skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you don't want to use this system that makes it easy, fair enough.

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is interesting, but it's missing the parts around the amplification and institutionalization processes.

Imagine if all of the world's troubling content were in the 'comments section'. Would anyone care? No. The 'comments section' doesn't get widely distributed, it's not backed by institutions or influential individuals etc..

In order for these kerfluffles to have impact they need to be picked up on by supposedly credible institutions, with a wide reach.

If the 'Cancel This Person' Tweet were to stay entirely on Twitter among regular people - nobody would care that much.

But when the media gets hold, backs it, propagates it, institutions start to adjust possibly by making statements, withholding funding etc. - that's what causes major concern and material influence.

More powerful systems and forces use statements made by individuals (often decontextualized) as fodder in their wars over attention, money and ideology.
And the road between .net core 1 > .net core 2 > .net core 3 was extremely bumpy.
"I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
Those rows are "straight" in a way that looks roughly right from up high, or from head height, but you can see the exact problem they're talking about in several of those pictures you linked; farms are "straight" to a few centimeters over a few tens of meters, but they're not "straight" down to sub-single centimeter deviation over 30 meters. And while it may be possible to have _some_ farms operate that way, how does this system interact with places where that won't work? What about places like the Palouse region of Washington, where you'll see farms stretching for tens of kilometers, but they have to do so over rolling hills[1]?

Large, flat, level areas aren't that common, while major-to-minor deviations from flat-and-level are very common. The grandparent comment is I believe rightly asking "how does this 'farm bot' solve the problems of real farms?" I agree, this looks less like a farm-bot and more like a "serious gardener bot", which is a different niche.

[1] - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palouse_hills_northe...
Article: "diagnosing people from afar is a bad idea" (diagnoses people from afar)

Reason that diagnosis from afar is illegitimate isn't just that you don't have enough information (but there's that). Just as important is that "real", official, mental health diagnoses generally don't make sense without the context that a given person isn't functioning in society, has violated some institutional norm, etc.

The role of mental health basically is to look at someone who's considered non-functional and classify how they're non-functional. If someone, mental health professional or otherwise, looks at someone in society and doesn't like how they're functioning but society is OK with this, that person can say society or some part of it is insane but collective insanity is a manifestly different phenomena than an individual diagnosis.

Edit: Behavior some consider bad, that some people get away with and that is actually prized by some other section of society (whether it be hitting on women or taking ultra-moralist stances or trolling generally or whatever) can't be official, institutionally defined insanity, even I don't might informally various actions "crazy" (which indeed occasionally offends people in the present context).

Edit2: Another I'd put is that the specific tools of the mental health professional aren't tools for understanding people in general and aren't tools for understanding bad behavior outside a context where it's debilitating bad behavior. In those contexts, sociologists, maybe, something specific to say but to a large extent, specialized knowledge by itself may given an advantage and someone tossing around psychiatric terms in this is kind of engaging in pseudo-science.
Don't do it, then. Try homeopathy or whatever thing feels good for you.
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Just imagine what the internet would be like if we hadn't broken up the AOL/CompuServe monopoly on online services!

As they said in 1997, “The reality is that AOL is cyberspace."[1]

This is an interesting perspective btw on how the Microsoft settlement set the stage for the rise of Google, etc.:

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/6/17827042/antitrust-1990s-m...
It’s barely related, but it makes me smile slightly that Pokémon Go is still the cross-platform standard bearer for excessive battery drain even five years after launch.
How will breaking up the biggest U.S. tech firms not make them more vulnerable to Chinese influence -- where, notably, the biggest firms like ZTE and Huawei have already since at least 2012 (i.e. based on E.U. agencies reports at the time) been receiving tens of billions (in USD) of funding, specifically for the purpose of outcompeting foreign (i.e. primarily western) contenders? Notably, at the time (I believe around 2012) it was found that Huawei and ZTE were backed by $30 billion and $15 billion in government financing (via central bank), respectively.
I don't think it's anthropomorphism so much as logical deduction. Our planet's chemical makeup has been advertising its life-supporting properties for millions of years. Lately we've been (perhaps foolishly) advertising ourselves to the galaxy via radio, etc. Surely it would be interesting to other observers in the galaxy.

Perhaps by setting off nuclear weapons, we advertised ourselves as a potential threat, inviting more scrutiny.

Here's an article that discusses this concept in more detail, if you're interested:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lets-search-for-a...

Also, Stellaris is a great game for these thought experiments. =)
D is a programming language that's currently used, B is not.
This whole trope of recasting "anti-X" as "X-phobic" is something that really irks me. Maybe there's a group of closeted X who doth protest too much, but there's generally a much larger group of people who are just assholes to X, and trying to spin it as "they're just afraid of you" smacks too much of the old "the bullies are just jealous". No, often it's not jealousy, it's just people being assholes to targets they think can't fight back.
Exactly. The 'God' discussed here seems to imply ethics which the creator of all things would not be subject to. Why would the creator of all things have an issue with killing folks via weather, since all humans die?
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When talking about raw local performance ("why my 4 cores today work similar or worse than 1 core yesterday?") I think part of the answer is: because yesterday we had comparatively less software, but it was written in closer to the metal languages (i.e. C/C++ and similar) while now there are x1000 more devs out there, most of them looking into writing their desktop applet with JavaScript / other languages similarly far from the metal, and wanting to know as little as possible about the hardware, thus relying on dozens of abstraction layers just to make their lives much easier (and their softwate much crappier).

Typical counterpoint is VSCode, wtitten in Electron. But you know, VSCode has had some serious engineering and optimisation effort ($$$) so not really a typical example at all.
1. Does not really matter to the argument; you cannot do E2EE on the desktop with such an account. But you could on the mobile device, once you install the app there. They call it "device of origin".

2. Which one? There are several and the one I'm running (the official one; brew cask telegram-desktop) does not.

3. They are third party and if it doesn't work nicely or has missing functionality ("why are not my chats from other devices there?"), Telegram devs can still point fingers that's not the official client and should be discussed with the third party developers. Ultimately, they will find out why the original Telegram doesn't do it.

4. Signal doesn't do cloud messages as Telegram does. You might have noticed that functionality like that makes Telegram much more popular among normal users.
> Have you considered that part of the reason why DNS is ultra efficient is that it's a relatively constrained dataset of small but meaningful data objects?

I’m not sure it is. The size of DNSSEC responses are not insignificant. The apex for many domains is polluted with utter garbage:
dig target.com TXT

The DNS is ultra efficient because it’s cached and distributed, yes packet sizes are relatively small but a standard NUM record would be smaller than the original udp packet limit of 512.
It's cool in a technical way, but is it practical? I think drip irrigation is more practical. Or other irrigation methods other than water over canopy.
Genuine question: what are the “long line” or the phase space of the cosmic fluid?

I found the Wikipedia page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_line_(topology) but like a lot of such pages, they are opaque unless you are familiar with the topic. Consequently, I have no idea if this is the long line you are referring to.

Oh, and which xkcd comics?
Signal has server-side chat history, no? And the protocol is open. So that part of the argument is moot.
Stars and Stripes:

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2021-06-25/ufos-military...
Bypass paywall: https://archive.ph/v9mZM
GNU/right, please
Does humanity-collectively == God? Then maybe someday yeah https://web.archive.org/web/19970429012543/http://www.au.af....
Yeah, if you go to your profile and turn on “showdead”, you’ll see a lot more stuff. There are some mod actions that aren’t explicitly visible — they can boot comments to the bottom, for example, despite upvote count. But it’s a good compromise.

And I don’t think it would be a good idea for every action to be public. Maybe. It’s one of those things that requires some thought. There are a surprising number of “behind the scenes” actions, and all of them being public would just ignite a lot of “why would you do such a thing” type debate, which is both a distraction and usually mistaken.

Sometimes it’s not mistaken, though, so your idea isn’t without merit.
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Angel or Devil, I don't care

For in front of that door

There is you

-DB
What's the preferred alternative to disposable plastic?
Sorry mister. I must have brain ghosts.
I think that's what these people are doing at Project Final Fantasy 6. I haven't delved into the details but the screen shots look just like Octopath Traveler.
Ask HN: From idea to feature – how does your agile process look like?
Hey HN!
Long time lurker here. I'm really interested in how your agile workflow looks like. I've never had a single project that wasn't a clusterfuck. Features generally look like:

"Let's do X" without any thoughts about UX, side effects etc. thats all done on the fly while implementing the stories of the feature.

A lot of the time you start stories just to stop it in the middle because there are some sort of blockers.

In my ideal world the process should look like this:
1. start with an idea that is backed by actual user feedback, an assumption based on your personas that you can validate afterwards or a business requirement.
2. plan out the idea. Have discussions about nfr's / technical requirements, add wireframes / ux concepts, have concrete goals (what problem do you want to solve). At this stage there also could be some user stories / tasks (rough stage) to the feature / idea.
3. the feature is now "ready for dev"

But in reality this is rarely the case. Is this an organizational problem (and i was just unlucky with all the organizations i worked for)?

If it is an organizational problem: How does your process look like and what tools do you use along the way?

Cheers!
FWIW, I've switched to Greenshot and I couldn't be happier. So many useful features. I donated to the developers due to the annotation features alone.
Great comment. The only things I would add:

1. The seamless integration to things like containers (working with Docker Desktop is fantastic - and you can debug your code inside the container).

2. Razor pages. I gave up on hideously complicated SPA and use Razor now. The user experience is similar but it's a lot more secure generating everything on the server.

3. Deploy to AWS ECS or AWS Lambda with a few clicks. You need the AWS tools installed in Visual Studio but as a one man shop this is insanely productive.

4. Write it on Windows, deploy it on anything. The two use cases I use the most are things like Linux based containers but also ancient Windows servers in client environments where the infrastructure guys don't want to install new libraries. I wrote a small web slurping utility that had to be deployed on an old Windows Server 2012 machine and the self contained executable just worked without having to install anything else.

.NET Core has been fantastic for me.
Every YC compant is different. YC provides investment and coaching for senior leadership. YC companies are startups with the good and bad of that.
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I'm pretty sure Rust can run in the browser via WASM.
> but not at the same time.

The initial two F-18's had two people each.
That bug would be there with Wine/Proton too. They would run the same display server.
Once you've a few people in control of who can be heard, you're back to serfdom days.
The internet was supposed to bring a voice to everyone, now there's massive gatekeepers at a scale never known to man.
Anyone can be cancelled, only FB, Twitter n Google know what the 'truth' is.
End of day it's the equivalent of CCP, which people in the west dread so much.
Orwell, would be having nightmares right now.
I've been astounded by the number of free pianos I see on Facebook marketplace. I totally get the allure (and used to play a bit myself), but I fear it's a dying art.
The claim is that humans consume the equivalent of a credit card sized amount of plastic a week. See this article from ABC:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/humans-consume-equivalent-credit-c...

This "credit card" bit got popularized in news media because it was mentioned in this brochure put out by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) on plastic ingestion:
https://awsassets.panda.org/downloads/plastic_ingestion_pres...

Their claim in turn comes from this study from the University of Newcastle that was prepared specifically for the WWF (which suggests a potential conflict of interest), according to the list of references in the WWF brochure above. However, I'm not able to find the actual full paper anywhere, and this page last noted that it was being reviewed for publication:
https://www.newcastle.edu.au/newsroom/featured/plastic-inges...
I also don't buy their security excuse for not releasing info on whose power never got turned off.

If the ERCOT Grid was really concerned about cyber attacks they wouldn't be partnering with Bitcoin mining companies that have access to the grid, and have a special partnership with ERCOT.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/layer1-launches-bit...
I see a lot of people refuting this data, yet provide no counter evidence. Let's remove politics from this, is YouTube being deceptive? I am honestly asking.

I have noticed in the past controversial videos have their views/dislikes reset. Anecdotal, but I would like to see if there is truth to vote and view manipulation.

Hell look at sometimes how manipulated the trending pages are. I remember for months low view count Jimmy Kimmel clips were boosted to trending. Logged in or not. Seems like mainstream Hollywood stuff is far more likely to trend.

YouTube is silent about explaining why this happens. It can't all possibly be spam and bots.
Molecules obey known laws of physics and can in principle be simulated exactly. That is not practical with present-day computers because it's quantum-mechanical and has an exponentially large state space. Heuristic and approximate methods are used to pare this down, sacrificing absolute truth, leading to results that are not very reliable. That is why experiments are still done in chemistry labs even though everything that happens in a chemistry lab has been "understood" since the 1930s.

Chemists focus in on the least simulatable problems because most interesting chemistry happens right on the border of not happening at all. Molecules that are very easy to calculate are ones that small energy errors don't matter for. That makes them either incredibly stable or incredibly unstable, but chemistry happens near the boundary.
Telegram does have E2EE in secret chats. WhatsApp does NOT have E2EE because it backs up your private keys to cloud storage by default. Even if you don't, your contacts might. Therefore WhatsApp is less secure.
> I'd also wager it's probably by design impossible for us detect.

Humans are orders of magnitude smarter than dolphins, yet that doesn't prevent humans from experimenting on them.
That's the point, its impossible.

We cannot force individual consumers to become chemists, and interrogate every material they come across.

In many cases the materials are completely unknown. Is the PFAS used on a Big Mac burger wrapper listed in its ingredients?
There's zero chance anyone will seriously consider using this without the source code being available. :) So I am not too worried. The author would be ending up shooting themselves in the foot if they keep it that way for long.
Just remember to price all the equity/options at $0 as you go with the decision making (and double check it's not actually potentially negative, can happen in some cases due to taxes), as you're not a diversified fund with tens/hundreds of companies in your portfolio (which helps with smoothing out the volatility, as well as being able to handle the complexity of the capital structure).
Oh my gosh!

Sorry if it seemed that I was speaking about you directly.

I never thought fusion startup founders would hang out on HN! I've always imagined you guys would only interact in long email chains with .edu domains :)

> But I still wish the current set of researchers all the luck in the world, because successful fusion power production could do so much for the world

What about the contemporaries of those who succeed? Given the time slot in which you tried this might not apply to you anymore, because entrepreneurs like athletes need to be judged against their contemporaries, different eras don't matter.

As I was saying, according to your judgement, if General Fusion were to succeed at some point in 2035+, what would be the impact on the Commonwealth Fusion guys?

Do you think that the quality of life provided by fusion would still exceed the financial and morale blow of failure? I mean once a person sees their competitors succeed big (and the value of their own enterprise going to 0) does that entails a situation when said quality of life becomes "pushing on a string" and there's no return psychologically speaking? Even if it's something like fusion?
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It means that Linus used to be fairly brusk when he was younger (basis: e.g. flipping people off and telling people to "fuck off"), and recently he has apologized for his behavior (basis: the link you shared). To me this is him mellowing out in his old age. His younger self might not have agreed with this mellowing out, seeing it as unnecessary (basis: his responses previous to the apology to other people who called him out on his behavior). The fact that he apologized means that even he realized that he did not care too much before, but now he does, and therefore he wanted to make up for what he has done.
This is a poor title. What part of advanced technology and flying at considerable speed without discernable means of propulsion rules out aliens? Aliens weren't confirmed, or even mentioned, but my reading of the report is that aliens are more likely an explanation than I thought them to be yesterday, not less.
Just reading that, my skin crawls and I can feel the nucleation of an icy fear in the back of my mind. Not just no, but Hell Fucking No.

I argue that those genuinely arguing for such a system fail to realize just how quickly it can and will be weaponized against themselves.
What freightening is that as oil as an energy sound declines so will the price of oil and therefore the price of plastic.

Whether you believe in humans being the driving force behind climate change or not, the fact is oil and its byproducts generate pollution. Pollution that's harmful to living things.
Plastics that consumers end up being responsible for the end-of-life, those need to go. And if consumers need to have it, at least that plastic-like-material must be fully biodegradable, without nano or toxic byproducts or leftovers.

Plastics that are used for health/industry/logistics, I think those are fine.

At the very least, lets stop doing insane stuff like putting BPA on receipts...
Signal chat history is client-side. You have to explicitly "back up" and "restore" messages to move to a new device, and if you lose your phone, your chat history is gone forever.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...
It's bothersome that you don't admit that your false statement was false and continue to double down with irrelevant discussion. Telegram has E2EE therefore you are wrong.

"Telegram is not E2EE" is factually incorrect.

WhatsApp has E2EE however it ships your private keys to cloud storage by default. So it's even less secure than Telegram.
Mass Observation in the UK is an entirely different, but contemporary approach to documenting people's views of the period. Diaries mostly, from a range of people across the UK in peace and wartime. They didn't harvest these after the fact, they actively recruited people at the time.

Now archived at Sussex university. Angus Calder's work on ww2 "the peoples war" leveraged it.

http://www.massobs.org.uk/

it would be interesting to compare the underlying patterns. The WPA had a leftist view, so did Mass Observation
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By far, the worst thing I ever done was Game Development. I poured years of starting my career into it. I worked at Sony in the UK then Bizarre Creations and had a wee go at Rockstar North. Bizarre Creations was amazing, and everything else was terrible.

Not too long after, the financial crisis hit and I found myself working on the Flash Runtime just to earn a crust (my partner and I had just got a house and her father was diagnosed with cancer so I was kind of stuck in the wrong location).

Then Stevo came along and that ended any hope of continuing with Flash Runtime. I eked out some work with Scaleform.

Then Typescript came out, then Angular, and now I work 1% of the effort for 10000%+ uptake on my salary and never looked back.

Game development is genuinely a mugs game and I'd urge everyone not to do it.
Reusable materials: Metal/wood utensils. Glass cups. Washable containers. Paper. The list is extensive. The only downside is slightly higher cost.
Parent comment is evergreen. It could have been written in 1996.

I feel the same way. But as we curmudgeons stand athwart history, the whole of software development is moving toward the largest sizes the technology will allow.
Per week on average according to a study "K. Senathirajah, T. Palanisami, University of Newcastle, How much microplastics are we ingesting? Estimation of the mass of microplastics ingested.Report for WWF Singapore, May 2019"

Obviously it varies person to person but if you drink water, breathe air or use table salt, you are still ingesting plastics on a daily basis.
Is there anything in particular that YC does to set up employment structures/ways of working?

As this seems like asking "What is your experience working for a publicly traded company?"