skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's easy to be an armchair engineer and say "well, obviously, don't make this mistake in the future".

It's sort of equally easy to say Github should do X or Y to improve the UX in this (rare?) case without actually knowing the effort or opportunity cost.

Like maybe I'd rather Github figure out how to not have outages so frequently and how to not accidentally give people million+ dollar bills and such.
The term appears in at least one of the Harry Potter books (the "Skiving Snackbox" of the Weasley twins contains a range of sweets that make you mildly ill as an excuse to skip class).
Say the board has a reason to believe that Twitter is going to double in value in the next two years. ie, they have a secret "Twitter Gold" product that they are certain will triple profits.

It would be a disservice to me, as an investor, if they sold the company at a value of $54/share knowing that it could easily be worth much more than that in the near future. As a shareholder, I hired this board specifically to make decisions with information that isn't public. I either trust them or I don't.
Pretty much agree— Universal human fallibility is not an avoidable moral failure, but looking down on those who've made, admitted, and taken responsibility for simple mistakes sure is. Unrealistic assumptions about people's attention, processing capability, and physical capabilities may be the greatest hurdle when trying to actually solve people's problems with software. It can even be a safety issue— consider the Therac 25 incident.

That said, superlatives like "impossible" aren't realistic here. As long as an action is possible, it is also possible to fuck it up. The challenge screen does require typing in the repo name which is a pretty solid attention-getter. It would be nice to list the important side effects in big angry letters but I'll bet the list of side-effects that are important to some people would be pointlessly long. Maybe a sanity check requiring repos with extremes in certain metrics to get a sanity check from support first— but I have had some preeeeettty protracted response times from GitHub support.
I sometimes decide what to use based on number of stars. It's a trust in the quality of the software.

Now httpie is on 2.5k stars and if I only knew about it today, I'd consider using an alternative with 10k stars if there's any.
And they did it without solid state electronics. Literally putting vacuum tubes in artillery shells.
are you people seriously under the impression that trademarks and such make any difference if a big US corporation wants to fuck you? they can sue you out of existence for violating laws you aren't subject to and/or EULA you've never agreed to
That’s not at all correct. You’re stating nuclear cannot handle load distributions.

Why.
> This is the game and balance of power as it exists today

Your model missing important thing - logistics.

- Logistics is so much huge factor, that in reality, large totalitarian country usually become Neo-feudalism, meaning, typical local official is at so large distance from totalitarian center, that he could do with their subordinates near anything, effectively become local prince.

- Lower effective in small countries (Singapore), in large lower become local.

And China is LARGE country, even with modern technologies, it is divided to provinces, which have significantly different behaviors.
So they will have in one province 2+2=5, in other could be 2+2=6, and in third 2+2=7, etc.

Adding rules accepting wide specter of interpretations, make things more totalitarian. This is in fact payment of central government to local officials.
I only can't at the moment figure out, for what they pay locals, but there not much variants - most probably they prepare to invade Taiwan.

BTW, in democracy countries also provinces different, but they not trying to hide this information, so we know these sadly facts.
And Chinese totalitarian power constantly spend huge resources to hide truth, and you believe for their lie.
Right. It wouldn't be a free speech issue in the same sense that Elon is wrong about Twitter currently having a free speech issue.
Let’s do both! All the things you listed are exciting advancements but lacking the track record of nuclear.
I was under the impression that no AMD processor is supported by coreboot. Why would this no name vendor be the first to get that working?
Twitter is on a years long decline and heading faster and faster towards stagnation with features no one cares about. Twitter "staying true" to its roots means continued decline and loss of shareholder value.

Musk can pay for Twitter and still be the richest man in the world. It's like buying a boat for a normal person.

Sounds like a lot of salt on your part.
He recently sent a truckload of dishes to Ukraine...
Yeah. A warning that can be pattern matched by a human brain, that is just a routine action, will result in autopilot behavior. Flipping early repo visibility is common, I assume. Flipping visibility of 100+ star repos is likely much less common. So having a separate warning in that case might help you snap out of autopilot due to novelty.

A common knee-jerk reaction to "users aren't taking our warnings seriously" is making the warning look more scary and involving more (mechanical) steps – such as two confirmations instead of one. Well, that's pattern matchable and subject to desensitization.

Like the article states, it's more efficient to instead show what you're about to remove, i.e. a summary of the content as opposed to an identifier, then you get both novelty and proportional scariness, depending on how "big" it is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_fatigue
> I suggest any new generations read Anne Frank's diary if you can.

Seconded, in fact I would suggest every read it and re-read it every decade or two or so.
AKA the oracle problem.
They got quite a way into that before mentioning that her sister is also missing her right temporal lobe
There's a shelf in a hill nearby in the woods. I eventually found out it is the remains of a "skid road" used to clear the logs out when the old growth was all logged out.

Sometimes you can find a gigantic tree stump here and there.
My point is that IF they delete everything, they should send a notification to the affected users. When the repository is made public again, then since they deleted the star relation it’s not possible to send another notification.
Is it PerfectFreehand? https://github.com/steveruizok/perfect-freehand
The server automatically removes "how" and "why" at the start of a title. Numbers or at least 10 are also autoremoved.
> the worst one being that there's no human you can talk to when something goes wrong.

The worst part is that for a DeFi loan, you need something like 200% to 300% collateral (look it up, it varies but is usually around that amount). This makes it less than useless for just about all reasons people now get loans. The whole point of a loan is that you're willing to pay extra over time in order to have access to more funds at the present. With DeFi loans, you pay extra over time and have less access to funds than you would have had without the loan.

It only really makes sense for crypto gamblers, who are hoping that their collateral has insane appreciation that will offset the downsides. If anything, DeFi loans are less like actual loans and more like crypto gambling partnerships where one partner takes a position with lower risks and rewards and the other takes a position of higher risks and rewards.
Who’s foreign funding the nationalist greens world-wide?

Bet it someone with oil money. SA or Ruskies
The picture you give shows that you need subsidies to make your claim true for nuclear and cc gas. Only coal is way above unsubsidized renewables.
Harmful propaganda is good and informative if even it confirms the ship sunk.

If Ukraine or some US news agency announced it, I wouldn't believe it.

But now even Russia is admitting it - so it's as good as confirmed to me that Ukraine sank their ship.
> rename them asap to limit accidental loss

That's to say, I have a script which simply renames the files

YYYYMMDD-SEQUENCE_NUMBER

where YYYYMMDD is the day the rename was done.
Yeah they would just need to add some <noscript>...
> I wish something other than superhero movies could be made

You can literally watch movies all day every day and never watch a super-hero. It was never so easy to watch exactly what you want, when you want, spending so little. I don't get this kind of insatisfaction nowadays. Maybe the hidden premise is that what bothers you is not a lack of content you enjoy, but the fact that so many people love so much a thing that you consider inferior and a abject. To put it bluntly: that's cultural elitism.
> which a single rouge actor in a foundry is not capable of

If this were true, then the Apple M1 would never be as reverse engineered as it is now.
Depends on your needs. In my case, I already own a significant amount of ibonds at the 0.5% (or higher) base rate and aren't in need of additional cash-like investments.

We should expect the dollar denominated value of non-cash-heavy investments to have its returns increase by inflation. So if someone is looking at 9% ibonds and mentally comparing it 12% equities and thinking the ibonds sound amazing-- thats the wrong analysis. Instead they should back out inflation on both sides of that comparison and be comparing slightly negative yield ibonds to 10% equities yields.

So essentially one should only own ibonds to the extent that one's portfolio needs something cashlike to improve its sharpe... and IMO one should try to load up on their ibonds when they're at a higher base rate. (How high? I dunno, but 0% is not high)
What a quippy and dismissive way to respond to the multi-paragraph post that has genuine effort and arguably a unique take on the topic.
Prediction Ever: Darwin and the Founder Effect
To expand on this, billionaires never park any significant fraction of their positive net worth in cash. Inflation rates alone make that a losing proposition.

So they look for other things to own that will lose less value over time.
> This risk is hard to quantify, it can materialize in unexpected ways (just like nobody expected Chernobyl or Fukushima) and it will cost such rich and densely populated country as Germany trillions.

You know everyone who died from Fukushima died from the evacuation not radiation, right? You know more people are killed in Germany every year from coal pollution than have died as a result of Chernobyl in total?
This was a great answer and well thought out! Thanks for taking the time.

My only rebuttal is heat pumps can heat the air directly. No need for a radiator or plumbing.
Yes, the Dinner Train. I've been on it. It made for a fine afternoon. It would end up at the San Michelle Winery for some booze.
There are ARM boards which have fully open TF-A. Various NXP and Rockchip boards have no boot blobs.

Also POWER stuff is free from most, if not all, boot blobs. Maybe something for ram init... I forget.
For longer distances endlesss is another option. It’s loop based which has its own set of pros/cons but it solves the latency free jamming problem quite well.

The best part about endlesss IMO is that the full 8 channel stems are revision controlled. Every new loop recorded makes a new “riff” revision. It allows rapid experimentation with different musical ideas both solo and with others.

https://endlesss.fm
Well it certainly makes it easier for them if you've violated their trademarks.
Of course it's dystopian and some people seem to buy into the narrative that it's "for people's own good". Well 'yes' but not really, because the primary motivation is to counter any entity that might gain power over the government(even though they already pretty much control any company inside China, so it's kind of redundant), not because the Chinese government gives any f*cks about it's people as much as to pass such a law. If they legitimately cared about "people above algorithms" they wouldn't have a social credit system, wouldn't persecute uyghurs by using either home-made but mostly stolen technology from western powers (primarily US) through corporate espionage.

As for what the article is saying: "the option to disable recomm. systems"; Well my statements still apply: companies would supposedly have to abide by this law, whereas the government would still use them to control the population. A feed system in tiktok would be disabled but a feed system for the government showing "problematic citizens" (which is exactly the same) would still apply, you just won't know about it. Thus the hypocrisy, thus the blank words; But it helps portray them as some kind of pioneers in cyber-ethics, which is funny to say the least.
> Can anybody make a good argument as to why Twitter (in its current form) isn’t a major detriment to society?

Basically no one actually uses twitter. I only know one person in real life who uses twitter.

Twitter's problem is that 'media types' really like twitter, for one reason or another, and tend to blow everything that happens there out of proportion for off-platform engagement.

Personally, I really like twitter. I carefully curate my Twitter experience to follow people I'm interested in, mute people and words I don't care for (it's great never having to see "NFT" on twitter!), and block people who are actively harmful. I'm left with a pretty positive experience that has good community and funny jokes. That's how I use it.
Sure. But police departments started keeping dna evidence in the 70s/80s in anticipation of advances in technology. It's how the golden state killer was eventually caught. If police departments were capable of such forward thinking, it's hard for me to believe the kgb wasn't.

If the russians did get hitler's body, then they most likely still have it or dna material. Also, aren't they worried that fsb headquarters or their archives will attract fascists wanting to pay homage to hitler?
I think there might be a difference between losing a plane and losing your “GitHub stars”.
It's true that this is "PEBKAC" but it's also true that this is a UX/system design failure on GitHub's part.
It probably wouldn't, because it would be clear that it's got nothing to do with Valve the gaming software company. Trademarks aren't blanket coverage of any possible uses of a name.
So why give them an easy out?
That's fine, but that's not really the kind of war I was talking about. In case you're wondering yes, I'd be in favor of self defense as well.
Show HN: Via – Simple Visualization of Cycle Route Quality
Every cycle route is plagued with problems - potholes, deviant cars, and random obstacles. Via is an app that detects these issues and visualizes them in a clear way. Quality, speed, and usage can be viewed with the fundamental goals of privacy of contributers providing data to improve road quality and safety of cyclists.
How does one like Elon Musk go about "planning" this? Lawyers?
Maybe it could provide a nice assist to Elon’s batshit insane plan to launch a Starship every four hours for years in order to put a Mars colony worth of supplies into LEO.
TIL. Thanks for the clarification.

It is quite superior to Gnome3. I'm glad the developers built it.
> Germany could replace gas boilers with heat pumps

Given that burning gas in modern electricity gas plants (like Germany has) to power modern decent quality heat pumps is more efficient (and flexible, and future proof) then burning Gas for heating that would be the best solution.

It's also completely unrealistic.

Given how common gas powered house central heating is, and given that some houses have worse constructs (like gas heater per apartment for warm water) I would guess that we would need 1 heat pump per 100 people or more. That would be 800_000 modern decent quality heat pumps. Which all need to be produced, build, shipped and installed.

We already have a shortage of craftsman in Germany, even if we ignore everything up to installation that would be a major problem.

And that's under the assumption that houses can be retrofitted to use heat pumps. But for many houses, especially apartment blogs this would be a problem as there is no good way available to montage/connect the outside-of-house parts of a heat pump on many typical German apartment blogs (living in apartment in apartment blogs is normal in Germany). (You still can do it, but even more cost and time involved).

There are other problems, too.

So I guess the optimal solutions is practically not possible.
I think my frame.work is doing the "kinda hard" click thing too. Did you just break it in, or change something mechanically? I mostly use the keyboard, so it's a very minor annoyance to me.
The Inkscape demo is very interesting. It might be a very good alternative, thank you!
Which military power has signaled a readiness to respond kinetically if chemicals are used?
People were censored for saying the Hunter Biden laptop was real in 2020. People were censored for covid "misinformation" that turned out to be true.

Twitter is very much an anti-free speech platform at the moment. He's a free speech absolutist. How is the purchase of a wildly biased and censorial platform by a free speech absolutist not conducive to free speech?
Unless, of course, if they just changed the column setting from "starred" to "was starred". As they could do. If they cared.
It's just bad design never getting fixed despite several prior incidents except for GitHub's own project which they reverted.

Why do they not just give a public/private flag on star data than somehow modifying the data irreversibly?

For users, just remove the repo from their starred project list if it's not visible.
I purchased and returned an XPS last year and the trackpad was unbelievably bad. After using Mac laptops for the previous 10 years, I hadn’t thought the difference in hardware quality could be so far apart. MacBooks are at least a generation ahead of the best PC hardware (generation as in, 10 years)
Zero chance a wealth tax goes into effect in America without excluding farmland. That or the Electoral College does.
Bing's ad tracking via outgoing URL querystring is breaking websites
> Compare Lua to JS for example which started out similarly but Lua was kept simple and stable, while JS introduced massive churn and tooling complexity, much of it being unnecessary in my eyes.

Anything you wrote in JS twenty years ago probably still works. Tooling has changed, but none of that's an official part of the JS language. The language has only some added features that you can opt to not use.

If you're comparing the whole JS ecosystem to the Lua and Fennel languages, well that's not really a fair comparison.
Oh, I thought it was ungoogleable so I didn’t try.

> According to "Hatching Twitter," a new book dissecting the history of the short-messaging site by the New York Times' Nick Bilton, Facebook's founder once told close friends that "[Twitter is] such a mess, it’s as if they drove a clown car into a gold mine and fell in." Although the comment is not given a specific date, the book notes that Zuckerberg made it "within the last three years." The comment was highlighted by venture capitalist Paul Kedrosky on Bloomberg TV last week.
Zuckerberg took the reported jab at Twitter after he was frustrated by the startup not taking one of his acquisition offers. Al Gore had also whiffed on buying the hot startup, despite being emboldened by "copious amounts" of wine and Patron tequlia, and of course, his deep pockets.

Didn’t know Facebook wanted to buy twitter.
Or Al Gore for that matter.
"The power plant avoided critical damage, but it was very much harmed in the attack."

Source? As far as I know and what wikipedia confirms, is that the plant itself was not damaged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporizhzhia_Nuclear_Power_Pla...

"During approximately two hours of heavy fighting a fire broke out in a training facility outside of the main complex, which was extinguished by 6:20am,[21][22] though other sections surrounding the plant sustained damage.[19]

As of 04:20 UTC on March 4, the IAEA said that the fire, which was in a training building, had been extinguished. It did not impact reactor safety or any essential equipment"
Of course if GitHub were only a service for cloud hosting of Git repositories, it would be totally irrelevant whether or not the repository was marked private for 30 minutes.

But GitHub, by design, seeks to be as much of a social network as a repository hosting service and people take the stars very seriously. I’ve seen many CVs that brag about the candidate’s star counts.
> And presumably Google Docs and Google Sheets --- which are productivity apps.

No. I did not include them in that list for two reasons. First, as has been demonstrated Google is incredibly explicit about data on Drive (which Docs and Sheets are) not being used for ad targeting. There is no ambiguity there. Second, because those apps are not listed on that activity page. Nor are the other apps where Google is making explicit statements about the data not being used for advertising purposes, e.g. Gmail, Photos, Chat.

Again, they're pretty open about the apps whose data can be used for ad targeting. There is no misdirection there, there is no hiding of them from the list of data that they have. If you were correct and they were just blatantly lying, why not do it for all products?

> Your TOS quotes are from their paid "premier" products. These are not their only productivity apps.

The initial submission was about Workspace, so of course I linked to those. But when you moved the goalposts, I posted additional links that were about consumer services (Gmail, Drive). But here's one more. The page for with the account privacy settings says the following, whether you have ads personalization turned on or off, and even for a consumer account:

https://myaccount.google.com/u/1/data-and-privacy

Content from Drive, Gmail and Photos is never used for any ads purposes.

There is just no ambiguity here.
Can you guarantee that will be the case at any point in the future?
The earth is factually orbiting the sun, it's going around it under the influence of its gravity. So we have a model that is useful intuitively and reflects reality. Looking at other frames of reference is sometimes interesting or useful, but if you have to pick one simple and correct one, the heliocentric model is logical. I expect you already knew all of that.
Puzzling cases of severe liver disease in children spark international probe
Putting people in jail for jokes is not "working okay".
> My view is that expecting humans to stop making mistakes is much less effective than fixing the systems that amplify those mistakes into large, irreversible impacts.

This is applicable to almost any activity: "Sure he was driving drunk, but the car's manufacturer should have prevented that from causing any damage!" I agree that GitHub should improve the design here - privating a '10 star / 1 week old' repo shouldn't be treated the same as privating a '50k star / 10 year old' repo. I don't mean to diminish the fact that GitHub's UI should be improved here.

But the author needs to take some responsibility and realize they were ""driving distracted"", and not act like GitHub is 100% at fault here. Just because GitHub didn't act perfectly doesn't mean the author didn't make any mistakes.
It’s not a deification to recognize that the total upheaval and reinvention of three industries - automobiles and aerospace and finance - is something that very, very few people could do, even if they had luck and fortune going into it.