skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've clearly been breaking the rules repeatedly—this is not a borderline call. For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30577434 was certainly an attack by the standard we apply here. If it doesn't fit your own definition of the word, that's fine; but it's the kind of thing we ban accounts for, so we need you to stop posting like that if you want to keep commenting on HN.

The rules apply regardless of how badly others are behaving. It always feels like the other person started it and did worse—this perception is hard-wired in all of us, so to use it as a justification guarantees a downward spiral.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=downward%20spiral%20by:dang&da...
If you're adventurous you could log into Google, PayPal and social media sites. Once you get past captcha challenges and manage to access your account, they may helpfully lock your account and never let you use it again, regardless of how much proof you provide for the ownership of the account to their support staff.
> reCAPTCHA actually enters an endless selection where it's impossible to pass

I believe this is because from the same IP address there are other users who are failing the recaptcha. So in between you starting, and clicking 'submit', there are a bunch of other wrong-answer recaptchas, so, when combined with your correct answer, it looks like you got it correct just by chance, not by being a human.
I'm so excited for JWST's data. Observations from the inflationary period have the potential to completely upend cosmological dogma. Findings like this are the precursor. I'm sure theorists are furiously working on alternative models. This is an exciting period to watch.
Diane Vaughn's The Challenger Launch Decision misattributes responsibility for the disaster to the meeting in which a similar slide was shown.

When the shuttle design was finalized in the late 1970s they knew it had a 2-3% chance of a hull loss per launch. They were still planning to launch it 50 times a year so that would have meant losing a shuttle and crew every year!

The shuttle had hundreds of critical flaws and that 'normalization of deviance' meeting at which slides like this were shown at was a routine part of each shuttle launch. For each of these unacceptable situations they had to convince themselves that, with some mitigation (or not), they could accept it. It was inevitable that something like this was going to happen and then there would be recriminations about the details of that meeting.

Every other crewed space vehicle had an escape system to get the crew away from a failed rocket. The Challenger crew survived the explosion but were killed when the reinforced crew section hit the ocean. Similarly the Colombia astronauts were killed by a thermal protection system that was "unsafe at any speed". When the first few shuttles were launched there was a huge amount of concern about tiles breaking and coming off. Once they'd dodged the bullet a few times they assumed it was alright but it wasn't...

In the literature "normalization of deviance" has turned from a formal process used in managing dangerous technology to incidents such as: surgeon takes a crap and goes to work without washing his hands, forklift operator smokes pot and operates, etc.
If you put it on GitHub, or anyone linked me to a similar tool, I'd be interested. Thanks.
I wish a new web would form inside Tor instead so we could all leave the old compromised web behind.
To be clear, do you think black people calling each the N word means it is not a slur to them? Because you would be incredibly wrong.
that whole period from mid to late 90s to early 2000s had so many easy and cheap entrepreneurial opportunities. You didn't need to spend millions to reinvent the wheel to make a product or exit.
What is the trick in reversing a linked list? The solution is just some while loops...

Anyways it is a bad question to ask because it is very easy and is frequently studied so candidates just memorise the answer.
Get on stimulants ;) – this was initially meant ironically, but going on lisdexamfetamine for binge-eating disorder is what fixed my weight issue.
Sure, we will be happy to take a look. Though, our program is more for companies that have found PMF and the seed extension debt will allow the startups to accelerate their growth & for the founders to minimize their dilution when they raise a more successful Series A round.
Hi Derek, just wanted to say that your book Anything You Want had an outsized impact on me when I started my entrepreneurial journey many years ago. And, I used your "CD Baby Loves You" open rate learning to great affect many times for my own businesses :). Thank you for being so open and sharing your hard-earned wisdom!
We need proper liability laws for malicious traffic.

You are liable unless you can pass off that liability to someone else. So the ISP would be liable by default, and would have an incentive to filter their customers, or require them to abide by certain rules, pass some audits, provide proof of insurance or post a large deposit.

You could have insurers who in exchange of automated security scans will insure you, solving the problem for end-users at a reasonable cost.

This will actually encourage internet users (both consumers and businesses) to take security more seriously.
And keep in mind that Twitter would much rather not have to censor anything. Content moderation, legal compliance, etc are cost centers.

It's easy to get lost in the "evil corporate overlord" idea and forget that companies only ever commit evil because evil is sometimes profitable.
Outside the west, there is a massive world that just sees things differently. Here the US is not a force for good but a warmongering empire.

Think of it what you will but it would be wrong to discard it as mere propaganda. These are deeply held beliefs.
Ask HN: How much work do you do during your notice period?
Do you actually do work? Surf the web?

It's only like day 4 and there's six more to do and I'm useless.
It is difficult to comprehend how low-skilled the shallow-end of the applicant pool is. I think it’s gotten worse, not better, since the original FizzBuzz essay was written.
Yes but it will always be too many steps then one step grabbing phone and having it unlocked / ready to use before it's in my view. Gloves I rarely wear a face mask I and 100s of millions have been wearing everyday multiple times a day since pandemic started. You live in a city face masks are still a forced thing.

As a UX professional who strives for path of least resistance always That's the point I'm trying to make. Too many steps especially when driving is bad UX worse it's dangerous UX(yes don't use phone while driving but unfortunately too many do)!!!

Eliminating Touch ID completely especially when all its competitors offer both is stupid and no doubt I'm sure the data shows Apple it's base really wants Touch ID back. Read comments on the SE on all blogs and you will see such dataset saying they want Touch ID not Face ID. Both need to be offered!
its the sense that gets you banned
I never understand why anyone would use MacBook in clamshell mode.

You're wasting the very good parts that are trackpad, cam, mic and as a secondary monitor.
(Because *they'd made the things reliable enough, themselves. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29465668)
Why did you equate "contra to corporate media" with "nonsense"?
I recently came across a zine someone made called The Codex: Life with Linux. It's on Etsy for $6 [1], but their short chapter of LaTeX tips is fully shown in one of the screenshots [2]

[1] https://www.etsy.com/listing/1099735271/the-codex-a-zine-abo...

[2] https://i.etsystatic.com/9756188/r/il/09766b/3387078510/il_1...
From the article:

> Effects of military training on coup success

> Calculating the first difference of predicted probabilities
from the logit regression shows an increase in the prob-
ability of a successful coup of about 0.8% (Figure 7).
The absolute change is smaller than that for attempts
(but successful coups are rarer than attempts). The per-
centage change in the predicted probability is around
150%. _Successful coups are strongly associated with
IMET training and spending._ (Emphasis mine)

The fact that successful coup attempts do not go up as much as total coup attempts after US military training, does not alone to speak to whether US military training increases the success of coups.

After all, people only attempt coups if they think there is some likelihood of success. IMET training could very well increase the _perception_ of likelihood of success more than it increases _actual_ likelihood of success. Given this, even if IMET training makes a given coup attempt more likely to succeed, if more risky coup attempts are made after IMET training, the overall success rate of coups could go down after IMET training.

While my previous paragraph of texts explains that the data that you cite does not support your conclusions, I must also ask, where the data you cite comes from. I read the article that you link [0] and it says the opposite of what you say it says. Total military coups in the dataset are 110 for non-trained soldiers and 165 for trained soldiers (a 50% increase). However, _successful_ coups are 37 for non-trained soldiers and 72 for trained soldiers (a 100% increase). This information comes from Figure 2 and Figure 3 in the linked article.

[0] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002234331771355...
Is this done to avoid Russian censorship? If so, interesting that Twitter's move is to go out of their way so they can still do business with Russians, while most other companies have decided that the correct choice is to sever all ties.
Show HN: Signal channel with news briefs from western publications
So exciting. I cant wait. I love how he is willing to explore new genres. These books are going to be really interesting.
VC's invest in 30 companies to find 1 unicorn on average. The profit on that one justifies the investment in the 29 others.

Problem is that no one knows which one is going to be the hit in the pack of 30. So VC's push all ceo's to grow as fast as possible to find out as soon as possible who will succeed/fail.

Great for the VC, too bad for the 29 unlucky ones.

Never be the agenda of someone else, be your own agenda.

I never understand why so few people see this.
> Ignoring the James Bond qualifier makes this scenario completely plausable

No its not. It is not plausible at all. Just think about this for a second.

People in eastern europe are genetically similar to russians. Why would they make a super weapon, to kill off people with slavic DNA, when such a super weapon would target much of its own population as well?

The conspiracy doesn't make any sense even if you assume supervillian levels of evilness.
If the EU contributed conventional only weapons and personnel to be used only as territorial defense in Ukraine, that is, never shooting a single shell outside of Ukraine, Russians would still have a hard time justifying going at war with the EU, NATO, let alone using nukes.
My point is that there's still some room left to help Ukraine militarily without serving Putin the pretext to declare war around the world. Sanctions need a lot of time to become really effective and something must be done to buy Ukrainians more time. I don't see what could be more effective than military help.
But you still need to burn the fat. You don't have a way around it.
If it's just searching through a single project inside an IDE, I agree with you.

But I have a Livegrep instance setup to index all 1000 repos into a single search space and it's still nigh instantaneous.
Not any less irrational in Europe. The countries I’ve visited recently that still require masks rarely have them available anywhere.

I’ve walked into so many businesses in France and Spain that insist I should wear a mask, but yet don’t have any available for customers.

A bizarre situation, especially as WHO recommends that masks shouldn’t be worn for more than 4 hours at a time and that disposable masks should be thrown away after weraring.

What are people supposed to do? Walk around with a big box of masks?

At least in the UK ~all businesses (used to) offer free masks to customers.

If the government wants everyone to wear masks indoors, it shouldn’t be hard to supply all businesses with loads of masks to hand out.
Can you share what compensation band are these interviews were for?
I've been working at web-based startups for over 10 years now, and I know VERY few devs who only know JS. Most are also proficient (or at least have working knowledge of) whatever other languages we're using. Usually JVM-based like Java, Kotlin, Scala or something else like Ruby or Elixir.

Everywhere I've been, we always "choose the right tool for the job". Recently, making apps that can run across every OS and in the browser, the right tool for the job has been JS (well, TypeScript these days, but same thing).
That problem is kind of inherent in the domain. In the past, significant research could be done with the meager stipends from generous nobles. Cutting-edge physics labs and supercomputers for astrophysical simulations are significantly more expensive.
Is English your first language? Have you read Cormac McCarthy?

Neither McCarthy nor anyone else in this conversation is referring to the punctuation at the end of a sentence.

And, for the record, I was exclaiming that the takeaway is exactly the opposite of what the author suggests. That is, in fact, the precise meaning of an exclamation point.

I've kindly included some actual cognitive interruptions for you, to aid in your understanding of this discussion.
It is overly simplification. I think the sentiment in China is really not about supporting Russia; it is about anti-US.

Because quite a lot of people in China think US is organizing an Eastern NATO, to "destabilize" the whole region. For example, the nuclear-powered marine deal with Australia, etc. Biden’s first year was much harsher on China than Russia.

In 1999, NATO bombed the Chinese embassy, killing 3, that certainly did not help.
He’s probably my favorite author. Full tangent, but anyone who likes western novels should also check out Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry) and Paradise Sky (Joe Lansdale). Both are extremely moving and beautiful stories about the Wild West.
This shit is why “trust the science” always rings so disingenuous to me. Practically nobody saying it actually reads the science or cares when it disagrees with them.
I used the door + two filing cabinets system for years.

I've since found the next best thing, which is the Malskytt solid birch table top on top of their $15 solid pine trestles.

It's a visual upgrade. I have two, giving me ~ 9ft of solid wood workspace for ~ $200.

I've also made my own custom desks but I got obsessive about them and built every feature known to man into them. The only thing I've done with these is drilled grommets for the cables. In reality all I need is a solid workspace that will last.
> Hard disagree. I certainly want to keep my customers satisfied and provide them with value, and they (along with employees and partners) are absolutely necessary to the success and continuation of the business.

If your customers are only satisfied, that means you end up spending significantly more on acquisition and retention, because nobody is going to be rabidly loyal enough to your business to extol its virtues to their friends and family and colleagues and on social media. That hobbles your growth and virtually eliminates the potential for word-of-mouth. People don't tweet about how a product "is satisfactory and provides an adequate amount of value."

I'd recommend checking out an amazing talk on exceeding customer expectations[1] by a Seattle business coach named Brad Worthley. And I get it, anybody (other than John Madden) with "coach" in their title is almost universally someone to avoid, particularly when they start their talk by mentioning the books they've written, but this guy really does understand how those customer dynamics work. He ELI5s the whole topic, along with excellent anecdotes to show each of the concepts in action.

And I assure you, things work exactly how he describes. If you bend over backward for them, your customers will take care of you. But if you treat them as a "necessity for the continuation of the business," they're not going to care about you at all, which means they'll leave you the minute something better or cheaper comes along -- or the first time you make a mistake.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40eyo7cgJ7w&t=4m30s
They actually do.

The test isn't (or shouldn't be) that you understand string manipulation (or whatever) but rather that you can work through a new problem. There are many programmers who claim many years of experience but have poor problem solving skills. They can implement a CRUD form and basic tasks, but fall flat when faced with a problem they've never encountered before.
Distributions continuously patch packages. It's necessary to be able to ship a working, integrated distribution at all. It's also necessary because users expect some level of consistency and integration between components, and distributions are the spaces where that can be achieved. Usually these achievements then get upstreamed so it's easy to forget about their origin. There's also the cases where distribution users just fundamentally disagree with upstream policy and use their ability to change Free Software to make it happen - such as the disabling of auto-updates in distribution packages coming outside the distribution packaging system, or the disabling of [opt-out] telemetry.

So there are many good reasons distributions patch. It's not reasonable to paint them all with the same brush. If you want to credibly criticize this, you need to be more specific.
You consciously misrepresent how much time is required to do well.

You could run a fair competition by stating clear requirements. Instead, you reward those who are most willing to burn through extra personal time.

That is not respect.
Can you provide more context on how MIT spent most of its integrity and soul to build its brand? I went to MIT over a decade ago and I always appreciated how honest, hardworking, and genuinely curious the student body was. Professors always seemed brilliant as well.
Is there anything as accurate and as small but Open Source and no subscriptions?
Or at least just a small tflite model with similar specs?
Eat less. Move more. Burn more calories than you consume.

Every piece of advice will go into exceedingly detailed depth on how to achieve one or more one of those factors. And it is worth listening to those details - but don't lose sight of the basics. Way too many people get caught up in their rituals of weight loss and forget to stay simple.
George W Bush's approval ratings also spiked after the Iraq war, when our country was also flooded with propaganda and lies about the justification for that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_image_of_George_W._Bush

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/us/20generals.html

You can't trust polling numbers out of Russia but there is historical context for these types of full scale invasions to bring up approval ratings.
Restoring and attributing ancient texts using deep neural networks
What is necessary. Sometimes, I've worked overtime the last day. Sometimes they want me out of the building. Professionals bring their A game with them, and reputation spreads way faster than demonstrated success.
> * Telemetry and ads embedded in the apps and the operating system

I imagine you're talking about Windows. It's annoying but for an experienced Windows user it's a 10 minute set up to get rid of them when you install the OS and at most another 5-10 minutes when you upgrade the OS.

> * Upgrade costs

Windows 10 upgrades are free :-)

> * Abandonware

Not sure what this is supposed to mean. Apple tends to ditch stuff but Microsoft's support for legacy stuff is legendary. That's why many things in the design of Windows are obiectively crap, because they really want to support old stuff.

> * Lack of older hardware support

I heard that Windows 11 bumped up the spec requirements so you're probably right. Windows 10, though, runs well on hardware from 7+ years ago.

> * Lack of configurability

Meh, after a while you just want something stable. And I say this as someone who was patching Conky and configuring FVWM for hours on end.

> * Not owning the software you run

This is primarily philosophical. In practice it doesn't matter much.

Especially since Linux distros are frequently self-serving too, see the many projects started and abandoned by Ubuntu.

A lot of your comment in practice is anti-proprietary FUD straight from Eric S. Raymond's book from 1998.

Everything has drawbacks in practice and not even Open Source devs are saints. See Gnome devs, Poettering, the glibc maintainer from a while ago, etc.
Hard for me to say which is worse.. It's not obvious whether drug addicts with adequate means of procuring a steady supply would be more dangerous to society than ones in desperation.

Portugal may have the answers but I have yet to look into this deeply enough to make a claim either way.
Thanks for the feedback.

We tried to define key terms up front ("resolution", "PPI", and "PPD" are defined in section 1.1), but maybe we're still too far in the weeds! Is there another technical term we're using without definition?
It serves the irrationally scared parents. Probably not a good thing, yeah.
Interesting.

From an outside perspective, I had the impression Java devs would migrate to Kotlin.
Apparently Gen Z has trouble even understanding filesystems

https://futurism.com/the-byte/gen-z-kids-file-systems
I don't think it would work. I'm sure it will not increase the oxygen in the blood too much. Usually, the blood is transporting more than 95% of the maximal capacity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_saturation_(medicine)

Also, breathing pure oxygen for too much time without medical supervision is dangerous https://www.webmd.com/balance/features/rise-of-oxygen-bars (The effect is somewhat similar to put your face in a jar with diluted bleach.)
I find it very strange to be getting public health policy input from an economist.
Here's mine: Back in like 2006 when I was in college and they first released games on facebook, there was a game my friends liked that was multiple choice, matching song lyrics to artists (if I remember correctly). It was always four choices, you would get points for a correct answer and not lose any for an incorrect answer, then there was a leaderboard amongst your friends. So I thought clearly the right way to win this game is to write a program that just chooses randomly (actually I think it just always chose the first choice), but as quickly as the server will allow. My poor friends woke up the next morning to find I had about 1000x their points. A fun hack, but I also regret it because it ruined a fun game for me and my friends; I couldn't figure out how to reset my score.
This might be true for massive sites (eg Google) but smaller sites only if the cdn aggregates traffic to many different sites.
Why are you so milquetoast in your assessment and criticism of this issue? It is obviously absurd, deranged and abusive. This has nothing to do with the well being of kids, it is a power-trip and humiliation ritual by insane people, and I bet some of the people imposing this have a sort of Munchausen by proxy situation going on.

Go to your school board meetings, organize with other parents, and put and end to this nonsense.

Do you ever worry about the mental weakness being instilled on your kids, the emotional and developmental disruption this will cause? Kids need to interact and communicate with people, see faces, interact normally. Why allow this to continue as a parent?
Is anyone experiencing screen tearing in Linux in 2022?
I’m ashamed of my country and people… only if they were well informed and had unlimited access to internet would they start realizing they have been brainwashed by their own goevernment….