skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A rewrite is likely to take a lot of time, and if you're not careful, it's easy to end up running two systems rather than one at the end: the new one that doesn't quite do everything, and the old system that still does some important things.

In addition, if you don't change the development conditions, you're likely to end up with a similar mess at the end. Sometimes, code is messy because you didn't know what you were doing when you started and a rewrite could help; but sometimes code is messy because the requirements are messy and change rather a lot --- a rewrite can't help much with that.

That doesn't mean never do a rewrite, but you've got to have a pretty good reason, and it sure helps to have an incremental plan so that you don't end up with two systems and so that you start seeing the fruits of your labor quickly.
Yeah; playing 5.1 mixes on stereo equipment make the side and back channels too loud and the center channel too quiet.

Also, it is now fashionable for actors to mumble.

I'm reasonably sure I am not going deaf, since I have no problem following audio fiction podcasts with the windows down in my car during my commute.
> It's intrusive information.

intrusive misinformation.
> They don’t seem to have any particular editorial mission.

I don't think you have to have an editorial mission, as you say. But one could easily say our editorial mission is outlined in our terms of use.

> They seem to mainly want to grow and profit.

CBS News wants to grow and profit too? I don't know if there is anything wrong with the social media "editorial process" being different from the newspaper editorial process, because they are different things. For example, someone in a comment above said something like -- "Social media is obviously like the telephone system." Which just ignores the multitude of ways it's just extremely different, and perhaps even less like social media than a newspaper.
I'm closer to 20 than 60. I did not grow up with CCs. I use them because they are an option and give me something I want.

If there is bullshit framing then it is the very notion of assumptions based on age, which is caked into the headline.
Effective Altruism and the Control Trap
I wonder if you only know time and a sundial. Can you know where you are?

Tl;dr

Btw the pivot moment the first generation of Catholic astronomers in china (after all the chinese one killed and the Italian in jail) was restored their position as they are right by using sundial and their prediction (of equinox?).

Always wonder about this time and sundial.
watched it in imax the first time and i thought it sounded terrible as well. watching at home with subtitles on the second time around really helped clear up a few things.

it doesn't help that they also have masks on for most of the movie, or they're having to talk over the sound of loud speedboat, or the accents are foreign, either russian or indian
https://archive.ph/dejfX
I'm betting on julia as the replacement personally, it seems to be attracting a growing fraction of the scientific community.
The problem here is normalization of deviance across the entire organization. That has nothing to do with tasks.

The task #0 is sit down with the team and ask them to say in their own words what do they think about the project, about their engineering good practices, etc. See how aware are they about the problem they have created.

Try to understand how the status quo became normal and acceptable, before the same thing happens to you.

If this shit happened in the first place was because likely everyone was too busy living in their Jira alternate reality where you benefit from the perverse incentives made possible by the lack of visibility on code quality.
This is a very insightful take (and really well written too)

Thanks for sharing
doesn't have to be fraud; twitter lied, way more bots than 5%
>As far as I know, there is no evidence that any of his claims are true.

Perhaps you should spend 5 minutes researching what you know nothing about before you opine about it. In particular, there is a poor, inbred family in Appalachia that he has visited (and befriended) several times over the years and that the funds he raised have helped them move from their dilapidated trailer into an actual house, among other things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRY41kF_0Oc
> The first amendment does not protect you against anything but the government.

Which is why Texas has to pass a regular law to protect us from the corporation, as the Constitution fails at that.
I'm more concerned about them affecting my credit score... these clowns haven't a legal or moral leg to stand on but there's no way to cancel the free account that I haven't touched for 7 years. The hyperlink to my instance 500s and their support portal is either broken or disallowing new user registrations (despite me trying three browsers, two devices, and spending 10 minutes in the dev console manually enabling various buttons for password setting on the new account page and trying their ZenDesk URL instead of the custom one). Any emails to their customer success address tell users to log into this nonfunctional support portal.

Me writing this post is 10% commiseration and 90% documentation for if I have to talk to a court or credit bureau.
Does YouTube have auto captioning that works? Can I just use lynx or something to browse technical documentation on it instead of watching a slooowww PowerPoint presentation?

The article suggests tiktok has such a thing.
Does Truth Social take down liberal or anti-Trumpian posts? There are a lot of them, so I believe they don't.
You know, maybe this is why I like YouTube better than movies and episodic "TV" content. YouTube videos have to have good audio, or they never survive the algorithm (I'm sure you can find counterexamples).
> This kind of claim is extremely common HN but utterly foreign as someone who actually writes C++ for a living.

This should be a huge klaxon for the C++ community. Whether or not it's true, it's a massive problem for the C++ one way or the other.
I do live there. I can hear the foghorns from the bridge at night. It’s nice!
Generally, people who experience childhoods which are impoverished of the stimuli necessary to develop robust senses of self and the coping skills that come with it are left much less resilient to life struggles in adulthood.

If you have developed a sense of self early in childhood, then you are able to develop empathy for others, if you bring empathy in to a relationship, then you can be trusted and trust others. Think about it, you cannot rely on a relationship that does not have trust as it's basis, you cannot be trusted in a relationship if you cannot perceive or understand the other persons needs and feelings, and you cannot perceive or understand the other persons needs and feelings if you cannot perceive or understand your own.

If you have a sense of self, and then you have developed empathy, and then taken that empathy in to relationships, and if you have then made the moral choice with that to be a kind person, then that enables you to form resilient relationships. And you take those relationships with you in to adulthood. These relationships, and the coping mechanisms that got you them, are highly effective cushions for the shocks of adult life. Life changing struggles can still afflict such people and bring them down, but then they are much more able to recover since they still have the scaffolding they developed in childhood and they can rebuild.

For those with a childhood impoverished of the necessary stimuli, it is much more difficult, because they are rebuilding it all from scratch.

And then there are those for whom the experiences of life have been so damaging, possibly combined with genetics, that they may never be able to develop a functioning sense of self, or empathy and go through their entire lives. And yeah, the older you get, the more difficult it gets because you may not have the attributes that would enable you to turn it around earlier in life (family or school friends with whom relationships haven't yet been completely poisoned, good looks enough to meet someone new, meeting ambitious people your age at the start of their careers who are looking to network, etc..)
When I was a teenager, I started one day to think about how I was using the stairs, which movements I had to do. Well for several months I had difficulty using the stairs afterwards. I had to force myself to think about something else so it would become a natural thing again. I was also struggling with OCD at the time, I think it might have been related.
People will never be perfect, and being able to work with that is an important skill. Besides, most of this material is basic good communication that can be applied with anyone. The stakes are just higher with your boss than your peer.
YouTube autogenerated subtitles are very hit or miss. They work pretty well for the 90% case, but the 10% they fail on are usually the interesting parts
The concept is a "legal person", which means there's a whole host of things corporations can do.

The big ones being that they can be sued and charged for breaking the law, you can't do either of those things with, say, a rock or a dog.

They can also sue you back which is, admittedly, less fun.
> statistics aside, which does require calculus but not of the pointless-algebra-tricks kind

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_integral
Because you're a citizen and you pay taxes.
Amazing 66 years old after a long covid (without he remembered getting one). Do not have anything to cheer him up.

Just word: you are amazing.
I could get behind any law that results in more people seeking facts and less seeking (or reciting unrequested) opinion. This isn't it.
It depends if they're using it to empathize, or if they're using it to call attention to themselves. It requires a self-awareness to know that the moment is "not about them".
Keep in mind a lot of BigTech companies will claim a very broad swath of topics are "related to their work". If one of their 30,000 employees are working on X, they can claim your X is related to their work and therefore subject to their broad IP assignment policy.

I was warned during onboarding of my last few jobs that most software side projects would fall under their umbrella of "related business" and that their lawyers regularly aggressively pursued side projects. Who knows, maybe they were bluffing but I'm not willing to go toe to toe with 2,000 corporate lawyers to find out.
The law is very settled when it comes to publishers and common carriers, and has been for very long time.

If Fox News publishes libel, they can’t just claim that they’re hosting someone else’s reporting.

If a telecommunications provider publishes someone’s libel, they are shielded from liability as a common carrier. In exchange, however, they must provide their services non-discriminatorily to the public.

If FedEx delivers controlled substances as part of their usual course of business, they are also shielded from liability as a common carrier, but the same responsibility to serve the general public applies.

YouTube and other “interactive computer services”, however, were granted an explicit privileged shield from liability by the Communications Decency Act of 1996, with none of the responsibilities historically associated with that privilege.

Without the CDA, Twitter wouldn’t exist; they’d have been sued into oblivion long ago. Instead of solving that problem by extending our well-understood common carrier framework to “interactive computer services”, we granted them a massive privilege and asked for nothing in return.
I seem to have a Youtube feature of CC in a random language.
It really is more likely to harm the fish.

Regarding the "cheating" comment, it is a thing I have heard a few times.
IANAL.

Make sure you put in a carveout for every repo you have in GitHub. It helps to have a lot of public ones, then roll in your private ones into the list. Even if you have to pivot one of your private accounts, you get legal cover for working on it. Odds are the legal team won't bother checking on the contents of every single enumerated repo, and it would be insane to not hire you when you have those repos. I recommend claiming that you might have to do some work on any of these repos because other people might ask for support for those libraries. You can also make that claim for a private repo, too.

Insist that your employer provide a work only laptop. Obviously, never put any of your private repo code on your work laptop.
TL;DR people are turning on closed captions (i.e. subtitles of the same language as the video) to increase their focus.

I've been doing something slightly similar in reading Fawlty Towers scripts [1] on my phone while watching the episodes, and it yielded about 20% more jokes (ones I'd missed in the past, even from 10+ viewings of each episode!).

For example, Basil mumbling this brilliancy in his initial exchange with Mr Hutchinson:

> In a nutshell

> Case, more like.

[1] https://subslikescript.com/series/Fawlty_Towers-72500/season...
Whilst the purpose might be, the process is great for some learning and for an old man it is great.

If it can simplify might even tell a story, a book etc on how to start from 0 on building your own cpu.
Actually, diffusion bee has code too in the parent’s link, and got a nicer website here: https://diffusionbee.com/
Glad you asked. There are two types of kindness:

- The one you employ as a manipulation to get something you want out of an interaction. Not to make a moral judgement on this, we all do it, when you want to buy a pack of gum at the convenience store you affect kindness (we call it "being polite") in order to make the transaction go smoothly.

- The one which requires empathy. Empathy requires a sense of self, combined with the ability to recognise the same selfness in others.
One website to rule them all
If you could use only one website to achieve your internet needs, which website would you use (no search engine websites like Google or duckduckgo).

This makes one think, what do I actually NEED on the internet?
If by clone you mean clone of Yelp the day it launched, with basically no data, maybe.

Wrong twice - Product is half the battle, and it’s not easy.

The bare minimum to compete would be native and web apps with good UX, competitive reviews and search, and better social features. Then you can fight the other half.
I don’t think these examples fit under “doing too many different things” but rather “loading apps by a method of which we do not approve.”
> I find that only people paid to have the responsibility and liability for the results of decisions are the ones that make them

This is it really. You can't have responsibility without control over the things you are responsible for. People both below you and above you have to accept that. And "real" responsibility comes only from bearing liability for bad outcomes. Even if formal organizational lines prescribe differently, this is where the real boundaries will lie and to the extent there is any discrepancy it will manifest as organizational dysfunction.

I think its a key thing for junior staff who want more autonomy to realize. If you really do want to influence decisions your first step on that pathway should be to pay it forward on commitment and responsibility front. If you don't want to take responsibility its fine, but realize it puts a fundamental limit on your autonomy.
that's a good point, but it doesn't have full language support like the ones listed above
That’s why I like xstate’s visual state editor. Engineers and designers can both reason about and modify it in tandem.

I think most event models are conflating things much more than they need to be. By having clear point where the data model interacts with the UI model both sides have better clarity. Yes there are complex interactions, but designers also need to understand the model interactions to design the UI correctly.

If you have teams working on a single project and not communicating you’ll have problems no matter what tools you’re using.
Slap yourself and reread the rest of the post.
We can rephrase it - power is the ability to bring a lot of work capacity to bear, e.g. of other people.
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My understanding is that the predictions have been reasonably accurate. It's just that they have been saying for 50 years that things will be a disaster for us in 50-100 years and people who did not notice any problem after 20 years have declared that all the predictions were false.

But recent scientific papers that do a meta-analysis of past scientific papers have found that the original predictions got pretty good by about 1970, accurately predicting the change we have subsequently observed.

See here:
"Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming"
https://www.science.org/content/article/even-50-year-old-cli...
There usually is (but not always). It is something like English vs English [for hearing impaired].

As a non-native English speaker I’m used to watching most television and movies with subtitles. The extra sound descriptions don’t bother me too much actually. Sometimes it is kind of funny actually, it is a running joke in my home to count the times a show has [ominous music].
it's hard to reconcile, right? conversely I've been the clueless guy enough to realize we all do it. like getting angry at random trash and then thinking "you know, maybe someone dropped this by accident when they thought they got it into their pocket"
Yes no proponent of this law ever complained about ISIS recruiting accounts being banned by twitter.
Everyone has FOMO syndrome.
Nagorno-Karabakh’s Myth of Ancient Hatreds (2020)
That's pretty dismissive. Many older people retain a sharp mind well into their 70s/80s.

Probably not old hoarders though.
I really want to see it.

I have decided it is the sequel to Color Out of Space, which was, by far, the best alpaca-themed rendition of an HP Lovecraft story at the time.

Also, the audio mix didn't really get in the way of that one for me.

(It probably still is the best, but I'd love to be corrected.)
A made up term without any meaning at all. Just like it says on the wiki page. It is just created for Dennett to skirt around the problem of the Chinese Room and other problems in consciousness.
`system-move-file-to-trash` is predefined and all of this just works as expected if you use the Emacs GUI on Mac.
> emerging markets

Is that all we are to you?
They have have not been accurate in the least. I remember when they predicted ridiculous warming of like 7C/century. I remember when they failed to predict the Pause.
Try listening to Boss Hoss sometime.

(German band, lots of English language covers with "wait THAT'S why they're saying?!?" moments.)
I loved Phabricator and still miss it at the current job. Is there a code “watching” system as good as Herald integrated into GitHub?
> [The cords] are generally used to ‘back-feed’ electricity to a residence during a power outage by connecting a generator to an outlet in the home.

Interesting idea, I suppose so long as you flip the main breaker this can work to electrify your house during an outage.
Dangerous sure, but an interesting idea.
The previous Premier of the state (Gladys) resigned due to corruption. The new premier is involved in a plot to give sweet fake jobs to his political buddies, as well as various other schemes. The previous Labour government got swept out because of massive corruption. At a federal level, NSW politicians are involved in water grafts (Angus Taylor and barnaby Joyce) as well as huge handouts to nonexistent companies (great barrier reef foundation got 700 million dollars with no office and 5 listed employees and have done nothing visible with the money - except to say that it's been spent). NSW is very openly corrupt at all levels of government.
"..to improve the living conditions of our valued employees and members of the family, we sent them some plastic water bottles. They can hydrate themselves with clean water and then they can make a hole in their tin roof ceiling and stick the bottle through and this way it will act as a lightbulb and improve conditions in their dwellings."
Why Facebook and Instagram Have Been Failing
See: https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti.... Go back and compare judicial decisions from the 1940s to 1970s to ones today. The ones today are much more grounded in statutory text, constitutional history, etc., and less reliant on policy arguments, notions of justice and fairness, etc.

Even “liberal” legal decisions are far more conservative today than they were in the 1970s. Compare Roe and Obergefell (both written by socially liberal Republicans). Roe has lots of high minded hand waving about rights and dignity and whatnot. Obergefell meanwhile starts from deeply rooted traditions and spends a tremendous amount of ink making the case that gay marriage is sufficiently like traditional marriage that it should be covered by the same constitutional protection.

This became starkly apparent when Roe was overturned. By that point, the ground had shifted so much that even liberals had a hard time defending Roe on the merits. They had instead retreated to stare decisis. Because even a lot of liberal lawyers today have a hard time swallowing the idea that judges should be in the business of inventing new rights to implement their vision of what’s just.
Still remember the “advance calculus” book vs the “elementary set theory” in high school. To this day even though I got A in pure maths (count myself top 400 in 100,000 cohort) every time I heard the world “elementary” I shivered.

Any advanced thing no problem. Just do not start from the “first principle”. Please not. Please.
I won't repeat what others said but you have no idea how common it is for a newbie to come onboard a new team and think "everything is wrong, it needs to be fixed and I will fix it". No doubt the things you said are things that can be improved but they were done that way for a reason and you already mentioned budgetary constraints, so it sounds like the existing team made the best of what they were given and you will have to become like them and adapt. Improve what you can as opportunities arise but migrating away from a 10k line nginx to PHP might sound like a good idea for example, but, you will spend resources on something that won't make a noticable difference? Instead, you can implement the PHP router for new endpoints for example.

The worsr thing you can do is come in with that attitude and expect the team to be onboard. You will only alienate yourself, try to understand why things were done the way they were (never architected but put together piece by piece over time). Make them feel heard and and pace yourself with any changes.
Lisp is called the dyck language or the catalan numbers depending on what kind of mathematician you are talking to.
I’m the author. I guess that was sort of my point: as long as I got what turned out to be the IMPORTANT stuff right, nobody really cared about the audio. I mean something like 80% of our attendees were multiple attendees!

In that SPECIFIC use case remember: it was a Zoom call. So with a good headset and a quiet room I was already top 20%, audio-wise.

Once you get that far, what you have to say and how you say it are WAY more important than whether you can rock a little extra baritone.
Admittedly I haven't tried this so probably misguided, but if you can stick that box in front of the TV, could you not put a computer instead?
But you can say that about anything.

How do you know the weather won’t be 50C tomorrow in NYC?
... this comment has got to be missing a "/s" at the end.
This is not new. People were absolutely delighted to watch smeary third-generation VHS dubs of Japanese cartoons back in the eighties.