skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically, as a homosexual female, I consider modern queer culture authoritarian as hell. It's really big on there being one way to interpret the world, one way to build/structure your identity, one set of 'correct' opinions, trying to convince you to cut off people who aren't in the Good People Club(TM), etc. This is just enforced via panopticon/mob surveillance rather than a centralized authority.

If anything, I'd consider modern (post-Obergefell) queer culture to be pretty hostile to hacker culture since hackerdom is partially about understanding systems and working them to whatever purposes you decide, whereas modern queer culture seems to be about finding a system that works for you and pledging allegiance to it.

A lot of my distaste/lack of fitting with queer culture right now stems from the conflicts between the values instilled in me as the child of hackers and the values of queer environments.

They were flagged because the comment was deliberately inflammatory and lacked any nuance - there is no way to spring-board from that comment into any kind of continued discussion. It was a comment that was only meant to virtue signal/push an agenda, not to promote discussion. HN tends to frown on that outside of specific aspects of techno-politics.
A Chinese man nicknamed "Blyat" built a tank to play World of Tanks
Thank you! I'm honestly surprised I haven't found anything similar, or maybe I haven't looked hard enough.

Then again, blender is way more shortcut-oriented than any other software I've used, one of the reasons I like it so much.
This might have worked before Google killed Reader when personal blogs ruled the Internet, but nothing has come along to fill that void.
You are still at fault for hitting a pedestrian who isn't even using a crosswalk but is just walking across the road so that argument still doesn't work.

At best if they can prove that was the case, it opens the city up to liability for failing to maintain infrastructure or allow the infrastructure to gracefully degrade/fail.

Also a similar system to this already exists outside the US (ex: Pedestrian Crossing or Kerb detectors [1] at Puffin crossings in the UK) to extend the crosswalk time if pedestrians are still using the crosswalk.

1. https://www.agd-systems.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/326_-...
> Well, I mean, we could raise taxes and spend that on the people who got left behind on the last growth sigmoid, but I can hear the "boos" and "hisses" already.

I mostly agree. The issue comes from how the money gets spent. It costs money to collect money, it costs money to spend money. Most of the spent money is used to "buy solutions" from private industry, so the rich still get richer, and nothing really changes.

Baltimore, MD, USA, spends more per student [1] than almost any other city in the country, and nothing changes. Oh well actually, there is a lot of corruption in the city council and I think over half of the past few mayors have been arrested on criminal charges.

[1] https://foxbaltimore.com/news/project-baltimore/in-baltimore...
Why are you spending your time explaining to people you've never met what kinds of emotions they feel, or how legitimate their emotions are?
> I’ve seen candidates drop into strace to debug a Ruby program

strace is great. 99% of the time, your program is looking for a missing file.

A pity it's so hard to use in modern macOS due to OS integrity protection.
You are correct. There are no crypto police to confiscate your home as collateral. So, you have to do the whole deal in crypto. Without oracles, your only foundational tools are: wallets, time and sign-offs as inputs to smart contracts. Everything is built up from there.

Right now you can get a DeFi loan at places like changenow.io that don't even require you to sign in. You put up crypto collateral. When you pay back the loan with accumulated interest you get your collateral back. If your collateral drops in value to 50% of the loan amount, you lose it and are released from the loan.

You could pay for home that way. But, I wouldn't recommend it. Maybe there are more suitable options out there I'm unaware of. It's all definitely a work in progress :P
Duck typing (horror) in Go
Turnstyle – An esoteric, graphical functional language
I assume the cars automatic braking and collision detection will just override whatever would cause an accident. Or a person's foot.

I was at a stoplight the other day and I was about 30 cars back. I could still see when the light turned green. I counted ~30 seconds before the car in front of me moved at all. I did not make it through the light.

If the cars could talk to each other, they could all start moving together (slowly) and then accelerate and spread out, resulting in much higher throughput and preventing traffic jams.
Not a universal principle in Germany though. Today I was awoken by government thugs breaking into my room and telling me that even though I paid my rent, someone else didn't pay theirs so I'm homeless now (collective punishment). If only I was joking.

I refused to leave, so they called more government thugs (i.e. the police) to help them drag me out, but the police told them they have to give people three weeks notice before making them homeless so fuck off.
I'd 100% expect that to be a template from someone who either has no clue and can't investigate, or has 200 other tickets to get to and couldn't be bothered to look into a case that isn't in the FAQ. It also does not say what makes you have this assumption and so it works only as a brick wall to alienate any customer goodwill you may have built up. Please never write this unless it's self evident why it's on the customer's side and you have good reason to think they're just trying to annoy you by reaching out despite that
Also, a lot of rss feeds now only offer the title of the post/article. I still need to visit the pages anyway to get to the content. With a newsletter, i receive a bit of context around the content as well.
Urbit's Founder Returns in Shakeup at Moonshot Software Project
Why do they ned to be separate?
HackerHouse In Palo Alto
What are some great hacker houses in Palo Alto that still have a spot
> Crypto is a way to store and exchange things over the internet without counterparty risk.

I feel like I must be missing something, because there's still massive amounts of counterparty risk. If you're engaging with a bad actor, the only thing that it can guarantee is that the transfer of payment is completed, but there are no guarantees around the exchange of value.

If you're trading with someone operating in bad faith, there is nothing about blockchain that is going to help you, and in fact it becomes much worse, because there is no mechanism for forcing refunds. At least with legal tender you have entire systems in place for dealing with bad actors. I'm more that willing to recognize there are massive problems with those systems, but I have never understood how blockchain replaces those systems.

Can you explain in detail what you mean when you say there isn't any counterparty risk?
Seems "simple" until you start thinking about the logistics of an equitable federal mandate and the US (not European) legal and political challenges it would have to find a way to work around.

We can't even do something as "simple" as make election day a national holiday to make sure everyone has time to participate.
More details in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ50nZU3oG8
> It may be fun on the job or at home, but the stress of a job interview both eliminates any "fun" aspect and makes even simple tasks more difficult.

Suggestion here: leave the room and come back in 40 minutes. Let them debug, fix the problem, and present to you when they're done.
This doesn't appear to be a product marketed to "moms." But it also isn't clear how it works at all for a "power user" like me.
But why? Isn't most of the information you can extract from those tags stuff that's pretty obvious, like title and author (the examples the linked page uses)? How do you extract really useful information using that methodology, supporting searches that answer queries like "110 volt socket accepting grounding plugs"? Of course search engines can (and do) get such info, but afaik it doesn't require or use XSLT beyond extracting the plain text.
I understand very little about machining, expect that _all_ materials are kinda squishy if one applies enough squish.
> A hacker is someone who understands how the world works. It's about
knowing what happens when you type "google.com" and press Enter. It's
about knowing how your computer turns on, about memory training, A20,
all of that. It's about modern processors, their caches, and their side
channels. It's about DSi bootloaders and how the right electromagnetic
faults can be used to jailbreak them. And it's about how Spotify and
Widevine and AES and SGX work so you can free your music from the
shackles of DRM.

This is a very... interesting definition of "the world."
Thanks. I confused the two. It's been a long time since "History of Philosophy" back in uni :P
No one applies economic cost benefit analysis to buy a Louis Vuitton bag for $50,000. Prestige, signalling, membership to exclusive club, etc dominate the consideration.

Reserves are cash in hand and represent immediate and hard spending power.
Of course you can. Just take a cue from the standard physical throttle design: https://i.imgur.com/mK0vYth.png

Now there's no such concept as a ganged/unganged state. You move the middle (which has the larger area, since it's the most common tool) to move them together, and the side sliders if you want to control thrust individually.
There is room for only one blockchain app in the world we live in. And that is for Bitcoin.
Fefe’s blog (German.) [0]

[0]: https://blog.fefe.de/
Systems that these banks have provided are provided for feasible access to your account.

They are not in any way interested inn tightening of fortgaurding their portal's rendering, until it ends up causing them to give more money i.e. bad for business.
Not to mention, marketing isn't going to do this. I bet email more push notification system vs Atom feed that is just hanging out waiting for attention gets more engagement.
The underlying estimates are for total current employed so the error was -0.5%.
AC loses power by inductively and capacitively coupling to nearby objects. It's manageable at medium distances above ground, cheaper than a pair of converter stations. However, water is much more conductive than air and losses from an underwater AC cable would be much greater.
> I don't think that reduction of size is of any relevance.

More code equals more bugs. This has been a pretty consistent finding dating back decades. Simpler and smaller code bases will generally have fewer bugs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33566329
Easier said than done.

With crypto, you can move a billion dollars in 15 minutes to anywhere in the world for like $15, without giving away either source or destination. To do this, you need to send about 250 bytes of information to any node in the blockchain network, using any way possible, up to and including dictating these numbers by phone or writing them on a piece of paper and smuggling said piece to anybody with a non-censored internet connection.

Goverments can make this illegal, but it is impossible to enforce it. These 250 bytes are just another "illegal number", which can be written anywhere, sewn on your t-shirt, etched in stone, etc. There are many fully secure ways to transmit 250 bytes without anyone knowing about it (including governments). Therefore, there is a secure and bulletproof way to smuggle a billion dollars out of the country without getting stopped.

No one can do anything about it.

(Well, there is a crypto-sanctions mechanism which can taint some money on the blockchain and can make it difficult to sell on exchanges etc. But it just creates some inconvenience -- there are many ways to launder crypto, from mixers to bridges and coinjoin and anonymizing through fees arbitrage and whatever).
My desktop is almost all Ruby. Ruby is not going away for decades.

I've just started replacing my shell with a shell in Ruby too. To me one of the nice things about Ruby is that I feel like I can get things done so easily it doesn't matter if the community is smaller. Almost all the code I use apart from the kernel, Chrome and Xorg is now my own.
One of my predictions of the future is that once it is shown that self driving isn't five nines reliable, countries will start installing electronic signals on roads to make self-driving reliable. And self driving will only be legal on those roads.
JS felt less impressive to me when I first saw it, simply because it couldn't do much. However, I remember the showcase Microsoft put together to show off what CSS could do in IE3 and that was very cool at the time.
Really cool but so far noone was able to package it for NixOS: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/327982
GP said their engineers; I absolutely sympathise with not wanting to work somewhere with mandatory Windows, I might forget to ask, but I can't/am unwilling to work like that. MacOS I can get by with, but in web software engineering at least I would say Windows is unusual, and being someone who 'refuses to understand why' a company would force its engineers to use Windows is not going to be that restrictive for someone in that industry.

It's my primary tool really, and it affects all the others!
I wonder if there are non-energy uses for this that aren't being disclosed. Perhaps one could use undersea power cable to inductively sense large metal objects that are submerged nearby.
I understand that this press, and the Cleveland site, is now owned by Howmet Aerospace, which is a "daughter company" of Alcoa (along with Arconic) after its 2020 separation.

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

The big Cleveland press has its own wiki.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoa_50,000_ton_forging_press
That’s the difference between the 31st and the last day of the month. It’s a UX issue, not a timekeeping issue.
Indeed. I love that my career is a minor sideshow of my life. I love the stability of working about 40 hours a week and then doing what I really want to be doing with life.

It’s a bonus that those 40 hours don’t feel like work.
Nominally that is the case in US law too. Contracts can not have "unconscionable" clauses in them, and certainly a free trial for a streaming service that you never even paid for several years ago affecting an interaction with an amusement park is insane. But common law (a term of art, not just an adjective stuck to a noun) has a lot of inconvenient principles in it that limit the power of the government, and as the rule of man progresses in the US, this becomes increasingly hypothetical.
gc replaces riddles with punchlines
Why do they use PWM instead of simply passing less current?
That actually sounds like a good idea for a technical support app:

The only interaction possible is they can tell you the problem, then you can give them a list of things to try, and they can do nothing but give feedback on each step, in order, and you arent bothered until they at least respond something for each step
Would they be able to afford to care for the horse? Do they need it because they need a workhorse? It’s more of a gamble and if you’re trying to get best odds for the horse you’d probably skew towards someone that’s paying a large sum and not based on their human necessity
The article is about K programming language but I am struggling to understand a meaning of "conforming" word.
What work is in progress on making loans less limited?
That would assume that transportation departments in the US would step away from trying to boost car throughput at all costs. That’s their current MO; car travel is like a gas that expands to fit all available space.
The 2021 test was pre-planned and they didn't specify when and the duration of the tests.

Based on the outrage from the Telegram, VK (Russia's FB), and YouTube outage in 2024 caused by a similar test [0] the impact is quite high.

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/technology/russia-reports-temporary-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LafZSOtbTsI it took 10 hours.
what do you want to express?
This is my article. Thank you for your kind words, I'm glad you all enjoyed it! I was very surprised to wake up this morning to see it on HN, haha.
Planet as light as cotton candy surprises astronomers
> Last 6 years at Google

> no matter how well the interviews go I get rejection

Wow... It used to be that having Google on your resume was the easy road to getting hired...
Ok, I'll guess I'll double-down since I am getting downvotes and it is still on topic.

I would be proud of someone said that about me. I have introduced new technologies (that work well) but I have also spent a significant amount of time training juniors, that I now know could handle the stack without me. Much because of their hard work of course, but a little bit because of me.

Maybe I was a one-trick-pony and this is all I knew. Or maybe I would continue improving the products by introducing new ways of working or implementing great stuff in the future.

Neither of this will be noticeable in a future without me.

But the worst kind of senior ought to be people that leave suddenly, leaving a chaos behind them.

It is like the "hero" who creates a chaotic product and puts a 100 hour week of bugfixing just before the release.

Compared to the person who just plans a product and executes according to schedule without leaving a mark.

What do you prefer?
Its also a problem on the roads for cars/motorcycles; 4+ lanes wide, with a car in each lane going 3mph under the speed limit totally oblivious to the world around them, as traffic piles up behind them.

Common courtesy should be a more important component of the whole education process.
That's the intention. So people see the messages.

That said, modern Linux OSs send stdout to journald by default. journald should forward to some centralized logging server.
https://archive.is/S70g0
I know it's trying to do the opposite but this article comes off as a great ad for the feature. All those photos look great.
> I simply yanked the Data Communications Module (DCM) fuse on my GR Corolla, but that has the unfortunate side-effect of also disabling the microphone....

> Reading this HN post on the Chevy Volt it's starting to look to me like the general approach of installing a 50ohm "silencing antenna" could end up working for a lot of different cars out there. I'll certainly be giving it a try on my GR Corolla now so I can get the microphone back while still keeping the DCM disabled.

I started researching this again because of this, and it looks like you may need to watch out for "Dark Draws" (https://www.reddit.com/r/subaru/comments/1bn1c3a/dcm_bulleti...) where the DCM trains the battery because it couldn't make a connection. Apparently this has been a problem with some 3G based units when they shut 3G down.

It looks like Subaru, at least, has made a replacement DCM "bypass" box to allow the DCM to be removed without disabling other car features: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2024/MC-10251102-0001.pdf
Cyclists need to do a better job following the conventions and laws of the road. That would, on its own, dramatically increase safety of riders.

Cyclists are pretty much the least predictable "vehicle" on the road.

Are we a car today and following the laws? Or are we going to blaze right through that red light intersection because we're a bike! We're so close to a new Strava PR, after all! Sudden left turn across traffic - look out for me, I don't even look over my shoulder!
Show HN: I built a tool that turns every issue in the project to a tiny-invoice
Does this make sense?

So, here’s the context: I ran a product design agency for about 3 years and grew it to 6 figures. For those 3 years, we never got the invoice cleared on time.

We would chat with the client regularly, 2-3 times a week on average, get some work approved to move on. But, when it came to the invoice, it never got paid on time.

So, I thought, how about we turn each task into an invoice that gets auto paid on approval from the client. Like an escrow, but on a much granular-task level.

This ensures work is paid on time regularly, and there’s no need to raise invoices, follow ups or get stressed due to payment delays.

I have a few dozen users on the beta waitlist, too.

What do you guys think?
Yep, I still remember the feeling when I first developed at least some mental model for all the steps along the way from "enter" to seeing the results, and realized that it was even more shockingly complex than I imagined it to be when it was just magic, and that despite that complexity, it all actually works many billions of times every moment of every day.

Then what happened is that pretty much every year (maybe closer to every day) since then I have learned about some piece of the puzzle where my mental model was actually nowhere near the truth, and that each individual puzzle piece is even more complex than I thought! Truly wild stuff.
It's going to be nearly impossible to validate wartime journalism now, and it's can easily be weaponized for misinformation.
Having run my own tourism business (so dealing with consumers directly, rather than b2b), and having spoken to many other business owners, this is counterintuitively true.

My worst customers were the ones that ask for discounts, or are otherwise looking for a deal. My theory is that people that happily fork out for an expensive product have already seen the value.

There are exceptions, but a lot of business owners see the same pattern.
The article says "If you don’t have the vocabulary to describe a problem it is unlikely that you will be able to fix it."

I fundamentally disagree with this. You don't need to know design jargon to identify bad design or to make good design. What you need is to understand what the user is likely to know and what you need to tell them. This is different than just providing controls, which is what most design by engineers looks like.

For example, I would characterize the overall design problems with the UX as:

1. Users need to understand at a glance how each control input is currently influencing the course of the ship. Separately the users need to understand at a glance what the resultant course and position of the ship will be given the current control inputs and external factors like wind and current.

2. Users need to understand at a glance which station is controlling the ship, with intuitive controls to offer to pass control to, or accepting control from, a different station.

So I can describe the problem without using any UI jargon. Similarly I can refer to these to indicate why the current UI is broken, again without UI jargon, simply by saying "it doesn't solve problem 2 because the state is unclear" or whatever.
I'm not saying ignore it just don't pretend we know what the Founders intended with every little nuance of language to justify your own preferred interpretation. Every other part of law and jurisprudence deals with the words as they are written not trying to scry into the past to peek in side the mind of dead men to figure out what they would have thought they meant and wanted to do.

And again how can you have commerce without labor? It's not separable from the rest of the process.
Very relatable, had a similar experience.
> crud apps end up with thousands of nearly identical queries which are mostly just boringly spelling out the chain of joins that needs to be applied.

I think EdgeDB [0] is on the right track here. It's a database built on Postgres, but with a different query language. So instead of manually fiddling with JOIN statements, traversing linked tables just looks like dot notation:

select BlogPost.author.email; # get all author emails

[0] https://www.edgedb.com/
> I think the term 'social engineering' gets right to the point.

"Social engineering" is just dystopian newspeak for "deception, manipulation, lying, and bullshitting to get what you want". If honest language were used, maybe it wouldn't look so sexy.

Anything else that avoids immoral means is just a matter of rhetorical skill and ability to negotiate.