skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ideas can't be disingenuous because they don't have intent to begin with.

I don't think that's required. If I call an idea "disingenuous" (or "misleading" for that matter), it doesn't imply that the arguer intended to mislead, but only that the idea lends itself to misinterpretation ("it seems disingenuous to suggest that the protest was violent on the basis of the actions of one or two out of tens of thousands" <- this seems about as polite as anything IMHO). But any way of suggesting that an idea is incorrect or inaccurate risks causing offense--it's a perilous enterprise and no matter which word you use, ultimately you have to lay a lot of groundwork to demonstrate good faith, common ground, etc.

That's my $0.02, anyway.
> not sure why this is getting downvoted.

Because this is a thread for airing grievances about Apple, not the context behind the linked article or who's involved in a lawsuit.
>> "Google increasingly does not give you the results for what you typed in. It tries to be “smart” and figure out what you “really meant" ..."

> This is the most annoying behavior because I really mean what I write.

Yeah I remember this being mentioned in a local presentation at university. As a great thing. Google doesn't search for what you write, but what you want.

The problem is that very often Google don't know what I want. Before they introduced this, I was able to define my query so that I got exactly what I wanted.
Its like Conway's law, but for engineering physical systems!
It's replicating the things that the early internet based its success on: open protocols and decentralized authority.

Nobody can tell you: "no, you can't build that".

It's the opposite of closed platforms, such as the app/play store, facebook, etc. Where a central authority can set the rules and on a whim, shut you down.
You are right - it is actually mentioned in the article - sorry about that.

I would still say that it is somewhat silly to apply Benford's law here - also in the non-cumulative case.

The distribution of the daily number how much disease is circulating - where I am at the moment we have daily numbers stable at some 40-50 thousands, leading to 4 and 5 being overrepresented, without it being in any way being fraudulent or made up.
Thank you - great. A follow-up on Git - is it easy to understand diffs in pull requests? Can you follow what's changed the way you would with handwritten code?

On test automation I mean being able to write some fast tests that - say - test calculations and things like that, and medium speed tests that mock out the backend and play through the UI really fast, and slower end to end tests that play through the UI with a backend connected. And being able to do all that on Git commit push via CI is really helpful.
Counterpoint: As a user, often the only way to get a video to play in any browser on linux is to modify the user agent. And then, when you do spoof the user agent, it works just fine.
It's always fun checking Google's ad settings and seeing what they think I'm into.

Apparently now I'm into baseball, flowers, boating, celebrities, country music, credit cards, geology, event ticket sales, fishing, and windows OS. Among a couple hundred other things. It even gets some rather basic facts (marital status, company size, education) wrong. I seriously wonder how they generate this profile?
> the tamest and most well moderated forum

It's the most well moderated free forum. I'm a member of some paid forums that is far better, but that makes sense because people don't like toxicity in something they have paid for.
This is great! Literally just yesterday I was looking for something like this.

I've used the Chrome extension YouTube Captions Search ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-captions-s... ) and that works quite well... but only for one video at a time. I was just thinking that it would be great if there were a public repository of YouTube CC content that we could search through, and lo-and-behold -- this pops up on my feed today.

Very nicely done with this! Are you using the YouTube-provided CC files as a data source for this, or are you creating your own transcripts from scratch?
Woman appears cured of HIV following HIV-resistant stem cell treatment
Twitter knocked them off with Twitter spaces.
I don’t think it’s uncharitable. It just recognizes that there are always energetic problem solvers out there who will jump at the chance to prove someone wrong.

It’s kind of like the well known technique: “If you want the right answer to your question, confidently post the wrong answer and wait for the replies.”
That's the hard part, but by recognizing that there exists a consensus reality that is unique to the relationships on the team, which produces the value of the business as an effect, this itself is a useful tool for determining whether you've got complete information. Most people won't challenge you on facts, they will challenge you on alignment and consequences. Btw, most people aren't anywhere near this meta about their jobs at all, but if you have ever recieved the advice to be easier to work with and responded with something along the lines of not realizing it was important to care what stupid people think, I'm suggesting there is a tool for navigating that by interpreting "business," and "political" dynamics as abstractions over complexity, and not just a lack of concrete facts or knowledge. And that I have perhaps come by this perspective honestly.
This seems very overly engineered, I was thinking something far simpler and much more limited with no negotiation.

I can see the use case for this. Maybe in parallel with a simpler header.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Client_hin...
Interesting.

Another "sticky" problem is how to make a living out of this I guess...
If he donated $50k or $100k to am existing charity outside his control I would accept it. He is giving $5.7 billion to a charity, it would be foolish to assume that is going to a charity that he has zero influence over.
If you can't show the impact to the bottom line, why should the company care?
In all an insignificant price to pay. And maybe it would highlight browser vendors to fix it instead and become more standards aware.
You keep bringing up Sri Lanka as the justification for a smart phone. The reality is you can just walk around a central district and choose a restaurant based on its appearance, convenience, location, or posted menu. This is how it was done 15 years ago and earlier. You don’t need to read reviews or it’s opening hours on a smart phone. If you’re standing in front of it, you know if it is open. If the food turns out to be bad because you did not read online reviews, so what? Is your trip spoiled or did you just make a memory about shitty food in a Sri Lankan square? If the food is good, did you just discover a “hidden gem”?

I’m sure you’ll post a reply that explains some outlier reason for a smartphone: what if I’m in rural Bangladesh and there’s no central square? What if….

But think how people got through these difficulties before smartphones. A lot more experimentation and reaching out to locals. This is why portable language phrase books used to be so popular when traveling.
The initial crop of USB-C adoption was mostly USB 2.0, but almost everyone has been USB 3+ for a long, long time now. All the Pixel phones except the 3a are USB 3 or higher, for example. And for comparison Samsung has been using 3.1 since the Galaxy S10e.

I just checked my Pixel 5 for example reports USB 3.2 (as in, that's what it's actually connecting as to a Linux host per bcdUSB)
Most people are not willing to have a Socratic style debate let alone admit they could ever be wrong. That is the root of the problem in our society today.
I think this wasn't about writing a login system for a new service though. It was about sharing the credentials to various third party systems, whose login systems are not controlled by the author.
> impossible to talk to someone and get your account unblocked

Hence why Reddit will only and ever remain a tool for consumer to consumer communication, and why a business would be stupid to use it as a primary marketing channel.
Wait, did Apple really once sell an 1TB iPod or do these eBay sellers just etch in whatever you want them to?
Compared with FAANGs and unicorns , not really, but if you believe their stock will explore in the future, is worth a try, I guess?
Sadly, that's just how the world is and has been. If you have to avoid it for your mental health, rely on loved ones and math/tech manuals and writing.

Racists who aren't A) doing it as a troll or B) trying to make a career out of it, are actually just normal people trying their best to understand the world. If you have the strength to help them, you should; if you don't, it's alright to retreat for a while.
Would this be against ToS or app store guidelines?
>...their language development was in all three cases way ahead of schedule.

I would put a lot more of it to having (seemingly) engaged parents. Even a backwards strategy enacted by a loving parent who is consistently trying their best is likely to outperform the result that most can manage (owing to time/money/education/etc).
> Ukraine does not try to forbid Russian language, that's complete disinformation.

https://www.france24.com/en/20180920-ukraine-region-ban-russ...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/25/ukraine-passes-l...

Basically this is why Crimea doesn't want to be part of Ukraine anymore. And other regions may follow this way.

> Crimea has been invaded by Russian special forces and annexed by Russia, there is no ambiguity here.

You forgot to ask crimeans whether they were invaded.

Even chechens don't claim that they are invaded, despite there was real war there, unlike in Crimea.

> Your comparison with Texas is non-sensical.

You forgot to ask Chuck Norris. https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/83ln5/chuck_norri...

Your claim Ukraine been invaded by USSR is too. Ukraine have signed official agreement to be part of USSR.

> does not justify Russian invading the country.

It's better if such unstable "countries" like Ukraine, Chechnya, e.t.c. to be controlled by a strong country like Russia, USA, China, e.t.c. Letting them do whatever they want threatens the security of Europe. And it's better if Russia invades Ukraine than if somebody like ISIS takes control over them.
Another way to explain it is consider the prime factorization of both numbers. The product will contain all of the prime factors from both, so if there is at least one 2 and at least one 5 in then the result will be divisible by 10.
That's not a rational business decision

The fewer the points of failure, the better

Your choice of 50 unrelated, unintegrated vendors introduces 50 single points of failure to business

That's incredibly stupid - unless you truly have no choice

It introduces a huge amount of unnecessary risk to the company, and immense overhead in additional personnel (product admins, contract management, vulnerability monitoring, end user time/training, etc)

It's why multicloud is mostly not a thing: outside of a few niche cases, running cloud workloads across multiple providers is more expensive than running it all in one. Sure GCP might have something that's cheaper than AWS, and AWS than Azure, and Azure than GCP - but now you have to manage data going into and out of three providers instead of one, three separate contracts, three sets of credential groups, etc
This entirely depends on where you're cutting off "normal" for "toxic" on either end - but toxic kindness can lead to an echo chamber that builds a false sense of confidence, spreads misinformation and generally deprives you of your ability to empathize with other people - toxic negativity can lead to depression and suicide... so I don't really think it's fair to equate the two - both are bad, but one is worse.
Hmm, no? It says nothing about decompilation in the repository, from what I can ascertain. How have you deduced that the code is decompiled?
He gave a few examples, but to be honest HN filters for quantity over quality with topic discussion.

It cargo cults academia but isn't actually very academic or novel.

Spread out your thoughts in a PG style manner and make sure it's emotionally sparse and you're good. You can literally say nearly anything here, even to the point of it being disingenuous or hateful and it will stand.
The toxicity is there it's just subtle and disguised. Here's a typical one you see on HN that is used directly to escape moderation:

"I find it odd that even when someone tells you the logical outcome you still deny it."

"It's baffles me and is so interesting to see someone behave this way even though it's not logical."

It's this intellectual arrogance where the commenter acts like he's some sort of hyper intelligent savant observing creatures of lower intelligence that is completely toxic. Whenever I see that type of garbage comment, I think dude... the other person just disagrees with you stop talking about him like he's some animal your observing in a laboratory.
in a video a developer recalls how his teenage daughter made early progress in webdesign. It was all fun and games until she wanted to show her work to friends. He reached for firebase deploy as an easy means to get files in the current directory uploaded and an url back that is public.

This works with supervising / developer parents and maybe a linked billing account. But what are other easy means in reach for the very young? Mozilla had initiatives like "Hackasaurus" and "Webmaker" since discontinued. Publishing on the phone itself intrigues me the most still.
nice, I'm going to see if I can compress some intricate SVGs enough to make fancier NFTs with onchain image data instead of IPFS or external dedicated webserver.

fixing one of the criticisms with that technology. a couple more to go
It seems like an absolutely critical flaw to build a business entirely dependent on another company's proprietary service, which also is technically a competitor.
High-value B2B product.

Magazine ads! Postcards! Care packages!

It can be hard to stand out digitally. It's easy to stand out in a world of junk mail and generic scenic-beach-view-with-just-a-small-logo magazine ads though.
I haven't parsed a user agent in about 15 years—what is the actual use case for doing so these days? it seems like it's only become less and less valuable of a thing to do over time.
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Do you happen to know what's the maximum storage time? I remember reading that it was about 10 years only?
Oh all the time. There are a massive amount of searches that I'd like to do, and I KNOW there are useful hits out there for, but I don't bother because the odds of actually getting useful results is so low.

I don't know this, but would wager that a lot of people have scaled back what they search for on Google either consciously or subconsciously. The amount of topics you can expect quality results for has shrunk an awful lot, especially for subjects that are technical and/or non-current.
If sites break, let them break.

That's incredibly arrogant, IMO. Imagine the amount of pointless work that would cause world-wide, and the cumulative amount of pain experienced by readers of the web for years.

It's pure value destruction on a global scale, just making things worse to prove a point.

A better solution is to realize that the UA header has been completely broken for decades and do yet another compat hack, whilst transitioning to some more futureproof mechanism.

The web needs a Linus occasionally screaming: don't break things for shits and giggles.
example URL:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=joering2

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=FOLLOWEDUSER

you can write a cron to step through a list of usernames ; pack each one into a URL; scrape it and do a sendmail
It makes sense to take screenshots and such.

However, I wonder how the newly introduced DEI-oriented features in the various ATS will contribute to more similar cases or will make companies not use them at all.
I feel like something happened in the past few days that made Google significantly more infuriating to use. I switched my default search engine to DDG after the nth case of Google presenting search results that matched zero of my (fairly mundane) search terms.

The DDG results aren't superb, but they also don't invoke the feelings of communicating with a distracted child or poorly-trained pet.
> I'm a member of some paid forums that is far better

Such as? I've been looking for someplace to pay for because it's better
You are quite right, skimmed it too quickly.
User comment voting has many more downsides than upsides. Pretty much every forum should have abandoned it years ago, but apparently it's never going away.
I studied psychology after I studied math, and the most funny thing that happened to me after the second: I become less concerned about truths and more about people, about what they say and why they say it.

There are two examples in the article. The first one is about nurses and masks, when author's girlfriend evidently tried to convey her compassion to nurses who need to wear masks all the day long, but the author didn't pick this message, he stumbled over untruth and was unable to just let it be. The second example is about his father, who probably tried to ask for help nicely, to ask in a way that doesn't feel obligatory to conform. But unfortunately the author saw an untruth in a message and was unable to resist an urge to start a holy war against falsehoods, so he missed an opportunity to help without realizing it.

The second example is illuminating: he missed an opportunity. Maybe he was not interested in it, in this case he lost nothing. But maybe he was interested (or rather would be interested if he picked it from conversation), and in this case his loss was very real. It is not about niceness per se, it is about seeing world around you as it is. You can be nice then, or to be not nice at all, but if you do not see where are opportunities to be nice, you are losing an opportunity to choose.

If being more analytical leads to the less understanding of the world around you, and therefore you are missing opportunities, than maybe an analytical approach is overrated?

Though I feel very empathic to STEM majors who was trained to fight a holy war against untruths and cannot resist it even when this holy war sidetracks them from the core of a conversation. It is not easy to overcome this training and moreover it may be not just training, but a natural disposition too: maybe people who are less concerned about people are attracted to (or pushed into) STEM carrier paths. I do not see their behavior as toxic, one just needs to clarify his/her message when STEM major stumbled over an untruth. It is just like talking with kids, they also tend to react to a wrong part of a message.
Such a fan. 'The code is currently lost, due to my extensive use of tmpfs as a project directory, and a system crash.'

And I was sad to see some things farmed out to awk. I mean what's next? bc? ed? ;-)
Yes, 30 dB ambient noise keeps me awake at night - I know this as someone who had a sibling that played video games and very quietly talked into his mic from another room - which wasn't even noticeable during the day, but during the night, I could hear him clearly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_pressure#Examples_of_sou... gives 30 dB as a "very calm room", which is what it was.

Comments elsewhere in the thread cite 120+ dB horns outside and about 80 dB indoors.

80-60=20. Let's say the earplugs only have to be 50 dB (and that the average person can sleep with 30 dB of noise in their ears at night) - I still bet you can't find any that fit the requirements above.

There's no "overkill requirements" - I'm handing you concrete, realistic numbers that are reflective of real life and you're trying to handwave them away.

> A noisy neighbor is being annoying to his neighbors, not torturing them.

You literally didn't read one of the last sentences of my comment - "To clarify - it's not honking that's torture, it's sustained honking at a duration and intensity that will cause sleep deprivation and other psychological damage."

Please read before responding.
hehe - DeepLearning that is, my supervised models work fine without a compute infrastructure the size of a major naval vessel thanks!
remember, browser history is a thing
Many do but even then you have to drip feed it extremely slowly.
That was the craziest part to me. I was interested in both products and information, and despite deciding it was a good idea to show me almost nothing but ads, they didn't manage to show me anything worth clicking for either purpose. I was practically their ideal target for getting someone to click an ad on purpose, and they still dropped the ball.
You are not the target market.

I volunteered teaching computer skills in a “low income school district”. They had a laptop cart on wheels, with cheap, aging laptops that took multiple minutes to boot up + log in + become useable. And you had to completely turn them off, not put them to sleep, to avoid overheating the cart. You quickly learned to always factor in this time when planning.

This is the target market. The PCs were already configured as a “walled garden”.
There's no need for an extension; plenty of websites are part of webrings or feature blogrolls. I'm in the process of adding one to mine.

Throw in some microformats2 and/or schema.org structured data and you're good to go.

Certain search engines specialize in this type of manually-curated content; I listed some in the "non-generalist search" section of my collection of indexing search engines: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe...
Did HN do any kind of survey to demonstrate their user demographics?

And it is absolutely toxic on certain topics, particularly anything economics related or that challenges capitalism and the "line go up" mentality of the VC culture. If you offer anything that criticizes that at all, you're in for an earful.
A lot of what I see is laziness. Using what's most popular and afraid of investing time to switch (even though it's really not that much effort). A lot of those people are technical and are even here regularly.

This is slowly becoming another Microsoft Internet Explorer where all users will lose on this.
I guess you can view it like alcohol. All alcohol is toxic, but it only becomes a problem if you have too much.

So (what I assume) GP is saying is that it wouldn't be an issue he didn't use HN so often.
Hey thank you. I think one of the good things to come out of Google's decline is that there are now a lot more people working on the problem of search again. There is also the possible if faint promise of a different economic model for funding content online than advertising starting to show on the horizon, with a lot of the ideas around web3. Ad-tech truly does make the whole Internet awful.
You're completely right. It's toxic everywhere. BUT just because it's toxic everywhere doesn't make it so you get to call HN the "pinnacle of non-toxicity."

It's like saying the least toxic venom on the planet is the pinnacle of non-toxicity... I mean it's still venom.

It's also worth talking about the toxicity on HN because it follows very specific patterns. It's also essentially a dictatorship. Whatever Dang says goes.
You have misunderstood my initial comment.