skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a big poster at the end of my road, that is trying to recruit drivers, with a starting bonus, and reasonable hours and conditions.
So all the drivers leaving the industry seem to have at least got their point across to someone.
The previous court was conservative on a linear scale. The current court is radically conservative with fascist imperialist theological trends becoming more apparent by the day.
I think you're underestimating the pain relief thing. I know multiple people who never touched the stuff recreationally, developed a chronic pain condition (arthritis, in one example), and now swear by it. The only alternatives with similar effectiveness are opioids, which are arguably even more harmful.

I don't touch it myself, but even as an independent observer the benefits there are clear.
Edibles and vaporizing are essentially smell free
Good to know, I wasn't aware of this.
universal story of economic development - it is basically incompatible with raising families. Only times population increases is in the aftermath of some disaster - war or famine or pestilence. Iraq, for example, is experiencing a population boom, with over half the population under the age of 15
I feel bad for him, but really the problem is he’s made a directorial mistake and it looks like the only point it’s gonna click is when the sales numbers hit.

Will he realize his mistaken then or will he continue to blame the customer?
> Before people realize that they can't really make a 3-layer cake in a toaster

Our 12-year-old recently tried to make himself "cheese on toast" by putting both cheese and uncooked bread into the (almost brand new, upright) toaster. Aaargh!

Cue the house full of smoke, a stern reprimand, then a couple of hours of my time wasted on removing every last piece of burnt greasy cheese from inside the toaster, followed by several empty runs with it outside to let it get properly hot and burn off the last of the fatty residues.

He was, at least, quite sheepish about his learning experience.
It looks like a boingboing article about it made it to the front page, so that's probably a better way to consume the info.
They should be fined for misleading advertising.
In that case, that would reinforce my instinct. There's certainly a recent cocktail boom, and there was a brief trend of straight vodka being popular with girls my age when I was in college, but these are passing market phases, not something systemic in the industry. By-and-large ~5% beers and ~12% wines are the popular choice today.
Versioning the source code is just one of the many things people use GitHub for.
Wait, why did YT remove Ann’s video? She doesn’t show how it’s done. She just shows, through drawings, how dangerous it is.

WTF Yiutube.
I don't think that makes sense? What are you attempting to communicate?

I'm saying that high potency products are still sold in legalized areas as there's demand for it.

I remember having issues years ago finding low but not non-zero THC products on the government website. I had to get 17% which is still high. Things may be different now.
The good news is, since 0 THC strains are legal everywhere in the US, you can just buy them online.

They don't show up in dispensaries much, because why go through all the hassle to meet regulations on a product which doesn't have to meet those regulations, unless they're being sold at a dispensary?
Old school advice but worked really well in my previous startup –(i) conferences and (ii) snow-ball interviewing.

(i) In your case you need to somehow find this high density potential early user in-person gatherings. You can for instance hang out in a non-generic co-working space where you know it is the choice for digital nomads etc. in your city.

(ii) This is somewhat under-rated but you really can crawl the network of people you know ad infinitum. You only need few people you know who are productivity obsessed to start with. And then always ask them "who should I chat for 15 mins. to get feedback on this etc. (I would suggest crafting this ask really well so that it doesn't come off as demanding. Try to genuinely give value at every interaction, that's how I enjoyed the process as a hardcore introvert.). I spoke to about 5-10 people every week and ended up with a decent community of early users in <3 months.
I do hope they keep strong strains tho, I use a herb vape, n u love to only vape around 25mg of bud n get high, way less irritation
The answer to the concern of potential health issue of cannabis legalization is almost always "what about [this other bad product with some common effects], should we forbid it too?"

This argument always sounds like a fallacy to me, as we're talking about legalizing something that was previously not, not the other way around.

I get that the argument might be seen as relativizing by providing examples of legal substances everybody agree today should be legal, but the way this answer (and others) is always presented sounds to me excessively aggressive and non-productive. If you want to make a point, please make it, don't just stop at this absurd proposition.

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Some people (I'm not even included in that group as I don't really care about this issue) seem very concerned about the global health implications of cannabis legalization.

Instead of aggressively diminishing this opinion with whataboutisms, legalizing proponents motivated enough to answer to this person should IMO better take into consideration (and respect) this opinion.
I like Big Clive (and Electroboom) because they know how to be safe, but do the stupid thing anyways (safely) to show how bad the ideas are.
If we could reduce car infrastructure to the point where only people who need a car for the transportation to be accessible would use it that would be a dream.

I don’t get the accessibility angle at all. It’s a non-issue because you will have a very hard time finding people who have issues with exceptions for accessibility. That would still reduce the need for car infrastructure massively.

The thing is, we need to start building the future right now, right here and massively. That means public transportation centric development (= building public transport to nowhere and letting the area develop alongside the walksheds with appropriate mixed use zoning) and actually being brave enough to re-structure existing solutions along those lines. That all isn’t magic, we just need to do it. We know it works, it doesn’t require any technological breakthroughs.
Such as a gun is always loaded, my take is electricity is always dangerous.

Even professionals can get into accidents, moreover us uneducated plebs.
fwiw, that's just 34 in the US. Apparently the numbers in other countries are also quite high, so we're probably looking at hundreds worldwide. Considering YouTube is making money off it, I think even 34 is an unacceptably high number.

How would car jumper cables electrocute you? Aren't car batteries 12v?
Just about all occurrences have been so, it just depends what you believe.

Entirely obvious irony in naming it 'Trusted News Initiative' like a good old 'Honest Al's Second-hand Cars!'
How is some cheeky halloween joke food a PR disaster?
Correct. Also, Democrats could have passed an abortion bill in 2008-2010 when they had a super majority in the senate, but choose not to.
> Not just fabricated for the views, but reactions too

I regard videos which include the word "reacts" in the title as having a huge red flag.

The signal-to-noise on this junk content is simply appalling.
Why not handle low-hanging fruit first

Because we don't need help on the obvious stuff. Cops already know where the low level drug dealers hang out and where the prostitutes work, they don't need a computer to tell them that. Also things like 'there will probably be a shooting in this violent neighborhood sometime within the next 7 days' is completely useless information, even if correct. There is no new actionable information that can improve on the current policing situation.
What if the program does install a signal handler, but it has a race condition and enters an infinite loop? What situation does that correspond to from the POV of the OS?

Signal handlers are simply not sufficient to discern between “ok, I’m getting ready for termination”, “I don’t want to terminate”, “not listening”, and “process not responding”. Just because it has been used for decades, doesn’t mean it was ever good. UNIX has plenty less than great decisions that became set in stone.
YouTube introduces new tools to battle comment spam and account imitators
The original video was way less indirect, but I assume she's trying to avoid getting this one pulled.
Doesn't apply to us here in the UK since we left Europe.
And yet they've decided they should have the authority and mandate to do so. You can't automate good moderation.
I completely forget that I have this function in my dot files:

doc () {
curl "https://cheat.sh/$1" | less
}
The EPA was following the statute when it made its carbon ruling. Past actions of the EPA have been similar, though you phrase it as "delegate an entire sector over to an administrative agency," it's exactly what's been done in the past.

The only difference this time is that it's CO2 as the pollutant, and fossil fuel interests are extremely politically powerful, and don't like the science that shows that CO2 is a pollutant. That's it. Remember when the ruling happened, and all sorts of people were like "CO2 can't be a pollutant"? This is the outcome of that thought.

If EPA did not have this authority, by law, then this would have been challenged on much easier grounds far before. In order for the EPA's actions to be overturned, the court had to overturn the very law itself.
Mark Zuckerberg told Meta staff he's upping performance goals
Stop behaving this way on Hacker News. It is aggressive and unwelcome, and we don't want that here.
Open Source Walk-Through with Rust and SeaORM
https://archive.ph/4iIaS
That sounds like a problem with your heuristic, there.

ETA: I once sarcastically said we need a technology so that links here are not described by anything that looks like a title due to all the people who get ridiculously outraged by any attempt to attract their attention.

Maybe I was on to something. Too many of you don't read or watch past titles.
As I mentioned elsewhere, I'm pretty sure they don't 'require' that. All the grocery stores near me that have Beyond keep it in the meat substitute section and don't have it in the meat section at all.
It would be ok if YouTube only moderates really popular channels and videos that have the most potential to cause harm. As always, the problem is scale - solutions that work for my 5-man IRC server do not scale to YouTube's size. So, a video with 5 views probably doesn't need manual attention. Even if it is extremely misleading and dangerous. Once you have a few million views of your "just jab high voltage electrodes into some wet wood, it's safe!" video, then it should be up for manual review. You absolutely can have an algorithm decide if the video has any one of several potentially dangerous topics and then flag it for manual review. I'm certain YouTube already does that with a myriad of other topics, they just need to improve their methods a bit.
That's the PR. The reality is more nuanced #Batterygate
Very much so, yes. Anarcho-capitalist is the prevailing economic inclination of most people on HN. On the social scale, it seems more evenly split between progressive, conservative, with some reactionaries here and there.

Mapping that on the stupid US blue vs red scale is downright impossible.
I think it is quite obvious why I replied - I listed several potential ways your computer could be vulnerable.
Show HN: Free Calendly alternative (and lessons learned from 1 year building it)
I've taken every non-opiate drug available under the sun. The only really bad experience was a night of absolute terror after a deep drag on a joint.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

One point I would like to respond to is that the only specific instance I mentioned where I said we should be “automating ourselves out of” jobs, was in the context of those systems/network/devops roles; roles I myself have held.(Incidentally, automation at the enterprise level involves far more than “writing scripts for IT departments” that you reduce it to, and that is somewhat what I was referring to when. I mentioned that there would be bigger and more important business processes to support as infrastructure becomes commodity, and some automation framework(s) become SOP. Sorry, I digress.)

I did not suggest anywhere - at least I didn’t mean to - to wield a techno “iron fist” (although that does conjure a pretty cool image in my head <grin>) and I don’t think I suggested that every job everywhere should be automated, and in fact the memory of an 80’s PSA coming to mind giving me an immediate feeling of sympathy for that guy in the video, was really the whole point of why I posted.

Also, I wasn’t born into high-paying tech jobs. I was once young, and indeed have worked some pretty shit jobs. I don’t however, think they were meaningless. They may have meant nothing to me, but obviously someone thought they were worth paying me for. So aside from “dig a hole and refill it” type work, I don’t view anyone’s job as not having worth.

It does beg the question, “what will the shit jobs be for future teenagers?”, which I will for the sake of simplification lump into the same category as the glass-sorting job in the PSA. I don’t have an answer for that, at least not yet.

Perhaps this is tangential to the existential crises you describe, but, like you, I have been learning ML/AI, since about 2016 (whenever that “A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style” paper was published) and I do have some fears about AI, superintelligence, etc and what bad things will (not just may) come of it, though admittedly my fears of the negative are far outweighed by my excitement for the positive potential. This is why I own paperclipmaximizer.ai though admittedly my tongue was firmly in my cheek when I bought it. We can only hope our super intelligent AGI overlords are as optimistic as the GPT-generated quote from Maximo on that site.

I appreciate everyone’s input and time taken to provide it. I have been reading HN for a long time, but never registered or posted until last week. It is really great to have a community of intelligent people not trolling or shitposting and I was pleasantly surprised that you all actually watched the video and came back with real points of conversation. Thanks!
> I guess it can be confusing

It it confusing, yes. You can understand it through tough thorough thought though.
This isn't a criticism, but what's the purpose of using c2v? As in, anything outside c2v just to compile it. The example of DOOM is taking the C code, converting it to V, then compiling it (which internally converts V to C before passing it off).
The new video shows lots of examples of comments on the original video where people thanked her for warning them not to do it, so it's worth factoring that in. Certainly a couple people will go 'wow, getting killed to make cool wood? sounds sick' and do it but I suspect the number of people scared away is higher.
It does not in fact market itself for encoding and deconding 8K footage.

They market it as being able to “work with more streams of 4K and 8K ProRes video”.

And all of the benchmarks are with respect to transcoding, and only 4K media not 8K.
...by now even youtube video previews are the evolution of clickbait, they would make even dante's divine comedy or The Great Gatsby look like total garbage
That's more of a U-curve. Tall in the ends, short in the middle.
It is important because otherwise it has negative utility. There is a cost associated with building, deploying, operating and maintaining it. What value is this adding if it only tells me stuff I already know?
You said it has applications it excels at. Turns out "maybe in the future" and "we're still figuring out".

So. No applications it excels at.

> To dismiss the entire technology because of (admittedly a lot of) grifters is premature in my opinion.

It's been 13 years. When will dismissing it become mature? In another 13 years?

Or maybe the tech is just bad.
Why sounds and smells are as vital to cities as the sights
Gaming on a Virtual Machine: Your Guide to Improving Performance in Hyper-V
^ this might sound like a joke to many, but is hauntingly accurate.
Except that it's incredibly hard to search for if people just call it "V" and not something like "vlang". I was trying to search for a thread I saw about it on Twitter and failed miserably, even with the "posts by people you follow" filter, because all the results were about various "X v. Y" court cases.
It reminds me of openid 1, with the ridiculous URLs that regular people were supposed to remember.

openid died, and openid 'connect' is just a set of standardised claims for oauth.
Toaster pockets! A whole new world of bread-related experiments awaits.
Censorship sucks but when its it YouTube's responsibility to protect idiots from themselves? If they removed these videos are they still responsible for people attempting the stunt because they heard about it there six months ago?

I demand the freedom to suffer the consequences of my own actions.
Yes, this is nothing but a wasted opportunity. Instead of showing a story of overcoming challenges, it tries to make the case that everyone should stop pursuing excellence just because it is unattainable to some unfortunate minority facing some kind of handicap.

It is basically saying "because I care about this and I can not be as good as others, everyone else should be brought down to my level." It glorifies complacency and appeasement to the lowest-common denominator.

You see this type of mentality applied to everything. Every moral failing should be normalized "because no one is perfect". Any one that tries to defy the odds is privileged and selfish.

It seems like no more articles can be written today to inspire people. It's like every media channel wants to you believe "See, things look shit now, but you should be content that you are not as bad as this poor soul."
I have run my daily driver Fedora machine with Gnome and no X at all since May 2021, everything has worked really well for me, too.

I haven't disabled Xwayland, but I have configured the apps that by default do not do it (in my case, Emacs and Chrome) to avoid Xwayland and instead to talk directly to Wayland.

(Gnome's interface design decisions are not very good IMO, but that's clearly not Wayland's fault).

At least some of comments on supposed defects in the architecture of Wayland seem to me to be written by long-time X users who simply do not like change. (I used MacOS for 11 years before I switched to Fedora and barely remember X.)

The problem for those that want to continue to use X -- well, Xserver to be specific -- is that nobody wants to maintain it.
The shear odds of this occurring to a popular YouTuber are pretty stunning. Only about 1000 people get osteosarcoma every year in the US, and (best as I could find) around that many YouTube channels have over 10 million subscribers. Such a terrible confluence of extreme rarities.
Facebook Begins Testing Ethereum and Polygon NFTs on Profiles
YouTube's moderation is ridiculous, and it demonstrates the problem Google has in general. They don't like paying actual people to moderate their sites, and rely on automated systems and bots to do everything for them. So, if there's ever an issue (or you have a bunch of scammers mass reporting you because you debunk their 'work'), then YouTube/Google seems to think you're the problem instead of the scumbags.

We need things to change here. We need Google to moderate their services properly, and we need these scammers to get arrested/sued/whatever for misleading info, and putting people's lives at risk.
Neonicotinoids don't target certain insect species. They kill them all. The seeds are coated and then the whole plant is toxic to insects.

I like it how they say that neonicotinoids are active substances used in plant protection products to control harmful insects. Didn't know bees are harmful insects.
Entry-level =/= cheap.
Just like working hard won't make you rich on its own, it's not enough to be a micromanager. The directions you give have to actually produce results.

Facebook is no iPod.
Ayee, I say etcetera all the time...
Do you want the legislative branch to be required to pass a new law every time a new dangerous chemical is found in baby food or elsewhere?

There is a reason why the legislative branch gave the executive branch the power to regulate that. That is subject matter experts which are not interested in party politics do a better job at keeping up with relevant research.
Thanks for your counterpoint parent.

Just before Mike Nelson shit himself in the car on the way home last night, I pointed out to him that what his generation calls "Easter Eggs" are often just security flaws that can be used to fingerprint the internet traffic of dissidents, and that his cavalier attitude towards data privacy is why they had to close the Russian Consultate in Seattle.

(Or maybe the above is creative nonfiction, and your hands deserve to shake if you make this poster explain the joke.)
Ah yes, the Giraffics Interchange Format. If the hard G is sinful, I will turn to face Jod and walk backwards into hell (with apologies to @dril)
Just to clarify: you seem to believe that most of our code isn't good enough, so copying it is not a big deal.

Do you feel the same about other creative processes as well? Can I rip a Justin Bieber's song and say that it's mine just because it's a shitty song anyway, so who cares? Or does this only apply to software because software is somehow an "inferior" art? Do licenses even have any legal value to you?
Fwiw private pay individual disability has a much better reputation than employer pay group policies. If you're healthy and young it's an excellent hedge against a life changing event.
I like how this is flagged, and yet BoingBoing blogspam about this very same video is the top item as I post this.
The actual problem is a poorly educated voting population being manipulated into voting against their interests to support corrupt career politicians that behave in effect like medieval lords.
Ahhh, yea did that as a kid too. Although, I tipped it on its side. The trick was to make toast then microwave the cheese :)

But seriously, my mom was furious. No YouTube required.
Regardless of how much money they throw around, the list of China’s friends in Asia is much shorter than the list of countries that would literally rather burn to the ground than bend the knee to a Chinese emperor again, and I think that’s a big problem for their aspirations of being a major player in geopolitics.
Why are they calling these 'methods' ? These names are not verbs, they're nouns. Why not call them 'providers' or similar?
Would have loved to see a source of "34 fractal wood burning deaths in America"
It's called "email".

Dear Doctor so and so. Hi, it's me, your old coauthor. Something something science. (And then... here's the hard part: don't attach a photo of your genitals... just a PDF of your CV).

LinkedIn is bad opsec, use the IM feature to take things offline.
Imperfect moderation is inevitable at the massive scale of social media companies. YouTube receives an enormous quantity of video every day and it’s clearly impossible to have humans review all of it. If we humans did review every single minute of video, the subjective element of moderation would still lead to headlines like this where someone could identify instances of inconsistencies.

Given that she re-uploaded the video and I’m watching it on YouTube right now, I assume the initial moderation strike was more of a mistake. Or more likely, maybe it was reported by a number of people who were upset by it for some reason and it entered an auto-moderation queue.

I have a hard time getting too worked up about news stories of singular moderation mistakes. Does anyone realistically expect YouTube to have perfectly consistent moderation? Even HN, a significantly smaller community, has very uneven and inconsistent moderation due to the user-influenced flagging features.