skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a tech-oriented site

Exactly. Big tech has been staggeringly complicit in these oh-so documented war crimes. For example, AI is being used to 'target' people, even in refugee camps and residential areas; even when hundreds of civilian casualties are predicted. This has been admitted - even boasted about.

As tech people, we can't just stick our heads in the sand and expect this not to come back on us. We're enabling this destruction in myriad ways, from funding to coercion to suppression of discussion [cough].

Genocide isn't just politics. We are legally bound as a nation, and morally obligated as humans, to prevent it. Instead, the US and many its tech companies are complicit.

If we can't even discuss the ICJ ruling that this may well be in fact a genocide, even when people are behaving and upvoting without breaking guidelines, then imo something very important has been broken.
If your man doesn't get back to you, a friend of mine can refer you to any role at Bytedance/Tiktok
Right. GPU tech came about because people wanted to render cool pictures on a computer screen or make 3D games playable on commodity hardware.

Now there are data centers full of them.
Your assertion is that those countries require their immigrants to go through those tests and pass and your it implies tacitly that this is for almost all immigrants who come through. However at most 50% go through that route (in Canada).
There are around 3 million federal employees. The number of different agendas is somewhat higher than that.
Then you clearly care a lot more about these other aspects over 'tools'...

So why raise the point in the first place if it's a minor quibble relative to your top priority(s)?
Even safety recalls can be fixed OTA, at least in Tesla's case since they designed most components to be FW-updatable during MCU software updates.

The term needs to be something new.
Pandoc has no support for asciidoctor as an input format — you're expected to just use asciidoctor itself to convert adoc files (and there's no reason not to). Asciidoctor can do HTML and PDF, not sure about EPUB though.
I don't have any proprietary knowledge of how HN does voting ring detection, but to offer an intuition about how it might work in the scenario proposed by GP, this voting ring would be detectable because their flags are highly correlated and clustered together in time. The more stories they attempt to flag down (successfully or otherwise), the more obvious the pattern will be.

I'm sure you're already thinking of ways to bypass that, and yes what you're thinking will probably work, it's a game of cat and mouse and no one technique will be sufficient or work forever. (See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_in_depth_(computing) )
It's more common than you think. I did the same for one of my research papers.
Totally this. This approach is why I'm where I'm at in life, I think.
> user journeys

meaning, they tested that if the user does everything the way they're "supposed to" it works.

That explains a lot.
I was in your boat almost 4 years ago. My side-project was earning $0 at the time and now brings in $1M+ ARR. I'd be happy to chat with you about the journey some time.
The solution to this problem doesn't have to be complex at all.

Conceptually (meaning, all details are not covered here):

- The caller/message-sender pays a per-call fee
- For example, $1.00 flat fee
- If the caller is in your address book, the charge is $0
- If you call them back, the charge is $0
- If you approve the caller, the charge is $0
- The person receiving the call earns a portion of the fee (30% ?)
- Etc.

If implemented correctly, on average, no legitimate caller pays this extra per-call or per-message fee. Machine learning could be used to augment effectiveness and reduce or eliminate fees when two people or entities know each other.

For example, a company receives tons of customer service calls. Most callers might be unknown to the company (think Amazon customer service). There has to be a mechanism through which callers don't get stuck with a $1 fee just for calling to get support. This is where a detailed design of this type of a solution would be necessary.

What this does do, I think, is create a situation where it would (should) cost spammers millions of dollars to reach millions of people with unwanted calls or messages.

Another element of this is that consumers would make money from these stupid calls or texts. They should. If someone wants to consume somebody else's time, they should pay for it.

Which brings-up another twist to this idea:

Maybe people should be able to set a rate for unsolicited calls or messages. I could, for example, set my rate to $10 per minute and a 15 minute minimum. If you call me and I don't know you, the cost to talk to me or leave a message is a minimum of $150. If I call you back, the charge is negated. I can also tell the system not to charge you. Etc.

Upon making a call, the caller hears:

"This number charges a $150 for anonymous calls. Press 1 to accept."

If it is a message, they receive a reply:

"This number charges a $150 for anonymous messages. Reply YES to accept."

The receiver gets a pop-up that might say:

"Unknown caller: <insert name or number>."
"Accept and charge $150 fee"
"Accept and charge $0"
"Cancel"

Details would have to be worked out, of course. There are lots of ways to implement something like this such that legitimate callers are not charged any fees. Legislation and a technical infrastructure would be required to drive such a system.

The reason this nonsense persists is because the cost is low and potential return on investment is high. If that equation is flipped, the nonsense stops.
When learning why it’s gone wrong has gone cold.
At the very least they could use 4x6x4 instead of normal CGNAT, and bring down the costs.
Resistance of the soldered connection will be consistently lower compared to terminals, also terminals with screws, especially in WW II quality, will oxidise quickly in a wet environment and thus the resistance will go up over time. Plus you get a very nice visual feedback by the self-soldering joints. Terminals look all the same - you need tools to control the quality of the electrical connection. So for longer lines with several joints that are needed for more than a few days, I‘ll definitely put my money on the soldering team.
Setting aside drugs…

Sophisticated methods of coercive manipulation involve the coercing party looking at all the choices and options available to the target, and systematically removing or undermining all but the preferred option. Dark patterns in UX, legally dubious arbitration dispute clauses in consumer contracts, push polling, etc.

At that point, the target is still free to choose, but the options they choose from are stacked. They can still choose a non-optimal choice but probably won’t.
Will we seriously get 90% of MessageBird? How will this compare with Twilio or Sinch?
Dystopia is indeed amazing.

The “command line” lite experience for browsing is also very good.
> without migration scripts, like editing source code. Just a quick “deploy” and the logic is updated.

This is 100% the key to sanity with managing database stored procedures and functions -- ability to manage them in Git like normal code and deploy them like code.

In contrast, the workflow from traditional imperative database "migration" tools is just super awkward for developing and maintaining any non-trivial number of SQL stored programs (procs, funcs, triggers, views, etc).

I wrote a blog post about this a few months ago, and although my product is aimed at MySQL and MariaDB, many of the concepts discussed apply to any relational DB: https://www.skeema.io/blog/2023/10/24/stored-proc-deployment...
Those are Balvenie 21 and Macallan 18, ~$300 amazing bottles of scotch whisky. They're not worth the $ (diminishing returns after $50 bourbon and $80 scotch), and are incredibly poor taste when you're in the midst of a political fight with people who campaign on rent control as to not get evicted...

But they're great quality whisky.
Hmmm. I haven't had a Dove Bar in a while.
All of that benefit is lost if you swerve and start rolling over like trucks with a higher center of gravity tend to. All that extra weight is harder to stop if you need to as well, so it's not purely a safety upgrade.
What if my blog is a vlog?

What distinction are you drawing?
toad pond
I think the number of UK people who are inconvenienced by not getting huge 5G speed is small.

Two of the UK cellular networks are completely turning off 3G service over the next few months, which will allow them to use more radio spectrum for higher speed data.
FYI this is a builtin feature on Android (maybe iPhone too?).

On Android, go to "network details" for a wifi that you're logged into and click the "share" button and it will create a QR code for logging in.
It is the commodification of skillsets. Companies don't care about training good people anymore. Someone who will require a month to get up to speed on some tool is now a non-starter, to the point that recruiters will often recruit nobody month after month rather than hire someone will simply need a few weeks of training. If you don't tick every little box, you are seen as a risk.

1980s: "Hey, we know you can weld steel but we need you to weald aluminum. We will partner you with one of our guys for a month before you hit the production line. He'll teach you what you need."

2024: "Your resume lacks the following keywords: Aluminum. We are shutting down the production line until we find sufficient trained staff."
What happened? Simple: Eastern Europe has been experiencing constant GDP growth for the past 3 decades, while Japan stagnated.

Also, regarding sibling comment about relevance of PPP metrics: I challenge you to come to Czechia or Poland - the quality of life can really surprise you. Those are, for example, the two countries with the lowest unemployment rates in EU. We have nice apartments and houses (with photovoltaic panels and heat pumps, mind you), drive nice cars, have good healthcare and free higher education.

Unless I get a $1M+ per year offer from a FAANG in Silicon Valley I feel like no country in the world can offer me a significantly better standard of living.
I don't believe you have the full context and reading Wikipedia on the subject will yield a lot of surprises.

USSR got the following bits and pieces after WWII:

* Kaliningrad, added to RSFSR

* West Ukraine, added to Ukrainian SSR

* Some ex-Polish lands added to Belorussian SSR (Poland get even more of better, ex-German lands though)

* Baltic states

* Tuva.

Of these, perhaps three Baltic republics were not happy about Afghanistan (and everything else), but they were quite small.

The rest of stuff, such as UkrSSR, BelSSR, Caucasus and Central Asian SSRs, were carved out of RSFSR (Russia) in the 1920's by the USSR, after being part of Russian Empire for a century or more. Most of them did not exist as a separate state previously, especially in the assigned borders. Some briefly existed, often as anarchist or German puppet states, between 1917 and 1921.

USSR did indeed gain control of various Eastern European countries such as Poland or Romania, but they were not part of USSR so they did not have to fight in Afghanistan.

The rest of stuff about nations and statehood opportunity is frankly bullshit. These ASSRs were also carved by USSR out of Russia, and almost universally have 40% to 80% of Russian population within them - the only separatist opportunity they have is to be a particularly poor reissue of Bosnia. People are not stupid and they understand that.
It’s a terrible game, very slow and boring, but you must play it once. I really appreciate the dedication of any collector who brings that behemoth to pinball shows and keeps it running.
No reprocussions if you don't do anything about it and promote a culture of helplessness - probably exactly what they hope you will do.
Yes, I've heard of those. What I wanted to write is "widely used" even at the user level (GUI programs, web applications, etc.).

You prompted me to read more about seL4; the white paper is nice [1].

[1] https://sel4.systems/About/seL4-whitepaper.pdf
The government isn't a monolith. The Biden administration seems to have a particular disdain for him but presumably this sentiment isn't shared by all. Also, SpaceX can deliver payloads and operate missions that seemingly no other company can do, and likely at a price point that is untouchable. So it seems likely those in the government that needs these capabilities pay SpaceX and "make him rich" but im not sure what the alternative is? It's not like Boeing/ULA are some poor little company that is being unfairly ignored
I flagged that article, so I'll clearly explain why:

1. I think for anyone that has been on HN throughout pandemic knows it is extremely unlikely for topics like this to produce any sort of valuable discussion. I almost never see any sort of humility on the topic (to be clear, from many/all sides) that admits that people (individuals, experts, literally everyone) were doing what they thought best with the information they had available at the time. It always devolves into portraying the other side as evil. I'm tired of it, I don't want to see it on HN, there are literally pages and pages and pages of place on the Internet where you can have that debate if you're so inclined.

2. Are you honestly purporting that specific article is well tailored to "an overwhelmingly science-minded audience", as opposed to just having a particular political axe to grind, given the title is "Anthony Fauci Fesses Up"? Honestly, if the article was written with an intent to encourage an actual understanding about where the 6-foot rule came from, and about whether the evidence for it was lacking, I probably wouldn't have flagged it.

> it bothers me that an important topic like that is deemed untouchable.

I think the mistake you are making there is thinking because a particular article is flagged by a lot of users that "an important topic like that is deemed untouchable." I can't speak for others, but for me that is absolutely not what I think, and it's not why I flagged this particular submission.
I said cost be benefits - it’s now clear that the costs of many usages of lead and asbestos outweighed the benefits. I’m suggesting we look at both sides before we make a decision. Doesn’t seem like an extreme position.
OK but we had this for basically all of last year as inflation moderated and jobs kept growing until suddenly good news meant good news to the market.

$SPX is at an all time high right now at $494. That's insane. I bought in at ~$360 in 2022.
Within months you will be able to buy genomics data from 14M Americans
And why do you say that?
Yeah, it's really peculiar.
one time i couldn't find _any_ other way, so I saved the page source to desktop, gave the javascript a once-over, disabled networking, opened the chrome inspector network tab, opened the saved copy of the page, did my thing, didnt see any network activity, closed the browser, then re-enabled networking

hope that worked
The etymology of that sense of "fluke" is from the game of billiards. It's when you make a successful stroke by accident.

And yes it was a lucky stroke for journalism that the same newspapers that carried their words happened to carry lucrative ad space and sports box scores that were hard to get elsewhere.

Classified ad revenue carried a lot of newspapers because for a long time there was really nothing else like it. That was lucky. It wasn't anything particular to the news; but a lack of other options. Now there are other options.
No, especially with vaccines in the US (and some other places) science doesn’t have to meet that burden because they are indemnified for product liability by the government by law.
Peter Thiel bankrolling 'Olympics on steroids' events allowing athletes to dope
Packaging makes up, by far, the largest share of plastic waste. And in regards to food, the only packaging without plastic is basically just glass. Cans are lined with plastic to avoid chemically reacting with food. And paper is coated with plastic to stay waterproof. Glass is great but it is energy intensive and has its own waste issues.
If you know IPv4 networking, you can learn v6 in a day or two. It's just not that complicated. Some aspects, like no need for NAT, easier subnet calculations, etc. make V6 simpler to deploy. What's wrong with it? What would make it "better"? I've been running V6 at home for over 15 years (first on a tunnel, then native.) In a professional context, I am still running into people afraid to turn it on.
NFC I have to touch with my phone. A QR code I can scan from across the room.

Sounds like a step backward to me (on ease of use, not security obviously).
I used to build my blog with Pandoc, make, and a little bit of Python/Jinja2 glue to generate indexes/tags/RSS. The amount of glue tends to get out of hand as the project's needs grow though.
More that the authors are conveniently getting tons more clicks by making no attempt to denote the low-impact of the recall when it's obvious that 95-99% of the population will only see the headline or will associate it with "like when Toyota's accelerator pedals were getting stuck".
And knitr is built on the prior art foundations of Sweave....
I don't have many friends, so it hasn't been a problem so far. I did write the information on the tag as well to avoid me having to dig it out for people without nfc.
I'd even say it's basically equivalent to the tech hiring market in ~2019 and 2018 when I was looking for jobs. Except offers are better (though no bidding wars like 2021)
In addition to having read several billionaire authors reiterate some form of "what we GOT AWAY WITH in the 80's/90's, you couldn't dream of accomplishing anymore," a son of a Tiger Cub once got drunk and blabbed a bit too much about the insanity of money/insanity (recalled from an 80's child's POV).

I attended college on a 19th Century Robber Barron -funded scholarship, to which I am forever grateful... but there just doesn't ever seem to be a reason to concentrate so much wealth so quickly, undertaxed or not. I read this old cranky bastard's Last Will & Testament and he was just a spiteful, bitter old man that hated his entire existance.
> I'm not sure how you got the impression that the article claimed "Best economy since the 90s"

This is approximately what the blog post's headline is (from the parent poster to my original post).

When I look at the real wage YoY growth chart, the past quarters look similar to many, many periods in previous decades, not just the 90s.
Sounds like you're in violent agreement with the comment you're replying to.

As you say, on an individual level, it makes logical sense to use a larger vehicle. On a societal level, it's worse for everyone. So a tax is a good way to adjust the calculus for each individual.
> Writing should happen where you are comfortable editing text.

For that particular context of text.

I write my code, notes, text and emails in vim. Some in markdown. But to this day, I still miss the incredible usability of LyX 1.x when writing pure long-form text.[ß] I could force all writing to occur within central 60% of the editable screen height [doable with vim but not as cleanly]. No whitespace or formatting issues, ever - set the document defaults according to my liking and it would feel "just right".

Proper rendering and visually correct editing of math formulas as part of text. Oh my. Fond memories of being able to type '<raw latex hotkey>\frac' and continue fitting in the values...

If it had had vim's search-powered navigation, it would have been nearly perfect. LyX 2.x was a step up in visual appeal and two steps down in raw usability. I've since picked up writing raw latex where I need good formatting, just because I could not make LyX 2.x bend to my taste anymore.

ß: Back on early 2000's, I wrote a book in LyX. As well as all my university course papers, including the master's thesis.
Hard disagree. Although the content of this post is good, the last thing we need is everyone turning HN into their personal blogging platform.
You can inline LaTeX chapter/section break commands even when processing Markdown, and in several ways (dropping \newpage directly in the content before chapters, using header templates, as YAML metadata in the Markdown file, even on the command line).

Google has many examples; one's here using a header file: https://medium.com/@sydasif78/book-creation-with-pandoc-and-...

More are here, including an example using the header-includes YAML metadata param: https://github.com/Wandmalfarbe/pandoc-latex-template/issues...
The irony it’s your infinitely better protected using a webpage in Incognito with network disconnected, than downloading an offline generator and running the binary on your computer.
Not been my experience. I've actually seen the opposite effect in scaleups recently - folk's riding the "i'm a new guy" excuse for years.
> As a child, this was how I always felt when the Catholic Collection Plate would circulate among the congregation.

Profit in this context means filthy lucre that the business owners have every right to spend on strippers and cigarettes and private islands. Churches are more restricted in what they can do with it and moreover tend to lose their patronage if that's what they're spending the money on, as opposed to private businesses whose patrons give money in exchange for books or food and don't really care if the owners are using the profits to play blackjack in Vegas.

> I also think that all hospitals should pay taxes — until there is some sort of single-payer universal healthcare institution.

What does that have to do with anything? Business operating expenses are generally deductible and their "income taxes" are effectively taxes on profit. A non-profit doesn't have any owners to receive profits, so they either operate with with a neutral budget or put any net income into an endowment that allows them to survive if future years are leaner or provide more services or charge lower prices.

Taxing them would only cause them to have lower quality or higher prices or go bankrupt more often.
Pretty much nothing. The docker image is less than 10mb and it uses barely any RAM for me, like 15 idle? I've got it running locally and can access it through tailscale everywhere. Having it open to internet is a bad idea since rate limiting becomes an issue but for a single user it's perfect.
128 bits*
I'm tempted to make snarky comments about how its a red flag if a company is asking open ended questions with a textbox as part of an initial screen but I'll be open minded and ask:

What hiring questions are you asking?
yes, like sketches in art.
Who says otherwise?
> the fact that the popups often don't load until all the page views are fetched (I'm assuming because of some rate limiting on Wikipedia's side),

Its a nice idea, but the Wiki backend might be the reason why they abandoned their own geolocating website efforts, which might be what you are now experiencing.

I think it would be nice for Wiki, to have an option which includes geolocated wiki articles in the surrounding area, just like they have the "see also" at the bottom of the page sometimes.

Problem with this though, is this feature might also not exist to prevent article stuffing in tourist areas, or area's where realtors/estate agents might be trying to sell expensive property.

Nice effort and article.
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