skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, I love these "With all due respect, you're a moron" lines :D I'm kidding, it's fine.

> whatever you say in the exit interview usually doesn't have a material positive effect on one's own life except possibly the chance to get some closure if things have been really bad

The material positive effect is the act of staying honest itself. It is psychologically damaging to do otherwise, or at least for me it was. If holding things back doesn't bother the person, then I have no argument.

> So whose name should I write down when asked for a referee? My own?

In a way. What I was getting at was that _later on in your career_, you will not need references if you're half decent. But yes, I did say that things are different when you're starting out, and you may have to play the game a little more.
OK so now we're drifting from ethics into epistemology, ontology and the value of constructed models - as I said before, that's my bread and butter. You're arguing for a relativistic, practically nihilistic interpretation of models where it's all made up anyway so no one model can be better than another. I take an anti-realist position, that there's nothing about morality that is intrinsic to reality, but that we invent our models to guide our actions towards outcomes we desire. The outcome of the categorical imperative is rigid adherence to rules that have no bearing with reality, the outcome of utilitarianism is preference fulfilment for as many people as possible. These goals are not equal in value unless you think that twiddling your thumbs and solving world hunger are goals of equal value, in which case I'd say nihilism is an anti-philosophy primarily held by edgy teenagers and does nothing for anybody except provide an ego defence against criticism, like ironic detachment. I wouldn't recommend pursuing it as a guiding principle.
> for the vast majority of people, most waking hours were actively spent on subsistence and survival

Disclaimer: i'm not well-versed in anthropology/history, but this has been studied and debated by scholars [0]

If you've ever been to the countryside, you'll notice that everything feels slower. The fast, ever-working "lifestyle" we know today apparently originated in with early capitalism/industrualism and was itself subject to stark opposition (for example from the luddites, who contrary to popular belief were not anti-tech but rather early anti-capitalists).

When that new rhythm was expanded to all areas of life with mass-industrialization in the 18th/19th century, thinkers of the time pointed the absurdity to replace legal slavery with what they called "wage slavery". [1]

[0] https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery
There's also this: https://www.ozzillate.com
interesting, will check them out!
They are literally stealing from the people they are charged with serving in broad daylight with zero actual justification, if it’s made illegal they will simply not give you a receipt. The individuals that use “civil forfeiture” are not like normal people, they are movie mafia goons and they cannot be reformed.
Gazprom Germania was basically a branch of the state even before... *cheeky Gerhard Schröder emoji here*
Fuchsia Engineering Director Departs
The MINI-Manual for the Urban Defender
The value is not in how often one revisits the past, but on how important (and I mean from a personal point of view mostly) a billionth of that stored past might become in the future. If you can, why not?
I think many of these complaints tend to be focused on the aging Mono runtime experience used by Unity pre-DOTS, or classical pre-.NET Framework 4.5.
My problem is that I only want 1 monitor for everything. For work I want a high res screen because I really don't like blurry text. For games I would like a high frequency one because it's well... better. 5K has the advantage of downscaling to 1440p gracefully. If it only did 1440p@120hz and 5K@60hz I'd be happy.
If it was really losing $800M/year why would they keep it running at all? Could this be "creative accounting"?
Web frameworks are nowhere near as complicated as browsers
Maybe they will burn the offices to convert them to electricity once the gas stops flowing?
is it the same reports accessed by the process in https://irds.ieee.org/home/how-to-download-irds ?
What Happens When There Are Too Many Meetings
Right with you on that. I hate the loss of control when made to watch ads.

I've already dropped 1 streaming service (NowTV) for forcing me to watch trailers before the shows I actually pay to watch.

I'm considering dropping Prime for the same reason. With Prime you can at least skip trailers but why can't I just opt out of the bloody things the first place?

Auto-playing anything is tedious annoying. Auto-playing, _unskippable_ anything is an abomination in my personal opinion and not something I will pay for.
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I mean, how would you discover that you're in world W? If you ask "what do you think about my red shoes?" and I say "I think your red shoes are pretty", then you will say this is just me completing the pattern. But if I have no idea what shoes you're wearing, then even I, surely agreed to be an agent, could not compliment your clothing. So I'm not sure how this distinction works.

> It doesnt come from being an implementation of the (Q, A, W) pattern

Well, isn't this just a (Q, A, W, H) pattern though? You have a hidden state that you draw upon in order to map Qs onto As, in addition to the worldstate that exists outside you. But inasmuch as this hidden state shows itself in your answers, then GPT has to model it in order to efficiently compress your pattern of behavior. And inasmuch as it doesn't ever show itself in your answers, or only very rarely, it's hard to see how it can be vital to implementing agency.

And, of course, teaching GPT this multi-step approach to problem solving is just prompting it to use a "hidden" state, by creating a situation in which the normally hidden state is directly visualized. So the next step would be to allow GPT to actually generate a separate window of reasoning steps that are not directly compared against the context window being learnt, so it can think even when not prompted to. I'm not sure how to train that though.
I'm being more selfish than that. Of course I wish the company would improve even as I'm leaving, but my _main_ concern is my own psychological wellbeing, and I've found that it hurts me to hold things back for the sake of playing a game.
Collect the evidence and report a criminal computer intrusion. You have been violated entirely outside of the permission may have granted the school.
This is only true if you talk about the average website, and the average game. Because there is a lot of wordpress spam.

I can practically guarantee that any given AAA game is less complicated than the horrible morass of complicated system requirements a multinational company can invent for their internal systems.

Mostly because it’s designed to approximate reality, which is complex.
Negotiations exist between a single employee and an international team of Amazon lawyers and professional negotiators. Whether that should really count as "two parties" negotiating on equal terms is up for argument.
It was absolutely a tiny amount of effort in comparison to developing your own fully featured render pipeline. As is anything I've had to do. That is, after all, the point of using a commercial engine. It does the heavy lifting, I just need to tweak it.

> I hope my original message didn't come across as "there is no work involved in using a preexisting engine!"

Absolutely not. I've come across the argument about making a game for the end user experience before and it always strikes me as a case of not understanding the capabilities of your tools. I just wished, more for others who come across this than people with our experience, to add that some modification of the tools is to be expected.

> That example doesn't effect the "user experience" of the game either

Let me finish by saying that it's true, unless you count your game having stable frame rate on weaker platforms as part of the user experience. ;)
That's why I am currently on a minimalistic (almost passive) USB-C dock... it has PD 65W passthrough, DisplayPort passthrough and USB 2.0 + 100Mbit ethernet (those are the limitations).
like this, but DP only (was cheaper, but currently unavailable):
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Matters-Multiport-Adapter-Display...
Agreed, that would be a worthwhile caveat for authors to add.
right I've been so used to outlook as an email service that I forget MS Outlook existed long before that
I think they should enter the gaming market. Perhaps put some pressure on Steam who has just refused to refund a terrible game that I have played for 3 hours.
back to coal gas?
Safari has been pretty aggressive in saying that the only areas they are lacking are as a result of privacy concerns which is actively wrong on multiple levels (the feature gap is huge across many areas that have absolutely zero to do with anything even remotely related to privacy but just to be clear they make those exact same capabilities available on their own platform but without any transparency that would allow users to know they are being tracked in the same way and with less options to do anything about it).

The real reason is about protecting app store profits ($64 Billion in 2020 alone of which they take a 30% cut) and not wanting to compete with the web so they are intentionally making it more difficult for developers to just pick the web as a platform for a whole range of applications.

The only reason they seem to be making any changes right now is that they are staring down the barrel of multiple things that could easily become antitrust actions in their biggest markets (US, EU, UK and AU all come to mind right now).

I frankly don't care as much about their motivations for making changes, I am just glad to see them happen but even still I don't expect them to do anything beyond the bare minimum to avoid legal action. Their strategy is fundamentally flawed and I don't know what their long term vision is but I think they along with some other current giants like Facebook are in for an actively rough time over the next 10 years.
It wouldn't force them but if they are collecting data from users, why let it go to waste? They are capable of doing this now but they chose to accept subscription fees instead. If ads are acceptable to some users then collection of data valuable for advertising from all users is only logical since it is transparent for nearly all users and if you are not going to show some users ads then why waste the data collection when you can partner with ad platforms.

For example, your bank gives you a checking account, some require you to maintain some balance or a fee applies. They charge merchants when you use debit cards too, but they collect your payment info, at some point they all decided to sell your payment info to allow companies like google to connect targeting with purchases. Why waste precious data when you can monetize it ? (At least that is their reasoning I disagree with)
The main reaction here seems to be "if Netflix starts showing me ads I'm going to cancel immediately", and Netflix should definitely not do that. Ben's proposal is that Netflix add an ad-supported tier, to expand to people who currently don't subscribe because it's too expensive. This is how Hulu, YouTube, Paramount, etc. already work: you can subscribe with or without ads, priced accordingly.
When you take an intro CS class, just like Chem 101, you see a huge separation of people who "get it" from those who don't in the midterm exam score distribution. I realize you may know some diamonds in the rough who emerged later, but if the average residential college student with the time, lack of other obligations, ability to pass admissions to the school, and the mental suppleness of his age can't learn this stuff like a breeze, I don't think you should so easily dismiss the difficulty barrier.

I think also if you could practice medicine without a license and call yourself "doctor", you'd see a LOT more self taught people doing that who have maybe the capacity of a medical assistant, the brighter ones perhaps performing as well as a junior PA.
What Is DevSecOps? (and DevOps)
Charter schools leave a lot of kids behind, especially if they have special needs.
> If someone wants to pontificate below that answer that maybe I wanted the extension, that's cool, but first answer the question or don't bother participating
Well, if you are a paying customer, of course we'd be happy to address and accommodate your wants, needs, fears, etc. in exchange for the appropriate fee. Otherwise, sorry, but it just doesn't work that way.
IBM Z16 Technical Introduction – IBM Redbooks
I had a similar situation, but can't go into details. My new boss had developed a blind spot for gossip about me. Lucky me, I guess, but I also think it may have had to do with cultural differences between Europe and the U.S.A.
so the russians are going to be happy about this move then?
I Teach Myself to Code
> Neither of these is comparable for what Germans did and you know it.

A couple tens of thousands of dead civilians seems pretty serious to me.

By your metric, how many dead civilians are sufficient to warrant prosecution?

> US did not signed membership.

The US did sign membership, and then withdrew in 1986 because it didn't want to be bound by rulings.
They seized the call center?
What's the point in life if you don't get to work on what you find interesting. Those Yaks ain't going to shave themselves you know.
I've got that one at a steep discount. Works great on a MacBook using 1 USB-C cable for charging, network and display. The only downside is on laptops without Displayport stream compression there's not enough bandwidth for 4k@60Hz and USB3 5Gbps so you have to choose 30Hz or USB2.
Germany shuts down Russian darknet marketplace Hydra
HR works for the company, they aren't a neutral party.

I think your meaning isn't far off, the company stands to benefit from an informative interview.
Show HN: LeFun.fun – an online board game platform with games built in React
The real disappointment is Intel who have kept an iron grip on Thunderbolt for way over a decade and prevented everyone from distributing Thunderbolt without an Intel CPU for no technical reason at all.
Build flutter/rust mobile/desktop apps
The spam comments usually contain hooks and symbols so that the other bots can latch onto them much easier. Querying for those signs in order to spot possible spam comment threads, with high probability, is trivial, especially considering the already existing libraries on the topic, for instance within Bayesian probability and statistics.

Sure, the most hardcore spammers would most likely change tac if thus attacked, but many would also quit entirely as it become unprofitable to spam. If they also were to train one of their AIs or neural networks, they can catch even more spam by simply looking for post and sentence patterns. For instance it's very common that a spam thread contains multiple references to a name; the name of the brand or investor, or whoever they are shilling. They're always giving some sort of advice in conjunction with that name. And at some point the posts most certainly contain weird symbols to reference the WhatsApp number or Telegram channel. So no, I don't buy that this is hard to do. I think most of it is trivial.

So why aren't they fixing it? Well, I seriously doubt it's due to incompetence. The more likely scenario is because they through earnings and statistics already know that it's not losing them any paying customers. As such it's simply a matter of priority for them. And you're not it. Because you're the product, not the customer.
Thats assuming that the person that returned it is the same that stole it in the first place - I wouldn't be surprised if such an artefact has been sold a few times before finding someone decent that bought it to return it.
Oh, agreed. And when I started using the WWW in 01992 it was obvious that it was going to be a huge thing. But "visual paradigms already known from early-90s multimedia apps" is mutually exclusive with "they could not show text and images side by side". HyperCard, PowerPoint, and other "early-90s [or late-80s] multimedia apps" showed text and images side by side incessantly. Or sometimes on top of each other.

There was "another software that let you click on a link representing a file on another computer possibly on the other side of the planet, download it and show it to you in (almost) real time"; specifically, Gopher, which came out at the same time as WWW.

Can you elaborate on what you're saying about Word 4.0 for Macintosh?
TLDR: Try a game of Bloco against friends or a few bots to get an idea. You can find the extra-simple rules at the top (book icon).

_Background_

As you'll guess this is a project that was born out of the pandemic, when my friends and
I discovered online board games. The existing platforms are good but they often have a
poor UX and are rarely mobile friendly. On top of that, coding games for those platforms
often imply older technologies - I wanted to code games in React.

_Features_

* Simple UX: create a match, share a link with your friends - that's it. No download, no need to log in, no convoluted steps.

* Mobile friendly (mostly mobile-first!).

* 5 games so far, inspired from or similar to these old classics: Pictionary, Blokus, Perudo, Can't Stop, Minesweeper (Note that I'm not affiliated with any of these).

* Some games supports bots (look for the small robot icon).

* Basic stats.

* In-match chat.

* Free, no ads.

_Implementation details_

* Everything is in Javascript (Typescript actually!) and React

* Postgresql database

* The games use a common framework that does most of the heavy lifting. Implementing new games is very straightforward.

* Not open-source yet but it's in the plans!
> With internet streaming, we consumers pay for the bandwidth to use any streaming service. And so if Netflix or Disney want to waste my bandwidth with ads, they better be willing to compensate me for it.

You pay for electricity and TV companies have never compensated you for the electricity used during their commercials.

There are lots of occasions that we don't get compensated for things that have costs. For example, let's say you're driving in traffic. There's a stop light. Two cars from the other direction turn onto your street after their light has turned red ("it's been yellow for 3 seconds, but I don't wanna wait"). Your light turns green and a couple cars get through, but you have to wait another light cycle because of those two cars that illegally ran the red light. That's another minute or two of idle fuel usage. You don't get compensated for that and what the other drivers did was illegal. At least with Netflix you'd be agreeing to the ads and a price with a very real option of just not subscribing.

There are so many things that you pay for that you don't get compensated for in that micro-accounting way. Heavier vehicles destroy roads requiring them to be repaved a lot more, but the drivers of those heavier vehicles don't pay for that. We all do. It costs way more to deliver things to people in rural areas, but the USPS and many online stores will charge the same shipping for someone in Alaska or rural Montana as someone in NYC despite the fact that the person in Alaska might be only accessible by air and the person in rural Montana might be the only person receiving a package for 5 miles. They might be using $1 worth of fuel just on the end delivery for one person in an area like that, never mind the amount of time that it takes to deliver the packages in such a rural area. ($4/gallon of gas, 20 MPG fuel economy, and a 5 mile distance would be $1)

I'm not sure what your situation is (maybe you're on a really bandwidth restricted connection like HugesNet), but "we consumers pay for the bandwidth" is probably one of the smallest pieces of this world to worry about getting compensated for.
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/04/05/german-authoritie...
If you connect using WiFi make sure you assign the printer a fixed IP address in your router. Missing out on that I think explained 60% of the printing problems friends and family had. I also noticed the standard Windows supplied drivers for my Office Jet Pro 8500 do not work well. After printing a job (successfully), the Windows printer queue always would get stuck. Installing the >1GB (wtf) driver package provided by HP resolved this issue and Windows printing worked fine. With Linux and even Mac I never had problems. My printer runs fine even after >10 years of service.
Sure, everyone knows that US-style creationism is part of the evangelical belief system, which clings to a narrow literal interpretation of the Bible to support its awful practices, including slavery. But US-style atheism isn't the answer, it's just a reaction to evangelicalism and not a positive belief system.

UMass Amherst, where the study comes from, is particularly awful, they are terrible hypocrites.
I mean fair enough but isn't that the problem? That people would like to change the system but the exact mechanism for doing so is not at all obvious.
And yet only if the prompt includes "using fancy math". I'm still cracking up, and expect to still be cracking up over it tomorrow ;P.
Please read the entire entry. What happened after that?
Prozac in the Metaverse
Yak shaving is easy to understand and evaluate, whereas the value in creating a language makes no sense to anyone outside the language scene.

Most people have no way to guess of the new ideas will be influential, but we do know we aren't interested in using niche tools regardless of what they are.

It could be an amazing leap forward for computer science, or a slightly interesting toy, and either way it's above most people's heads.
I've long been a paid sub-scriber to Strava. I was so happy when Mark Gainey returned to the company and returned focus to making it just a really great experience.

I think I even remember hearing him say in an interview that he would be happy to just keep the current number of subscribers and make it a more focused product.

That matters because there was a time when it seemed to be turning into just another social network. At that time the major new feature seemed to be "inspirational blog posts". That's not for me.

For about a year I cancelled my subscription but returned when the focus when back on providing useful features like route planning.

I wish that Netflix would just concentrate on providing a better experience and better content instead of degrading the existing experience even more.
> You could have extremely short expiration but then you're back to having to round-trip to re-authenticate often (or in an auto-refresh situation, one where you're back to checking for expiration yet again).

GraphQL clients like Apollo can solve this by re-authenticating transparently on error and reissuing the same request.
There's really only one mistake, he's misusing the word dissonant. It's certainly true that being deeply into one style of music makes you pay less attention to the things that don't vary much in "your" music but does vary in "their" music, making "your" music seem more varied and "their" music sound all the same.
Yes of course until the CEO popped up and unilaterally banned all of Russia[0]. Or when they banned a crypto related domain on a single tweet[1] then unbanned it when people said WTF [2].

Blocking actual exploitative malware is a legal obligation, not "censorship." If they had a TOS that says "do whatever you want" then sure, but in this case they're just violating their TOS too.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812

[1] https://twitter.com/Namecheap/status/1489485337885921284

[2] https://twitter.com/Namecheap/status/1489504958596714499