skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what i’m saying is that you’re ignoring societal problems by removing yourself from them, and this will not fix anything… and you will still be subject to side-effects as long as you wish to interact with people outside of your parents (ie, society)

I’ve been on my local school board for 20 years and the changes happening due to social media are staggering (for children and adults). My lack of participation hasn’t changed anything. Telling people not to participate will not work because you’re rivaling companies that pay experts tons of money to get people addicted to these things. As individuals we’re massively out-gunned.

I’ve started working with and donating to advocacy groups looking to regulate these companies because I haven’t seen anything else even begin to work.
I understood the title. What can we do about it, why should I care, etc?
Jimmy Carter will always be my favorite Amazing Colossal President, as Rodney Dangerfield described in the SNL "The Pepsi Syndrome" sketch:

https://m.facebook.com/tapewrecks/videos/the-pepsi-syndrome/...

https://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78ppepsi.phtml

Dr. Casey: “It means, Mrs. Carter, your husband, President Carter, has become [camera zooms in on Dr. Casey] the amazing colossal president.”

Mrs. Carter: “Well, how big is he?”

Dr. Casey: “Well, Mrs. Carter, it’s difficult to comprehend just how big he is but to give you some idea, we’ve asked comedian Rodney Dangerfield to come along today to help explain it to you. Rodney?”

[Rodney Dangerfield enters]

Rodney: “How do you do, how are you?”

Denton: “Rodney, can you please tell us, how big is the president?”

Rodney: “Oh, he’s a big guy, I’ll tell you that, he’s a big guy. I tell you, he’s so big, I saw him sitting in the George Washington Bridge dangling his feet in the water! He’s a big guy!”

Mrs. Carter: “Oh my God! Jimmy! Oh God!”

Rodney: “Oh, he’s big, I’ll tell you that, boy. He’s so big that when two girls make love to him at the same time, they never meet each other! He’s a big guy, I’ll tell you!”

Mrs. Carter: “Oh no! Oh Jimmy! My Jimmy!”

Rodney: “I don’t want to upset you, lady, he’s big, you know what I mean? Why, he could have an affair with the Lincoln Tunnel! I mean, he’s really high! He’s big, I’ll tell you! He’s a big guy!”

Mrs. Carter: “No! No! No!”

Denton: “Rodney, thank you very much. You can go.”

Rodney: “It’s my pleasure. He’s way up there, lady! You know what I mean?”

—Saturday Night Live, Season 4: Episode 16, “The Pepsi Syndrome” skit, Apr. 7, 1979
This isn’t reading the dictionary, it’s similar to generating new unique sentences and claiming copyright on that. Right?
> biographies of groundbreaking researchers they all have one thing in common, they have dedicated virtually their entire time to work.

I'd argue that most ground breaking researchers had the benefit of researching their own ideas for prolonged periods. Putting in 40 hour a week on your own ideas for 10+ years is an awful lot of time. Many ground breaking researchers such as Feynman and Einstein had extended sabbaticals of one kind or another which lead to their best work.

It may be out of ignorance, but I'm not aware of any famous researcher who accredits their success to an 80 hour work week.
This is the correct answer. Carter would have lost to a significantly worse candidate than Reagan if they hadn't had Reagan.

Studies don't show that Americans vote much based on foreign policy, but they certainly crush the current president and Congress when the economy is bad and inflation is high. It doesn't matter whether he did anything to cause it or not.
Almost immediately after the US Constitution came into effect in 1789, the first federal law enforcement agency, the US Marshals Service, was created. So clearly, the founding generation thought that federal law enforcement was authorized by the Constitution.

Federal law enforcement is clearly justified under the necessary and proper clause. Without federal law enforcement, there is no ability to force states to comply with federal law, which the Constitution clearly requires by 1) explicitly saying that federal law is supreme over state law, and 2) prohibiting various practices by the states. Imagine a federal court having to call upon state police to enforce their subpoenas, subpoenas that may target the people who sign the state polices' checks. Or imagine the Department of Justice having to call upon the state militia to arrest a state's governor for the commission of a federal crime. I think it's pretty obvious that federal law enforcement is "necessary and proper" to the exercise of Congress's enumerated powers. There is no sovereignty without the ability to deploy violence to enforce it.
I hope that the federal government devotes hundreds of millions of dollars to research to identify this $80B in fraud and waste and hold each and every person, entity, leader, whatever, accountable - and figuratively burn them at the stake.

The PPP program's "spirt" was absolutely decimated by thousands of money grabbing small business owners who had single owner LLCs etc in businesses that were not dramatically affected by the pandemic, and typically in high earning professions such as lawyers, accountants, real estate agents etc - all of these people got complete handouts of tens of thousands of dollars of cold hard cash in loans that were completely forgiven. Everyone knows a real estate agent that has absolutely killed it in the last 2 years, and they also took PPP loans in the tens of thousands of dollars. It's disgusting.

I get that the "uncertainty" of the time necessitated people to take a hard look into the abyss and make some hard choices moving forward, but a lot of what I pointed out was absolute grift and disgusting. And we won't even talk about some of the businesses that worked their tails off to get funding and PPP loans (restaurants, retail etc) that had terrible times working through the maze of getting the loans. The disparity is disgusting. There IS a reason why trying to buy a top end Mercedes or BMW has been difficult, and it isn't ALL chip shortages and supply chain issues.

I own a two member LLC that is an amazing successful business, and we KILLED IT during the pandemic, and I could have easily applied for 90K in loans that would have been forgiven, but I made the conscious moral decision that I didn't need it, and there were more deserving business owners and firms that really did need that money.

It's gross and disgusting.

I hope projects like this continue to peel back the onion and nails these people to the wall. I frankly don't care that the government said "take the money."
I didn't actually, I'm trying to save as much money as possible at the moment and while a broker would be a good solution it would be a bit pricey for me. Maybe when I'm older and willing to spend money on relocating that would be a better solution for sure!
The extra fat in Rust binaries compiled with default settings is things like:

- the standard library

- jemalloc (this is no longer the default, but is still a factor in people's perception about binary size because it used to be)

- debug symbols

- unwinding support for panics

All of these can be turned off for use cases like embedded where binary size is important and you'll then get binaries of comparable size to those produced by C compilers.
I agree with US has so many scammers and fraudsters part.

But don't agree with the reason. There are tons of scammers and fraudsters in Japan too. Look at those new religions, elderly scammers, the copyright situation in Japan is not any better. It doesn't matter whether the society is collective or individualistic.
That’s not a quote from the statute. Under INA 214(b), an immigrant entering the country is presumed to have immigrant intent unless he can prove that he intends to stay only temporarily and plans to leave. This is a condition of entry on any non-immigrant visa, including the H1-B.

Ordinarily, applying for permanent residency would signal immigrant intent, which would be a violation of the H1B. The INS later created “dual intent” as a legal fiction that says that applying for a green card doesn’t, by itself, create a presumption of immigrant intent. Congress codified this narrow exception in the 1990s—but never eliminated the requirement that H1Bs have non-immigrant intent. See section 205(h) on PDF page 66: https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/eoir/legacy/2009...

> (h) The fact that an alien is the beneficiary of an application for a preference status filed under section 204 or has otherwise sought permanent residence in the United States shall not constitute evidence of an intention to abandon a foreign residence for purposes of obtaining a visa as a nonimmigrant described in subparagraph (H)(i) or (L) of section 101(a)(15) or otherwise obtaining or maintaining the status of a nonimmigrant described in such subparagraph,

When someone here on an H1B applies for a green card, the government winks and says “we will both pretend that you still intend to go back home.” Their legal rights are limited to this indulgence. If they signed an affidavit swearing that “I definitely intend to immigrate here permanently and abandon my residence in my home country” the government might well be forced to kick you out.
Yeah, sorry I believe it when I see it. That just reads like a fever dream especially when looking at the credentials of their 11 employees on LinkedIn and reading their "API" documentation.
In France, students and hipsters started similar protests. Horrible outcomes ever since, producing a lot of social, political and ultimately economical problems for the country for decades to come.

Having lived in France, I shiver when I hear word “union.”
I don't necessarily share the sentiment, but I am curious to hear the case for the consequences. California is basically its own economy: the state can make its own rules, so from my perspective, the state has more power to set the rules. Other states, at best, can market themselves as "not California"-- something to run from, but not necessarily something to run to.
Perl doesn't have a way to say "this value is a number" or "this value is a string".

Instead, the two are effectively the same type (which Perl calls a scalar value), and you use different operators to treat them like strings or numbers as desired.

So, for example, you can do something like this:

# declare $a and initialize it with a literal
# numerical value of 3.
my $a = 3;

# switch gears and treat it like a string
# instead of a number by appending an "X".
$a .= "X";

# output a line that says "3X".
print "$a\n";

Or like this:

# declare $b and initialize it with a literal
# string value of "l33t".
my $b = "l33t";

# do a regex substitution (string operation)
# to remove letters. New string will be "33".
$b =~ s/[a-z]//g;

# multiply string "33" times 3.
$b *= (1 + 1 + 1);

# output a line that says "99".
print "$b\n";

So, if you have an array of scalar values like "123" and "5", Perl doesn't know whether to sort these as numbers (5 goes first) or as strings ("123" goes first) because the value isn't necessarily a string or a number.
Don't some US organisms like the IRS or Social Security know everybody living in the US?
I wonder what happens if you give reasonable, sane, but negative answers- e.g. "none of the products has had any effect on my life" etc.
> there's a structure here for resolving grievances

That may look good on paper. Yet a 20-something student vs an academic surrounded by supporters and wielding power and influence, it's only ever going to go one way.

I've personally been on the wrong end of it. After reviewing my options, noting that my supervisor had just been elected Fellow of the Royal Society in London, I decided to bite my tongue, complete my PhD, and leave.

The relationship was so broken I didn't even say goodbye to my supervisor (literally cleared out all my stuff from the lab very late one night), and I've never spoken to him, or had any contact with anyone in his research group ever since.
https://twitter.com/KeithOlbermann/status/150346748957292134...
I feel that was a very good answer.
This was tried in the 80s with teaching Pascal compilers. The compiler would fix a problem and issue a warning and continue. However continue on with what was left and issue strange and bewildering messages to the poor student.

Turbo Pascal at the time just stop at the first problem and the student could focus on addressing that one and only one issue at the time. Yes it was a game of whack-a-mole with syntax errors but at least it was a straight forward process to getting something to compile
Not really. If the environmentalists ever take over, it's poor people who will be forced to sacrifice their comforts. The middle class will have to take a bit of a financial hit. And the wealthy will carry on like nothing changed.
When you have gas queues, high inflation and a weakening international stand...you will blame at least some of it on the president.
It feels like I’m reading GPT-2. Malware isn’t a social problem, and there is no relationship between capability-based security architecture at the operating system level and the number of different functions a device can perform.
> I've been hearing lots of business owners complaining about California's labor laws getting increasingly hostile which leads companies to relocate or move as many resources they can outside of CA

I’m almost 50, and I’ve been hearing and reading lots of this my whole life.

But somehow California’s economy keeps doing well, even without being one of the places that are winning the battle to attract the firms that are optimizing for maximally emoployee-hostile labor laws.
Yeah, I should have elaborated. Like, fundamentally you want to express "caller has capability x", and coloring does that. But coloring isn't ergonomic, so some languages try to infer their way out of it or hide it. But I'd rather they instead just make these things more explicit and lean into it a bit more, like in a capabilities system.
Nobody in an industrial kitchen is supposed to work barefoot. :)

For homes, heated cement slabs are so much better than the regular stuff. Slabs embedded with hot water tubes have a fairly large heat capacity, so it stays warm all day and transfers heat directly into your feet and up through the rest of your body no matter where you're standing. A layer of soft organic material on top of the slab will make it more comfortable to stand on as well, as long as you choose something that's easy to clean.
Wow there are a lot of new features in web browsers lately just targeting analytics and ads. Makes me wonder what other use cases have beacons as the solution.
> In short, the modern kitchen image makes me feel uneasy and the painting makes me feel calm.

Are you saying that because the article suggested it? Personally I think the spaciousness of the modern kitchen depicted is liberating and freeing. I have a cramped kitchen and it sucks.
I have to use pliers to open new bottles of the ranch dressing I buy. It's ridiculous how tight they are.
Sponsors and Dirty Money
Yep. Modern slavery in disguise.
TLDR; The author uses arbitrary distance metrics to construct a graph structure from a public dataset, which fails to reveal anything of interest.
Why Bigger Things Don’t Always Fall Faster
Absolutely, I mean, I certainly don’t feel bad for them.

Since we’re on something of a tangent, it’s interesting to think about what Meta’s idea of the Metaverse actually is. It isn’t the Internet 3.0 or some kind of grand revolutionary vision.

No, it’s actually just Facebook’s only chance to control a hardware platform.

They can’t control smartphones, they can’t control web browsers, they can’t control smart TVs. It’s not feasible for them to start their own phone OS or web browser.

Apple, for example, made privacy policy changes that have cost Facebook $10 billion in lost revenue, and there nothing Facebook can do about it.

Facebook’s only chance is to hope VR is the next big social tool after text (blogs, Facebook), images (instagram), and video (TikTok, YouTube, Reels).

In my opinion, this won’t really work, unless they truly have some revolutionary hardware up their sleeve. VR will probably forever be a niche: as it stands it’s a sweaty motion sickness-inducing experience.

They just don’t have another avenue to explore to try and have a platform where they have full control over data collection. They’re out of options.

I give the idea of the metaverse a very slim chance of convincing potential customers that it’s better than hanging out with friends
On Discord to play some “pancake games.”

I got a lot of these opinions from this video, which really changed my perspective on Meta’s vision for their future:

https://youtu.be/b8ouRRev2Nc
When I searched for my apartment, I was able to reverse engineer the home's address sometimes when the general vicinity was specified, then looking at the pictures, and comparing them with Google street view. This was a manual process however and only worked if enough outside views were available. Despite the time effort, you still spent less time on it per house than making an appointment for a viewing, getting there, and looking at it. If Google allows you to download the street views for an entire city, one might build an ML solution to bring up candidates at least.

Similarly, in the city where I studied for university, I immediately knew where the house was located just from outside pictures of it in the ad, at least for the districts of the city I was familiar with.
This solution is one that maybe 1% of the US populace can implement or take advantage of via family.

It's always worth remembering that only 5% of the adult US populace can complete a task like finding and applying for a job using only web technology†. Being able to self host is a skill that maybe 0.1% of the populace can do, being generous.

An important life lesson is knowing that just because you can do something doesn't mean everybody, or even a majority of people can.

† https://goingdigital.oecd.org/indicator/24
Ah. You fell for the trap. The good old “you mean more than you said just because you were critical of some aspects of the country”. The parent made your argument a straw man, beat it down in his mind, and made you angry.
I think you're right. I'm usually skeptical of unionization but it may make sense in this case. Grad students have little leverage, the universities know this and use it.

I also think there are too many grad students but that's a different issue.
Not everyone cares about minor panel gaps here and there. I have a 2018 M3 and a 2022 MY and the other aspects of the car - tech, barely needing any maintenance, door handles, battery range, supercharger network - all more than negate minor panel gap issues, which I think are also overblown. The panels dont line up perfectly on my 2018 but it is barely noticeable unless you look for it
In a lot of parts of the world, the kitchen in fact looks less like the photo and more like the painting
I just turned 26, so I straddle the line between millennial and Gen Z. I have friends that are distinctly in both generations. What you say definitely rings true to me, although I think the relationship with emerging technology also plays an interesting part here too. From all that I can tell of the situation, Gen Z is much more integrated and connected with each other due to the existing popularity of the internet and smartphones, where millennials growing up still followed that traditional model where there were strong cliques throughout school, and interests in things like the internet were still fairly obscure. That's not to say that cliques don't exist today, but it's hard for me to describe the right words behind the communication & relationship model that changed so dramatically. As a result, millennials don't feel nearly as much comraderie as Gen Z, which I believe to be playing a large role in the current societal anti-exploitation movements.
Close calls can certainly be hidden, but serious nuclear accidents that result in appreciable release of radioactive materials are another story. Those are very hard to hide for long (there have certainly been attempts though.) I think by now we know about about most of the accidents.

For instance, the British government initially tried to cover up the Windscale fire, but they couldn't hide the release of Polonium.
what exactly are you giving those companies that you are not giving the potential candidate using your site? you should not hide information or knowhow from candidates and not give employers an edge.
Ask HN: What do you do to recharge after a day of work?
Hi HN,

Like many of you I want to be able to enjoy my evenings after work by either reading books, spending time with friends, learning something new, working on side projects, workout, or running errands. However, I'm typically way too tired to get myself off the couch on most days to do anything and unfortunately I cannot take a nap or sleep to recharge. I'm only able to consume easy to digest content in this state. This was both the case with WFH or going to the office.

The other day I took a shower after I got back home and it was extremely recharging. I've been forcing myself to walk into the office which gives me a separation between work and home and also forces me to walk 30 mins to and from the office which is a great daily exercise.

What have worked for you that allows you to recharge after a day of work so you can use the evening for the activities you like to do?
Sorry, it's Warren Zevon.
The era of fixing your own phone has nearly arrived
FAANG engineers aren't the only engineers in Bangalore.
Strongly disagree with the authors choice of conflating what they call high modernism with utilitarianism or lack of interest in aesthetics.

Personally this cozy, homely, "clay pot on the floor", pastoralism does nothing for me. I'm a big fan of industrial design and I don't think characterizing it as 'low-maintenance', even though it may be that as well, does it justice.

>"Spatially, the minimalist and glossy-modernist trends have the unfortunate habit of moving toward a void"

What's wrong with voids for example? One of the most interesting design choices that I came across recently were the designs in Denis Villeneuve's Dune that he made for the interiors. Very empty, but also very awe inspiring.
For this we would need replicators and massive energy sources. Federation economy works because all basic needs can be met with technology. Even then, there are races that use money and some items are rare. For instance, not everyone has access to a star ship-- so that has value as a commodity. Another example is latinum which can't be replicated.