skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About a decade ago our company was way behind on a large e-commerce project for a big client. Not due to anything the devs did. The sales team oversold without talking to tech first. So one day the head of our North American branch decided it would be cool to call an all hands meeting to demand everyone puts in 70 hour weeks to “get-er done”. This meeting happened to be April 1st. Many of us thought it was some kind of weird joke. Unfortunately no. Regardless, we got-er done and I personally pulled some +450 overtime hours (unpaid) along with similar amounts from my coworkers by the time it was shipped. We were given a single hundred dollars or so in gift cards for our efforts. Many good folks resigned that day.

Don’t do this. If you’re on the receiving end, just move on. If you’re on the giving end of this how do you sleep… ugh
I'd use archive.is if it didn't have a CAPTCHA system and stalk users by injecting fingerprinting into served pages.
Jesus, that just feels cruel to me.
The chutzpah. To project that OP is giving revisionist history, and then to dead-ass present an out-of-context[1], highly-edited quote mash-up as evidence. What a dick move.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32915502
Webb’s exoplanet data are almost too good
It's time to make server side HTML templating trendy again.

I think frontend technology took things too far.

Imagine the possibilities of using HTMX and any server side technologies like Elixir, Go, or Rust.
I loved texting 46645 (GOOGL) to get directions and answers to simple questions on my Sony Ericsson T616, and my Samsung Blackjack. So simple.
After COVID, I would prefer a robust, fault tolerant supply chain.
GGP is screaming #quityourbullshit.

e.g., How do you fail an MCAT? You get a score.

The rest sounds like partial truth + embellishment.
I've found that the algorithm can be extremely volatile for some things and barely react to others.
I watch half of one video by a 'pop' youtuber like MrBeast or LazarBeam and that's the only recommendations I get for a week.
Likewise, I can spend hours and hours listening to more passive content like music or long-form documentary style videos and I barely see any bump in that kind of content recommended for me.

The most effective tweaking methods to the algorithm I've found is just subscribing to people who cover a genre I want to see more of and then watching videos from their videos recommended section.

I'm perpetually confused by YouTubes weights for choosing recommended videos.
Built in email and rss feeds are really nice as is the calendar base history page.
On Android I use "untrack me" (available in f-droid). Extremely useful.
I agree with the general thought process here, but there is a greater leakage: no service will allow you to create an account with an email that is already registered.

So all this discussion about how to handle the failed login is somewhat pointless.
agreed. also it creates an incredibly obnoxious security surface.
Would be quite pointless trying to infantilize somebody who thinks that Marx's ideas could work and that socialism/communism is the solution to today's problems in the world. If you believe in those things in your 30s it's akin to somebody in their teens still believing in the Easter Bunny, just sad and not much can be done from the outside, I just wish you well and hope you travel around the world, spend more time talking to people, try succeeding at something, and then realize why his writings were nothing but highly-promoted nonsense, and why none of that ever worked in practice. Ignoring historical facts is a sure sign of indoctrination... if you're in your 30s now and still wholeheartedly believe all that, it's highly likely that you spent a huge chunk of your time in an environment where you were bombarded with anti-capitalism ideas, were told how great Marxism is, etc. Some ultra-leftie university, US or Canada. And they've likely put you in debt to make sure you end up blaming capitalism for setting you back in life at the very start.

Marx's "labor theory of value" surely sounds great, but you have to know that that guy never worked a day in his life. He was a spoiled lazy brat who was sponsored by his friends until death, friends who had wealthy parents that owned factories and businesses (evil capitalists). Not an expert on labor.

As for Trump, the question here wasn't how he did it, it's the fact that he did it... the game is rigged, the money in today's world is just paper, it's one big ponzi scheme, and once again, it's the FED and Marxist central bank to blame for... he had to work with the tools he had, and he's done many great things for his country despite non-stop attacks from the left. The financial system we have today is very detached from actual labor. Despite him bringing a lot of manufacturing back into the country, those two will likely never ever become as connected as before due to automation and virtualization.

You seem to be attacking people rather than ideas, ignoring successes, and fight instead of trying to improve and create something. With that attitude you will be poor your whole life, and people who promise you equality, or blame capitalists/men/racism/etc just want to steal the rest of your money from you. Humans have a natural tendency to compete. The fairness of things being unfair is how the world works, and no amount of surveillance, policing, or social credit scores will ever be able to change that.
https://archive.ph/sGhmA
This is the real leakage. I guess we solve it by sending an email to the address to continue account creation.
Probability isn't beyond reasonable doubt though. Like I finished the Serial podcast thinking Adnan probably was at least involved in her death, but I still think "just convict the boyfriend/husband based on a single testimony and probability" is a lower standard than I'd like.
The term "infohazard", as I've seen it used, implies something where the information is true but harmful. If John tells me the bus is scheduled to come at 3:00 pm but the bus actually is scheduled to come at 2:55, that is incorrect in a way which harms me, but it is not an infohazard.
Pattern recognition is an interesting way to describe what is being measured. I've always heard that IQ tests are really good at predicting the ability to understand complexity, or perform complex tasks; such as in the way the military has traditionally used intelligence tests to match recruits. I wonder if being really good at advanced math just means 'really good at pattern recognition'.

Anyway, I saw an interesting theory once that suggested IQ simply measures motivation and highly motivated people will tend to do better on standardized tests as well as more generally in life.
Additionally to the parasympathetic changes, there are mechanical effects. the lungs are a negative pressure system. When you breathe, you drop the diaphragm, increasing the negative pressure in your chest while also increasing the positive pressure in your abdomen. Blood flows through the vena cava (the main vein bringing blood back to the heart which runs through the abdomen and chest) towards the negative pressure. This means more blood gets back to the heart (“increased preload”) and so the right heart can pump more blood to the lungs, and more blood gets to the left heart to be sent around the body without the heart muscle actually having to do more work.
"the truth patriots"? seriously?!
I thought they answered their perceived flaw quite well though! sounds like it’s trivial to add privacy to the popup block, so I’m all for it
Day 2 of RecSys 2022
It's about being too mainstream, not about services' privacy policies.
$35M fine for Morgan Stanley after unencrypted unwiped hard drives are auctioned
>E.g. in the worst earthquake last few decades (2011) and only ~600 (4% of deaths) people died because of the earthquake itself.

"Only" 600 people died because buildings were constructed to withstand earthquakes. Contrast that with other countries where buildings are not well-constructed, and an earthquake kills tens of thousands.

According to you, buildings should NOT be made to withstand earthquakes, and should instead be preserved because they're old, and then when the whole city collapses due to an earthquake, killing hundreds of thousands, you'll just wring your hands about the poor old buildings lost.

The fact is that engineering gets better over time as architects and structural engineers learn better how to design buildings to handle earthquakes while also being attractive, comfortable, energy-efficient, etc. You can't do that with old buildings; retrofitting an old building to improve its performance in these ways (even if it's possible) will always be MUCH more expensive than just tearing down the building and erecting a new one, just like trying to retrofit a 60s Mustang to perform like a new one will cost millions. There's a reason housing costs in Japan aren't high compared to, e.g. America, and keeping unsafe, ancient buildings around long past their good-by date isn't one of them.
The “You’re only allowed to publish 2 or 3 journal articles per year” rule
How many is it usually cancelled in? Is that a lot? How many does it appear in?
Is it still funny?
The xerox problem wasn’t an issue with the standard, it was a bug in the code.
I don't think the US funded Google?
> Buying a used car from a dealership is ... worse than buying a new car.

Yes, that's what I said.

> Of course they're buying from an individual.

That was not clear.
Clickbait: A cost cutting measure by the owners to stop paying for syndicated content by getting rid of it. Adams says "Dilbert wasn't singled out"
This paper is quite refreshing and tracks with a site I mentioned the other day for a show on FSTV that I feel has the most informative political discussion:

https://www.thomhartmann.com

Like him, I consider myself part of the radical center, which is the opposite of moderate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_middle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thom_Hartmann#Political_views

So I have strong liberal and conservative views which form a self-consistent graph of evidence in my mind. Unfortunately it can be kind of lonely sometimes, because nearly all corporate news plays propaganda in opposition to some of my most fundamental values. That can lead to acute feelings of isolation, especially considering the increasingly partisan politics that have played out over the last 20 years, starting around 9/11, but going all the way back to my earliest memories of Carter, George H.W. Bush and Reagan talking past one another about such obviously logically inconsistent topics as trickle-down economics.

What it all comes down to is that I view our present reality as contrived and based on false pretenses. If people knew what was really going on, there'd be no way they could stay moderate. Which is why vast sums of money are spent to keep people in the dark and/or disenfranchised to keep supermajorities in political districts (or whole states like mine) so the parties can maintain the status quo.

But stuff like student loan forgiveness is the first time in my entire life where I've seen signs that the political tides might be turning. It's worth considering why ideas like that are so controversial. Controversy means that a debate is 50/50. If half the country believes something that strongly, then it can't be dismissed out of hand. We could see some real progress on a number of fronts play out rather quickly.
I'd say I made the "mistake" of looking at Scott Adams twitter, he has strong political views that while I respect his right to have an opinion, I don't really need to know about. (Basically the same as any Twitter I look at)

But with respect to his comics, i think they continue to be on-point in terms of a send up of corporate culture. There is so much mainstream corporate stuff tied up in "diversity" and "esg" and all that that it would be ridiculous to think that a comic that makes fun of office culture would ignore it. I think the only difference is the current "mainstream" can't take a joke.

No idea if that actually has anything to do with a newspaper chain dropping his cartoons.

Edit: according to contemporaneous comments, it doesn't
I just use this Chrome extension[1] (though actually with Brave for the ad-blocking) and don't worry about recs at all. When I want to watch a YouTube video I go on YouTube and am given a list of recent uploads by my subscribed channels. I pick one, watch it, then usually close the tab because there are no recs on the screen to lead me on an endless rabbit hole.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unhook-remove-yout...
One of the worst things about Next.js, Remix etc. is their file system driven routes. I really wish these frameworks would stop relying so much on hidden magic. Conventions are good, but as to why those conventions aren't in code is quite peculiar.

Previously, I wrote my route definitions with types for both path params and query params in one file, and used TypeScript to enforce that the equivalent back-end definitions (async loaders etc.) and front-end definitions (React components) were kept in sync.

When I first implemented this in a previous project, I found many instances where routes were expecting query params but they were being dropped off (e.g. post login redirects).

Supporting things like parameters for nested routes certainly means the TS types themselves are non-trivial, but they're the kind of thing you write (and document) once, but benefit from daily.

Examples of stuff that can and should be 100% type checked:

// ...
template: {
path: idPath("/template"),
subroutes: {
edit: { path: () => "/edit" },
remix: { path: () => "/remix" },
},
},
onboarding: {
path: () => "/onboarding",
query: (params: { referralCode?: string }) => params,
subroutes: {
createYourAvatar: { path: () => "/createyouravatar" },
},
},
// ...

Routing:

// Path params
navigate(routes.template.edit({ id: props.masterEdit.masterEditId }));
// No path params, just query params (null path params)
navigate(routes.onboarding(null, { referralCode }))
// Nested route with query params (inherited from parent route)
navigate(routes.onboarding.createYourAvatar(null, { referralCode }))

React hooks:

// Path params
const { id } = useRouteParams(routes.template.edit)
// Query params
const { referralCode } = useRouteQueryParams(routes.onboarding);

API routes:

// ...
play: {
path: () => "/play",
subroutes: {
episode: {
path: idPath("/episode"),
},
},
},
// ...

Relative route paths (for defining nested express routers):

const routes = relativeApiRoutes.api.account;
router.post(routes.episode(), async (req: express.Request, res: express.Response) => {
Annoying for users, but a sensible bit of legal judo given the current anti-tech political climate. This is undoubtedly better than congress mandating spam-filter exemptions for politicians.
Ask HN: Why is dark mode so bad in browsers?
Is it really too much to ask for a browser to have a dark mode that sets the background to black(#000000) without tons of extensions?

Chrome(ium)-based browsers do have a dark mode which can be enabled in chrome:///flags, sure, and it works generally well but the fatal flaw is that it uses this ugly light gray color for the background instead of black(#000000) which looks 10x better. The only way to get a black background on webpages is using combinations of extensions like “Super Dark Mode” and “Dark Reader” which have an inherent flaw in that they cannot change the ugly gray color hardcoded in chrome that flashes in between page loads. So really the only way to do it would be to edit that gray color in the chromium source code and use a custom build, which is out of reach for most people for obvious reasons.
This is a valuable point. Our thinking is too much tied to the language. Of course when we say that the abstract triangle exists we mean that what exists is the property of triangularity. Properties (of things) do exist, whether we like it or not. Just like the number 3, say, also exists - in the form of “threeness” property (of a collection of objects). There is not much more to be said here, except maybe that most, if not all, properties manifest themselves in, or indeed are, relations between things, and also that they are not arbitrary products of the mind, being impressed into us by the objective reality - and how can something be impressed into us that is not itself part of reality, i.e. does not exist in the most obvious sense of the word.
None of this works for me. I get constant recommendations for (what I consider to be) asinine lifestyle videos, and music videos completely unrelated to my interests.

It doesn't matter how many times I say I'm not interested in K-pop, it doesn't help.
> and we all know how short is the distance between technical capability and doing it

Fact-less conspiranoia.

The CIA has the operators, equipment, and info to be able to kill almost any US citizen in a couple of hours for arbitrary reasons. How many times have they done it?

You are overweighing how much technical capability factors in and very much underweighing the costs of doing something like that. Opportunity costs, collateral damage, unintended consequences, reputation costs, brand harm.

Hell even ethics and morals of those involved. Who do you know would want to work for a company that did that? Who do you know would program that feature and not say anything about it? Why do you believe that CloudFlare would have so many of those kinds of people working there, but you know so few?

Why not make the same complaint about your ISP, your hardware manufacturer, your OS manufacturer? You have exactly the same amount of evidence they are doing this or could do this.

Remember that US criminal system attributes 3 elements to a crime: {means, motive, and opportunity} and even then we use evidence and an assumption of innocence. You just threw out every part except “means”.

I’m not defending CloudFlare here so much as tired of conspiracy theories and paranoia and social panics. We have enough of those things right now.
It depends on the caps though - early surface mount ones can be terrible.
How many companies on on the Dow Jones were traded 50 years ago?
This concentration of videos around recent topics and YouTube’s circling of that content seems to be one of the reasons so much disinformation and misinformation gets pushed on the platform. It’s not just an inconvenience.

If I watch a video from one or the other side of the political spectrum, or watch something more fringe just because I want to learn about the subject, I get nonstop recommendations for more videos and more videos and more and more and more of the same, nonstop forever. I can’t escape the subject without wiping the account, and while there does seem to be an effect from block channel dislike seems to do little.

I feel like I’m staring into a bathtub full of water in the middle of the ocean. YouTube needs to fix their discovery tools because I think it’s causing someone who goes down a rabbit hole to keep going down that rabbit hole with ease, and that’s not really that cool with radicalizing content.

Just my 2c from recent experience. Love the platform (except for the increase in ads to cable levels recently) otherwise.
That is a pretty scary side effect and why AI in medicine needs to be handled carefully, especially anything with generative capability.

I do think, however, the primary application of these newer generation of generative models will be useful for more sophisticated data augmentation. For example, a lung nodule detection AI trained on a combination of synthetic and real lung nodules may perform better than one trained on real data alone. Do you think there are any other responsible applications?
Sounds like someone can’t meme.
Solving a leetcode hard in 45 minutes but still failing the interview
That is "a" definition and that definition doesn't apply to the way the other commenter used broken.
I'd agree with this. Those who think at a high level of abstraction often come to conclusions that almost sound like cliche to those who are not: "what the users want", "think counterintuitively", "because smart people cluster," etc. The advices sound hollow, almost like a bad sales pitch. The weight comes from the one giving the advice. It may be an issue of writing technique, but not an issue of credibility.
I haven’t ever used the dislike button. It never functioned as a “don’t give me more of this”. I did use the “not interested” option to do so, but as others have said “dislike” is ambiguous, not to mention the opportunity for abuse.
Lonsdaleite (a.k.a.) Hexagonal Diamond
I bought one of the cheaper Powerbreathe mechanical trainers a few years ago. It seems to work. But it's a bit of a hassle to use because the internal valve keeps getting stuck closed so that I can't inhale at all. So then I have to rinse it out and bang on it to get it unstuck.
Hate to be the one to break this to you, but that ship has long sailed. PATRIOT Act, NSA wiretaps, PRISM, Snowden, etc etc etc. For better or worse, if the US government wants to know where you are at any time, they'll just request cell tower records from your carrier and metadata from Facebook. They don't need to orchestrate some grand conspiracy to launder their actions through an evacuation management app.
If that happens, that would be absolutely monumental discovery, not just for CS, but for fundamental physics. I am a researcher working on building quantum computer hardware. If the whole premise of my career vanishes one day because Computational Complexity theorists find a way to prove that BQP as a complexity class is not more powerful than BPP, I would be *happier* than if I successfully build a quantum computer (although I probably would need to find a different job at that point). Such a discovery would shatter our understanding of the physical world and of abstract mathematics.
>but it doesn't explain a specific reason for "This Tweet is Unavailable"

It means your domain is shadow-banned - from my experience these tweets (with shadow-banned links) are still visible to account's followers in their timeline (and lists) and by direct links, but in threads they are shown as "This Tweet is Unavailable."
Cut scope or move the deadline, whichever is most feasible.

Whipping the team is a great way to make them leave (like you want to, OP). My old workplace used to pay back overtime in paid leave, but it still didn't seem worth the stress.

It's up to management/leadership to have the hard convo with whoever you're delivering for to negotiate scope/deadlines.
You said: "I've been here since 2012, and I've never felt like I wasn't just about to be fired."

Imagine someone terrified of having a car accident every time they drove. "Have you ever been in an accident?" "No, never."

Or someone constantly worried about having left the oven on at home, so much so that they have to check it multiple before they leave. But they've never actually left it on.

This isn't an attack or a criticism, but sometimes it can be difficult to notice our own unhelpful patterns of thoughts, even though we'd notice them straightaway in others.
Do you ever filter by day, month, week?
My understanding of Realtime Worlds (hence the name) and All Points Bulletin is that management were far too ambitious. All Points Bulletin, one of the more expensive games made even to date, was actually only a side project - a tailored-down, "get to market" attempt at shoveling a product out the door to fund a ludicrous "reality simulator" pipe dream. It showed, as conceptually the game could have been good but it felt completely unfinished to play and was critically panned.
I moved from a local CGNAT'ed WISP to starlink.

Starlink is at least 10 better (fewer captchas).

I'm really hoping cloudflare gets busted for having backroom deals with big ISPs or something. (For instance, if the cgnat had a cloudflare CDN cache endpoint behind / accociated with it, I suspect the IP would be white listed.)
How is this a useful response to the perspective shared in the GP?

Even if you don’t use it, it’s still a useful signal. Are you saying this isn’t the case? For example, did you find the dislike ratio to be a misleading signal, when it was around?