skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand: please don't make it an odyssey just to email you with a problem. I find it so disrespectful when I have to jump through a million hoops to confirm that yes, really, my problem isn't solved by the FAQs, it's something that you haven't thought of.

One particular blind spot that I've come up against again and again is on websites that aren't really for tech, they're for selling some product or service. In their ontology, customer problems are only ever to do with things like accounts or payments or deliveries, never technical aspects of the site itself. In the designers' minds, all their forms work flawlessly, all information presented to the user is consistent, all links work, etc. When any of this fails, they make it hard to report. Things like: dropdown menus for "what is your problem" that don't have an "other" option for anything not listed.

Remember that there are always unknown unknowns that need an escape hatch.
A bad idea that still merits discussion about the ways in which it is bad...
Curious to see how this affects contributions.
Good first impressions. I like the category/brand search. I clicked on one link which opened another tab, which wouldn’t allow me to return to the site (which was ok because it was in the other tab - I generally detest this behaviour, but it may just be the retailer I clicked). I would say the business model isn’t immediately clear. Maybe an infographic could help? I think an about us page could help, but alas I doubt I represent the average users behaviour.

Have you thought about having some sort of cart functionality? I fully understand this does not align with what you’re looking for, but wondering if you could make your conversion funnel stickier by some sort of cart process. I’m just slinging ideas out here, they don’t have to be good.
Hustle Culture: Why Is Everyone Working Too Hard?
Oleg's tarpit is awesome. Some of my best value in learning has come from going down rabbit holes there.
An enthusiast web forum that captures IP address, often used for helping to enforce troll bans.
The way that "Well, there's tons of conflicting advice out there if that's the case" was situated/employed in the discussion makes it sound like an attempt to say that there are merits on both sides of the argument--that there are conflicting opinions and the argument is as of yet still unresolved. The problem is that the comments you linked to are uninformed and just flat out wrong--bad advice from people who don't know what they're talking about and in no position to be giving advice. (Another example: the comment by samatman above, which should be buried in downvotes but inexplicably is not even in the grey--and I suspect is actually ranked somewhere at >1.) The only prudent thing to do is to clearly bracket it as such, in order to minimize harm.
Nobody is "forcing" anything, here. Obviously.

California has substantial market power. It is entirely within its rights to dictate how things will be done within California. If that means that some companies then feel some financial inventive to do it that way in general because it's easier, then that's just too bad.
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1. Yes

2. No
Mistake to look at the short term data to make such a naive conclusion

Russia has close to no debt, once once this time of adaptation and calibration will be done, they'll go back to normal in no time, specially if they are now pushed to the hand of China
> Russian funds were indeed frozen, but with the exception of banks processing gas payments so that can go ahead.

This is not correct. You have to understand that "money" at commercial banks is not money, but only a debt of that commercial bank with the account holder. Gas and other commodities are always paid in real money, which exists only in to flavors: Paper money and accounts directly at the respective central banks. This means you can have your real USD only on accounts at the FED and real Euros only at ECB etc. The West froze Russian accounts on EZB (the contracts are nominated to be paid in EUR) and at the same time wanted to pay the gas only on these accounts, which for obvious reasons was rejected by Russia. Russia requested to have their accounts unfrozen or paid in Rubels.

There was some face saving detours introduced into the payment process, but in the end the West pays now in Rubels.

Another example of self inflicted pain was when the West made it impossible for Russia to make debt payments. It was not Russia who suffered (they saved their payments), but the western creditors who lost their money.

I know a few investors who held Gazprom and Lukoil stocks over many years. They were factually expropriated because the brokers are refusing to process dividend payments or even selling the stock back to Russia. Again, not Russia was hit but citizens in the West.
I help people with tech problem all the time and I don't like it when they tell me what they tried in too much detail. It means I have to read through it all and be sure I'm considering everything they said even when the likely problem and solution is already obvious. I'd rather they just say "I did this and then that happened." and if my obvious answer is wrong, then we can dig into the details. Perhaps that serves my interests more than theirs, but if you're trying to help the tech support guy, then why not?
Neat, TIL.
No. No one should be forced to use a product.
It's done out of necessity, not to spite anyone or to hurt the whole world.

The gas has to go somewhere, but if the regular receiver (EU) doesn't want it or denies the seller the ability to charge for it (sanctions) then you can't just keep compressing and piping it somewhere else forever.
My prediction is that "something" will happen to move the conflict towards resolution within the next couple of months.

The energy crisis in EU and UK is becoming unsustainable. Energy bill price rises are going to see huge numbers of people plunged into absolute poverty. Every day there are tales on the news of people's gas and electricity bills going up by 100s of percent.

This is only going to get much, much worse, as we head into winter. When the dead bodies of pensioners who died of hypothermia, because they couldn't afford to turn on the heating start piling up. When businesses [already barely recovering after Covid] start going to the wall in their thousands [their energy costs are not capped, so their bills are going up by astronomical amounts]. Those same western governments are either going to have to reach into their coffers and pay out billions to subsidise gas and electricity prices to help their economies [and populations] survive ...or they're going to have to back-pedal on this suicidal sanctions war with Russia.

Since we know how governments hate having to give money out, I predict that the rhetoric on the war in Ukraine is going to change over the next couple of months. I've already seen a couple of opinions expressed in the media along the lines of 'Ukraine should negotiate a settlement, as they can't win' and I expect this opinion to be expressed more frequently as winter draws near.

In fact, this could explain why the Ukrainian side seem to be mounting a bit of an offensive at the minute. Maybe their leaders also realise that their supporters in western governments are starting to lose the will to keep up their self-harming sanctions.

It's funny really; we hear a lot bout how Russia's battle plans are a huge failure because they thought they'd steamroller Ukraine into submission in a couple of days. But the same could be said about the western response. It seems clear that western nations thought that this massive sanctions campaign would destroy the Russian economy in a few weeks and force their withdrawal from Ukraine. In fact Russia seems to be weathering the storm and now the sanction-imposers themselves are starting to suffer the backlash.
> If Orkut got integrated into Google's ecosystem

It would have met the same fate as if it hadn't - i.e., it would have been killed off.
But with the Soviet healthcare regime of the time (mainly, I'd guess, smoking like fucking chimneys), their effective age was probably at least that of Drumpf and Biden.

To take a President more contemporary to Andropov and Gorbachev: Jimmy Carter is still around, at 97.
Yes, but that is still going to happen. Only now we also have this "extra" amount being burned.
The logic is that we shouldn't use some sort of "one drop" thinking to characterize a platform as broadly evil based on its worst users.
"What do you do when Russia says that every non-separatist politician in Donbas is a political radical?"

Literally nothing.

You're missing the point here.

A NATO involved response would not end a Korean-style detente where troop positions etc. are a careful balance of power.

This would be a collapse Russian forces in which Putin needs an excuse to run away and make it look like a victory.

This is a game of 'hard power' in which 'public statements' are irrelevant, other than for propaganda purposes.

Russia will invent 1000 reasons to cry after the fact, it's irrelevant once Ukraine is filled with NATO weapons and a bunch of forces and is 'NATO in everything but name'.

Just like Russians do daily on state TV (it's comedically nuts) They can say anything they want, nobody will listen or care.

Once Putin is gone, Ukraine will have to 'fear' about the same as Finland, which is not at all, so long as there are mechanisms in place and the state generally has order/power within it's borders.

Now - if Ukraine has to do their own negotiating alone - then yes, it's a different story. Ukraine may have to subject themselves to a lot of BS and you may end up with a 'careful detente', and yes, in that case, Putin could literally use it as time to re-group and re-attack at the next opportunity he gets. That's unfortunately a possibly outcome in the current situation.

But not if the West steps in, and ends it.
I'm just irritated that people didn't read my original post, where I specifically laid out why I think he's making the argument. Everyone keeps replying with a misinterpretation of the headline as "the question why" rather than "why the question".
> Convnets had been invented but hadn't yet been popularized.

> Given the right code, the right recipe, you could have made it work on that 90s supercomputer and with the compute budget you had, but the right recipe just wasn't known at the time.

We could expect the best of the best given access to these powerful computing machines, surely they would know their lenet (1989) http://karpathy.github.io/2022/03/14/lecun1989/ and could have studied statistics of gradients and activations to implement something like ReLu - which is one line of code.It was a low-hanging fruit.

> Someone needed to sit down and figure out that vanishing gradients were actually a problem we needed to think about.

If Sepp Hochreiter could do it, surely someone from CalTech could do it as well, given the caliber of people who study there. Again, looks like a simple problem of misapplication of best and brightest (who, surely, know what they want to work on in life, but are still influenced by academic prestige and their advisors' advice which would repel them from connectionism then).
Ah my Civil Engineering student years.. Except my year, because the year before the canoe wasn't right, and the sponsoring professor swamped the thing and took a year off (or so was the rumor), so our class never got to build one.
Looks like the Boomer equivalent of the "Tide pod challenge". I wonder if this sort of behavior has always existed in human history, or if it's a more recent phenomenon.
The fun thing about California laws is that the people that pass them really don't fucking care about dissent to their goals. left or right
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Not complete, not official, but possibly useful: https://youtube.com/channel/UCOYNV2EifmBprMdSESVEu9g/videos
I number them, and space them out to make it easy to select and copy... there's no way to inline hyperlinks here that I'm aware of.

Option #1 -- formatted as a code block

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impedance_matching
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems
[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error

Option 2 -- jumble of links

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impedance_matching
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...
[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error

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Option 3 -- Extra line breaks everywhere

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impedance_matching

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error

-

None of those really seems right

[Edit] Sorry, I didn't know about the issues on mobile. it definitely wasn't trying to make it worse on purpose. I added the off by one link to make the examples long enough

The 2 biggest problems in computing... Naming things, Cache Invalidation, and off by 1 errors.
would you clarify your intent
If that’s the same WebKit powering Safari, why not. It’s the second most popular browser after all.
I'm impressed how fast this is getting adopted. Dozens of repos have popped up.
> there is zero indication of China trying to spread the systems you are so afraid of

Zero? Not convincing.

China expanding the territory of its recent political and social systems looks clear to people watching from outside China. Examples: Tibet, Hong Kong recently, and Taiwan is officially a someday target. Nearby countries understandably worry they are on the someday list as well, more since South China Sea activities and the artificial islands being constructed.

China calls these system expansions "internal" because everywhere the systems expand to is deemed "really" China already. But most people who live there didn't (or don't) want it, and have lost (or would lose) access to ways of life, human rights and freedoms that they previously had and cherished that are under discussion in this thread.

(It's a bit like Russia's view that Ukraine is "really" part of Russia so the invasion is not an invasion, and the annexation of Crimea was not an annexation. Whatever you think of history, one way or another those actions obviously spread the current Russian system to more territory and people, most of whom don't want it. The parallels to China and Taiwan (and previously China and Tibet) are strong enough that many words have been written saying that's why China chose not to condemn Russia in either case.)
That's a good one.

Another measure I use for code quality is: how afraid am I of breaking something when I make changes? This is where typing and tests shine.
So D connectors themselves are really good:

Versions are available that are acceptable for military and space use.

The pins are properly wiping: it means that when you insert or remove the plug, the contact area gets wiped (cleaned).

You can get D connectors that use ribbon cables: this is a huge advantage, since they can be assembled quickly without hand-soldering.

The connectors have screws, so they can be held in place.

They are rated to 300V and at least some of them can handle 9A.

Invented by James Cannon:

https://militaryembedded.com/unmanned/connectors/high-perfor...
I mean, as far as annoucements go, it's a pretty quiet one.

We did this. We chose the obvious host. We like ordering commits chronologically, we came up with something for that. Ok bye.
A Modest Proposal: When some profit-maximizing monopoly-ish, public utility-ish corporation "externalizes costs" by cutting their quality of service far enough to really start hurting the rest of the economy, Uncle Sam should add some generous fraction of all that financial damage (to other parties) to the profit-maximizer's tax bill.

A bit more realistically - look at breaking the rail companies up into separate "track" companies and "train" companies. Track (given its huge capital cost, and the nature of land) is a natural monopoly. Trains somewhat less so.
No, but if you didn't put the white space at the front of the line they'd be, you know, links. So people don't have to copy/paste them. Which is sort of the point of hypertext.

EDIT: Most of the parent comment wasn't there when I wrote my initial reply.

Of the three options, the third is the best of a bad situation since we don't get to cleanly inline links like on Reddit and other places. The first is just inconsiderate, especially to mobile users. The second is, as you noted, a mess especially when there are multiple links. The third lets you keep your original intent (clearly listing each link) while letting them still function as links. Which is better than the first option because it's not disrespectful of other people even if it does add some vertical whitespace.
That kind of device is very different from a drone camera though.
Do you actually have something to add to the conversation? Your comments haven't particularly meaningful or insightful, so that's a genuine question.

There isn't a complete picture here. In this particular case, Keffals shared that she was supporting alternate paths to get HRT, and providing support for folks who were legally blocked from receiving gender affirming care due to laws passed by a government largely captured by right wing politicians.

Given the complexity of pursuing HRT, it's not unreasonable to reach the conclusion that a child in those circumstances being denied care is largely related to a lack of parental support, or from being actively prevented from getting treatment that doctors were clearly providing (since the government had to ban medical treatment in order to stop it).
This Kiwifarms website uploaded Keffals new address and pinned it to the site. Someone has already taken a picture of her apartment and has already been swatted.

https://twitter.com/keffals/status/1565050152510947330

https://twitter.com/keffals/status/1565061484073390084?s=20&...
As a parent and also a startup guy and big fan of the anonymous web, my preferred solution would be a requirement for major operating system and browser makers to allow me to set an age linked to my child's account that gets sent as an HTTP header on every web request. That way the provider does not have to force adults to login or reveal their identity to access unmoderated content, the provider just needs to be legally required to not serve minors certain content if they see the HTTP header.
Reflection in C# is a thing, it isn't in either Go or Rust. I've read some kind of compiler shenanigans can get something that resembles reflection in C++.

I love reflection, the fact that libraries can look at your types is really really cool.

Not saying it can't be done with a compiled language but I don't see it anywhere.

Being able to load a shared library, search it for classes implementing interfaces, instantiate them and call their methods is pretty slick too.
>Maybe it's because I'm not American, but having someone talking about how much worse it is in Europe compared to the US while saying things like what I quote below, doesn't really entice me to continue watching the video much further, no matter how much I agree that Europe is fucked at the moment.

Watch the video from the start. He takes a similar "ha ha serious" sarcastic view toward everything, including (for example) the potential for Russia to use nuclear weapons (7:35).
Worst HN thread in living memory imo
> Do you maybe mean that it will become increasingly burdensome to own a website that collects analytics on users, or something similar?

I think you are underestimating the impact. Anything that stores account names or emails (forms, comment sections, commerce sites, ...) is a very broad list.

Even if none of this is true and you ONLY serve static content without analytics delivered to the user you are not guaranteed to be safe. Apache by default logs IP addresses [1].

[1] https://www.ptr.co.uk/blog/which-ip-addresses-have-accessed-...
> Well the obvious example is RenTech's Medallion fund which consistently out-performs human stock traders.

The article isn't critical of mathematical models, it's specifically critical of deep learning. Is there any evidence that the Medallion Fund uses deep learning? Are there any funds that have said they use deep learning that have a consistent track record of beating the market?

My (admittedly anecdotal) understanding is that many, many people have tried using deep learning to predict the market and I'm not aware of anyone who has had long term, consistent success with it.
And the opposite bank of questions:

> given this code, how would you return errors to an internal audience? How would you change the errors if you knew the error was going to be presented to the end user?

Because for sure crafting actionable errors is a life-skill

I want to rage close PRs that contain

throw new Exception("cannot query")
Well, yes. But unlike most edginess, it’s edge that people can’t actually handle (just read these threads) which Diaz’s shtick.

People forget that edginess used to mean that but it turned into bits like Chelsea Handler retelling how she got gangbanged over the weekend.
This fear is completely disconnected from reality.

Privacy already doesn't exist online. And discussion and commenting (anonymous or otherwise) have been absolute net negatives for "free and open" society.
> people value random websites less than their personal data

That's debatable. People would balk at the friction and invasiveness of typing in their cc details on every search result, but an automatic tool integrated into a browser could see wide adoption. Virtually everyone just accepts whatever privacy policy and cookie notice is blocking the content on random websites.
> ...great! I do want to be treated like a child online. I want sites to present terms of service in a language I can understand. I want ...

That's what you want, but you may not get it.

What you might get instead is:

- no service unless you "prove" you're over 18

then, to add insult to injury:

- privacy-invasive age proof

Also, you might instead get:

- no service at all if you're in CA

Being cynical for a moment, I'd say: you'll never get what you want.
Kids need to be doing what other kids the same age are doing. What that is has obviously changed throughout history with technology etc.
Which doesn't mean I think it's perfectly fine to let them spend hours online or doing anything sedentary (even reading books) for extended periods every day, but stopping your kids from taking part in activities all their friends/classmates do isn't likely to be good for them either.
Another massive advantage is finding cofounders and employees from the pool of people you work with and meet.

I think that is the best way to find suitable people outside your specialty where you can properly judge people’s integrity, ability, and their match with you (working style, filling the holes in your skills, compatibility, boss vs employee).

I have done this, no I have seen other successful entrepreneurs do it.
The GP argues that people are willing to cut off all of Europe. You try to refute their claim by saying that California is smaller than Europe. I don't understand your logic and am not persuaded. Did I miss something?
I tried to run locally but all I got is a black square for output.

I used the scripts from this Repo

https://github.com/basujindal/stable-diffusion

which didn't give me a GPU memory error which the original link does.
Supplementing with potassium, magnesium, and sodium can help alleviate the hunger pangs I've found.
"They are not blocking/regulating the right websites [i.e., the websites I do not like]."
Thanks. That's what I'm leaning toward, especially since it'd help with the iterative cycle anyway.
AGI is what someone says when they want to sound like they're talking about AI, but don't know anything about AI, and still feel the need to sound as if they're wearing a lab coat.

It's like when you're in a room where a bunch of people who can't name a medical school are trying to explain to each other what r0 means in a discussion that they believe is about COVID.

It's a red flag.