skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a valley culture.

The structure of the team gets reproduced in the product. Read "The soul of a new machine" for a great example.

There is an unhealthy elitest hierarchy at many companies which manifests itself as interfaces to users on the assumption they're totally incompetent. It's a reproduction of an insular culture.

The worst part is that it's reinforcing. The thing you've probably heard of is the Stanford prison study but there's many similar ones; essentially you set up a context for how you engage with your customer and the customer plays the roles dictated by the context.

So you treat users like idiots and then they start acting like idiots. It really does work that way.

Let me give an intuitive analogy for those unconvinced. We're going to use a gym, library, and bar. The same person would be exercising, studying, and drinking at those institutions, in specifically that order.

We shape the buildings (create the context); thereafter they shape us.

The core problem of UX is the extreme focus of what kind of user they want as opposed to what kind of context they want to facilitate. The latter is how sustainability, growth, and value happen.

It's the difference between say assuming your customers are alcoholics and then building a bar and saying "it is of public benefit, profitable to our company, whatever, if our users studied so let us make a library and they will rise to the occasion".

So long as it is within reason, this is possible. People will do difficult things of value (such as a gym) if you're willing to adequately facilitate it. We don't need to limit ourselves to a fast food internet. See the project known as wikipedia for an example.
I have to agree. I don't know what it was, but it all never felt real to me. Actually the Frank's Herbert SciFi miniseries felt more real to me, despite it very obviously being filmed cheaply in a studio. Dune 2021 looks too clean, maybe.

One thing that stands out to me is the scene in Dune 2021 where Paul is outside on Dune talking with a gardener, who is watering palm trees. The conversation is about how many people could live from the water for the trees, and consequently about how atrociously hot Arrakis is. Paul is standing there, in the full sun, in a uniform obviously meant for colder environments. Yet there's not a single indication he's feeling any inconvenience from the heat and the sun. Not a drop of sweet, nothing. Just standing there like it's nothing.

Paul is used to a moderate climate, not (yet) accustomed at all to this grueling heat. Don't just tell us that Arrakis is hot. Show us that he's suffering! Show us how unbearably hot his new environment is!
The author is correct, but it's sad that he had to say that.

I am not thrilled with "inviolate rules of thumb," as a general principle.

Don't get me wrong. I have been doing what I do for a very long time, and have developed a huge library of habits, practices, and heuristics, in my work.

It's just that I treat them as guidelines, as opposed to "Thou Shalt Not" commandments. If an old or obscure pattern fits the bill for what I am doing now, I use it. If the problem looks, but is not exactly, like an issue that I have solved in the past, I will see if I can adjust the old solution to fit today's conundrum; even if the old solution is in a "Thou Shalt Not" area. If a current buzzword du jour is nonsensical in my work, I don't use it; no matter how good it looks on my CV.

Basically, because of my experience, I am allowed to color outside the lines.

A lot of times, I need to look at what others have done, and, if I am not an expert in their field, I have a lot less flexibility in what I can do.

For example, in the app I'm developing, the core functionality is pretty much done, and it's time to start gussying it up, putting some lipstick on the porker, theming it, what-have-you.

I was originally trained as an artist, but that was a long time ago, and my stuff tended to have a rather "prime color" palette. Think "Magpie on LSD."

I don't trust my own design sense, when it comes to a palette. I need to look at what others have done. I won't be able to deviate much, as I don't have their design sense. I don't do "subtle," too well...
I worry about ML papers in particular. models are closely guarded, often impractical to train independently due to ownership of the training/test set, or computing power or details left out of the paper. there's no way to mathematically prove any of it works, either. it's like social science done on organisms we've designed.
Mathematics is having a replication crisis and people pay so little attention they don’t know.

That replication crisis has led to efforts in formal verification such as HoTT, Lean, etc.

https://homotopytypetheory.org/

https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2021/06/05/half-a-year-of-...
BGP is only necessary to advertise large blocks of provider independent address space. It would still go through your provider's routers however, with appropriate BGP filtering, unless you managed to use some kind of tunneling system. Unless you had a large block of provider independent space and were physically multi-homed to multiple providers, using BGP is more likely to cause problems than help. If you do not connect to multiple ISPs there is not really any reason to use BGP at all.
This is my take.

Science attempts to describe reality. Math attempts to create rules/axioms.

They're not the same pursuit, although they can often be useful together.
I'm struggling to respond constructively to your comment. Think about all the phenomena that make up "cognitive ability" and all of the possible dimensions and properties of "cognitive decline".

It should be obvious that your advice is not in any way useful or actionable. And rituals are a very well accepted strategy for dealing with situations which demand consistent and good attention, where human cognitive variability causes problems.

A couple of famous examples--checklists used by aircraft pilots, or the pointing rituals used on Japanese railways.
Surely there will be a rebound after a drop like this; they are still growing and making money.
truly dat hacker news thank you thank you thank you
Where is the down vote button?
The source code for this is in the public domain. If anyone wants to copy the behavior, there is no reason to consult me first.
I think (and hope) you're right, but Google was just moving in a general direction. With the announcement and even -name change-, it feels way more invested than Google ever was. Would be really weird to undo all that.
Taking page 7's 85% figure for high earners, the $578.30 Part B premium figure for high earners, the $77.90 Part D premium for high earners, and the $499 Part A premium for people who didn't pay in, creates a total monthly premium of $1271. This is for old people or disabled people who have many more chronic health problems. Surely this figure can be drastically reduced for younger people without chronic health problems, and can likely beat what the governmentesque "private" companies charge for non-employer plans.

Furthermore, there is probably no better solution to paying for bankruptcy-level chronic health problems than public funds, despite the cost. The prevailing fiction is that such expensive individuals will be part of some non-correlated social "group" and paid for by other members. But the incentives are completely wrong, in that an insurer or employer doesn't want to pay for that market-inefficient burden, and will look for every reason to deny claims or remove from group. So considering those extreme expenses a fixed cost (which are being paid by the public now regardless, through Medicare, Medicaid, or unpaid debt), implies that average individual premiums would be even less.
Motivation could still be different if paid in USD or a crypto currency, if he owned shares in the advertised (or similar) company, if he had other investments that benefit, if he did the work for free, if he wants to raise his profile. The article doesn't attempt to answer any of that, it has zero insight and I'm not sure anything was researched other than which movies he was part of in the past.

Why does headline say 'shilling'? It's an ad. I don't call any youtubers who advertise a VPN or Skillshare a shill for the company, it's clear that money was exchanged.
You seem to be talking about a lot of different things that are not a coherent part of this discussion. But taking one point:

> line to actual citizenship that could be more than multiple lifetimes long

I'm not sure what you are referring to: almost every immigrant I know in the U.S. who wanted to pursue citizenship got it after at most 7 years in the country, sometimes less. That's a normal time range for most Western countries.

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/guides/ch...
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Much of this resonates with me, as most of the reading in my life is on paper, and I’m curious what the hooks & landmarks are when listening to stories, which we humans (presumably) did for most of our existence as a species (and our ancestors, and any animals alive now who have an oral/aural tradition). Some of my most memorable stories are audiobooks that I attended to ~fully (Shuggie Bain, notably, in part for the narration), letting my imagination augment the story.
Yay, Rearden Steel!
I do not think a car crash is normally the result of a decision people make based on whether they can afford it or not.
trust but verify
Nobody forces you to change the defaults, if your IDE has a color scheme you don't like you can continue using it, change your own preferences then using a menu and a popup to select a different color scheme. The thing is some users want to change things and some developers are even capable to implement things without hard coding various constants. Most issues appears when designers (like GNOME ones) want to impose a brand or vision.

Good apps will store configuration in a folder/file and they offer import/export functionality. As a person with eye sight problems I would be unable to do my job if a shit designer could force is shitty font sizes and colors on my apps(for some reason slim fonts with light gray on white background is sexy in recent years)

TL:DR nobody forces you to open the settings panel, keep the defaults and don't try to demand or defend removing stuff you personally don't need, you don't understand how other work(use the applications)
"We get away with it becuase we can be right for the wrong reasons—we mostly only try to prove things that are basically true."

Apart from the replication crisis, the other crisis that is not really talked about is funding. Academic funding basically comes from one of 3 (connected) sources - government, corporations and the military. Somehow or other - these 3 sources have pretty much the same or non-conflicting aims. These aims relate to power and control. This is actually the largest crisis, IMO.

Given that information, we can re-assess the quoted statement the author makes.

Perhaps its not that they are proving things that are "basically true". Its that right or wrong do not matter. What does matter is that the answers provided meet the agenda of those funding the study. The answer is not that important as long as it is supportive of whatever agenda is in play. I believe this is the case for the replication crisis in science also.

A replication "crisis" is only a crisis if you are attempting to achieve truth and greater understanding. But truth and understanding are only ostensible reasons, not the actual ones. What these studies are actually doing is creating a parallel construction - the aim is actually for studies to appear 'truthey', without actually being so. What studies should actual do is increase the funder's power, wealth extraction abilities, etc.

If you doubt this and think that truth matters, consider this. Surely we should have cracked the best diet for people by now? But there is no common understanding of what is good or bad to eat - if anything there is more confusion. The reason of course, is that there's no money in recommending whole foods or whatever. However, there is money in drugs to make people 'better'. And money in making diet so confusing that people eat themselves into trouble.

Anyway, if you are in the business of governing or monetising the masses, truth and understanding is the last thing you want. Far better to have a story that gives you control, or extracts money. Such is life under fascist governance (where fascist = corporation + governance working together).
Keep in mind that this study could just mean that people in expensive cars with higher incomes are less likely to be arrested/stopped by police.
Misleading, from a company that once (several days ago) claimed that they sold more cars in Australia than Camry's last year.

Until someone pointed out that vehicle registration... disagreed. By nearly 30%.

Then "Oops. We made a mistake and counted 3,000+ deliveries which haven't actually been, well, delivered."

I hope they get spanked hard for that. Australia has very onerous "truth in advertising" laws.
Hacks for engineering estimates
The Shoeshine Boy Indicator
This isn't unique to ML. A lot of research is about adding an epsilon to an existing paper, which probably doesn't interesting anyone except a small community working in their very own niche topic.

But does it mean there's a crisis? maybe that's just a way to foster an environment that will let great ideas emerge.
It’s a lot of Oxford dictionary words but largely a very thin article.
Sure,
https://www.tesla.com/safety

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KR2N_Q8ep8

Tesla roll out cars in generations. So just take a $40k Model 3/Y platform was introduced in 2017 and compare it with any car been introduced that year.
My friend bought a BMW in 2019 for similar money, it doesn't have half of that. Maybe you can have them but you have to buy extra packages for extra money.

Tesla don't sell safety features for extra price. The only extra feature is Autopilot. But hardware, camera's , lane departure avoidance, blind spot collision warning etc in every car.

You can even take such a simple feature as forward collision warning system. When you drive it is super accurate it uses the same data and models from Autopilot to predict when there is a crash. If your slowing down dynamic is not good or the car in front/back change it dynamics it will warn you immediately. Only this feature saved me several times from collision. I'm not a good driver.

As I said in 2022 there are many car brands that catching up in some cases they doing better. And this is good.

Human is a bad, constantly distracted driver. Technology is the only way to make our life safer.
Nope. Two of my favourite pieces of software have very few settings because they remember what I do instead of forcing me to go and figure out a setting for it.
I think traditional auto makers have done a much better job of communicating to consumers what the tech can actually do. We don’t have self driving cars (which implies that they can drive in those harder conditions). We have cars that are good at lane keeping on freeways.

I wish Tesla would celebrate that victory rather than double down on lies.
It didn't work, I tried a couple of times and even got a mach but nothing happened. maybe It has something to do with a js error in the console

hn:78 Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: Failed to execute 'send' on 'WebSocket': Still in CONNECTING state.
at RTCPeerConnection.peerConnection.onnegotiationneeded (https://coffeehouse.chat/hn:78:29)
That depends on the jurisdiction. In my state (MA), I can use the left lane while passing other traffic even if there is traffic behind me who wishes to go faster than I am.
The more money Bezos spends the better,

Not if it cranks up the global carbon footprint, and wastes resources better left in the ground. At some people we simply don't need to grant these people the "right" to build whatever ego-inflating toys they want, wherever they want.

Useless $500m boats like that simply shouldn't be built.
Maybe thats European thing, but this is quite common offer for developers. I guess companies do not advertise this option, but more often than not they will accept it. When thinking about my team (8 developers) I think there are maybe two people with 9 to 5 x 5 days a week arrangememt.
It'll depend on the system doing the scraping. If it's just fetching the HTML with curl or similar, using the meta tag shouldn't be any different. I'm not familiar with HTML parsers that follow meta redirects.

But if the scraper is using Puppeteer, either approach will result in the redirect being followed and the Open Graph data being ignored.

For example, Microlink follows the JS redirect and seems to ignore your Open Graph data: https://microlink.io/meta?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator... Scraped data at this time: https://i.imgur.com/pRLIt0S.png

This is normally the behavior you want from a scraper: if someone pastes a bit.ly / t.co link you want the link preview to show data on the other side of the redirect.

You could try to figure out how to distinguish between a scraper and a human operator, but that'll be tough, since people work very hard to make Puppeteer look 100% legit.
On Signal it is a giant orange "Y" logo.
Because based upon this data it is at least as safe as not deploying it. This data actually suggests that it is marginally safer.
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It's easy to say this, mainly because the average person really just doesn't care.
I agree with a lot of the commenters here. This is a meaningless headline.

The essential quality of the metal is its being rigid with the ability to deform without fracturing, so talking about its strength is useless. There are tons of things that are stronger than steel already. Still, they don't also have the property of deforming without destruction or, on the opposite, holding its form rigidly while maintaining its strength.
Looks interesting, but I'm not going to fork out >$200 just to give it a try.
> It is hard to think of a good example of CGI from modern films because good CGI is invisible. There are an incredible number of effects shots in modern films and TV, everything from removing backgrounds to replacing stuntpeoples faces with the stars. Most of it you will never even notice unless you look.

But there is a distinction between CGI that is truly invisible to the average viewer, and CGI that is extremely photorealistic but is depicting events that very clearly could not be shot practically. I think there's a lot of scenes set in space, or in extremely bizarre environments, that simply must be CGI but which looks as photorealistic as I can imagine (but of course, there are plenty of funny quotes of people saying that about imagery from the 90s that looks laughable now).
The amount of resetting the postion of the eyes back to the start of the next line is much greater on a smartphone. I wonder if the greater effort of scanning affects your brain's ability to sigh and comprehend.
But most of good apps have the Settings split in categories and advanced sections, you are not forced to see or touch them. It is not like in real world where many options would have to mean 100 buttons,switches and levers always existing there in your face.
Even if not, the original claim was that we may see a 50X decrease and I personally don't think that is likely, pre-Singularity anyway :)
She has a Substack.

Which is literally called 'Men Yell At Me'.

She's thrown her hat into the realm of public opinion taking sides on issues.

This is not a 'random person' so it's at least a tiny bit disingenuous for the author to represent themselves as 'nobody' when their own substack headline trails with 'trying to raise hell'.

I would imagine this was a milquetoast tweet that got picked up by the algorithm, or shared in the feeds of dumb trolls.

The best way to evaluate how often this happens would be to look at the various tweets of various people and see which one's hit, and why.

It might very well be that women are more likely to be victims but I think it's probably more or less even between genders, whereas men are more likely to be trolls. But that's just a guess.
It's the first time I've been married so I didn't know what to expect. Even though we married last year, we've been living together for a few years now.

But it's hell for me, I want freedom, I want time, I don't want to guess how she feels or what she needs all the time. She says I should buy her flowers and that kind of stuff more often but doing it feels like a chore to me.

5 years ago I also wasn't sure if I wanted to be a parent or not, but I was more leaning towards the "yes". I think having a kid would be a higher goal that could motivate me to stay together with my wife. After deciding I don't want kids (with any woman) my long term relationship/marriage just crumbled like a deck of cards.
How is it possible to steal ETH? In ethereum code is law. If the code is valid, whatever gets executed is the truth. All bugs, processor errors, and everything else about the environment are part of that code and are thus part of law. There is no higher power for ethereum beyond the code.

The people that transferred this wealth to their account are not thieves. They are not villains. They are smart people who saw a code path that resulted in a desirable outcome for themselves. Given both parties agreed that code is law, there is absolutely nothing unethical or immoral about what they did. They simply were more clever than the original holders of the ETH. They should be cheered on and rewarded for their smarts.

Code is law. As long as the original people were not physically harmed or coerced out of their funds, they never got robbed. Their ETH was simply transferred to another party in accordance with the laws both parties agreed to.

If what I say is wrong and code is not the law, than what is the point of ethereum at all? Might as well run on AWS or something.
Yeah! You’re all doing a great job. I know how hard software is and how it’s even more difficult to prioritize something when there’s lots of good ideas on your plate. Keep up the great work.
The future of finance btw.

I do think the exploiter takes the $10M deal. As it stands, attempting to cash any amount out is somewhere between very dumb and life-threatening.
Not the parent comment, but I cannot code from scratch (outside of very simple and small applications). Competitive Programming is at about the limit of what I can do without looking things up, and only because I've had practice specifically for that kind of artificial environment.
So that Daily Beast article has been up for more than 5 years with nobody fixing the horrible typo in the headline? Wow.
So I guess "reduced hours" at Amazon means 40 hours/week?
The most important problem right now that needs to be solved, in terms of steel and plastics, is the carbon emissions caused when they are manufactured. The manufacture of these materials is one of the biggest sources of carbon emissions. I'm curious if this new material has the same emissions profile.