the path to accidental anarchy they are.
> a serial integer

And now you can't trivially port your data between environments.
The particular piece of infrastructure I worked on sat in the middle of the search pipeline, between the front-end that served HTML web pages, and the back-end index. This middle piece would request search results from the back-end, tweak them in a bunch of ways, and forward them on.

These "tweaks" could be just about anything. Like: "You searched for Jaguar, but I don't know if you meant the cat or the car. The index decided that pages about the car rank higher so the first three pages of results are about the car. I'm going to pull some results about the cat from page 4 and put them near the top so just in case that's what you really wanted, you'll find it."

Google Search, at least when I worked on it, was composed of a huge number of such tweaks. People were constantly proposing them, testing if they led to an improvement, and shipping them if they do. For a variety of reasons, our middleman server was a great place to implement certain kinds of tweaks.

But what kinds of information are needed for these "tweaks"? Could be anything! It's a general-purpose platform. Search results were annotated with all kinds of crazy information, and any piece of information might be useful in implementing some sort of middleman tweak at some point.

So you couldn't very well say upfront "OK, we're going to put all the info that is only for the frontend into the special 'frontend blob' that doesn't get parsed by the middleman", because you have no idea what fields are only needed by the frontend. In fact, that set would change over time.

> If this were a programming language I would immediately think of row typing to specify the parts that each stage depends on while being agnostic about the rest of the content

Indeed, perhaps one could develop an elaborate system where in the schemas, we could annotate certain fields as being relevant to certain servers. Anywhere else, those fields would be unavailable (but passed through without modification or validation). If you needed the fields in a new place, you change the annotations.

But that sounds... complicated to design and cumbersome to maintain the annotations. Simply banning required fields solved the problem for us, and everything else just worked.
SpaceX punched a hole in the ionosphere
> First, Mastodon was going to be the new place. It wasn't.

Mastodon is chugging along, still growing steadily, unglamorously. I don't see a boom and bust there. It is unbacked by VC "get big or die trying" money, not buoyed by big tech or media hype. Don't write it off in a week or a month.
Wow, I totally forgot about solar fricken roadways. That video was 2014.

Looks like they ended up getting over $6m in funding. I can’t tell how alive they are but they received some FCC approval for the wireless connectivity in Jan 2022.

“So you are saying there’s a chance?”

https://solarroadways.com/faq-funding/
Better to not have “elite” colleges at all.
No, all that LLMs produce is nonsense.
Tribalism. Just like politics and brand preferences in other economic sectors (cars, computers, and so on).

I for one think both Android and iOS are pretty awful operating systems. I still look forward to a viable third option, and would especially enjoy a phone that functions more like an accessory or terminal to my computer, rather than a first-class computer in its own right.
GKE Autopilot saves on Kubernetes costs
I've been day dreaming about as more social data goes public on the internet how can that enable us to peer into the lives of folks who post material and leak details of their lives online. Can sociological studies be made where these bad choices can be reviewed in accelerated form where the individuals who picked the wrong path show the fruits of their choices visually and the decline is evident just looking at them and hearing the things they talk about.

Not sure how feasible it is, but I think with all the photo and video data we now have on hand what sort of longitudinal studies we can produce from imagery alone with the occasional detail and context self professed by the individuals involved.
"drugs may have been involved"
People in here are emotionally invested in seeing Musk fail, no amount of reasoning can make them see the forrest from the trees.
> Also, hard to offer a high availability option when the phone network only (well, in most cases) accepts one device per phone number.

1. I guess it depends on your providers/region. From all three German mobile network providers (Telekom, Vodafone, o2) you can get up to three SIM-Cards for the same number.

2. The VoIP provider Sipgate (sorry again German) gives you as much SIM-Cards and eSIMs as you like (In exchange for money of course). You can route mobile as well as land line numbers to a VoIP-Phone, -Client or mobile phones. They can all ring in parallel.

3. Many years ago, I saw a presentation on a CCC event. (Sadly I can't find a video of it just now.) It was from a guy who documented how he became a mobile provider. He wasn't just reselling, because his numbers terminated in his own Asterisk server! So maybe, people looking for the best solution, should look into how to become a virtual mobile provider.
I honestly hate my current government with all my heart.

Let this series of badly-thought-out bills be destroyed in the courts once the courts find that reality bats last.

There’s probably a clause in there that decrees Pi must be four from now on.
Genome of 46000-Y/O roundworm from Siberian permafrost reveals novel species
Ya, it's not that we want to keep flash alive, it's that we want a similar approach to building web content. Unity has some similarities, but it's much more complex to do basic things.
> It is literally impossible for a simple deadbolt to keep intruders from entering your house. Are locks scams?

If the lock manufacturer asserts or implies greater protection than the product offers (which is actually quite common), then yes, it's a scam.
I can't imagine this will go well. They've made no adjustments to their course, they've helped the community not one wit.
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https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
It's one thing to quickly snap a photo or film a short clip of your favorite song. The whole point is to keep a record of an enjoyable real world experience you might want to look back on in the future.

It's entirely different when people record entire shows, and what I think TFA is getting at.

Ultimately it doesn't matter whether the footage is used to post on social media for internet points, or for personal enjoyment. It's silly to pass judgment about why people do this. But if your behavior detracts from the enjoyment of someone else, or distracts the performer, then it's wrong.
I work for a Uni and remember back in the day compromised accounts ripping publisher content via our proxy. Enough that we wound up removing the proxy and forcing internal access.

A lot of the reason that Sci-Hub content has stalled in more recent users is security around accounts (MFA, SAML etc).

The reason there is still a lot of warnings floating around about using Sci-Hub is the threat that publishers hold over Unis in terms of licensing and the users understanding the threat to their accounts/personal data.

The method of getting the papers was bad, even if the reasoning was good.

Hopefully more Universities continue focusing on open access of their research in line with BOAI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Open_Access_Initiativ...).
If that were true, then why do prison sentences have an end date?
U.S. to give some migrants in Mexico refugee status
That wasn’t the issue. The issue was the price of the cheapest Tesla being worth it. I see model 3s everywhere, Bolts rarely.
As someone with severe over pronation (due to completely flat feet) I know most of the developments have been in materials and shapes.

It used to be there was a couple pairs of shoes I could buy, now it seems as if most manufacturers have a few models that help. My last pair cost a LOT of money (Brooks), but I can tell you I've never felt a shoe as good as this one. They get better every time I buy shoes which is every 2-3 years.
That's kind of missing the point? Sure you spent a lot on your laptop, but it isn't (as) a significant portion of your income, presumably.

A typical developer is spending much less on a phone as a % of their income, whereas a typical iPhone buyer is spending much much more — to a surprising degree.
The Patriot Act expired three years ago and wasn't renewed.
If you view a profit on a supply basis, as "the difference between the sold value of a good and the price to produce it", then somebody living paycheck to paycheck is, by definition, not profiting off of their labor. The cost of living, and thus be able to produce labor, is approximately the same as the amount they're being paid.

If you view profit on a demand basis, profit is the difference between what the the seller values the good at and the value the buyer places on the good. In that regard, labor is never sold at a profit for the laborer: companies only purchase labor that they can use to produce more value than they pay for it.

Framed another way, if the value of labor is the price the market is willing to pay for it, then employment is almost always a negative exchange for the worker. The value of someone's labor is the price that employers are willing to pay for it, and the price employers are willing to pay for the labor is greater than the wage the employee receives (because employing somebody is more expensive than just paying them a wage).

All told, unless your definition of "profit" is indistinguishable from "money changes hands", workers don't profit from their labor.
Agree, haven't found anything and just got used to brave
because it violates Relational Theory

It doesn't violate relational theory at all -- it merely violates the query compiler's requirements about what must be known at the time of query compilation.

You can absolute write a query that does what you want (you need a stored procedure that generates ad-hoc functions based on the involved tables' signatures), but stored sql objects must have defined inputs and outputs. What you're asking for is a meta-sql function that can translate to different query plans based on its inputs, and that's not allowed because its performance cannot be predetermined.
No, not illegal at all.
I completely agree that Mastodon isn't the new place, and I am increasingly thinking Threads may not be either (at least not to Twitter level, or not for a few years), however I'm very convinced that Twitter is no longer the place either.

The technology is crumbling (see rate limiting, interaction counts), the product is moving further away from what people want not towards it (see Zuck's tweets about Threads to see what popular product direction looks like, even if it's not perfect), the ad quality has dropped very noticeably suggesting they've lost good top paying advertisers, the new ad payout program suggests that their ad inventory is low anyway (see also interaction numbers here too), and the culture has gone from pretty bad to openly hostile to large swathes of the population, at least among English speakers (see anti-trans trending topics, rise of hate speech).

I'd agree that reversion to the mean and people going back to what they know is the most likely course of action in most circumstances, but these are not most circumstances. Twitter can't recover from this, at least not without a change of leadership and many years to rebuild.
Sardines, spinach and dried seaweed. Have been enjoying same for years!
What does that have to do with tech and his product and company?

Also everything is open source you can see for yourself.
She did do a ton of research, worked through all the materials we sent her (I sent a lot, including a thwack of Kids in the Hall videos, several years-long email threads with specific users, with their permission of course, and god knows what else), and even changed her mind—a thing rare enough to always deserve respect. We took a risk in trusting her; I felt like it worked out, and I'm glad we chose to be open. The article came out fairer than we probably had any grounds to expect. There were bits I could complain about, but that's inevitable. I felt seen and I think Scott did too.

Re Canute, she missed that pvg was being playful, in the context of a longstanding positive connection. I felt bad when I saw that. But we did get an amusing, and properly italicized, About box out of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pvg.

Come back, pvg!
HN is one of the few communities where I've had scenarios where I've gotten into a spirited discussion, been gently told to cool off (or gotten a temporary rate limit), taken a step back and realized, you know what? I was not interacting in the spirit of the community.

Of course, the community is no more immune than any other regarding group think or rough edges. But on the whole, I've found the level of discourse to impressively high quality over time, and I've been posting and reading here on one account or another for over a decade. It's not just the level of discourse that is impressive, but its prolonged longevity. I think it can only have occurred from a very thoughtful approach to moderation; something I immediately miss when I step into other less curated forums such as Reddit and Twitter, where I can find the interesting content in the discourse, but laden with significantly more noise and significantly less thoughtfulness.

Thanks dang!
If I remember Guido van Rossum did mention the status of the GIL in one of the Lex Friedman episodes [1] he was on (it's been a while, so I may be misremembering). Surprised to see a big decision like this happen so quickly. Did Meta's announcement play a big role in this [2]?

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DVyjdw4t9I

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36643670
It is fairly spectacular how the system of "clientes" (from which clientele etc etc), which the Romans effectively invented, is still the (unspoken) norm in so many modern countries, more than 2300 years later.