skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend of mine worked for one of those companies that automates company phone calls, where you talk to a robot voice and select numbers on the keypad. They said that the company did research into customer satisfaction, and found this is achieved by minimizing the number of key presses to reach a human.

They advise(d) all of their customers new and old, gave them templates for their customer service process, and _all_ of them (big names) chose to make speaking to a human as difficult as possible. They then of course complained that customers were having a negative interaction with the system, but refused to make it easier to speak to a human.

This seems to be the way things are going now - and for this reason I favour smaller, local companies and people over larger services, even if their offerings are not as good and the prices higher. I know that I can at any time contact these people and they will try to help me. That's worth a lot.
What do you think the most convincing part of that techdirt piece is? To me it mostly reads like an exasperated emotional rant. He calls the ruling “stupid” and “batshit crazy” and likens the judges to “ignorant trolls.” And uses italics everywhere. It’s not exactly an appeal to reason.

To me the one interesting bit was this: “ The websites do engage in editorial control. The difference from newspapers is that it’s ex post control. If there are complaints, they will review the content afterwards to see if it matches with their editorial policies (i.e., terms of use).”

I mean, I disagree — terms of use of a tech platform are miles away from an actual editorial opinion, they are bloodless legal documents and virtually impossible to read for pleasure, unlike actual editorial - but at least this engages with the decision on the merits.

I’d encourage anyone to read the actual decision, it (and the dissent) are more interesting reading than this. (And unlike at TechDirt the citations don’t approvingly quote someone named “Wonton Killing Hat”). https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/21/21-51178-CV1.pd...
Hey, thanks! Both of my M1 Macs only have 8G of ram, so your work is appreciated.

EDIT: I just followed you on Twitter
> I don’t have a particularly abnormal body, which leads me to believe there is a large margin of error when measuring the number of overweight people

The NYT looked at this and found that BMI is more likely to underestimate body fat than overestimate it. So while your experience is valid, when you look at the population as a whole, BMI tends to be a problem because it convinces unhealthy people that they're healthy rather than the other way around.

(That said, it's split by gender. Men are slightly more likely to be healthy with "overweight" BMIs than vice versa, but women are significantly more likely to have excess body fat at a "healthy" BMI than vice versa.)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/summer-of-sc...
Legality is defined by the sovereign. Legitimacy is by definition external to the ruler - i.e. by society or at least some part of it (the "elites"). If the society accepts that some use of force by entities other than the nominal ruler is also legitimate - for example, if the nobles can have private armies and deploy them against each other in some conditions - then the ruler does not have monopoly on the use of force.
>> I rock climb or ski 3 times a week for exercise.

That puts you in top 1-2% of most physically active people in the world. The rest of us dreads the thought of exercising 3 times a week :)
> I dunno what you consider that. But it's not like, an arrangement in which the worker seems to opting into this because they think it's a good deal out of their plethora of options. They do it because they are, in their words, desperate.

and is his situation better if he cannot do doordash?

or to rephrase it. suppose I dont like mowing my lawn, but I dont want to pay what it costs for a professional lawn care service to do it. For the sake of argument, say the lawn care service charges $200, but I would only pay $20.

A desperate guy comes by, needs $10 for a mcdonalds meal or he goes hungry, he also needs $1000 to save towards getting an apartment. and i say "give you 20 bucks to mow my lawn", he figures he kinda has no choice, he does it "out of desperation", I "take advantage of him".

now suppose everyone in town has same policy as me, and its through lawndash.

Is the desperate guy worse off? how exactly are things better if i said "well.. I would pay you $20, but well... it almost seem cruel not to pay $200, so im gonna pass on that. Good luck getting a bite to eat though!" ?

Do you not understand that if some services are too expensive they will not exist? Would you pay $1000 for a 10 min busride to/from work(each trip)? no.

delivery of food has a certain price, if it is beyond that, it simply will not be done, and the gig workers are no worse off.

seeing as how this is the case, nobody is being taken advantage of. Its a choice, it may not be much, but he can just say "no" and be 100% as well off as if proud communist unions had their way and forbade these jobs.
Well, these sounds are all over Mexico and Mexico is not reduced to its capital.
The poster also has a paid Substack blog: https://doomberg.substack.com/
Can’t wait for my melon bar and the music dance experience.
There is a lot of C++ at Apple. It's of course possible to work there and never touch it, but it's also possible to work there and do almost all your work in C++. Many significant parts of iOS and macOS are written in C++, for example WebKit, the implementations of ObjC and Swift, clang/llvm, dyld, CoreAudio, CoreAnimation, WindowServer, Dock, Finder, etc.

I enjoy this[1] annual series of blog posts on Apple's usage of Swift in iOS. I just did a quick and dirty, but similar analysis of Apple's usage of C++ of the macOS 12.5.1 install on my computer. I extracted my dyld_shared_cache, and then used find and nm to count up binaries containing unstripped C++ symbols. This undercounts the usage of C++, since sometimes it's used only internally in stripped binaries, and I also think the number of binaries metric probably undercounts the importance of C++ because the ones that do use C++ tend to be more significant binaries, but even still it gives some idea of the scope of C++'s use at Apple.

About 25% (559 / 2292) of the libraries in the dyld_shared_cache contain unstripped C++ symbols. About 15% (22 / 154) of executables in /System/Applications (so 1st party apps / helpers that ship with the system) do.

That said, I think you're probably right that things are changing. Probably there are lots of people at Apple thinking of how they can replace C++ with Swift in their code. But on the other hand, I would not be surprised if we can still find significant uses of C++ in whatever macOS release we have 10 years from now.

[1] https://blog.timac.org/2021/1219-state-of-swift-and-swiftui-...
Sometimes it's difficult to get certain combinations of things in a picture. It's easier if you provide a basic sketch with the components you want and use img2img (not sure how charl-e has it set up for img2img access, since I use the python original).

There's also a knack for writing the prompts, generally you want to write your prompt as a list of short sentences. Don't make your prompt too short. Use concrete and clear concepts, beginning with your main subject, and describe their relation. You can also qualify the background, the mood, the material and the style among other things. Generate more than one sample - I normally go for five or ten samples so there are better odds of getting one that works, since the AI could try to interpret the prompt in different ways that make sense (but not to a human).

I can't try it right now, but you might try something like: "A man is standing on the street, close up. The man has an iphone in his hand. The man is Mark Twain. Regular city background. Impressionist. Detailed."

Tweak a few times and more often than not you'll end up with something satisfying.
Dexa scan. There are specialized clinics that offer them. I’ve also seen them at really fancy gyms, but that’s uncommon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-energy_X-ray_absorptiom...
> whenever there's an idle moment, most people reach for their phones and plug in to the nearest dopamine feed

Then take a peek at the first one, "The Egregious Now". I don't think you even have to change a single word!
On the contrary, moderation feeds would almost certainly be completely protected by free speech laws, as they would essentially be the expressed opinions of individual people.
Because the younger generation is watching Netflix on their phones. There is no second screen phenomenon because there is no second screen.
Is it possible that you’re hitting a keyboard shortcut by accident? IIRC YouTube turns on captions if you ever press the “c” key, which I definitely do by accident once in a while.
> Even ignoring the emissions from harvesting and shipping the wood from the forest to the packaging plant

This should still be the biggest source of emissions. It's apparently his neighbor that gives him the wood, so I tried to find out some details regarding fuel use to quantify the emissions of his so called CO2 neutral wood but no dice.
Keep going and you'll get there! Your game looks great!
ESL here. Not so much for TikTok videos but I turn on subtitles when movie dialog is in some English dialect that is different from the standard North American one. I could not figure out 40% of what is happening in “No country for old men”. British period dramas are sometimes hard too.
I've a bachelor's in CS, and I've learned real analysis. As someone pointed out, maybe being in an European university led to it.

And it's probably, the most useful course I've taken.
If you're going to perform a bunch of floating point ops, I hope you've taken real analysis. They're enough of a Russian roulette to begin with, let's make sure you aren't making my day worse hunting down for some weird ass rounding error.
I was a bartender for a long time and I just got so used to having the closed captioning on so I could watch tv that I cannot engage myself in any video media any more without closed captioning on
> her father was Tom West

cool.
Depreciation is over 40 years anyway so a 50 year timeframe is too far out for people to price appropriately.
I think that when you spend a lot of time reading, the cognitive load becomes almost free.

On the contrary, listening is difficult, especially when people don't talk very well or loud enough, or with foreign accents.

Combining reading and listening is a way to simply reduce the cognitive load.
Old books as well.

I recently read some books written during the late 1800's through to World War 1 about sniping (aka long distance military shooting).

It was fascinating on so many levels:

- The language was completely readable. On the one hand that makes sense but on the other it's wild to read something from over 100 years ago and still find it enjoyable and get a lot of the jokes etc

- Seeing a discipline still relatively in its infancy develop in combat conditions was incredibly interesting. One book in particular mentions the psychology and persuasion required to convince command to adopt new technologies and tactics

At the end of the day, you realize "we're all just people" spending a large amount of our time dealing with other people. The clothes and technologies change but we still stay largely the same.
As non english-native speaker I watched so much stuff with captions it's second nature for me.

But for any language that I understand well I only turn them on when the accent is so thick I can't get what the actors are saying.

Similarly I always turn on all subtitles in video games because it's easy to miss something if say ingame explosion or other sound effect covers the voice, or it is just too silent (say NPC talking that's a bit far)

But the article claim it helps multitasking seems weird - how having to look at screen would help when multitasking?
The EV components’ raw materials (battery materials and rare earths) are largely controlled by China [1][2]. They may not control the chain end to end, but they have a strangle hold specifically on raw material processing/refinement.

Many of the EU/U.S. battery factories will import lithium chemicals from China, at least for this decade.

[1]IEA 2022 report, see page 5 on battery materials supply chain share by country: https://www.iea.org/reports/global-supply-chains-of-ev-batte...

[2]WSJ article on China’s monopoly on rare earths: https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-set-to-create-new-state-o...
And the volume levels vary so much. If you don’t want hearing loss or angry housemates you turn it down and then can’t hear the normal dialog. If I am watching very closely I will incessantly fiddle with the volume, but otherwise then captions are nice. I agree tho I miss visual side of the film while reading the captions. But I also tend to watch stuff I really like more than once so I get the body language second run thru.
I find Amazon X-Ray similarily userful. It displays the current actors on screen, their screen names, and the current song playing in the background of any scene. As far as I know, no other streaming service has this feature.
I started a company, that has taken all of my focus. Fair point.
My point is simply that you can both respect the past and look forward. You don't have to tarnish the past to make progress.
Is is a super app now though. I’m booking medical appointments, paying people and ordering at restaurants through LINE these days. PayPay has similar goals but doesn’t seem to be there quite yet.
Magit also functions as a proper git GUI with the Emacs GTK interface.

Just wanted to mention this in case anyone was under the impression that Magit was TUI only!
yea my $20 renpho scala from amazon has it too but I never really trusted it.
I see regular non-athelete ppl mention their body fat % like their weight.
It has to be slow. Multiplication will be O(N^2)!
"diverse cost-of-living locations" is such a corporate way to call it
I recently encountered this interview with Frost, the drummer behind the black metal bands 1349 and Satyricon, in which he talks about his ritual prior to going on stage. It serves to clearly delineate the two contexts from each other, and once he's crossed over, he's in the mental space he needs to perform.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JF0bOF4hgrA

I found it both chuckleworthy and relatable at the same time. Here's one of the most technically skilled drummers who plays some of the most demanding and intense drumming there is - totally out of reach for most drummers (look up some drumming videos that feature him, it's insane) - showing his human, soft side. His ritual is yoga and putting on the corpsepaint. I like to imagine him putting on the corpsepaint first, then the yoga pants, then putting on an Enya playlist, etc.
The article cites

> In a May survey of about 1,200 Americans, 70% of adult Gen Z respondents (ages 18 to 25) and 53% of millennial respondents (up to age 41) said they watch content with text most of the time. That’s compared with slightly more than a third of older respondents, according to the report commissioned by language-teaching app Preply.

Not sure if you want to trust Preply over your clickbait spidey sense. I’ve never heard of them. But FYI.
WFMU – Independent, Freeform Radio
APFS on macOS can definitely do snapshotting, I wonder if anyone’s come up with a good way of utilizing it for this…
Not being 20-something, I can't speak for them, but for me:

A lot of dialog is mixed way down in relation to the music and background noise, actors tend to speed up and drop the volume at the ends of their sentences, and of course there are those pesky accents.

I'm seeing a lot of other good reasons in this thread, too.
Fire Ant Rafts Form on Water Because of the 'Cheerios Effect'
Yep, you gotta get to release! The first you push all the way through to release is the hardest (at least so I've heard haha)
They can provide a first-party/recommended filter, but like with default browsers, search engines, or other preferences, the app should present the user with the choice in clear terms rather than silently applying the default. Defaults are powerful, so having the app apply its default first-party filter and hide away the option to change it in some menu would be approximately equivalent to changing nothing but forcing Twitter to act as a datastore/api for competing microblogging platforms.
I literally found the ticket system in seconds by googling "meetup contact" (second result for me). Not sure what this post is about to be honest.
Also a lot of times you get plot info from the captions. Like I won’t hear anything but the caption is [ominous foot steps] or [Krish slamming the door]
I just want to leave a comment to the people who said they turn it on for movies because they can't hear the audio over other movie sounds.

If you can't hear the audio clearly the director didn't want to you to hear the audio correctly. Some scenes especially with thick accents the point is to be ambiguous, you having captions on is basically a cheat code to get more context than the director wanted you to have.

Same goes for when someone speaks a foreign language, if the CC is not baked into the video layer I assume the director wanted me to be in the shoes of someone who cant understand a conversion and guess the characters intent.

It's like reading a novel with pictures on every page, you don't need that much context, it robs your brains ability to infer with missing context.
I did a bit of reading on this, and it looks like the main admin was arrested weeks before the phishing campaign went up.

It seems therefore entirely plausable that the admin handed they keys to the castle to the FBI anyway, or at least gave Cloudflare the okay to go ahead.

I can't find a shred of evidence that Cloudflare were involved directly in making the phishing page or even complying with the FBI.
> That's a legitimate position in some circumstances.

If someone doesn't want to discuss a topic, all they have to do is not discuss the topic.

Expressing such a position isn't a legitimate contribution to public discourse; it's a tactic that inhibits the process of building mutual understanding through discourse.
> found more credentials on the internal network ... giving admin access to everything

That's my hangup. The fact that admin/root level accounts can be accessed with "credentials" alone, rather than only via SSO/MFA/Yubikey. Were these service accounts, what happened to least privilege?
That goes both ways. Even when something annoys you, there are a lot of people who don't care.
Taking the choice away is mostly about preventing a race to the bottom, especially in professions where the workers don't have the bargaining power to demand respectful working conditions. This is why we have minimum wage laws, working hour limits, workplace safety laws etc.
> Expecting everyone to be able to benefit equally from stock market gains is ridiculous

That's your strawman.

> many people don't have enough extra income

And yet people find the income to buy lottery tickets, go to the movies, go to the bar, etc. Investing does mean giving up some of this spending.

> Someone that can only afford $100 a month to invest will see far less benefit

Of course. But they are also seeing far more benefit than not investing.

Remember that Gamestop stock craze a year ago? Many people playing that game were very low income people, including kids. Somehow they did have money to invest, when they thought it was worthwhile.
The Case for US Central Bank Digital Money
I'm assuming you mean that want to understand monetary policy, what makes money trustworthy/valuable, inflation, etc. Here are a few books that I thought were good, but I also wish I knew about a single better resource:

- The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson (This also has a documentary)

- Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail by Ray Dalio (not directly about money but does a good job at explaining reserve currencies, types of currencies, debt cycles, inflation, all of which are related)

- What is Money, anyway? [0]

[0] https://www.lynalden.com/what-is-money/
> Plus, don't underestimate the impact of forcing people to acknowledge that there is exactly one right answer and that it can be proven.

There's plenty of classes in a civil engineering degree to instill that particular lesson. Why does it have to be calculus? It's just legacy - it used to be that limits and integrals could only be computed by hand, so any aspiring engineer would have to practice that skill a lot. Now computers can do the tricky algebra on their own (and I'm not even mentioning numerical approaches, which are more broadly useful but can be very tricky in their own way), yet the calculus courses have barely changed.
Agreed, I also think fans of Paradox games are doing the games a disservice by encouraging people to watch long youtube tutorials before they start instead of just jumping in and experiencing the mechanics. The important ones will become obvious after some time.
Just because a post (on HN) is new, doesn't mean the linked article is new.

And especially for mid to high profile court cases, there are likely hundreds to thousands of people that will read the opinion before a reporter is able to get to the first news story about it pushed.
Chess is just poker now
For my daughter's birthday party I bought a case of coke, diet coke, and dr pepper free, just to cover the sweetener preferences of all the parents. That's on top of reduced sugar juice boxes and plenty of sparkling water varieties. Off course we had to cancel the party because of preschool germs, so now my trunk is full of party supplies...
With the heavy accents I can barely understand every other word in shows like Brassic or sometimes an English word that means one thing for Americans but with a period/place specific meaning so I am not sure what I just heard like in Derry Girls (1980's Northern Ireland) without captioning.
I started using subtitles to watch movies with my wife, who used to have trouble understanding American English. I’ve become so used to them that I use them on my own now.

Could be a combination of:

- Degraded hearing

- Degraded audio comprehension, relying on the text

- Realising how much I was missing, just due to bad audio mixing or low quality TV speakers

- Getting over the ‘annoyance’ of having text pop up on screen & being able to view both the subject & text at once.

I watched Top Gun (new) with my dad, he has a sound-bar setup and a HUGE TV. I honestly couldn’t understand 50% of the dialogue, and when I asked him to enable the subtitles he refused and said I should get my hearing checked. So I started asking him “what did they say?”, and to his surprise, half the time he couldn’t actually tell me what the actors were saying. It’s a mix of issues. I think that movie had horrible audio mastering and maybe a lot of media does these days too.
Yes, the word ‘linens’ is used to refer to bedsheets, bath towels/washcloths, and kitchen towels/washcloths in the US.
This article focuses on accessibility in the USA, but living in Asia, for many years pretty much every major show and YouTuber across most Asian countries I’ve been to always has bright colorful subtitles (and onomatopoeia reactions too). On one hand I wonder why that became the dominant motif here far earlier than in Western markets; on the other I wonder if the this prompted the Western phenomenon from the article.