skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I work on drones that kill people I choose to work on it from the start. There’s no doubt that they’ll be used to kill people since it’s an explicit design goal.

The same is not true for a ‘cookie selection dialog’, where the stated goal would be to allow people to easily select what cookies they want to allow.
Britain's Age Appropriate Design Code has made inroads into big tech's dominance
I Went from a Junkie to an 8x Startup Founder
Not only does it produce really good results, the interface with it's ability to start another search with either the description or image of any of the results is great for complex searches.
Nicotine is a strong appetite suppressant.

With cigarettes, I don't think the worst aspect is nicotine but everything else like tar, burning material, etc.

Nicotine itself is pretty similar to caffeine.
To be very pedantic, Vyukov MPSC queue, while indeed awesome in its simplicity and performance, is not technically lock-free, not even obstruction free (and Vyukov never claimed it as such [1]): a producer halting between the atomic swap and atomic store will prevent further nodes enqueued by other producers from ever being dequeued by the consumer.

[1] edit: and in fact there is a note exactly on this on the linked Vyukov page.
Almost _all_ crime is commited by foreign ethnicities.
> It had to support tons of users on day 1

It's funny how this is a requirements for all new Google products, but if you look at most new innovative products they started out with a handful of users over months/years.

There is something inherently unreproducible that startups have over large companies.
I wanna begin my journey with learnin C (again). Why isn't there a normal package management system? I mean there was a lot of time to solve this issue, is it a technical issue or just lack of innovation in C?
This article jumps from point to point with only the most tenuous thread of coherence throughout. It's almost as if the author read some paragraphs in other articles that were vaguely related to their conclusion and used them to flesh out the article.
I'm not sure if I understood it correctly but it sounds like they're able to know which website of the top 20 you're visiting based on how much the power usage changed whilst charging.

If that's correct then what's the actual real world problem here?
I believe this analysis of attorney incentives is so deficient that it is the actual subject of the article.
heated debates!? As in literally multiple full on arguments? I've argued a lot of dumb stuff before but could never imagine a discussion about a much loved kids cartoon getting heated. Let alone repeatedly.
Being fully informed and cognizant about the true systemic machinations of the system that you're manipulating as a politician seems like it's a good thing, not a bad thing. Asking for more carefully split-out info before YOLOing a policy prescription is something I've pretty much never seen but would love to. On the other hand, declaring that you're right without a goddamned shred of statistical info is just wrong, no matter what side you're on (and that's most of the debate on this article, since there's no useful info presented).

The best engineers (and math/science people) I know ask tough questions about policies that their own parties are pushing; I've rarely seen a humanities major do that unless it was because of some niche "against-the-grain" identity issue they were plumping for. I do know a couple humanities folks who eventually realized they needed to learn more about math/stats to be able to justify their statements, and in every case they became more rationalist once they understood the toolkit.

So: bad tech people are dumbasses, just like bad humanities majors are (and they will always be if they don't understand math, science, and tech). We should stop electing both, but we never will.

But let's not throw the fucking baby out with the bathwater when it comes to preferences, please.
Unfortunately it is not possible to implement add-on(add source) to Dictionary.app that is dynamic, like built-in Wikipedia; for example to query urbandictionary.com; only static offline is possible. I tried to investigate this years ago, don't think something changed since then.
It might; hipsters love old stuff so...
If fast were the only requirement, we’d have vastly different processor and memory architectures and we’d probably write in higher level languages with compilers that would also generate the optimal ISA to be compiled into architecture-specific microcode along with the binary that runs on it with enough information the OS can pick which part of the heterogeneous machine is best suited to run the program.
Every electronic good you buy contributes to these murders. The raw material sourced in these places are used for manufacture of these products and environmental activism threatens their ability to continue to exploit nature and profit from it.
Have you ever been to Italy?
How do you know they don’t?

I think you meant to imply an inverse relationship.
Users yeah maybe, the government I don't think so. Remember that Apple was already viewed negatively due to the tax avoidance, now they are adding antitrust issues on top of tax issues.
Recent advancements in AI made me wonder whether human intelligence is little more than a "stochastic parrot" with a large enough training set. If I dig down far enough, almost any knowledge could be learned and understood that way. You can write a math book using natural language. Even smart people occasionally make simple mistakes when doing math, isn't that just a "stochastic" error as well?
But it's the favorite go-to term for STEMlords who seek to display their merit by contrast!
I think Italians would rather be poor but maintain their cultural history and identity. It isn’t an anglophone country built on immigration and no economics argument is very convincing to them.
> They don't say it out loud. But they act based on that principal.

No they don't. That's not how people think, at all. People who do horrible things are very good at rationalizing that they are actually the good guys. This is a well studied phenomenon.
Thoughts that popped up:

1. Isn’t hyperbaric therapy used by athletes to reduce inflammation?

2. Isn’t the failure of the amyloid hypothesis leading to researchers considering whether inflammation is the progenitor of Alzheimer’s?

So if hyperbaric therapy does work… could that be a sign in favor of the inflammation hypothesis? Although, the authors suggest the results are due to improved oxygenation rather than any anti-inflammatory effects.

Also, I’m not a doctor nor am I educated in medical things.
> There are a lot of Apple apologists who claim Apple's payment system is superior for the customer

I'm really rooting for Epic here, but people can like a thing without being apologists. That word isn't helping the debate.
Can’t fire them or choose who to hire either. At least they are not working on 24 different work streams.
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> and you only reward unsavory behavior... you're going to get unsavory behavior

They don't only reward that. They reward any engagement, and some content creators have raced to the bottom in terms of creating divisive content.
I’d love to have a good excuse to program in Vala… it seems like a very nice language.
High end art by dead artists mainly. Newly created art benefits the gallery and artist (in that order)
Yes, vcpkg, NuGET and Conan.
Effectively you’re saying that a status quo of stable-percentage murders is okay. I (and others on this post) are saying that any non-zero percentage is bad. So I guess we fundamentally disagree then.
I respectfully disagree. I'm have been in close contact with stupidity and ignorance from a young age, and find that now I engage in large quantities of both without suffering any ill-effects.

Stupidity is a perjorative term for an abundantly natural and ubiquitous state. Its results may be frustrating, but accepting the profound intellectual limitations of oneself and others is essential for emotional well-being.
> "I have no idea what you're talking about"

At least you got that right. Slow down and think a bit before posting, and you will post fewer foolish things to regret.

It is quite rare these days to actually care about a few percent savings of binary size, outside of deeply resource-constrained embedded environments, which are increasingly rare.

But many people not building for such circumstances developed a habit of using -Os because it also, on older hardware, made their programs faster. It is helpful for those people to learn that this trick is decreasingly useful for their intended purpose. If you are not one of them, the original remark was not addressed to you.

Assuming you know better than everybody else you have contact with will continue causing you difficulties in life, frequently without your knowledge. Stopping to think and listen will likewise pay dividends you cannot count.
I don't know why people are downvoting this (without providing a rebuttal, no less), I agree.
I hope not, its been on my list for ages because barely anyone (compartively to other languages) still works with it, but a lot of legacy systems still rely on it.

If hipsters come in and take that from me I'll have to learn something even worse
> Apple on the other hand makes it surprisingly hard to show your active subscriptions.

Bruh. Are you actually serious?

Settings → Apple ID / iCloud → Subscriptions

or

App Store → Your Account → Subscriptions

Such sUrPrIsInG, much hArD. In any case, if you feel that’s difficult now imagine how insurmountably Herculean it will become for you if you had to navigate the UX of multiple payment providers.

> There are a lot of Apple apologists who claim Apple's payment system is superior for the customer, but that just doesn't match my experience.

Apple has always immediately refunded me for shitty apps and scummy services, without question.

Meanwhile apps that provide their own payment systems, like Couchsurfing (who bait-and-switched users even after charging them a $100 “forever fee”), have yet to even reply to my requests for a refund.

Apple also lets me see all my recurring subscriptions from one place, warns me before renewals, and amazingly, lets me keep access to services for a few days even if I can’t make a payment on the renewal date.

So yeah. If you think predators like Epic and Match/Tinder and the countless microtransaction games (with their placebo IAPs and gambling boxes that do literally nothing at all sometimes) will be as accommodating, oh boy.

But of course user-hostile devs would root for nothing more than to tear down the walls protecting users.
How does this compare to SystemRescue ?

Hrmpf has seen no release for the past 8 months https://github.com/leahneukirchen/hrmpf/releases where SystemRescue is updated regularly https://www.system-rescue.org/Changes-x86/ .
If you're a buyer, NFTs is another way of bag holding and telling everyone about it. Even worse if you bought it at the height of the euphoria and the market collapses.

Then you will be waiting years to find another fool willing to buy it off you for even higher.

I can always copy it for free. So why would I buy it off them at any price?
With titles like “team leader” there is some ambiguity.

It’s like the hacker = break into systems vs. tinkerer debate
Is it the oxygen, or the lack of carbon dioxide?
As a German, I'll have to agree. The younger generation's view of the three candidates is very much what I imagined the US population felt when looking at the Trump vs Biden choice: "really - don't we have anyone else?"

The problem - unfortunately - is that German politics and parties disproportionally cater to the older generations. They vote at a much higher percentage, so it's opportune for the parties to tailor their offerings to them. This in turn disenfranchises younger voters which thus turn up in lower numbers to vote thus giving even more weight to the elderly vote and so on.

As a result we're stuck with an ever growing pension system, little appetite for innovation and three potential candidates that couldn't be any less inspiring, but are just non-threatening enough to be acceptable by the post-war generations...
I think it’s a little bit more like blaming advertisers and Hollywood for promoting smoking, rather than the producer or consumer
For C there isn't really a problem that a package manager would solve. I can think of some problems it would cause, though.
It’s not slander if it’s true.

And if it’s not true then don’t say it.
I love when US companies get to learn our unions and work laws are actually to be followed upon.
The female heroin is hot.
I think a reasonable first guess for a legal interpretation is "would it be legal if a human did that?"

If you read an encyclopedia and use that knowledge to answer questions, a human isn't violating copyright, so an AI doing that is probably fine. If you look at all of Picasso's paintings and paint something in his style that isn't violating copyright, so training an AI to make Picasso-like paintings by training it on real Picassos is probably fine.

However looking at a painting and perfectly replicating it is a copyright violation. Same for reading a text and then writing down the same text. Both of these are just copies, not new works. So intentionally overfitting an AI to have it return the inputs with minimal changes probably makes the outputs subject to copyright from the owners of the training data.
It is out of patent
Copy-pasting a top comment from Reddit I see:

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/pn6x3g/record_nu...
Not sure what GP meant by 'pre breaking bad', but I'll give it a shot. It is quite low budget, but the writing does seem like it heralded a change of some sort. I think it's less formulaic but it's hard to really put one's finger on it.

To my understanding Breaking Bad was a show where the writers counted on people bingeing it, so they could tell a longer story instead of having to have every thirty minutes be self-contained.
> Smoking in public? Fracking?

Are you saying that people who smoke openly state that they "should be free to profit regardless of harm to others"? Who said that? Where? I already asked you to point to a single example to support this claim that certain people think this way, and you couldn't do that. That's because there's literally no people who think like that.
> no free as in freedom C++ or Objective-C compiler

G++ was available in 1990. I don't recall when Objective C became available in GCC, but it was present in at least gcc-2.2.2 in 1992.
Humans often give coherent _rationalizations_ of their actions, which is slightly different than an explanation.

From wikipedia[1]:
"the inventing of a reason for an attitude or action the motive of which is not recognized—an explanation which (though false) could seem plausible"

This is very common in children but also in adults: people will do something and then find reasons to support why they did that. Much of our modern industry is indeed built around this very concept.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(psychology)
The old convention based model for controllers, was really difficult to understand and debug. You never knew what routes exactly were discovered by reflection. It was just too much magic, and too many conventions.

I hope this will make it easier. Reminds me of the good old Nancy times.
I was a court watcher then, too. Not much has changed wrt the public's understanding of law and legal proceedings than I can tell. The forums are still just as full of breathless techies extolling how they wish the law worked rather than observing what actually happens.
And Linux dev's loves to reinvent the wheel, but this time as a square ;)
What, so people are commenting on things they don't have a degree in? Cry me a river. Most of the Hacker News crowd doesn't have a CS degree, and came to programming precisely because intelligence transfers between skills. The idea that we can't do research and accidentally become vastly knowledgeable in a multitude of subjects is just absurd. You run into people every day on HN who know a lot despite lack of training.
Yes, currently trying to create these tools by hand on a case by case basis is awful, however I think the point of Bret Victor's work is to imagine a world where this type of tools come by default (or are easily created) with every programming environment.

I think this is something that would be immensely useful. But I don't know how to bring this vision to reality.
> I wanna begin my journey with learnin C (again). Why isn't there a normal package management system?

That sounds like a distro.
Lighten your chat conversations with funny audio bits
Sharing currently works only on Chrome with webshare api enabled.
That would have been a rewrite. This change is to get the existing C codebase to compile with a C++ compiler, which is orders of magnitude less work.
Makes me think of the air commercial from Lorax- https://youtu.be/NWZUp2KF5ls
They neither broke the type system to make it weaker nor did they stick a browser engine where it doesn't belong.
DataStax Tracked Down a Linux Kernel Bug with Fallout
If you think that the vast majority of these people are 'economic' refugees which is generally not of legal status then technically all of them are criminals because they have broken the law to get there. This is the only way this argument makes any sense to me and that's with a big helping of benefit of the doubt.
Are you saying that an environmental activist being murdered is only newsworthy if you can find a way to pin the blame on a Western corporation? That seems a fairly callous attitude to take.
So basically this is expressjs for .NET.
You still get C#/.NET, with it's superior performance and type safety, but just without all the OOP bloat.
> No, it's a cynical question

No. The cynicism is the insistence that it doesn't matter.

> ...which derails the conversation

If the answer were "There has been a decrease in the total number of activists, therefore the record is worse that the absolute numbers imply" would you make this accusation? No. No you would not.

You would insist, correctly, that it was very relevant. You would rightly look with suspicion upon people who insist that the question "derails the conversation"

The "derails the conversation" accusation is itself a cynical attempt to control the conversation
> clearly and explicitly designed to take advantage of these psychological mechanisms.

"Explicit manipulation" is a modus operandi of business and politics. At what point it becomes mephistophelian is largely determined by group conventions.

Social media accounts can become for some people an avatar of self-worth. There is even the reputational business model, i.e. linking business profiles. (Let's leave aside for now the question of streaming sex-work and voyeurism.)

But for the vast majority of users (I estimate hundreds of millions of users, on the back of a napkin), social media is not fatal or damaging. People connect, check friends' news and say hello, then disconnect.

> not proven, but plausible

We know that social media has been used in some cases for bullying and cruelty. The evidence has been tried in court. Social media has been a means of communication in these cases, like the anonymous telephone call or the stamped papermail. (The ghoulish Edgar J. Hoover had his vile FBI operation send at least one letter to MLK telling the civil-rights leader to kill himself.)[1]

The worse tendencies of human nature have of course been known to us for some time. Adam Smith wrecked the job prospects of his friend David Hume. On Usenet of yore, there were flame wars: people pursuing a quarrel because someone is wrong on the Internet.[2] Also consider a funny piece by Woody Allen about two stubborn men playing chess by stamped papermail.

Irascibility, stubbornness, cruelty, and schadenfreude joy are failings of character that are usually treated as legal.

Bullying is a problem and is explicitly punishable in some codes of conduct. To cause death is much worse, of course. It is a crime.

Bullying does happen every day, in hallways and buses and roadways and offices, among people of all ages. There are tyrannical bosses, tavern disputes, cruel remarks in sport, and the art and business of gossip. In some cases, we even applaud a great leader despite that fact that he treats people like rubbish. (I think of at least one famous figure in computing and one former elected leader of a large country.)

In short, I would not say in this case that correlation equals causation, but correlation may indicate something disturbing about the collapse of group ethics and social discourse. I find social media deplorable for the tone of people's discourse. I also don't like television or malicious text messages.

By the way, I upvoted your post. Cheers!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_lette...

[2] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Xkcd
Church and Politics
Not their only plagiarism on HN lately, either
its by no means perfect, but compared to others where you have to dig deep in an faq for a support number, call up (during business hours), go through 3 people who will try to sell you something else (once whilst trying to cancel a mobile contract because of a poor signal, I've even had accusations of not doing enough on my end to improve things), to then get to someone who will probably cancel your contract, its a step in the right direction at least
why "settings" ? a subscription is not a "setting".
The asparagus temp workers working in Germany pay taxes in Germany for that period. So even if they spend otherwise very little there and send money to families, they are still a net benefit to the German economy. Plus the asparagus gets harvested, of course.
You seem to be really going overboard with the strawman arguments here.

> So if we want to understand what people care about, we can't just go with their claims about their motivations.

I never claimed we should do that. Nobody else claimed such a thing either.

Also, I take it as concession that you were unable to provide a single example to support your claim.
Yes, I guess many Americans would say they feel the same (which is interesting given we are a country built on immigration and without such a rich history and identity) which is why I'm skeptical that's the actual reason but sure, it's an argument.
Let me make sure I’m clear on your argument: you think it’s just great for the labor of children to be exploited for the benefit of shareholders?

If this is correct, then you’re not actually a “critical thinker”, just a horrible person.
Chiastic Structure
> Google loses interest in all sorts of projects, sometimes even when they're dominating their target market

As big of an organization Google is in terms of people, I think this comes down to the CEO/Founders. You need someone visionary who cares about products more than just the money they will generate, and has a significant vested interest.

Google's founders checked out long ago and couldn't care less. The CEO is beholden to short-term profits, and everyone under him just want to maintain their good salaries, and enjoy the power of managing their dominions.

Everyone can just go some place else. And this trickles down.
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I would call it a poor story, well, executed.
Oh yes? I'm so looking forward to tomorrow's keynote then.
Sure, he was willing to take some level of risk, but he certainly wasn't expecting to be hospitalized for lead poisoning.
It appears to have been Irish monks in the 7th and 8th century who introduced spaces between words in religious texts

https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=683
FTFY: PR is a product they buy from media agencies, not something they produce internally through the merits of their actions.
Why 43%? I would say 30% of the full price, or 50% of the base price?