skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Safety features reduce cognitive load and allow reallocation of limited attention span."

no, attention does not magically get more focused on driving by reducing already low cognitive load. most driving is already routinized, falsely lulling us into an illusory sense of security. humans do not magically get more attentive under routine when invited to be even more comfortable. autopilot is a great example: pilots eat, sleep, drink, read, and chat more, rather than paying more attention to the environment, controls, dials and gauges. this is also why traffic calming techniques that reduce overall danger are about making the ever-present risks more apparent (adding roadside trees, narrowing lanes), rather than the opposite.

those so-called "safety" features optimize for the 99% of the time that situations are routine and fine, rather than the 1% of time that they're potentially deadly, because they reduce skill and experience useful in those 1% situations. pilots talk about the same general lack of emergency preparedness induced by autopilot dependence.
I felt the same for a while too, but then I met someone that happened to work for child services. These are some caring and empathetic people working for peanuts and they aren’t really treated well by anyone, management and clients alike. This person in particular hated the work but didn’t want to quit for fear of letting their clients (children) down.

People blame bureaucracy, and maybe there’s some truth there, but if these people were treated half as well as many tech workers are then maybe we could actually start making progress against the stereotype of miserable experiences.
I'd honestly consider these types of questions one of the poorest ways to test front end developers.

The only reason I have learned some of that oddball stuff with JavaScript is because of some job interviews e.g. when I was earlier in my career, I used to Google things like "top 30 questions asked in a JS interview", etc, but I forget it after that until I'm about to look for another job. However I wouldn't do this type of learning any longer, since I wouldn't want to apply for a company asking these types of questions.

In the end at work you should use ES6/TypeScript with linting, proper tests and these cases would never occur.
1/ They bait people in to destroy any sane competition. Then they milk them.

2/ Well fuck you even further and go to hell for defending such behaviours.

3/ ps. Their infra is ridiculous. A team of 100-120 engineers can do way better. They can’t get their user base though because of 1/
New and Innovative vs. Mature and Trusted Positioning. Who Responds to What?
GTK! I should have known that was the culprit. Remember gtk2 when there was a bunch of great apps that just worked? I remember :(

Next time I'm on a graphical linux system I'll muck around with XDG to get PCManFM or whatever as default. Thanks.
Yes, but you were doing that in response to news articles citing academics who - we now know - were assuming COVID was 10x deadlier than it actually was (reported IFRs fell from 1%-2% to 0.1%-0.2% in most places). Which is what the article is about: how did that happen and why did the media and research institutions do such a bad job?
You would implement that by setting it to $X real and nominal at some base point, then using the CPI to readjust yearly or something. There's no problem knowing what minimum wage is or will be at any given time.
It might be a good extension after they'd spent a good amount of time in plain Javascript, 50-200 hours in depending on age IMO (younger -> more).

Adding types is, again, confusing to most beginning students and adding any sort of build process is asking for tears.

The bugs, while unpleasant, just aren't actually that bad pedagogically. Students readily accept explanations of the form "computers are dumb and do what you tell them, if you tell them to do something that doesn't make sense they will do something that doesn't make sense" which is close enough to correct to not give them a terrible mental that is difficult to unlearn later.

Additionally, at this stage of learning students should be writing many small programs. Such programs are typically easy for teaching aids to debug in seconds (or to suggest a radically simplified re-write).
Streams: Mail 3.0 Concept (2014)
> defeatest attitude on HN

I see defeatest as accepting that we have to reduce our quality of life, or otherwise compromise in order to live sustainably. Many are, and more should be, aggressively pursuing technologies that let people do what they like while providing economically viable ways to make sure we don't cause long term harm.
So much this. Now that I know it works this way, I just try to ignore any promising-looking search results from any of the sites that do this, because I don’t feel like trying to search for the same thing in their app because they broke their mobile site and broke the “open in app” by assuming I don’t already have it.
It's not about number of addresses available, it's about reflection of organization hierarchy in the octets. The 10.0.0.0/8 range is useful for breaking a distributed company's network up so each major office gets a 10.x.0.0/16, and each department a 10.x.y.0/24.

This is why 192.168.0.0/16 is often used for services like libvirtd, kubernetes and docker. And the use of the range by those services makes it even more unwieldy to try and put some other LAN in there.

You can work around these considerations if you want, but many people won't. When you're the network engineer responsible for designing a company's networks, you'll be wanting to keep things simple and robust. When you're called in at 3am on a Sunday because the network is down, you better hope your ability to recover doesn't require making a bunch of subnet calculations because you decided to try and use the pool of available IP addresses efficiently.
Not legal advice, but the legal issue is if their terms of service allow it; the practical issue is whether they block/rate limit you (they seem fine with it, So Far...); the business issue is whether they like your idea and incorporate it thanks for the free R&D!

There's a general history of peasants working on someone else's platform. The platform tends to expand - url shorteners, some utilities for windows, music programs for apple.

You need some USP that tiktok can't or doesn't want to copy - is that possible?
Wow, never seen those figures before… well forgive my American myopia. I would still describe American PC gamers as “fringe”, but I had thought the Asian market was similarly leaning toward console players, clearly that is incorrect.
The interesting thing is that despite claims of shortages California water is essentially given away for free and there is plenty of it.

Setting a tax of 1 cent per gallon would likely solve water use issues (you'd still have distribution likely to sort out).

They actually grow alfalfa in the desert out here - imperial valley has ET rates of something like 60 inches(!!!!). That's 60 inches of water!

Maybe 5 million acre feet of water just for alfalfa (yes - in some cases exported to china).

8 trillion gallons of water for a crop that sells for $200 a ton. Meanwhile places without the subsidies can't grow it even if climate is better because they don't have this massive subsidy.

Umm.... this only works because water is basically cheap / free - growing rice and alfalfa are crazy in desert areas.
More sad than companies using this pattern is that people know it but don't care about it.

It does not matter how many bad things a company can do, people simply doesn't care.
it's basically how can we come up with a roadmap to making this decentralized insulin without violating any existing patents

This is how patents are supposed to foster innovation. Wasted effort reinventing the wheel
I'm surprised that the article isn't dated April 1.
HN is a social news site subsidized by a company that incubates the latest technologies, including DeFi.

If there are any appropriate places on the internet for news about a new collapsed piece of DeFi tech, HN is unquestionably on that list.
Demographic collapse, irresponsible extractive industry, and in fact many citizens are excluded from the most dynamic parts of the country by the Hukou system.

China is a really interesting place that has had an incredible meteoric rise, but there are problems.
> Usually, 40%-50% of patients in severe respiratory distress die on ventilators, but in New York City the death rate for COVID-19 patients on ventilators was 88%.

Continued to read through the article and just be aware that a lot of the statistics the author cites are questionable. For instance, the 88% number here leads to an article from April 2020. Even without looking it up, I remember articles from may 2020 debunking this number. A simple Google reveals the real number is probably around 50% and that 88% is an outlier. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33119402/

Polifact has an article on the 88% number https://www.politifact.com/article/2020/apr/28/are-88-covid-... “ The 88% death rate was among patients who either died or recovered. It did not account for the roughly three-quarters of patients involved in the study who were still on a ventilator at the end of the study, leaving in doubt what the eventual mortality rate will be.”

Using that number a year later is extremely irresponsible and it’s obvious to me the author is cherry-picking numbers to support their preconceived position.
There is a good solution: force DNT to be honoured.
A bloated payroll to support a bloated advertising platform with a bloated AI-based recommendation algorithm when all it should be doing is loading a descending-order list of most recent submissions meeting the category criteria....

Don't talk about costs, this crap is self-inflicted
Does being "treated with decency" mean "giving people free money to not work" to you?

Is it indecent to expect people to work to pay for things?
I don't agree. They still need to assert their legitimately through successful governance and projects.
One important thing to call out here is that even the above two points don't actually matter in the final dismissal. Ultimately, it boils down to something simple: time.

The FTC had nearly a decade to bring something up and it didn't. This ultimately is problematic because Facebook would look at this and clearly see the FTC had no problems with its actions. So to look at Facebook's conduct in the time that has passed is ultimately unfair to Facebook. Since its actions since would have been seen as being compliant.
Post-Covid-19, World Risks Having to Pay Off ‘Immunity Debt’
I feel like there needs to be some kind of reckoning when it comes to water rights in CA. Like, say that water rights will be rationalized 25 years from now. Maybe it can be done under the guise of eminent domain. Give farmers who are getting essentially taxpayer subsidized free water enough time to prepare for it, and then 25 years from now create some kind of market based system where water goes to 1) people, and 2) whoever can use it most productively. Farmers can buy/sell water futures if they need higher certainty in what they will pay rather than a rate based on demand.

It just doesn't make sense that the fact that a plot of land which was occupied 300+ years ago is setting the precedent for how we use water today.
"X is self evident, but maybe not to you," seems to me like a fundamentally flawed argument.
To be fair there is some residual demand for a sort of "law of physics" namely a basic mechanism that forcibly applies to everyone. We use paper notes to signify that we owe the holder of the paper note work. The paper note follows the law of physics in the sense that it is a physical object that can be transferred from person to person.

The issuance of paper notes is still a social problem but the act of exchanging them at a shop is not.
That seems like overkill for most apps. Better to just store the date/time without timezone, and either the windows or linux timezone name of the location (which has far more specificity than the ISO 8601 offset). Then calculate the actual time on the fly when pulling it out of the DB.

No mucking around with IANA databases, everything's easy to program, server usually keeps itself up-to-date.
What if you understood the scale of the things you were talking about? Would you still cling to your belief system?
I actually delt with TSX issues just a couple years ago on a supported and patched SUSE cluster.
I'm still shocked Craigslist has survived, virtually unchanged, since 1996.

It's may not be the cleanest interface, but it's a nice reminder of the more utilitarian days.
It also frequently contains deuterium hydroxide, a chemical used in nuclear reactors and the manufacture of thermonuclear bombs.
E-commerce existed before MUDs and IRC and was contemporaneous with Usenet. Online Services like Compuserve, Prodigy, and Qlink (which became AOL) allowed people to buy and trade products like you do on E-bay.
It is pretty good evidence that they are resistant to hacks though, and speaking about interesting evidence that doesn't pass the bar of proof isn't some kind of logical fallacy. That's a pretty high bar to set for what you're willing to integrate information-wise about the world into your model of it.
> 1. Everything being 'free' by default drives us to ad-supported centralized services. Economics aren't a separable concern.

I hate this argument. I've been online for a long time and the internet existed just fine without, for example, facebook. We don't have to accept ads but we do have to be willing to not use certain things out there.
Worst case of this I've personally had to fix was an airline where you couldn't purchase tickets if you lived anywhere with a negative time zone offset. They're a small European carrier so it was never a very big issue for them, and all the developers and management were in Europe so they never noticed it first hand.

Basically when you tried to purchase a ticket, their frontend would take the date-of-flight, and adjust it by the user's timezone. So a ticket for 2015-01-30 00:00 would become 2015-01-29 20:00, or whatever. The dates in the request did not match what was expected for your booking code, and 500 error.
The center of the case is that they didn’t just wear “Long live Palestine, boycott Israel” shirts and silently shopped for milk.

They did a tad more than that, enough to each get 1000 euros fines. Also it’s not like they’re now in concentration camps, they just got a slap on the hand.

The whole ruling if you care: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/juri/id/JURITEXT000031374097/

The parent correctly warned for the article’s bias, I confirm the author is cherrypicking little parts and blow them up for dramatic effect.
Anecdotal evidence, but my experience with IG ads was very different. I ordered stuff (mostly clothing) a few times (4 or 5) from IG ads and was very disappointed with the quality and service every single time. I now refuse to fall for IG ads ever again.
Yeah, and it really is unfortunate that monopolistic behavior is the only place the US (lightly) goes after anti-competitive behavior.

ISPs are another example where they should get involved but don't. I'd love to see the US either turn the internet into a public utility or trust bust the snot out of big telcoms like comcast and AT&T.

Even now, in my local market a new fiber provider is coming to town, and wouldn't you know it, my ISP prices have dropped for the first time in years to be ever so slightly lower than this provider.
This seems like a bit of contradictory logic to me regarding focusing on local policy and then stating that hyper-local decisions aren't enough to solve the problem. It's hard for me to ascertain from your response where the effective policy threshold is set. From your perspective is it at the personal, local, state, nation-state, or global level where it's sufficient to solve the problem?

Policy can be (and is) created globally. I think we can impart global climate policy, but only to the level the individual state actors are willing to hold others accountable. If your local community bans natural gas fired heating, but also doesn't hold people accountable for breaking that standard it's not going to be an effective policy. Global policy is very much the same.
Wich is around the list price you pay for two weeks of insulin in germany.
A single server can host an awful lot of cat pictures. Especially if you apply a little compression.

In fact: I'm sure there are many cat image sharing sites out there. A random search landed me here:
https://www.funnycatpix.com/_pics/Hmmmmmm890.htm

Seems like a high-quality HN-like website, hehe :)
>You thought it was fair that a company spends millions in technical infrastructure

You almost had me, right up to this point. Then I realized you are posting pointed sarcasm about instagram's owners.
This is tougher when the work is produced by a team and the copyright is owned by the company.

There also needs to be logic to handle this other case.
Given the concerted media push for lab-grown meat over the recent years, i think the powers that be have made the decision already.

There is no need to fight a culture/moral war - they will simply raise the prices of meat and add some nice marketing around the benefits of lab-grown alternatives.
However, if you do deliver they pay you. In some areas (publishing) this is not always the case.
I've attempted this several times when I noticed blatant NPOV violations or political propaganda in articles on the most diverse subjects. The result tends to be swift, the edits are reverted without any clear explanation. When I make edits I tend to add a section to the "Talk" page inviting other editors to discuss the proposed change and - after making the edit - add a note to the change calling for a discussion instead of a reversion. The discussion tends to be limited to "this is not a NPOV violation" or "there are sources" where the former is clearly untrue and the latter tend to be circular references to articles in activist publications. As it stands Wikipedia is not a reliable source for anything which involves politics - which is getting close to being just about everything now that even mathematics is getting challenged by critical theorists. This is a classical example of the tragedy of the commons with political activists abusing the platform for their own purposes without taking into account whether this abuse weakens the platform - which it clearly does.
Well, it wouldn't make the news if the price dropped because the actual USD value dropped to zero. That would be perfectly legitimate. Of course the world would be burning as 5lb bags of rice became worth a dozen human lives, so tech news in general might not be very top of mind at that point.
That makes a lot of sense. Taking it further, you could also introduce a sliding scale for comment volume, like $1 for <10 comments/mo, $5 for up to 30 comments/mo, or the $100 "troll package" for up to 80 comments/mo.
This looks like it's a Linux kernel module. Not FreeBSD
The only way I'd trust such a service is if it's domain name ends in .gov (or equivalent for other countries) and is free or a nominal fee.
Typically folks require a governance vote (so multiple parties) + a timelocked contract, and then after some system age / volume they burn the option.
I have not been able to to get this to work. what is the exact ua string that works for you guys
Is anyone gonna mention this was the first world wide pandemic of this scale since modern medicine really? There were pandemics, but not of such a world wide scale. Sure 1918, but that wasn't to much past just throwing leeches on a person to filter out the bad blood or demons.

I bring it up because, yea execution was not perfect. I expected this in the beginning. But so many people act like the response should have been perfect. Critique what was wrong with it and learn. However, assuming everyone who made a decision we didn't like as evil isn't going to help us at all. At some point in the future, there will be another world wide pandemic. It could be tomorrow, it could be 20 years from now, it could be 100 years from now. Unless everyone stays within 10 miles within home, it will happen again. And it may be be worst, like Ebola with flu-like transmission, or it may be not as bad. Whatever the case, lessons learned now will influence decisions later.
Sadly, it's easier than ever. Multiple botnets create open proxies which are easily discoverable, if you know where to look. Also, cloud providers give you more IPs you might ever need.
You're compensated with the time you would have had to spend waiting in line.
Put AJAX back in the bottle.
Is there an announcement, help page, or issue/commit explaining this feature?
If there are any take-aways from the previous year, they might include that "well-researched, well-evidenced claims" may later turn out to be false.

The process of understanding is a continuum that we strive towards.

There is an entire replication crisis in scientific literature debunking "well-researched, well-evidenced claims".

The only way out is to think.
This article ignores what seems to be the biggest change coming in Windows 11, which is that you must have a Microsoft account to use it. I've heard much more about that decision than about centering the Start menu.
Is 105K passed to your kid rich by any means?
The Indians were not impressed, banned him from the country IIRC.
It’s not defeatism, it’s realism. Cooperation on climate change is a prisoner’s dilemma type situation.

You seem to assume there is a supranational entity that can force nation-states to comply with rules, but there isn’t.

A set of rules that no organization can enforce is worthless. I would like if we can all come together and cooperate on climate change, but it isn’t likely.

Here is a comprehensive list of global problems that humans have cooperated on a global scale to solve:
Actually, this became a thing very early on, compare Viola Net.
Appending "reddit" to google searches still produce better results than the alternative of 100% autogenerated listicles. For now, at least.
That's a great idea, maybe we should also make murder illegal so people won't do that either!

Climate change is a wicked problem - we can't just legislate it away. We need to solve many many problems like reducing our reliance on fossil fuels, allowing/helping nature to rebound from centuries of industrialisation, and probably numerous other things, on a global scale without losing out to unscrupulous international competitors (both national and business). All without giving up too much of our present lifestyle (because people will resist such efforts).

[edit]: Wicked problems, for those of you who don't know what I'm talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem
.php files were the original "lambda"s.

For true serverless, turn off your PC, laptop and phone and go for a walk in nature.
Are cars really driven by individuals who amount to "reckless disregard for the damage which would clearly be excessive in relation to the social and economic benefits anticipated"? I honestly don't even think it's close. Cars have such enormous benefits that I do not think it is "clear" as it would have to be to fit the definition.

Something close would be Exxon lying about climate change, or VW cheating emissions tests to produce high-pollution cars at scale without punishment, etc. Not individual drivers. I think that's pretty clear in the definition.

Edit: I'm an eco-fanatic and this seems productive to me.
I really actually don't. Dates in JSON are going to require you to pick a serialization form. ISO8601 seems like a totally reasonable pick. So if not that, then what? Could you give an example?
> Routers will accept a "shut up" request

This shifts the DoS threat from servers to clients. How does the router know that the request from A to block B is legit? Just because the router can ping A? Behold, a system where you can shut down your enemies for good by paying botnets to send requests to block B.
Or Tim Cook's proclamation that privacy is a human right. Awkward!