skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Profanity can be removed with a regular expression.

Not easily. cf "Scunthorpe Problem" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

> What counts as "hate speech" is necessarily impossible

Most problems like this can be broken into "the easy bit" and "the rest". Focusing on the thorny problems in "the rest" is a mistake if you want to do something about the easy bit (and a tactic, if you want to avoid it).

There are a few reasonable ways to approach this, free-speach maximimalist only one of them. I'm sure there are unreasonable ways too.
The problem with "games" is that the designers often have a goal already in mind, and then give players the tools to reach that goal. For any meaningful analysis, you need to understand the artist (game designer) to fully understand the art (game). While SimCity carries its own biases, I highly doubt a game developed for activist conference is any more impartial.

Utopias in general are a great demonstration of man's hubris, and we have known that forever. The Tower of Babel is perhaps the oldest fable warning against such fallacies, and Bruegel perfectly captured it in his renderings. Ford and Disney both attempted planned cities (Fordlandia and Epcot respectively), and failed. Utopia designers like SimCity wash away all that makes a city (people, struggles, relationships), and replaces it with a Map. Any simulation, no matter how noble, falls victim to the same problem that the Map is not the Land. If anything, its all a bike shedding operation of trying to fix something which we have control over, instead of what we do not, just to fulfill our Ego. How many city planners really care about the people over just imposing their own vision of ideal upon the populace?
Why do they use > instead of /?

It's Horrible.

They also do not indicate when the result is a .pdf or a document.

The best feature that google killed was advanced filtering. If instead of privacy brave gave me that, I'll sell my soul in a heartbeat!
Designing MFA for Humans
Part-time classes, although this would definitely be impossible in my current job, and I imagine that’s true for most software developers today.
Have you visited Scunthorpe England or Fucking Austria lately?
Good luck! FWIW in the past I've been happiest working on a project with a small team that has some clear product goals - maybe your current company can provide something like that?

Re: compensation, I think it's important to realize whether or not more money will make you happy. If you feel undervalued it might, but you might be chasing two rabbits trying to switch projects and get a raise simultaneously.

Personally I've made way above-market for the past 5 years, bought a house, and the only benefit is now I have a safety cushion so I can take time off to recover. I would have traded comp for a more fulfilling job, in retrospect.
The downvotes show how little the HN audience knows about economics and geopolitics, making dumbass statements like

> Modern life is pretty damn great but let's not kid ourselves that it's basically theft from the poor and the young.
I'd throw one more in there

* cut back or cut out recreational drugs

Having a beer or six has a pleasant way of making problems tomorrow problems. But it's a vicious circle.
> The team said the magnitude of the effect increased with the amount of coffee consumed, up to about three to four cups a day, “beyond which further increases in consumption provided no additional benefit”.

> A reduction in risk was also found when instant, decaffeinated and ground coffee were considered separately – although the latter linked to the largest effect.

The article also notes that the information was gathered with a one-time questionnaire, and that diet and exercise are important factors (of course).

I cut alcohol more than a year ago, and go on and off with coffee (The hardest relative luxury for me to let go, after chocolate, which I do go without unless someone offers). I’m curious what the inflection point is with coffee; how little confers benefit, below which are diminishing returns? Or is it linear up to the 3-4 cup cutoff?
It’s almost like when you read an article that says point A is “about” 16 km from point B
this happens at every company in most nordic countries. You take 1-2 months of every summer.
While I don't seem to have all the information here, what I do have is enough to make a really good suggestion. I have some of the same issues with goofing off and such like that. So with this, a couple of questions.

1. Do you find yourself avoiding work you don't want to do outside of the job?
2. Was this a problem in school?
3. Have you talked to a doctor about this?

Number three is the most important. I have ADHD, and it sounds like you might too. Go see your doctor as soon as you can. Once you know what's going on, you can make yourself a plan to improve yourself.
I would like to suggest that if anyone here is still using a classic alarm that begins to blare at full volume as soon as it hits your wake up time, please, do yourself a favor and get a gradual alarm.

Personally, I use Sleepcycle, which allows you to select a 30 minute period you would like to be woken up. Additionally, it tracks your sleep and does it quite well. I also have 2 Hue lights that gradually turn on in the beginning of this 30 minute cycle. In the winter, I have a heater that begins warming my room up about an hour before I wake up. The combination of the light, heat, and sound slowly wakes me up and it has legit been life changing.

You don't have to do all that, but even just an alarm that gradually turns up the volume on a pleasant sound will do wonders for your mornings. Instead of jolting you awake, you will be gradually woken from your sleep.

I was camping the other week and a friend forgot to turn his phone alarm off and it was the most unpleasant morning experience I've had in years. I did not realize people still use those. Get a gradual alarm, you will thank me.
It is interesting - but note that context matters a lot. "You're a fucking idiot" and "Your cake recipe was fucking delicious" should be treated very differently by moderators.

Edit: Maybe I'm a bit off-topic though. As for the question of whether two hateful comments should be weighted differently because one is based on race/gender/etc and one is just generalized anger, you could reframe that conversation as one about whether you agree with the concept of protected classes or not. Does hate against blacks produce more societal harm than hate against people who said somebody's preferred car manufacturer was shitty? I think so, even if the hate is just as loud and irrational in both cases. But it's definitely not a clear cut answer in every case.
Speaking as somebody who never stopped optimizing like its the 90s: there's definitely a learning curve, but when microbenchmarking becomes a reflex, you learn your language in depth and the burden drops quickly. It only seems esoteric to you because the industry has collectively decided that Grace Hopper is an old codger who doesn't need to be listened to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyFDBPk4Yw
Agree. Getting too hung up on what the T&C say is missing the point. You can put whatever you want in a contract, but if it’s very unpalatable to your customers, whether or not you can legally do it will be a moot point.
Profanity is objective and can be detected mostly in an automated way. Which means it may not be THAT useful to remove it, but it's EASY to remove it, and the decisions are not CONTROVERSIAL.

While concepts like "hate speech" very easily turn into arbitrary censorship. So it's easy to say people should focus on hate speech more, but there be dragons.
Peloton Tread owners now forced into monthly subscription after recall
Presumably the fallback happens server side, and presumably the google/bing queries are cloaked so your IP isn't making it to google/bing.

Curious why you wouldn't use bing/google even if your queries are "proxied" through Brave servers? (Assuming Brave isn't also sending your IP, etc, when they submit the query to google/bing)
Please don't do this!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
Amazon's margins are in line with most supermarket chains.
You're using the wrong terms. Add "advanced manufacturing" to the query to get some idea of the current state of things. I toured a new automotive plant over 10 years ago and up until the final configuration stage, the only manual labor was cabling and quality control. This included sheet metal unloading and delivery (from rail), stamping of the chassis, welding, paint, installation of doors, hood, suspension, etc, powertrain installation, and many others. From my estimate, 2/3 of the factory was very close to being "lights out." The entire welding and paint process was fully automated and required a line stop to enter the area.
Have to briefly chime in here to partially defend Rails :)

I agree that immutable data structures > mutable data structures, and while I don't have experience working with Elixir, it's high on my list of new technologies to play around with when I have time. However, although in theory you can go wild mutating your objects and monkeypatching in Rails, in practice those features have never really been a pain point in any of the Rails applications I've worked on, both in personal and professional contexts. Unless you're a very new programmer who doesn't know any better, you're hopefully not mutating the request object in Rails in hidden places, or monkeypatching Object#to_json (for example).

Rather, the difficult parts have been deciding what logic lives where, and other issues more common to web applications overall than Rails specifically. If anything, Rails' convention-driven philosophy (which it sounds like Phoenix follows as well) makes development significantly easier than it otherwise would be, in my experience.
Do you have a source for this information?
Patreon CEO Jack Conte on why creators can’t depend on platforms
There's great advice already in this thread so I won't repeat it all. I'll just say that I've been really struggling with burn out lately too. The worst part about it is the things you don't get done because of burn out still need to get done, and it can become a positive feedback loop of doom.

Above all DO NOT FEEL BAD. One of my good friends is a public figure who is known for being unbelievably productive, and he recently burned out and had to recharge too. Burn out is nothing to be ashamed of.

I spent a week going to the mountains and not looking at my computer for anything, and it helped me a ton. I'll be back burned out soon though if I don't change something. I need less work/burden so I have to cut something. It won't be easy to decide however.
I thought you were arguing how HK’s NSL is similar to US’s FARA, in the case of Apple Daily’s closure. [0]

11 hours ago you argued in another thread [1] as if you knew a lot about Apple Daily and HK law. But apparently not so anymore.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27587603

> Turn it around, if a newspaper in the US was asked to explain ties to Xi Jinping or Putin before a court would that be of note? […] You can argue that it's a bad thing, but this isn't something unieq to HK.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27588235

> If Apple Daily and Jimmy Lai had no contact at all with foreign agents, it would have applied unambiguously.
I'm wondering how this censoring process you envision actually played out at Google. Like did an executive tell an underling to hide this information from the world? I'm genuinely curious.
work smarter, not harder ;-)
You could try to build it on top of Rizin[1][2] library. In particular see the `dm` commands and subcommands. Let us know if something is unclear or missing or doesn't work as you would expect.

[1] https://rizin.re

[2] https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin
Until the regulators intervene, the trend of turning product ownership into subscription would continue. Makers of the locked down smart products are also opposing the right to repair.

I wish it were a common knowledge that proprietary IoT devices are related to planned obsolescence, and therefore are bad for environment. The climate and environment activists have a stronger voice than consumer rights or privacy activists. It would be nice to join forces and lobby laws against this kind of predatory behavior.
US Chamber of Commerce criticizes Big Tech antitrust legislation as 'dangerous'
Exactly! In Elixir, structs are just a special case of a map with a little bit of compile-time field checking magic. At runtime it's all the same. It's so easy to see the shape of things and figure out where stuff came from. Also, `|> IO.inspect(label: "...")` is one of my favorite things ever in getting my head wrapped around a new struct I haven't encountered before.
Really nice tool to code FPGA, and hopefully by introducing more powerful tools will encourage and enable more people to utilize FPGA in their products and solutions design.

Just wondering if you are also planning to support FIRRTL in addition to Verilog? It is an intermediate representation for later versions of Chisel and previous discussions on HN [1].

In your Silice descriptions, you did mention about utilizing Lua, can you explain its relationship with Silice?

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21340009
Indeed, IRV is possibly the worst of the ranked-choice systems, but it's still an improvement on plurality systems. I like approval voting just because it's got a good combination of "easy to understand" and "much less strategic voting." A complicated, but theoretically superior system could erode trust in the voting system.
What’s the average screen time of these five year olds?

Intuitively, this seems like a simple result of over screening because kids don’t behave like devices.

Every time I go to a family restaurant, I see a tiny kid (frequently too young to even speak) sitting with a phone or iPad watching and maybe swiping away. And usually I experience a tantrum when that kid has to break away from their screen to do something in the real world.

If young kids spend more time with youtube than friends, that’s going to result in lots of stuff.

Fun fact, if you ever bring up how screens are bad for little kids you will fight with parents.
Seems quite fast, good UX overall. I like that it gives me information like "all results from Brave" so that if they do fall back I know about it.

DDG has a 'bang syntax' where I can do things like '!rust' to start searching the rust docs from my url - I like that a lot, I wonder if there's anything similar here or if I could work around that somehow.
Most of the apps in this space that are doing really well (Youversion, Abide, etc.) are geared more towards making the Bible quick and easy. This is great, but I believe people also need an easy way to learn on a deeper level. Videos are the starting point, but I hope to add more ways to accomplish this. My vision is to help "bridge the gap" between academia and the everyday Bible reader.

The video content is reviewed (currently by me via an admin portal). All the videos are publicly available (Youtube and Vimeo).

A real business model is TBD. It's currently more of a "passion project" but if I can gain enough traction I think there's some interesting ideas for monetization and partnerships.
Hey friend, seriously, don't feel stupid. You're the exact opposite of stupid - you've recognized that something isn't right, you're intelligent enough to know you have power over it and you're brave enough to ask Hacker News. If anything, be incredibly proud of yourself right now - this is huge. You're doing something absolutely huge and wickedly inspiring.

Running and fitness are a huge part of my life and have helped me overcome all sorts of bullshit. I went through a really nasty health scare and if it hadn't been for running (it was technically waddling at the time) I would have either died or killed myself. Running fixed my problems in three ways - I started sleeping, eating and living better.

Running has also given a sense of where I bonk and when I need to take a break. I've sometimes been guilty of working myself too hard when I need a break. The 'joy' of running is that whenever I do that, I need a physical therapist. Over the last few years, this has turned into an 'I don't care' attitude about things related to my health. I'm tired but need to get something done? Who cares? I'm bonking. I'm tired at 75 miles and don't want to do the last 25? Fuck it, who cares??? I just ran 75 miles....

Otherwise, believe in yourself and love the hell out of yourself. I'm in my mid 40s and seriously bud, I'm beaming with pride. You are the realest of the real deals. You have got this. Reach out if you need friend or running partner.
The talk about optimized programs today made me remind VirtualDub. I have used it a lot to convert file formats, editing and tweaking. It’s blog is also great, especially when it was about optimizing something vs bloat. A very enjoyable software that helped me out a lot! Anyone else remember it?
Need to be clear on difference between political speech and hate speech.

Disagreeing with someone is not hate speech.
Yet that is an easy way to shutdown your opponent.
At least they are trying to build an actual index instead of rebranding Bing like duck duck.
>Finding out exactly which items are and are not good enough is expensive, and therefore the items are just discarded.

Correction. It's expensive in comparison to the cost of discarding (including disposal/environmental damage fees).

Which is something we can actually change.
Stopped reading when the author began complaining about SimCity not including enough Race Relation management features.
Gold’s industrial use is low because of it’s high price not it’s utility. Drop it’s price by say 95% long term and it’s use by industry would dramatically increase, and mining would tank. Eventually after the already mined gold was used up it’s value would shoot back up.

Conversely, this means it’s value as a hedge is also going to stay. Some can take gold today burry it in a hole and know it’s going to still be valuable when they or their descendent pulls it out of the ground in 50 years. It’s not going to appreciate they way stocks do, but it’s also not going to 0 the way stocks occasionally do either.
I'm waiting for someone to get our corporate VPN on a blacklist just by clicking the button and hitting a honeypot. Granted, it's what I get for hitting the button without reading the code, so, shame on me?
It is now; it was left out of the submission title despite being part of the article's.
In agreement with the other reply: the symptoms came on fairly slowly, though for some reason the symptoms left quite quickly when she stopped eating beef.
There is a certain subset of programmers who get away with this at work. But if you're posting this, it sounds like you're torn between the comfortable quality of life you're living now, and the boredom and knowing you could be doing more.

Some ideas:

* Can you do a rotation on a different team? (For example, if you're devops, you might learn a lot on SRE/ops.)

* Can you start side projects at work, for work?
> Why is this a federal issue at all?

Because of federal drug laws.

> Isn't criminal prosecution supposed to be a state issue.

No; the reason the Bill of Rights has procedural controls on federal criminal prosecutions (which were later applied to state prosecutions by way of the 14th Amendment and incorporation doctrine) is because criminal prosecution was always one of the tools designed to be used by the federal government in executing authority within its assigned domains of responsibility, which always included (among others) regulating trade among the states and between the US and foreign nations.
Reminder that Brave has done some morally questionable things in the past:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser)#Controvers...

They've since corrected both of those things, but those are enough for me to choose not to trust them as an organization.
And yet, they have been spoofed in the past, multiple times, by opponents weaker than Russia.

Instead of breaking the encryption, you just replay delayed signals.
This is quite ambitious and overarching. Example use-cases include bank applications, renting a car, verifying age at a a nightclub.

From the FAQ:

> How can I obtain a European Digital Identity Wallet?

> Member States will offer the wallet to their citizens and residents at the national level. Everyone will be able to download, install and use the European Digital Identity Wallet on their personal smartphone or device.

I have a very strong concern that this will be only for iOS and Android, and very likely closed source.

There is a line being crossed when Google and Apple control society like this. It is very important that the spec is open and accessible and unpermissioned implementations are universally accepted. If I (or someone else) puts in the work, I should be able to verify my age on a device of my choice.

Aside from that I am not surprised to be disappointed about that the only alre thing I see is sharing for information and documents. This would have been a great opportunity to introduce a standard protocol for attestations; so a provider can attest I fulfill certain criteria without need to disclose documents or private information.

For example the government could attest to my age without needing to disclose my exact birth date.
Why is this?

I get that it's not easy to build a good search engine, but on the surface it doesn't seem to be that hard a technical problem to solve either. Is it simply that the R&D required to build something competitive is too high for most companies?
I've been using it as default for few weeks. No complaints
It's about the implied world view. If you think black people or gay people are inferior then that's obviously a really harmful attitude to have (and one that has a long history of causing severe injustices to people on those groups).

Is calling someone a "fucking idiot" even any more offensive than just calling them an idiot? I don't see why.
> The Performance P270 slots in as the lower-performance eight-stage, dual-issue, in-order processor that supports RISC-V Vector Extension v1.0, which SiFive says makes it an ideal candidate to replace SIMD architectures.

I did not understand this part. "lower-performance" and "in-order" suggest this is a simpler processor, but it could replace SIMD? is SIMD used in embedded contexts?

(asking for clarification, not trying to suggest the article is wrong.)
Yeah, the guilty feeling sucks, I also had a devops job where I worked 2-3 hours a day. I finally found a more demanding job that required 4-6 hours of work per day. Being remote also helped instead of trying to keep up appearances in the office.
Plus social media & potentially even ISPs looking to sell user data, I wouldn’t be surprised if every aspect of your online life is fed into a system like this. And simply hiding your traffic won’t be good enough because not using these things would be considered abnormal — not having active (and well behaved) social media presence could be a big detriment to a score like this. Something that employers are likely to look at too.

On the one hand I appreciate the stuff a company like Apple does around privacy, but on the other they comply with whatever laws are in place in a given country. So we have to hope the state of our democracy improves because effectively becoming a one-party state changes the game — then we actually have to worry the government will encourage or mandate dystopian systems like this. Good actors in the private sector won’t be good enough to mitigate if that happens.