skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm an immigrant, so I have a vantage point here others may not. I remember being bewildered at how belligerent fellow mates were with their elders (especially teachers and their parents*),

Same story here. Indeed, I was raised in a pretty westernized way (my dad worked for US companies even back in Bangladesh, and read the Dr. Spock book that was the rage back in the 1980s). And frankly I was a little shit compared to my cousins who were raised in a more traditional Bangladeshi way.
YT Premium is not the product it could be because it only needs to be better than what it is replacing, or normal YT.

Say this as someone who just subscribed this month.
Intuitively it makes sense to me that more complex systems collapse faster because potentially they have more points and modes of failure.

For instance, due to advances in technology, many aspects of our current modern global society depend on the availability of Cobalt as a component in battery tech. This is a relatively rare element, with concentrated extraction.

Lots of things in modern society depend on having small, cheap, powerful batteries. Lots of systems are built upon systems which have that dependency. This creates a single point of failure which can have reverberating effects throughout the whole system.

I suppose the more complex and interconnected a system is, the more likely it is that you have many of these weak points floating around.
You’re right, but only if the company wouldn’t track whether you’ve seen or even received that message. So yes, general or even contextual messages would be allowed, but “You haven’t seen X in 9 days” would imply processing personal data for marketing purposes.
Gig Car Share used to do this. I patiently responded to each incident with a support request politely asking them to stop the abuse. After a few months of 1:1 mapping from spam incident to customer support issue it eventually stopped.
1. Well, this is the root of the conversation around free software, especially in the modern age. I think many people would argue that Windows/Apple/Android users are indeed computing, but they're doing so on the behalf of Microsoft/Apple/Google. When those companies back up your files to their first-party cloud systems, that's not your computation anymore. They have your data and can ostensibly do whatever they want with it. There may be quibbling to be had on this topic, but I think the original point still stands in context.

2. I wouldn't call it a prison, but it would be pretty disappointing to move into a listed building where the thermostat was locked behind an acrylic case. Simply put, it sucks when you pay for something and can't run arbitrary software on the hardware you own. I don't really think most people would disagree here: having options is better than having none.

3. Is it really a fantasy? I doubt the average PC owner even knows they have options other than Windows, much less free ones. Maybe this is the HN US-centric mindset taking over again, but nobody in America really knows or cares about this stuff, for better and worse.

4. Pretty much all of your refutations so far haven't actually debated their core point, so I don't think it's fair to start throwing stones. Given the average vitriol of HN, I would say that many different people are "often demeaned, or neglected, even here on HN", be it Free Software advocates or proud Macbook owners. It doesn't make them any more or less credible, but their original point still stands: people on this website love to quibble about how atrocious OSS is when compared to $GLORIOUS_SAAS, despite the fact that the iPhone/Windows/Android device they're writing on is more OSS than it is proprietary.

Whether it's Apple, Microsoft or Google, none of them deserve to inherit the future of computing. It's not a radical opinion, and I'd agree with the parent comment that it's pretty often overlooked on a forum about startup culture and business.
Because trains get delayed by other trains even though they're not supposed to be, crew are late, there are mechanical issues of some sort, person on the tracks... Most air delays don't have to do with weather or other things in the air. They have to do with things that happen with getting into the air.

I take commuter rail every now and then which mostly doesn't compete a lot with freight and delays are, if not super-common, not rare.

Amtrak is very possibly worse than other systems in this regard but it's not hard to see how multi-day train trips could accumulate delays when sharing tracks with miles-long freight trains traveling at sometimes very slow speeds.
They just disable WHO and don't list users in the channel. Otherwise IRC is trivial.
Are they though ?
All of their numbers are positive
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I also enjoy these articles, but many come to HN to criticize things so they can appear smart.
I could be wrong, but I don’t think Bill Bryson’s work is “technical writing” as commonly understood. Still worth reading, however, I’m sure.
There was a group in Lansing pre-Covid that held a Hacktoberfest event. I didn't attend but talked with someone who did. They told me it was emphasized if you're not adding value don't do it. Hope this doesn't end up with Digital Ocean ending their support.
It would get returned to sender and I guess they'd assume you are no longer there? They can't do anything if you never received notice.
The article literally says that they use pre-roll ads to avoid disruption.
I have to agree with this. It is the biggest flaw in the study. I have bipolar disorder and when I am depressed, I quickly know when something works. To negate the placebo effect at time I will trick myself taking prozac. When I am depressed I have found a single dose of prozac in one day will change my mood. Do I think someone who is not depressed would see mania taking one does of Prozac?

> If left untreated, depending on severity, this can lead to suicide, delusional thinking, schizoid breaks, homelessness and very often self treatment with illicit drug use.

I am current in most of these states; homeless, suicidal, and just suffered psychosis during a covid infection and dealing with an odd perception of reality. Talking to people about their sadness I know, luckily, most people do not know what depression is. There is such large gap between mental health and mental illness.
Hmmm. I have 3 old but functional laptops sitting around ready for recycling. I might hang on to them.
In my case I did the credit card opt-out and then targeted the two worst offenders (Comcast and Chase). I believe Comcast I was able to opt-out both my house and PO Box from their endless stream of junk, Chase was harder had to actually call them but was successful in removing all my addresses from getting their checking account offers. (the optoutprescreen only seems to stop credit offers, not all banking product offers).

I don't want to opt-out DMA opt-out because there's a couple monthly advertiser services that do send useful stuff.

The remaining worst offender I can't get rid of so far is Andersen Windows & Doors. The mail started pretty banal, moved up to 'handwritten' estimates that looked like they were done with an autopen. The last few mailers look more like scribbles from an insane person. Pretty sure next will be notes wrapped to bricks thrown through my current windows.
I presume the human is still the most expensive cost. So you might be looking at cost reduction of over 50%. If that were true, then I would definitely take the robotaxi, assuming it's reached human safety levels of course. On the off chance that they leave me stranded, I'll file a complaint for full refund, and then just take another one
You jack up the car and look at details of the underbody every time you buy a factory new car?

Tesla is refusing to fix the issue:

>The lawyer is now asking Tesla out of court for a new delivery, i.e. for an exchange. But Tesla's reaction is anything but customer-friendly: the cosmetic impairments are on the underside of the vehicle and are therefore irrelevant. To fix this you would have to replace the entire battery unit, which you are welcome to do - but only at the expense of Stocker himself!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27544651/
I don't know Sam Bankman-Friend personally but we have some connections in common and I'm also somewhat involved in the Effective Altruism community which he is also a part of. While it is difficult to disentangle where he is advocating for his own business interests versus personal interests, I think especially when it comes to the money for the "Protect Our Future" PAC and subsequently for the Carrick Flynn campaign ("some candidate for Oregon" that you mentioned) these donations were more about longtermist beliefs, especially around pandemic prevention than anything around crypto.

I think this politico article probably has the best overview: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/12/carrick-fl...
There are many articles like this every year. I understand there's no silver bullet for curing cancer, but I am interested in the actual results of new treatments instead of the potential of new treatments, which seems to attract way more headlines.

Is there an overview somewhere of new treatments over the years, and their effect? What is the progress we have made?
> But I'm not sure how costly it is for thousands/millions of coroutines.

Still cheap: you only need to preempt the threads which are actively running user code. If a coroutine is ready to run, but not actually running, you don't have to do anything with it (as long as you check for safepoints before entering user code.) That means your safepoints cost is `O(os threads currently running user code)` which in most runtimes is `O(num cores)`
I personally think he's the real deal (as much as any billionaire can be). He's about as far from materialistic as one can get (literally bought a cheap suit off the shelf so he could provide testimony at the house financial services committee, didn't even bother retying the shoes)

He's also vegan, which I think says something about his willingness to make personal sacrifices for a more ethical lifestyle.
That depends: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monty_Python_Matching_Tie_...
Would the donor behind the Signal Foundation, Brian Acton, one of the WhatsApp founders who disagreed with the Mark Zuckerberg model of the internet, support the use of his donation to make threats or engage in legal proceedings against "non-official clients". Are there any statements from him about "non-official clients". Mike Benham ("Moxie Marlinspike") is no longer running "Signal Messenger LLC".1 Signal Foundation and its subsidiary Signal Messenger LLC appear to be the entities that control the Signal trademark. For example, the US service mark "Signal" is now registered to "Signal Technology Foundation", not "Whisper Systems LLC".

1. https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/11/signal_ceo_moxie_marl...
I'm sorry, but what is the problem? We already own more general-purpose computers than we can carry, might be the problem.
And here I only remember AOHell's Nine Inch Nails references...
Every area in the United States (and every major city) has gotten a lot more expensive!

This tracks prices nationwide [https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPINSA]

Everything else you’re talking about is from side effects.
Most people don’t have the freedom to choose not to work.
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What stops this kind of coordination from being used to smuggle an arbitrary massively parallel workload onto the system? :o)
This may not be what your looking for but I really like CASIO product manuals. They are concise, yet provide all the information needed. You can download them for free for any of their products from their website.
There is an argument for decriminalizing drug possession. The same argument in no way holds for drug dealing. The price would come down and availability would skyrocket as would the problems that stem from use.
> Pretty sure next will be notes wrapped to bricks thrown through my current windows.

Hew they do windows & doors you know!
OP here; sorry for not vetting the study. I am not a scientist, so all I did was check to see if there had been any discussion of this therapeutic on HN. I’m glad there are folks like you who can easily provide critiques on the study/methodology!
Better than my Lincoln, that uses complete Ford parts that should have decades of QA testing behind them, but still shipped out with completely defective airbags I wasn’t alerted to until years down the line. Also every single one of the door handles broke internally, which was apparently common on these models.
In 1997, Wired Predicts Things That Could Go Wrong in the 21st Century (2021)
Maybe they got their cancer from technology…
> The company says it's a myth that the app frequently malfunctions and causes immigrants to miss check-ins. "An average of 88.4% of SmartLINK check-ins were completed successfully over the last five years," GEO says.

That doesn't seem like a "myth" to me, that number is abysmal for a process that, upon failure, makes you subject to arrest.
If the game's endgame monetization issues are as bad as I've heard, then this is a classic example of luring players in and then suddenly smacking them with a paywall.

Not to bash you in particular, but it always amazes me that people can judge a game's pacing and monetization without including the endgame (if it even had a start or middle in the first place; endgame can be a nebulous concept). As the game ages, that is what the majority of players will be doing for the majority of the time and that's where the game will reveal it's true colors.

In my most recent memory, this happened with New World and its lack of endgame content at release. People defended the game as fun then most apparently quit in the levels 20-30 range because they realized the game was nothing but the same anemic game loop.

Now it's down from 900k peak players to 22k peak players, which may be a nice number for some games, but it is already deader than some older MMOs with no signs of player growth (according to Steam Charts).
There are so many misconceptions about psychedelics. Microdosing is a trend and it doesn't seem the people following it currently even understand how and why it started. For example the fact that many unironically believe LSD improves mood. It's not alcohol, it radically alters your perception but doesn't sedate you. That can improve your mood or it can make it much worse.
Hopefully by then more advanced notification controls will exist.
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Reminds me of sc2ai https://sc2ai.net/ where you can write bots for starcraft2 and let them battle it out vs other bots.
Programming Perl was also pretty masterly.
Single binary. Cross platform. Runs with it's own server with web interface. Has issue tracking, wiki, chat.

Happy user of fossil since over 10 years now, both in individual projects and teams' projects.

For me, unlike git, fossil just gets out of the way and let's me focus on delivering. Doesn't have a whole bunch of arcane commands.

https://andreiclinciu.net/blog/why-im-using-fossil-scm-inste...
Piure is relatively popular in Chile.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyura_chilensis

I have had it, and it is delicious.

Chile’s local seafood in general is great (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austromegabalanus_psittacus is great) - it’s unfortunate it’s not more popular in the country itself.
In many cases the new asteroid discoveries can then be used to identify other apparitions of the same object that were previously not recognized as being asteroids. That enables further orbit refinement.
I imagine this can even be made mathematically precise. You need some minimal amount of robustness depending on the number of bullets you need to dodge, but conditional on that, someone who is just robust enough to be lucky will win, and if the population is large and diverse enough, a lucky, minimally robust, growth optimized individual will survive and win.
No ones a natural at video, everyone’s first videos are cringey… people improve with time and practice. Look at anyone in the game, vertical or horizontal, and look at their old videos. It’s all cringe. The point is to not make that the point. Persevere and improve.
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To be technically correct, it’s called a finalizer in that case to distinguish it from deterministic destructors.

For resources like memory, where it’s merely a question of performance, I would agree. But some resources have correctness implications. Files, for example, you often want to close deterministically. It’s simply a terrible experience if a user can’t save because a file handle from a previous operation still lingers in a GC queue somewhere.

That’s also the reason why language features like try-with-resources were added in the first place.
Why You Should Use Fossil -
https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/whyusefossil.wiki
> Animals with economic value rarely go extinct

What about mammoth, passenger pidgeon, great auk, quagga, parakeet, shark, horseshoe crab, tuna, whale ... the list goes on and on
In America 32 hours is part time which loses all benefits, including child health care, and it’s a much more precarious position. Further there’s no career advancement possible. Also note most professional jobs 40 hours is the MINIMUM, with typical expectation being 50-60 and often includes travel - during which the parent at home has 100% responsibility.

I don’t know that it was depressing per se for my wife or me, it was what we wanted. And we would make the same choices again given the same options and outcomes. The negative side effects of the choices are mostly societal consequences and I think we would prefer society not make parenting a career damaging choice. There’s no benefit to anyone in the current model. But also it’s important to note in my case I make nearly 10x what my wife would. Most couples will have a tighter decision to make - but will usually pick the man even with a smaller differential due to tradition.
“ It is so sad that "make good game, sell it" model no longer works.”
What makes you say that? I mostly play single-player games”

it doesn’t work for the developers. obviously you can play a single player video game.
My Bluetooth Blood-pressure cuff does this.
Useful notification:
Reminding me to measure my blood pressure twice per day, giving me a notification that I can tap to begin a measurement.

Not useful notifications:
Telling me that I have a "new insight available", which when tapped takes me to a prompt to "upgrade to a new premium feature.

I guess if you need to upsell me on a service after I've spent >$200 for your device I can use a different reminders app and be slightly inconvenienced twice a day.
I understand the story is in German so you might not have read it, but it says he received the car in February but didn't notice the cracks until months later because the cracks are in the jack supports - the part of the car you lift when you want to change the wheels or something.

The article in English via Google Translate: https://efahrer-chip-de.translate.goog/news/tesla-kunde-beko...

He did try to get it repaired. Tesla refused.
Blogging with Org-mode for lazy people
Why I'm using Fossil SCM instead of other source control systems (2016)
In other words, you believe the cost of the human is subtracted but there is no additional hardware/maintenance/remote-operation/R&D-investment cost to add?

Anyway, I think we can all agree that the only benefit of a robotaxi is that it's cheaper. And we don't know how much cheaper. So it's not surprising that most people aren't excited about them.

I don't know a single person who cares about robotaxis. In my experience, if you talk to people about robotaxis they just don't see it as big step forward. "What's the point?"
Nobody has to accept anything. If he gives money to PACs it's literally impossible to stop him.
The metaverse is already here. If you ignore the marketing, it’s just VR (and soon to be AR) online over the internet.

Barely anyone has tried it because the only affordable and easily accessible model is from Meta, which is still a toxic brand for now. Every other current offering is both too expensive and too complicated for most of the population.
I always keep my monitor's brightness low, and never experience eye strain. My technique is to hold a sheet of white paper up next to the screen, and turn down the display's brightness until a window with a white background appears to be no brighter than the paper.
Please don't copy production data to computers you connect to coffee shop WiFi.
1. Bio article

2. Peer review not done for local web publish

3. Not going to over-emphisize but the research "centres of excellence" aren't Oxford or Harvard here

4. The reproducibility crisis in bio

5. It's clearly trying to get more attention than it's worth. Unless I recalibrate my expectations of reality (yes I work in research as a published professional) it's bad.
(Eg this is defending publications of "Highs signal at 110GeV" from the tevatron as being worth reading in the 00's. It's clearly biased as we now know it couldn't have happened)

6. I'm not sure how we get from my comment of 1 study to there being no obesity epidemic in burgerland. Please stop reading vitriol into my comments.
There are open positions for software engineers working with these teams:

https://b612foundation.org/open-positions/
https://www.lsstcorporation.org/lincc/job_opportunities
100% agree with this. You never know what you’ll know in the future :)

The phrase “delay the decision to the last responsible moment” is my favorite mantra about this.
From grandparent comment:

> If the app doesn't bother to categorize its notifications into channels at all, I turn off its notifications entirely, and I won't turn it back on.
Any military operations have multiple goals with different level of importance. I won’t argue that one of the points could be capturing Kyiv if lucky. Otherwise, putting pressure and distract military brigades while occupying Kherson and Mariuple were also on the list for sure. I assume military planning is made around probabilities and importance. If occupying Kyiv was the main goal, then we would have definitely seen Belarusian forces join the campaign, especially taking the fact they were less than 100 miles from Kyiv.
It’s a stretch but I’d say a lot of modern analytical philosophy could be considered “technical” in the sense that the convention is to articulate ideas and arguments as clearly and precisely as possible.

My recommendations would be Hilary Putnam, Nelson Goodman, and W.V.O Quine.

A paper I’m currently reading, which was seminal in phenomenology, is “ The Phenomenology of Cognition: Or What Is It Like to Think That P?”[1] by David Pitt. Really nice example of a well-formed thesis.

[1] https://philpapers.org/rec/PITWII