skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't define these lines in some formal way, so even using a word like "define" is already a step away from useful. From my perspective, you were bullying a kid (yes, 18 years old is a young adult, but also still a kid—this is obviously still someone who deserves consideration based on his age). You weren't just bullying a kid—you were haranguing to the point of harassment, refusing to let go, and pretending to be helpful when there wasn't a hint of empathy in any of your language. The word asshole would be more appropriate to describe this than the word jerk, but I decided to tone it down in my reply to you.

It's perfectly age-appropriate for an 18 year old to feel ambitions like "be the best programmer in the world". This is healthy adolescent grandiosity—I felt similar things at that age, just like a lot of people. The proper way to react to that is to reflect back the health in it, share in his hope and excitement, and give some useful pointers about how to develop in his desired direction. To take it as some sort of statistical claim and well-actually him about how low his odds are and how delusional he is, all the while kicking down and belittling what he has achieved so far, is definitely asshole behavior. Would you tell a 12-year-old he'll never be a professional athlete, or a 5-year-old he'll never be a fireman? Statistically the odds are negligible, right?

The fact that you got triggered by an 18-year-old's ambition into trying to knock him down that hard made your comments obviously drenched with your own personal feelings, even though you expressed those feelings in an indirect way that pretended to be objective.

Perhaps you have some beliefs about how being brutally negative to other people is the best way to "help" them, but an open internet forum like HN is precisely the wrong place to do that—there's far too much room for misunderstanding which can easily turn into cruelty. If you're not concerned about "advice" turning into cruelty, then you don't have the other person's best interests at heart.

Transgender/pronoun/$culture-war issues have zero to do with this. When you bring that up in this context, it's clear that you were at least partly motivated by an extraneous agenda. That again indicates not having the other person's interests at heart.

Comparing yourself to Galileo is...rather a tall bar to clear, at least as grandiose as "becoming one of the best programmers". It's also beside the point. This is an internet forum. There are no Galileos here—the genre doesn't allow for it. What the genre does invite is a lot of supercilious comments that go way overboard with their rhetoric. This is not battling-for-truth or whatever; it's garden-variety internet fodder, nasty and tedious.
By that logic, why stop at not connecting the back country to the internet? We should be actively disconnecting the cities. So many more people to be saved!

Seriously, this is a social problem brought about by new technologies – and these are rarely solved by shunning technology.
I don't know much about this field, but I'm not sold on the arguments... one thing that seems like a problem is that they are equating a buildings "cost to build" with "price sold". I'm not sure that its a good comparison. For example, even if someone could build a house for $1, it would still be sold based on the costs of the houses near it in the neighborhood. That's part of the way people determine house prices.
It took me reading this comment to realize.thanks
No, it’s quite different.

It’s taking subtle human judgement out of decision making.

Some systems don’t need subtle social decision making. Using AI for those systems is great. But a lot do. And in those that do, if you’re not careful and automate too much, errors compound. Quickly.

AI recommendation engines have already ripped society apart and increased division, because the subtle bridge building that human curation enables is removed.

Hospital systems have been being increasingly systematized and are becoming increasingly hellish and expensive. They’re a non AI example of the same phenomenon. The risks are in trying to systematizes things with a social aspect.

I love automation and think we should strive to free up as much time for exploration, creativity, and human connection as we can. But AI is just plain bad at understanding us, and always will be, in my view. It will always be a mimic. It simply cannot do the subtle social things humans do because it does not have the motivations that enable that subtle behavior.
PS5's DualSense Edge Controller
Ironically the article is on a German site in English.
If they have a machine which is good at identifying suspicious information, on a huge scale, they may also be able to control which information is suspicious, to a limited extent. It could easily be part of an effective apparatus of repression.
Break up into the Baby Apples. One for macOS, one for iOS, one for iPhones and iPads, and one for Macintoshes. Open source the OS, even the mods Apple made that they don't share.
Lots of long distance movers work like this, they are just some broker middle-man often based in Florida that just makes the process more complicated and worse.
Yet a government official can't block you on Facebook. Was that made explicit in the constitution?

I think the better reason is that they never actually told Meta to suppress the story, and I'm not sure if there was a stick to ensure that they'd do it.
How's swift suitable for micropayments?
Ok I understand this is a troll/joke post, but "In order to make things easier to understand, nominative and genitive are called accusative." How does that make sense in any way? Am I missing something in the case conflation here? These are pretty distinct cases.
Software isn't the worst thing for UI efficiency on NumWorks: the buttons are very low quality. So not only are many key presses necessary (according to your benchmark), but each key press must be relatively carefully performed to avoid the wrong key being actuated, for example.

That said, the NumWorks UI is quite intuitive.
It's a responsibility that no one wants
Your furniture and bookcases should be vacuumed. This will get rid of any lice or eggs that could be there. Use diluted bleach to clean the furniture and bookcases in your home. Lower the humidity in areas with high moisture content using a dehumidifier or fan. For a full day, freeze your books.
My skepticism of the media didn't quite reach the level it should have at the time.
Seems to be ghosts in dem machines

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/23/business/google-ai-engineer-f...
For what it’s worth I have Opencore running on 12900k without a hitch
The crescent shape looks like it could be side view of the ionized part of a shock wave (maybe there’s a better word for it).
It shouldn’t. Notice how in google docs you can copy via the right click menu but you can’t paste. For paste the app tells you to use the keyboard shortcut as JS doesn’t have access to reading the clipboard.

Writing to it is super common for things like share links where clicking the button puts them in the clipboard.
I definitely consider Esperanto to be a full language. I like how the vocabulary is based on a prefix/suffix system that reduces the amount of words you have to know, and the grammar is very simple and consistent.

> The big question is really if its possible to 'think' in the language. Have you been able to get into the stage where its like thinking?

I was approaching that stage when I was learning it, but I'm a bit rusty now since I haven't used it in a while. There are definitely people at that level though. Check out Esperanto youtubers like Evildea.

> But then your thought feels limited?

Usually if you can't think of a word, you can insert the English word in your thinking and make a mental note to look up the vocabulary later.

It's a really fun language. It's a shame there aren't more speakers.
Ketamine therapy has made a significant improvement to my quality of life but it’s a shame it’s not FDA approved for depression / anxiety and thus not available on insurance. The cost is a barrier for people who could benefit from it.

I am hoping that MAPS ( https://www.maps.org ) will one day undertake clinical trials for ketamine, although this seems to not be on their radar right now.
I'm pretty sure every human has a family member with a drug problem. I don't think that justifies rifling through their possessions and data.
To be fair there’s only like ten restaurants near me and not even half are available on the delivery apps, so I’ve been to all of them (even mcdoogles).
InvisibiliTee: Angle-Agnostic Cloaking from Person-Tracking Systems
The vast majority of human beings throughout time lived in extremely communal situations without separate bedrooms, without sheet music, without books, and without records. Solitude in the home was rarely available. Virtually all folk music around the world was developed in these contexts. We barely know their names or their work, and that's simply because sheet music and historic record were limited to the interests of the rich.

The availability of prolonged solitude to practice an instrument is an aberration in human existence. Modern humans, and the historic rich, do not represent the wider experience of human existence. Unless you think compelling musicians are also an aberration in human existence, I personally believe a wider perspective is needed.

~

As an aside, here's an article with Dave Grohl and Ringo Starr talking about how they never practice alone: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/dave-grohl...

GROHL: Well, I remember we talked about this. I think we were talking about practicing. . . .

STARR: I never practice [laughs].

GROHL: Nor do I! Because I don’t like playing alone. I only like playing when there’s music.

STARR: I’ll play with you all night, but on my own, after two and a quarter seconds, I’m like, “Ugh. That’s not what it’s about.” When I’m doing shows, and people hold up their little seven-year-old: “This is Tommy. He loves you, and he’s taking drum lessons.” And I always say, “I hope he’s not taking too many!”
You could pick up Go pretty quickly when you need it. On the other hand mastering a systems language like C++ isn’t really a well defined task- its used in so many different paradigms from microcontrollers to game engines, and degrades to C which degrades to assembly- and the domain will dictate the type of C++ used. At least learning Rust is a finite task in that there is a finite set of conventions and ways to do things (not counting unsafe which again opens up writing arbitrary memory) so you will have some chance of figuring out when you are “done” going deep on Rust and have gotten close to the cutting edge.
Actually the image of the beast is removed a long time from now. Not seen it yet and not sure I will live to see it but it isn't hard to see what it would be.
Ask HN: How to get slack notifications on Android
.. without installing the official app. I just want to get push notifications of messages so i can open the official client on my computer when i need to, instead of being married to slack just in case someone messages.
The effect of co-location on human communication networks
It happens, but then people tend to not visit the site.
If your ISP decided to only transmit the string “jemmyw” 10% of the time, and blackhole the other 90% of jemmyw-containing packets, we would call that censorship.

Facebook altered an algorithm to transmit a story to fewer people than it otherwise would have. It’s censorship.
Gen Z and the rise of influencer culture
"Perhaps even more shockingly, our study found that Gen Z males (20%) are more likely than females (13%) to believe that being a social media influencer is the only choice of career for them, with almost half of the males surveyed (49%) agree that being a social media influencer is a good career choice."
This is also why business that rely on Google ads suck.
I mean, why not?

Companies like Unilever have been doing this for far longer than anyone in the restaurant space. Churn out thousands of brands that supposedly "compete" with each other in the marketplace. If one of those brands has a reputation problem, shut it down and replace it. Rinse and repeat.

If the practice is distasteful, then change the law, but beware the lobbyists.
But x86 is backwards compatible, it is Mac OS that is neither backwards nor forwards compatible.
Windows NT4 up to v10 will run on anything from original pentium to latest 12 gen intel and most AMD CPUs.
Windows 11 will also run on all 64bit x86 CPUs but it won't install without some fiddling.
> If reddit ever kills old.reddit, exodus will happen.

You overestimate. Most people have moved on, and reddit gains new users every day who have no idea what old.reddit is.
Is it the friendly user-interface?
The non-corporate artwork on curated pages?
The community-vs-company-based branding?

What about any of that is embarrassing or childish? That it's not specifically designed for corporate drudgery hell?
My wife has been getting a bunch of these today. I still don't see what the potential problem is if an attacker has my wife's email (which I can imagine has been made public by 100 data breaches etc) and phone number. A bad actor can't use those to log into Paypal? You still need to GET the text message code.
Is the risk a SIM Swapping attack?
Welcome to the "Extenguish" phase of the business model ladies and gents. Now that you're all dependent on their product they're going to charge for all the free features that made you embrace it. What, did you think their business model was to generate a profit by giving everything away for free forever?

PersonallyI stopped liking them after they ditched the irc gateway. That was when I realized that all this silicon valley free-service bullshit is just a short-term ploy to expand their customer-base as large as they can before the free VC money runs out and they have to generate a profit somehow.
Sometimes I don't follow DRY and SOLID. Sometimes I avoid abstraction. I can't give a solution which is suitable for all scenarios.
I think you're probably correct. I've had better experience with the IRS and DMV than I have had with most the rest of the government.
> In any case, I'm extremely glad Discourse came along and democratized proper forum UX. I agree that we need an adequate free alternative. What are the candidates?

Discourse is 100% open source.
A concealed pistol is far more effective than trying to beat someone with an umbrella. And you don’t look like an idiot carrying an umbrella around when rain clouds are nowhere to be found. Anyone who has been in actual hand to hand combat knows that swinging effectively a big stick around isn’t going to end well. For those unable to carry a gun, a collapsible baton is highly effective and much more agile.
Email notifications maybe? Or perhaps a bot that does that if they don't support it fully
2factor but with the convenience! We’ll invent zero factor!
WHO virus taxonomy team is currently working on the naming.

https://www.who.int/news/item/12-08-2022-monkeypox--experts-...

Original Monkeypox virus was identified and named in 1958 when naming conventions were different. Currently, the naming best practice tries to avoid including region where the virus/organism is discovered and/or primary/secondary carriers as was the practice earlier.

Eg: The COVID-19 coronavirus is named SARS-COV-2 by WHO. Coronavirus refers to a large family of viruses of which the SARS-COV-2 is one of them.
It's going to be quite a while before Starlink and the other new solutions will be certified for safety of life, government/military use etc.

For example, Iridium only got GMDSS/SOLAS certified in 2020 – before that, Inmarsat was the only approved maritime (two-way) satellite safety provider for several decades.
See:

"10 Things I Regret About Node.js - Ryan Dahl - JSConf EU" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M3BM9TB-8yA
Woman Left Paralyzed, in Critical Condition After Chiropractor Treatment
I wonder if PayPal uses Twilio to send these codes.
Design of OS/2 – Kogan and Deitel [pdf]
It seems like a popular strategy is to open multiple "resteraunts" out of the same kitchen. Maybe that makes the algorithm positioning issues more stable in aggregate or something.
Consider Forward Email instead of Cloudflare: their free tier is pretty good and they allow forwarding to multiple emails.

Not affiliated with them, just a happy user myself.
This is an odd statement I'm having trouble following on basically every level.

1. the article clearly states the FBI did not specifically mention the Biden story.

2. It's odd to then claim they followed the FBI's suggestion to "buy good will" on other fronts. (Unclear how FBI goodwill would help, if your statement about Facebook "fearing regulation the most" is true).

3. Regardless, the FBI is part of the executive branch - it does not prosecute nor regulate. On a related point, the FBI is alleged (not necessarily proven) to be right/conservative-leaning. So it's a strange suggestion the FBI were trying to somehow pressure Facebook to censor anti-Biden media, at least based on what we know about the agency. It could be true, but would require some backing evidence as the FBI is "supposed" to be apolitical, but if anything it has been criticized for leaning conservative.

4. You single out "Companies like Facebook" as the issue, but the article states the Washington Post and New York Times actually tried to imply the New York Post article and emails were false (only to later acknowledge "some" emails were authentic).

It's not clear to me that social media restricting an article is the primary issue, vs. prominent news outlets which are trusted as a primary source by millions of voters, claiming an article was disinformation, only later to actually perform an investigation and acknowledge it was true.

Both things of course are highly problematic. But it seems reasonable to assume if the major news outlets didn't claim the story was disinformation, it would've been less likely to have been incorrectly censored as disinformation by social media platforms who were warned by the FBI about Russian disinformation.
This sounds a lot like a republic. Which is what the US has now. The big problem is that democracy is hard.

What we need is a better way to elect our representatives. One problem is that there is no term limits on the representatives and many of them make a career out of it where it's more important to get elected than to look out for the country's well being. Giving representatives a limit on how many a person can be elected would change that.
SIM swapping is pretty easy, or you just call the number right after or before and pretend to be PayPal checking something.

“We’re verifying your account, please read the number I’m about to send you.”

This is made worse because actual banks actually do this.
If you just want to add text in, it is even easier, no JS required. just CSS: insert an element into your text that is positioned off-screen. When the user selects and copies, they'll get that text too.
i tried and failed to setup email notifications. they go to my work inbox which doesnt seem to trigger gmail notifications (which i dont know why). and if i forward them to my personal account they go to spam.
Spring. It is used by many enterprises and enterprises don't change tech stack that often. The project also adds new features regularly.
> That's part of an old joke

No, what you showed is a lame/inaccurate transcription of the countryball gag, which came first. Source: KC hivemind
We ban people if they continue to break the site guidelines after being warned. If you wanted to use HN as intended, we wouldn't have to keep banning you. It's not that hard.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You can do fairly well with a big stick in a fight, but you have to be trained very well.

A pistol is the great equalizer - anyone has some chance of ending the fight decisively. You can and should improve that chance with training, but it starts out non-zero.

God created all men, Samuel Colt made them equal.
> The FBI telling Facebook "This is False Information, Censor it" absolutely violates many peoples first amendment rights by way of Tortious interference.

But that isn't what happened, according to the article. So even if you're correct, it doesn't apply in this case.
What about a DIY home security setup?

My buddy does this for other reasons, but it occurred to me that maybe searching for a different product that can also do what you want might reveal more results
Saying we should expect companies to destroy the free tier is a bit of an insult. The internet was full of free things and companies have been shoving them in our faces for decades.

- "Free gigabytes of mail storage!"

- "Free communication with your teams"

- "Free internet hosting for hobby projects!"

The free tech offerings are just good enough to kill open source or entrenched alternatives. The goal is to suffocate them. Once the competition is gone or investors demand more money destroy the tier/raise prices.

FB is trying to do that to Craigslist with marketplaces, Uber and Lyft and doing that with Taxis, AirBnb with... etc etc etc
It seems like the word "tactical" no longer holds any particular definition, I'm hard-pressed to even come up with a coherent suggestion of what it kinda suggestion. It's similar to the word "fascist", which now seems to have no definition any more specific than "political ideology at odds with my own".
Salesforce doesn't care. There about to roll out slack-first infrastructure that turns slack into the only chat-based CRM. Their core users aren't on the free model. They're paying a small fortune for Salesforce and see Slack's cost as a drop in the bucket.
Ads themselves aren't the core problem. It's the 10's of megabytes of superfluous javascript you're expected to download to read content with primarily text presentation. Put the marketing departments on the ark ship along with the telephone sanitizers and we'll all be better off.
The way that Cloudflare works, it likely provides an ability to exfil and track active visitors to the site for three-letter agencies. Forcing Cloudflare to drop them might push them to use non-US services like what happened with 8chan and might not be the best move. Either way, these sites that host ilk always find an anti-DDoS provider >:(
I can't help but think of The Onion's take on Wikipedia [1].

It's more accurate to say that this AI is fact-checking citations. There are lots of ways you can skew or fabircate information on Wikipedia. One well known way is to create some source for a claim and then cite it on Wikipedia. What will an AI do in this case?

3-4 years ago I stood in Menlo Park when Mark Zuckerberg got up and announced in response to the misinformation issues of the 2016 election that an effort would be made to fact check articles. My immediate thought, which hasn't changed, is "that's never going to work". You will always find edge cases where reasonable people would disagree but that's not even the big problem.

The big problem is that there are lots of people who aren't the slightest bit interested in the "truth". I've heard it say that whatever ridiculous claim you want to fabricate, you can find 30% of Americans who will believe it. As soon as you start trying to label content as truthful or not, you won't change the minds of most people. For many you will be contradicting their world view and you'll simply be dismissed as "biases" or "fake news".

I honestly don't know what the solution to this is. I do think sharing links on Facebook itself was probably a mistake for many reasons.

So this effort to fact check citations just seems more of the same doomed policy.

Disclaimer: Ex-Facebooker.

[1]: https://www.theonion.com/wikipedia-celebrates-750-years-of-a...