skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I unsubscribed from Quora emails because I was troubled by all of the engagement manipulation in what they sent me and how well it worked. As long as it works on people and creators and consumers don’t punish platforms for promoting manipulative content, these things will continue to exist.

You can blame <social media demon of the day> as much as you want but these things will never go away until people learn to leave them.

Demonizing things doesn’t work (masking, drugs, alcohol, <human weakness of the day>, <moral outrage of the day>) and it leads to evasion, black markets, and reactionary opposition.

You have to actually teach people how things work, a reality based message about positives and negatives, and a respect for several disagreeing viewpoints in order to reach optimum outcomes which are never “goal zero”.

The harder you squeeze the more will slip through your fingers whether it’s through moralization or authoritarianism.
Curious what others think about “go to therapy” being a tldr of dating? Can’t decide whether that is ridiculous or insightful
Hashing a URL in Java does a DNS lookup
Don’t all cars have the trunk pull release by law?
I’m not sure this is a given. My previous Ford would unlock the front door when the indoor handle was pulled, regardless of lock state. It seems like it’s depends on manufacturer, model, and options package.

https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/questions/52480/is-the-d...
that's not what happens - see my other comments, but basically the only difference is that in lost mode the AirTag provides contact info.
There are a lot of things you can get access to in the browser. I'd be surprised if more was needed.
The problem is (imo) that he's writing for himself and not an audience. It reads like a stream-of-consciousness journal entry, not a thoughtful attempt at relaying information to another mind. A good start would be learning to self-edit; the length could be cut significantly with no real loss of content.

What's particularly aggravating is that he knows, more or less, what clear, concise writing is (cf. his discussion of "classic style") and goes out of his way to not write like that. Yes, I read his justification. No, it's not good.

Someone is going to chime in by saying that I must be wrong because his articles frequently reach the HN frontpage. But correlation is not causation. The actual information content is generally really good – that's why they're popular. But they'd be even better with more attention to the mechanics of writing.
I was more speaking to some of the rather oppressive ones. I don’t find those that “rich” and my own culture has so many needlessly complex things in it that stem from not so rich backgrounds.
nope, that would mean stealing an AirTag would give you relatively immediate access to the victim's contact info.
It’s a game, winning feels good. They also do pay top contributors.
I hope the "trend" of researchers writing for the public, via books & blog posts, can contribute some incentive towards being clear and intuitive.

I'm thinking about the success of Freakonomics, Thinking Fast and Slow, The Elegant Universe, etc. These are all academics, who've "translated" their research for the masses. That translation ended up being much more impactful - and prestigious - than an intimidating paper.

I hope this becomes more of a trend, and an incentive structure, in the future.
> Idk about your morals or ethics but the "internet crime isn't real crime!" bandwagon crashed decades ago.

I personally can't tell the difference between any given cryptocurrency and a gold brick scam in the first place. It's not to say you're wrong, but to me the fix is regulating cryptocurrencies, not complaining that someone outsmarted an algorithm that controls millions of dollars of tokens in an unregulated market.

Further, should the government step in and prosecute crimes in said unregulated market? Who's to say what a crime is or whether it's just a feature of the software? If crypto currency is nothing but a gold brick scam, why should they exactly?

> Sure you can. Michelle Carter[0] just digitally transmitted some prime numbers.

So Michelle Carter transmitted 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17 ....? I don't think that's what she was convicted of.

But at the same point it seems weird that solving math problems online would somehow be made illegal. Now using said math problems to achieve ill gotten gains from a bank, would clearly be.
No, that's not what happens.
If your device detects the same AirTag traveling with you, despite not being paired to your account you will be notified about it, no matter what state it is in.
/if/ the device is in lost mode you're provided with contact details.
They certainly have an above average ability to stay in school.
They probably have an above average ability to focus.

Rocket scientists are certainly better than average at math and science.

Brain surgeons (surgeons in general) probably have significantly better fine motor control.

I suppose the study is saying, there’s nothing innately special about rocket scientist s or brain surgeons. So kids out there, you can become whatever you want if you can commit to the education and practice required to master it.

I think we already suspected this though.
I hear this will cost about $80 per month and insurance won't cover it. It seems that in the long run it's many times cheaper to get a pair of drug store reading glasses. I like that the product is there but it's too expensive right now. It needs to get to the sub $10.00 range for me to buy it on a regular basis.
Having read some of Dan Luu's other prose I think this is a bit unfair. The sort of meta analysis of writing always comes off a bit navel gazy I suppose, but I don't think you have put his post in context with some of the other things he's written. In those entries of his blog I always find the prose flows quite nicely.
"Let me tell you what Quora really is: Quora is the plaything of a couple of toddler luck** who, not content with having somehow pocketed generational wealth by the age of 25, felt obliged to bestow upon us the be-all, end-all: the world’s “best source for knowledge.” I’m serious about that s** – it’s their actual tagline. Not the writings of Isaac Newton nor the notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci. Not the dozens of pre-existing question-and-answer sites. Not Wikipedia – a publicly-curated, global encyclopedia containing more than 25 million articles on literally every subject known to man. Not even, f**, the very rise of the Internet itself – unarguably the greatest explosion of information delivery and content creation in history. No, these were but stepping stones for the unadulterated perfected brilliance that Charlie Cheever and Adam D'Angelo bequeathed in the form of Quora. Inimitable, quintessential Quora."

https://jesuschristsiliconvalley-blog.tumblr.com/post/489620...
The security preventing unlocking of devices is pretty sturdy these days. You can't root a lot of phones these days without signing keys that are kept very secure by the manufacturers, similar things are starting to happen with all these other machines that don't really need all these electronics.

Voting with your wallet only works when they're not behaving like a cartel. Every major phone manufacturer dropped the headphone jack all at once. Every TV manufacturer is including "smart" dumb shit in their TVs. Every car manufacturer makes a car that requires the factory entertainment head unit just to run.

At this point, voting with your wallet is almost synonymous with building your own stuff. The reality is, most people are trapped in this distopia.
I don't see anything.

Do people just not know how to build websites without pulling in resources from a million arbitrary third parties any more?
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on HNS?
HNS: Decentralized naming and certificate authority: https://handshake.org

"An experimental peer-to-peer root naming system."

What are your thoughts on it? Do you think it'd be big enough for browsers to adopt it in the future? Especially with ".js" TLD being on the HNS (instead of DNS), I am anticipating it'd blow big but I feel that that it's largely dependent on browsers enabling it.
I like the people I follow but they get like 5 likes on interesting things they have to say, and 500 likes on depressing takes like "computers were a mistake", or "everything is bad because capitalism" or fake uplifting content like "my title is senior engineer and I googled a thing today, normalize failure". I think twitter algorithm promotes that kind of content and I guess they have to adopt if they want their follower count to go up.
Speaking of old Macs, I use a 1993 Apple M1242 Adjustable Keyboard (via USB Wombat) as my daily driver※.

When I first learned of Kintsugi a few years ago, my keyboard was the first thing I thought of. The original keyboard had about half of the keys non-functional or working incorrectly (double/triple letters). So I got a second keyboard and ended up testing all keys on both, keeping the working ones on the original, and desoldering/resoldering the working ones from the donor to the original. This took a few months on and off since I'd keep discovering new keys that were slightly broken or intermittent.

I also modified the keyboard to remove a couple of plastic tabs, to make the top covers easier to remove (since I had to do it so many times). The ribbon cable connecting both halves is also prone to failure, so I sanded down some of the plastic around it to ensure it wouldn't get snagged or compressed (and ordered a spare cable from a parts keyboard as well). I also did a bit of Retrobrite to restore it to its original colour.

Anyway, you really have to love something a lot to put that much effort into it (and probably wouldn't have bothered/had time if I had a baby when I got it a few years ago).

※ - Photo here: https://flic.kr/p/2myqXVR
So what is general intelligence? And why does it always seem like definitions of general intelligence just happen to align with the current hegemonic culture?
> The older ARC spec would work with any HDMI cable, but bandwidth limitations only allowed compressed 5.1 surround sound.

My 2012 Denon AVR-1913 won't do ARC with just any HDMI cable. According to the manual it must be an HDMI with ethernet cable and experiment has shown that the manual is correct.
Part of me feels like you/we deserve to be ghosted if we submit to unpaid and unreasonable tests and homework.

Unreasonable is anything where it only costs one side, for example, or if unduly burdensome on one side.

It's like -- you literally told them to not value your time, and now you're going Pikachu face.

I have done them in the past, I think, so I'm not above it, but I do think we should call out the incongruous thinking, if that's the phrase.
You're losing lots of quality content by removing those TLDs. I'm using 3 of the listed ones just because they're cheaper and found similar ones to be a good indicator of "this is less likely to be blogspam, and more likely a personal space".
>> - every day I deal with broken links and broken images because my feed reader doesn't know from which URL it should resolve relative links

> These are the fault of broken RSS feed generators. The RSS feed should contain a textual summary of the article.

Footnote relative links are quite common in blog posts, and my RSS reader punts me out to a browser to view them. Given that most blogs I follow provide full-text feeds, it's a bit disappointing I can't easily navigate that last (textual) portion of content.
Since everyone is sharing their advice: A few years of weekly therapy session did mostly nothing for me, while a few evening with close friends and MDMA made me able to talk about myself and my feelings. All of my close friends have noticed the changed. I'm now able to reach out for help.

The part about hugs might be a great idea too, at least that's the first time I've heard it.

About the article itself, it was nice. It's rare to see an article like that, read it and not feel like shit at the end. This one was hopeful and seems to give good advice.
If I might condense the tl;dr a bit more:

1. Be willing to be emotionally present, vulnerable and sincere

2. And keep doing that

I don’t currently have a thriving dating life, nor do I want to now. But when I have, that’s what worked.

And observing adjacent comments:

You don’t have to objectify anyone to be emotionally available.

You don’t have to go to therapy either, but if you’re hesitant you probably would benefit from it more than you think.

People who aren’t your prospective dating partners will also appreciate your growth.
Tesla probably makes back all the money they spend on AT&T bandwidth through the Supercharger network. As long as the math continues to work out there's no need to introduce any new fees.

I will say it is kind of strange that Premium Connectivity has no data limit. If I could just figure out how to launch a personal hotspot from my Model 3, I could cut the cord with Comcast...
Can you view relative links (for footnotes) in Elfeed? That hasn't been my experience.
Why is there a qualifier of “in the Bay Area”?
> Sysadmins know their tools

This is false. Every line they write has potential security implications. If any pattern can become a string injection vulnerability, it will. Even most real programmers do not understand shell scripting.

This discussion is all moot because UN*X is an obsolete misconception made by programmers who are too dumb to understand the difference between and significance of AST manipulation and string concatenation. It's not hard to understand what I'm talking about. Look how much ad-hoc, non-reusable trivia you have to learn to pass stuff around between find, ls, and xargs. Whenever you would do `x = f(); g(x)` in Python, you will spend 10 minutes figuring out if some given shell script is doing the equivalent the correct, safe, secure way.

I just realized today that every time I see some crap like x,abc%%20%%20def,y x,abc\x20\x20def,y I am actually depressed because I already know all the played out meta of such systems - it's a bunch of half working junk full of pointless vulns that only exist because between 0 and 10 of the said "experts at their craft" in the world actually bother to program this crap correctly. And I literaly have to squint to figure out where the bug is (there's always the bug in such code).

If the UN*X shell was replaced by Python, sysadmins would have no trouble adapting. Python is a terrible language, (plus this discussion is convoluted by the fact that Python's gimped from bending over to work well with UN*X) but still better than UN*X shell in every way.
I would love to use it. The only challenge for me is that hubspot only sends emails via gmail/gsuite
Pretty much the premise of the movie Interstellar.
I'm not sure how spankbang got on that list but it's hilarious. Is it really a common problem like pinterest and similar stuff on that list?
They’re the best resource for learning web technologies. They’ll tell you in one plain sentence what you need to know, with simple, concrete examples, whereas MDN, on the other hand, is a baroque mess which, after paragraph upon paragraph of rambling legalize will often leave you more confused than when you started.
> making it super easy for anyone to quickly fill, print and fold a card for their wallet, purse, or anywhere you can slip a credit-card into

This is functionality that could have been done simply by adding form fields to the PDF.
We will see. I think flags in general have enough advantages that the chip really should have them.

And it's not just an arbitrary Precision. There's a variety of constructs that will be longer.

And hey, it's not like I'm anti. We'll see where it all goes, and if it really does shake out like the proponents say, this will just be an academic matter.

I would rather some really good instructions be part of the base set just so they have broad coverage. The whole just add a rando instruction idea doesn't appeal to me at all.
That is an example of waste, the US has so much wasted crops they make HFCS from corn and biodiesel from it, there is no shortage of the big 3 crops, nor is there evidence these institutions do any worthwhile work. They gave Japanese wheat during WW2 and the Japanese invented instant noodles. There is no evidence of any benefit of this rice research, and nobody has proven otherwise.
This is also why Deno running TypeScript directly is a bad idea.
Yes, it is. I tried a new venture a few months ago, following more modern guides (the Mom test, Lean Canvas, all that), and they were not as useful as the Startup Owner's Manual.
I believe your windshield is an integral part of your car's rollover protection
He was elected as a member of parliament, then nominated by the prime minister and approved by parliament as a minister.
Just a few month ago HN consensus was that "blacklist" is a bad bad word so it should be named UdisallowList.

Funny how this virtue signaling movement died within a few month.
I would love for human settlements to happen faster, but the #1 issue is food. Mars does not have living soil and packaged food is not sustainable. Yes, we can probably engineer a way to get there and back, but what level of health will the returning astronauts be in? It's the robots until we figure that out.
'In the land of internet-connected devices, the man with the soldering iron is king.'
jq ... | sed -E 's/([0-9][0-9]).([0-9][0-9]).[0-9]*$/\2_\1/'

this fails for me since the jq output lines are surrounded by quotes. had to remove $. did i do something different or are we running different jq versions?
I only send out limited transactional emails via gmail and thats only because hubspot only supports sending email by connecting gmail. For some absurd reason they dont allow SMTP servers for sending emails.

Since hubspot is our CRM I had to start using gsuite. The problem is is that the emails from hubspot land in the inbox. BUT the emails from my outlook that I type it out land in people's spam folder.

One reason why I have zero concerns with googles overarching data privacy issue is that I can see how stupid their AI /algorithms are. And with more noise it just gets worse not better.
I think that implies that carbon emitting methods are the only way we can produce energy. Sure, constructing hydroelectric plants emits carbon right now but ideally it wouldn't in the future. We shouldn't be spending money and energy constructing new gas pipelines in 2021, for example. That effort would be better spent on emission free energy sources or on electric vehicle manufacturing capabilities.
Huh, I like his page just fine in normal view, but reader view works really well there.

I'm glad he uses minimal styling. Designs which look bad in normal view are usually fixed by reader view. Designs which look bad in reader view are probably completely unsalvagable.
Would that even be beneficial? If the problem is that there are fewer insects and therefore the birds have less food, then cats suppressing the bird population might have a positive impact on insects, which the birds eat. That might be good for birds too in the long run.

Predators are part of a feedback loop. That the predators in question are housecats makes it a somewhat unnatural feedback loop, but that doesn't necessarily make it bad.

Housecats are part of the food chain as well; they can be killed by cayotes and raccoons, and hawks might sometimes go after a small cat.
I know several Bernie's supporters who're serious Elon's fans and quite knowledgeable in rocketry. At this point I suspect the anti-billionaires angle is at least somewhat misplaced.
Disagreeable, Lazy, and an Addict – What Genetic Tests Can Tell
Either you're just trolling at this point OR you haven't the slightest idea of what you're talking about.
A warning that this site has an incredibly intrusive nag-box that pops up after you've read a bit of the article.
Another good quote for the OP is Miguel De Cervantes, author if Don Quixote: "there is madness in too much sanity, and the greatest madness of all is to see things as they are instead of as they should be".

He would know: Cervantes killed a rival on a duel at 17 and fled to sea. They were attacked by pirates and he fought well before getting his hand blown off and taken prisoner. He lived in captivity but befriended his captor, who taught him chess and literacy. Then he was "rescued" by monks who bought his freedom but placed him on indentured servitude through debt, which he finally escaped by writing one of the early great novels.

The point of this story is not that cynics were wrong but that one never would have survived his ordeal. In a world fit for cynics, you have to be ready for things to go right if you want to escape.
They need it, nobody else. That is why even your robot vacuums are controlled over cloud server, not directly from you phone app.
Or why your toaster has wifi soon. Or fridge. Or bluetooth enabled kettle.
That sweet sweet data and control.
As U.S. Inflation Surges, Here’s Why Japan’s Prices Have Held Steady
I think it's similar to PHP, they're criticized by the vocal newbies who are chasing the newest and shiniest.

For me personally, w3schools has been one of the most reliable sources of reliable solutions that work not just for the latest Chrome build but across many different browsers and platforms.

Given the cumulative nature of HTML, "outdated" is another word for "reliable and established", IMO.
The Magical Characters of 'Tokyo Godfathers'
And safe and easy. Cash in an envelope could be lost, and then it's gone. A check could be lost and would need to be canceled and re-written. And either way you have to take an extra step to get it in your bank account. (At least with a check, most banks have a phone deposit option. You'd have to physically take the cash to a bank branch or at best ATM.)
You should always want to have the underlying code available. Without the exact procedures they used to process their data, the only kind of "using their conclusions" you can do is the superficial "take it at face value" kind. So many important details get hand-waved away in papers that say things like "we used the well known blahblahblah method to analyze the data."

If you do it right, the code should in no way interfere with your ability to read abstracts.
Amazing phrasing.