skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I tend to dress a bit sloppily and take public transit, so I end up talking to a fair number of homeless folks.

There's dressing sloppy and then there's dressing like a homeless person sloppy. Sorry for making light of your depressing observation, but that setup sentence made me laugh.
Being able to pay reddit to remove ads is one of the reasons I like the site. Sure, the fact I'm paying probably makes my data more valuable to ad companies, but at least at reddit I won't see any.

Their increasing push to gamify awards, while selling a currency to do so does annoy me though.
Automatically detecting and replying to recruiter spam
Todo Or Die? TypeScript can do that
Two of these awards seem like virtue signaling for climate change and global warming, topics which exploded in media and politics this year.

I personally believe that global warming and climate change are the most pressing issues facing humanity, but I oppose the politicization of prestigious award platforms. It's simultaneously obnoxious and unfair to the other candidates.

We see the same thing happen in racially-charged atmospheres for artistic awards.
Agreed. Logging before gives you a lot of information to diagnose an issue. Logging just exceptions usually lacks a lot of necessary information
Also the fact it is referred to as GitHub Action all over the site but it should be GitHub Actions
Is much known about the safety of this aircraft? As I understand it, V-22 Osprey can neither auto-rotate, nor land in emergency like an airplane (because the rotors would hit the ground). Seems a bit like worst of both worlds.
> I don't want Facebook fixed and I do want Facebook harmed. I don't want the government to meddle with what types of things people can say online, I want them to ban the business model of stalking people online and selling intimate details of their lives. If the problem is Facebook choosing profits over public good, then cut off the profits. This is obvious.

Bingo. Make stalking at scale the same as stalking by creeping in the bushes outside someone's house or following them around town. Tracking everything people do isn't a "business model"—it's a crime.
Never, ever, EVER ask questions about family life in an interview in the United States, unless the candidate brings it up first.

Asking them isn't illegal per se, but if you do ask them and the candidate isn't hired, you've opened the door to a discrimination lawsuit.

If the candidate brings it up first, it's fair game for conversation, but still off-limits for hiring consideration.
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These three propositions are all simultaneously true (in my opinion):

1) Every person who has ever received a Nobel Prize in physics has richly deserved it;

2) Culture and politics influence the awarding of the Prize;

3) Several people who did not get the Prize would have if they had not been women.

(3) is a corollary to (2). One example is Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered pulsars. The Nobel Prize for that was awarded to two men.
> The thing is, we’re not really asking for Facebook to control itself, we’re asking Facebook to control other people.

But it already does. That's it's job. That's what advertising is for. I suppose "control" is a tad strong, but that's the dream of every advertiser - to deliver a message to exactly right person at the exactly right time so that they take a desired action (buy, vote, post, etc).

Whenever this debate comes up I can't help but wonder what a non-commercial (non-profit?) version of Facebook would look like. I'm sure people would still post stuff for likes, but would it still be a career path for "influencers" where they use their popularity to push products of dubious value with little disclosure? Would there be an "algorithmic feed" whose contents you have little control over? Would posts by your friends be drowned out by "high engagement content"?

Advertising fundamentally alters the medium that carries it. It happened with cable TV (remember cliffhangers before commercial breaks?), and it has happened to the internet. Let's not pretend Facebook's shitty products are somehow the natural state of things. Better social media ("prestige" social media?) might be possible.
Many have pointed out that a couple of weeks ago Facebook had a paper out on how they had implemented a fancy new automated system to manage their BGP routes.

Whoops! Never attribute to malice that which can more easily be explained by stupidity and all that.
Something about this just feels really "off" to me.

This is a "whistleblower" who is blowing the whistle on facebook not doing enough to control how you think.

I don't want facebook or twitter or reddit or anybody else deciding what it's okay for me to talk about or think about. I gather that this woman does, but the framing that she is just "whistleblowing" is absurd to me.

It's also extremely weird to me that she's now testifying in front of congress like 2 days after her "whistleblowing".
Are you aware that the US Federal Reserve is deploying instant payments infrastructure in 2023? I believe the cost will be free to consumers, and pennies per transaction to businesses.

I'd expect online payments will integrate with banking providers to support initiating instant payments from deposit accounts, similar to Europe's IBAN instant payment system.

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/08/31/fednow-the-federa...

https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/fednow_about.h...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28393576 (a comment I previously wrote on this topic)
Government moves slower and works for the commons (at least it is supposed to).

Corporations cannot solve every kind of problem, and some form of government is inevitable, necessary and desirable.
Lockdowns are not the whole story, just a major contributing factor. Other factors:

- China energy shortages forcing rolling blackouts.

- Long standing under investment in older chip fab manufacturing (eg. auto industry).

- Long standing under investment in US port infrastructure, causing unprecedented shipping backlogs.

- Copper foil shortage due to over reliance on Chinese sources.

- Covid negative impact on childcare, both informal and formal, requiring formerly working parents to now opt for unemployment or lower incomes.
HIPAA is PHI - wouldn’t apply in this example
A browser has long been not a saleable product and buying side products is the closest thing you can do to fund its development. Not that it is satisfactory, but if you aren't doing that already then your complaints sound less credible IMO.
With great responsibility comes great power
Okay, they'll charge 0.01 per year and you've just kicked every poor person (or person without a bank card) off social media.

Social media, for all its terrible ills, is the primary way many people get their real news too. By news, I mean municipal updates, weather alerts, local events, etc.

I don't think putting up a financial barrier to that by law is the solution.
Obviously it wouldn’t be written into a bill like that. But Just like any other law. It would be something Congress authorizes an agency like the FTC or FCC to regulate.

If nothing else the feed algorithms would be public and regulators could provide feedback.
Ha ha that's all we use our Alexa for. I really should just get rid of it. I once set it to turn our smart bulbs red and play Star Trek red alert sounds. That was fun for 5 minutes.
Magazines (fashion, fitness, sport, etc) have this effect by virtue of advertisers not wanting to be seen in a "free" publication, but most of their revenue still comes from ads, which is why you continue to still receive new issues for months after you supposedly canceled, even though you nominally are paying for it, all the incentives are for them to pretend you're a paying customer when you in fact are not.

But I don't really know how you could reasonably make this work for online communities. Is reading a blog and commenting on it participating in a "social network"? What about reading a blog without comments? Viewing a sponsored Twitch stream?
"Medieval era" implies a regression to subsistence farming and the end of today's technological civilization. Even a severe disruption to food production would result in substitution of foods, not a destruction of civilization.
I will categorically say the opposite. As long as there are free and fair elections the government is accountable to the people. Corporations are never accountable to anyone but the shareholders.
Homekit sucks in general. Even without Siri the UI is unresponsive, broken, missing obvious features. The UI needs to show at least 3 states (maybe more) but only shows 2, on and off. Often I'll click a light and get ZERO response from the UI. IIUC it's waiting for the light to respond with its state but a UI that gives no immediate feedback is useless. It's infuriating that Apple who wrote the interface guidelines about instant feedback didn't apply them to their own software.
Parts have been going from no lead time to simply not available. The large lead times are probably a guess, as many parts are going on hard allocation and you have no idea who is going to squeeze in before you. Some IC manufacturers are saying things like "consider other parts for your design" due to these circumstances.
> Dismantle social media entirely.

You mean, stop allowing people to communicate with each other?
Do you guys have customers?
Vitamin D supplementation is common in Sweden. There is only a weak correlation between latitude and vitamin D levels. Hypovitaminosis D is a serious risk factor for COVID-19.

https://vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca/
Some questions:

- How many rows you can render in one session ?

- Can too many writes lead to DB throttling ?

- The frontend seems snappy. How will response time behave as more rows are added ? What will happen with 10 collaborators on a 1million x 20 table.
Fast Reservoir Sampling
The control is still with the parents. They can cut off access by controlling payment access. When the product is free, the control is with the corporation.
Most of the examples I gave are done to steal your credit card information and make purchases and transactions under your credit and without your knowledge, not just sell you once for $10 that you have to dispute later once you talk to a friend or relative and find out it’s a scam. In those cases the credit card companies end up eating the cost, although when they find out this has happened to you specifically several times or in very large amount then, often through no fault of your own, you will get kicked off the credit card so they can save money.
If someone wanted to do this but didn't know how to make schematics is there any recommended intro material?
It's not just product advertising, it's also political advertising which gets even creepier in my opinion. The two major outfits in 2016 (BlueLabs for Clinton, Cambridge Analytica for Trump) were spending hundreds of millions on these kind of targeted ad campaigns according to numerous disclosures.

For example, I imagine Team Trump would target the white supremacist crowd (a relatively small % of the public) with one set of ads, and target Rust Belt voters (the key demographic that flipped the election) with trade issues and 'bringing back manufacturing' ads, although the latter group would likely have been turned off by the white supremacist content.

Team Clinton's BlueLabs to be fair did the same thing and yet got much less media scrutiny than Cambridge Analytica. And that's not even counting the much-noted 'foreign influence' (hardly just Russia, Israel and Saudi Arabia have large targeted US-focused PR campaigns running all the time as well).

Creepy dystopian mass surveillance and manipulation in the name of profit maximization, that's what I think of whenever someone talks about Facebook.
Nearly all meaning the non-scientific computing ones, and particularly the ones with syntax inspired by C. Fortran, APL, Matlab, Wolfram, Mathematica, R, Julia, Cobol, Smalltalk and Lua are all 1-based, at least by default.
My expectations these days are so low, I'll settle for commit messages a full sentence, of any kind. I don't even get hung up about messages not being written in the imperative mood any more.

At least 'add missing indentation' is a few steps better than 'changes', or 'fixed', or dozens of commits with 'WIP' as the commit message.
Ask HN: Anyone else annoyed by YouTube Shorts?
I get such spammy, click-bait content, and I cannot disable it.

I mostly watch tech talks on YouTube. The other day I open it up, and all the Shorts thumbnails are all of women's butts in yoga pants, or breasts in push-up bras. Your typical male click-bait stuff. All with millions of views. I don't watch any content like this on YouTube either. And most of the content is just screen records from TikTok.

It just feels so much like amateur-hour recommendations. Like it doesn't know me at all and thinks I will fall for this kind of stupid crap. It's like the level of quality of the ads you get at the bottom of random how-to articles.

It's a stain on the YouTube service, for which I actually pay for. You just know some VP behind-the-scenes is being treated like a hero for increasing the engagement numbers.

It's so clear that we live in such a drought of competition. Every company can force me to look at ridiculous content, and I even pay them for the privilege, because I have no other viable alternatives.

I feel like every service is regressing to a seedy back-alley vibe, and it seems like such a clear path to the dystopian visions of society from sci-fi like Blade Runner or Cyberpunk.

And it's not just YT, every second Google result is now spam, some results are just all ads, I get scammed by misleading product descriptions on Amazon, Netflix doesn't let me disable auto-playing trailers, as well as every second show depicting/glorifying smoking/drug-use. I don't use Instagram, Facebook or TikTok, but they are also cesspools of click-bait content.

I hope a revolution is coming. Mostly to increase competition rather than regulation though.
she was not a technical employee, and she will be set for life in ngo, media, or political career fields. facebook has many enemies. she has probably correctly calculated that she will not actually suffer any negative consequences for this; good for her
> the world isn’t out to censor you

Hey guys what do you think about that lab leak?

Hey guys what do you think about that Hunter Biden laptop?

Hey guys what do you think about that vaccine?

Hey guys what do you think about that election?

Hey guys what do you think about Eric Ciaramella?

2/5 things you can talk about somewhat now, as long as you don't go too deep, they were banned outright earlier in the year. It's been very blatant and coordinated.

Censorship is here, and it's the new normal. We have similar blacklists that China has.
Maybe, and the author makes a similar point. I don't think the current discourse, based mainly on insinuations that FB/IG actually harms people on the basis of a small fraction of struggling kids reporting that they feel worse when they look at Instagram, actually gets us any closer to an implementation of greater responsibility with benefits that plausibly outweigh costs.
Ooh! "Fake story", "mainstream US narratives", "discourse"!

All the greatest hits. You forgot "alternative facts".
I steer people who don't know technology to Apple and mac. Enabling and paying for iCloud backup is probably the easiest. We're basically to the point where you can throw your phone off the bridge, walk into the Apple Store, log into a new phone and be back where you started. For a laptop I like the ease of the Time Capsule and time machine.
Researchers measure the breakup of a single chemical bond
Ha - journalists don't seem to have any standards for their websites so why would twitter be any different?
We keep telling people "there are no stupid questions - please ask before assuming anything" then get annoyed when they do exactly that ;)

Though I do get the frustration. I had similar with one of my juniors, and it took me ages to work out that his learning style didn't match with my teaching style. I ended up having to go right back to basics and walk him through everything painstakingly slowly.
You should familiarize yourself with his actual research career and not just his popular political commentary.

He also advocates for science based social policy all the time.
I cannot "quit" Equifax, Experian, TransUnion, and Facebook collecting info about me.
Manabe contributed many pivotal works to the broad domain of planetary and atmospheric physics in the 1960's. The word "model" in reference to his work is substantially more than just computer simulations; really, it's referring to some of his seminal contributions providing "models" in the sense of physical frameworks for understanding the responses and evolution of planetary atmospheres (broadly speaking - with relevance far beyond the terrestrial atmosphere) to particular forcings. See Manabe and Weatherald (1967) [1] for perhaps one of the most critical contributions that he made.

[1]: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/atsc/24/3/1520-04...
"Free communication" in... exchange for personal data. But thats a price that is invisible to fanboys. Exploiting those who either can't understand or who can't afford the tiny cost of communicating with data privacy.

As for small businesses, its walled garden simply cannibalized their earlier websites and made every small trader dependent upon opaque and arbitrary discovery algorithms that can wipe them out without warning.

The open source projects you mention have multiple alternatives, many from genuine community projects that will sustain irrespective of a corporate sponsor.
> I can quit Facebook.

Maybe. If I quit Facebook, I can't messenger my loved ones anymore and my Oculus is now a lovely brick someone bought me for Christmas.

At a certain scale, the power dynamics start to look very similar. Governments still generally maintain a monopoly on violence, that's a big difference.

Generally. I think we can consider "Deported because your employer has no further use for you" a mostly-government-but-kind-of-weird-hand-in-glove-with-corporate-power blended category.
Component design sounds like a critical part. I find that take uninteresting and obvious.

What if you design t shirts for a fashion company that shares a parent with the the bomb company. You're not even in the defense industry. You might be able to argue that your t shirts generate revenue which may translate into capital that the parent company reallocates into the bomb company.

What if you're a voter who's elected representative, among a handful of liberal, pro-humanity policies, also supports bombing people in the middle east to support the defense industry?

When does it stop being disgusting cowardice and instead pragmatism to acknowledge systems are interlinked and complicated and you may be better focused on the local direct sphere of influence your choices make as the primary driver of your decisions?
Nothing screams first world problems than this…parents have completely lost the plot and have outsourced child rearing to public schools, social media and can’t control their children anymore. That’s where the rot begins.

No one has any personality anymore. Everyone is a public school clone. The need to conform and belong begins early. The need for validation and FOMO kicks in later. This wasnt started by social media but at schools.

This problem was seeded twenty -twenty five years ago. Children should be treated as children and adults should be in charge. First steps first..shut down all public schools except for those who cannot afford it. Secondly, cut out all wasteful spending and ask the govt to govern according to voters. While we are at it, let’s establish local governance and not regional and national control. Everyone should be able to form like minded communities and live free. Maybe then we will all
live in unique communities with true diversity. That’s when targeting masses to sell becomes tricky. ‘Masses’..get it? We have become masses ..herds even..of consumers.

Finally..if people have children, then they should parent. It’s a full time job. Stop shifting blame. No..it doesn’t take a village to raise the fruit of your loins. Just takes parents who feel accountable.

I blame feminism. The end.
Your perspective disregards the likelihood that this whistleblowers input will be used to censor political speech rather than actually protect children and teens online.
To the people recommending iCloud. I don't think that iCloud should be considered a backup. You can far too easily delete stuff from your phone that also gets deleted from iCloud when you do. For people not prepared for this, they will have just lost something important.
Maybe you should install Firefox Mobile with Ublock Origin and then you won't annoy any of us with your bitching and moaning.
Unfortunately - and as we can continue to see - there is nothing stopping scientists from being political mouth pieces. "Trust the science" comes with a huge asterisk: only the science of the approved scientific speaker by the approved political party and only of the approved narrative.

The scientists that spoke out against this were quickly shunned, the wagons circled, and when evidence became to crushing to hold the narrative, history was simply re-written via gaslighting.

With economists at least we know they will regularly be wrong and that you will openly see differing schools of thought on even the most foundational of issues.
This gets to a problem I’ve had with Siri once it rolled out to multiple devices. Each device has a different set of capabilities. Sometimes this makes sense (eg I don’t expect my TV to be able to place a call. It doesn’t have a microphone, nor a camera.), but many times it’s just bizarre. For instance, I can’t set an alarm on my laptop. It has a clock, yet I can’t do clock things.

It seems like some basic feature (eg clock like features) should just be built in, and where that’s not feasible, perhaps some sort of device handoff, which essentially happens on the watch.
In a real-world scenario though, what system you're using would have been figured out and planned for ahead of time.

If anything the example is arbitrarily harder rather than easier.
>As I understand it, V-22 Osprey can neither auto-rotate, nor land in emergency like an airplane (because the rotors would hit the ground). Seems a bit like worst of both worlds.

Tradeoffs.

It's worth it to them to plop a bunch of marines down with helicopter speed faster/farther than you normally can with a helicopter.

The military generally doesn't uncritically accept "but muh safety and liability" arguments like private industry does because the cost of doing things less efficiently (trying to refuel helicopters in hostile airspace, airborne operations, etc) comes with a statistical body count as well and they have some degree of sovereign immunity.

In a non-military context the pros and cons would weigh differently.
Honestly, as someone who reviews tons of resumes for my team, I wouldn't see 27 years at a company as bringing an interesting point of view by itself.

I'd look at what they've accomplished in those 27 years. This is no different than someone with 5 years or even 1.

If someone only has a couple notable things in 27 years , then I'm not sure what they're bringing to the table.

If someone has the same number of notable things in 5 years, then that speaks more to the level of work they're innovating at.

In short, it's really about the meaningfulness of what they've done during that time, relative to the tenure. Tenure alone is meaningless IMHO.

I've interviewed too many people who have careers longer than my life, who have basically just gotten by. I've also interviewed people who've done amazing things year on year.

The latter are the people I seek to build out the team. The former don't add much, unless they're really rock solid devs who've stayed in top of things. But if they're just alright? Then why wouldn't I hire someone more junior when they're giving me the same results, for cheaper, and are usually easier to mold and train?