skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That there is the real problem. You can't possibly kid-safe the entirety of the world, internet included; without running into practically Sisyphean challenges that don't even need to be approached.

I mean, the solution is rather simple.

Instead of trying to kid-safe the world, why not just make the world less shitty to live in?

It's a 2 birds 1 stone trick, except this proverbial stone will be taking down many more than just 2 birds. Almost all of the current problems we deal with as a society, all stem from how shitty society has become for many people. But because some people are happy with the way things are going, since things are mostly fine for them; the rest of us have to put up with it? And people are surprised when kids, teens and adults are deciding to opt-out? And their best solution is to make it harder for people to find way to opt-out?

Seriously, really?

Is it really so surprising that people would want a fast ride out of hell at that point? Because that's what it must be like for them if they figure ending it all there and then, is better off than putting up with the rest of societies bullshit any longer.

I have more to say on this, but am trying to follow HN's rules about flamewar stuff, and I realize that this comment thread is very easily turned into such a thing unless careful, so I am cutting my comment off here.
1. backward compat. most still use commonjs over ecmascript. some even use amd bundles.

2. design by committee. most large projects have users that have edge cases. devs sometimes create messy apis just to cater to a larger group of audience. notnecessarily bad, sometimes the product just grows, sometimes its for security reasons.

3. incompetence. sometimes you dont need a library. sometimes their implementations suck in terms of readability, security, space and time complexity, maintenance.

4. code golfing and not using linters. these 2 are pain in the ass.
I’m not sure I agree with you that equity compensation is only beneficial for C suite level people.

I think a lot of people in the Bay Area who work at large and small companies have benefited from rising stock prices and large amounts of their pay being equity. Look at the price of Apple stock over the last few years. Even a normal IC at Apple has made significantly more money due to their equity compensation being granted over 4 years.

There are also many people who have been normal IC level employees at companies like Snowflake who gained tremendous wealth by them going public and being paid in equity. Sure there are some losers, but I think over a large sample size employees generally win by being paid in equity vs the cash price at the time equivalent.
OMG!

What are we gonna use for :

- complying with doggie poop retrieval laws?

- carry out food with?

- enshroud our paper straws with?

- Cover our bowls of leftovers with?
> This is probably not an original idea and if anyone knows already where to find such decks, that would be cool.

This is something I've wanted to do with my app (Fresh Cards). I ended up defining a simple text file format for the flashcards[1] to help make it easier to share and import cards. You could post flashcards as simple text that someone could drag and drop into the app to import. (Formats like Anki's .apkg file are great, but they don't make it easy to peruse the cards without importing into Anki.)

What's missing in all of this, though, is an actual community where you could search and browse the decks and collaborate to create new ones. Though, if you simply use text files, you could host a deck on github, for instance, and allow people to create pull requests to improve it. I think there's room for creating nicer user experiences to surface decks and encourage sharing, however. (Imagine, for instance, a social media-like feed where you could see new flashcards being created and you could search by tag for your target language.) Anyway, I think this area is ripe for exploration, but the user experience has to be done right to encourage collaboration and sharing of decks.

[1] https://www.freshcardsapp.com/help/tech/index.html#text
> the produce section was basically large piles of loose fruits and veg, and you would pick what you wanted.

That's still how it is where I live. You pick what you want, put it in a plastic bag (or not) and they (or you) weigh it at the checkout.
Anecdotal experience:

I used to work out of a space provided to my employer by a university, as part of their startup accelerator program

It was on-campus and there were students also in that space, so during lunch and breaks I got to know many of them

In my experience, students about to graduate from the CS program had near-zero tangible skills and lacked the ability to build basic applications, in any language.

This was in the USA, FWIW. I think our CS programs are pretty trash at most universities.

One of my current coworkers applied after graduating and failed the interview and was only able to pass after paying thousands to attend a coding bootcamp.
I guess it depends on whether your goal is to improve performance, or punish and humiliate people

BTW: If anyone finds themselves on any sort of "performance improvement plan", do the BARE MINIMUM to not get fired outright. Ideally go to a therapist, talk about how stressed out you are and how fucked your situation is, and get an official FMLA (legally protected leave of absence). That'll give you some time to relax and look for a new job. Don't let your boss or website trolls gaslight you into thinking you can't find a new job that will treat you better.
It depends, in your company you can find good friends when your topics of interest and ethics are the same. I personally find more commonalities in a company that in the university or high school.
In Sweden, knowing from friends who relocated here, the terms of the work visa in sweden include that one has to take the alotted vacation. Not taking vacation is grounds for not having visa renewed, to avoid exploitation.
I'm not a primatologist.

Tell me if you've ever had this experience.

You see something that looks like it's pretty popular. You try it. You find it has nothing but problems. After much research you then find out that other people don't have the level of sophisticated asks for the product and they are doing less complicated and less critical things.

It's the disconnect between the hype and the reality that really rubs me the wrong way. I've personally lost so much time on inappropriate tools.

Again I'm not here to insult anybody specifically or to speak poorly upon any specific product. I know how many people read these comments and I don't want to cast shade on anybody's hard work. I just wish there was more authenticity to the fit and purpose of things.

I know a lot of this depends on the users. I speak as somebody who has very popular projects and very not so popular projects. The popular ones are hyped (but sarcastically) and the ones that I worked very hard on to be extremely technical about do quite poorly.

To make things super current I haven't working for about a month on an article and I have been making sure it is extremely accurate and I know that that will probably hurt me because the liberties which inherently contain inaccuracy are simply more entertaining

This is a shared experience except for a select few. This carries is over to other things. Inaccurate pop science is read much more widely then the direct research material. There's something more emotionally approachable through this tactic. It just hurts productivity and it's a shame
"we did not try hard enough, we need more intervention". I am not a proponent of it.

then why try at all? if we believe this goal should be achived then we should keep trying until we get there.

You do not fight discrimination by promoting it from another side

that is a reasonable argument, but plenty of counter arguments exist. some are being discussed on this page.

Oh, and in teaching it does not happen the opposite?

oh sure, however, teaching is an entirely different problem.

as a parent i want my children to be exposed to male and female role models (what teachers are to them) in equal measure. therefore for the sake of children i want gender parity in schools to be enforced by law.

but you could make the same argument with other professions that are dominated by one gender. nurses are probably a good example where men may not feel comfortable.

we can encourage people to change them if they want, not by shifting the cost to others

why not?

one question is, what goal do we want to achieve. the other question is, how do we achieve it?

what we want is gender equality, that is equality of opportunity (not necessarily equality of outcome)

so that means we want more opportunities for women in engineering. for that we need to understand what is keeping women out of engineering, and how can we get more women into engineering. (and then replay that for any profession and respective gender)

and if access to financial resources is a reason, then it absolutely makes sense to provide additional financial resources to women.

again, i have no idea what happened in norway. access to university is free in norway, so i don't know what they would need money for.

if discrimination by men is what keeps women out of engineering, then what we need to do is to get men to change. how do we get them to change? possibly only by exposing men to more female coworkers. but that means forcing the issue, and pushing women into engineering until men learn to treat women as equals.

i don't care about gender balance in engineering or any other profession (except teaching), but i strongly care about women and men being treated equally, and a large part of that is men learning to treat women as their equal and respect them professionally.

we should analyze real causes for things and why they happen or will keep happening instead of fighting them by transferring costs to people that have nothing to do with the problem

you are saying that as if it were a contradiction.
yes of course we need to analyze the real causes.

but we also need to find an approach to solve the problem.
Ask HN: Why do songs lose novelty when listened to repeatedly?
No it's not over the internet by I still need it :D I have many devices connected over Ethernet to my router, a couple of those wire up my land disks as described above. it is a legit use case and tbh, anyone buying a switch most likely has an internal networking use case that goes beyond just using the internet.
Yeah, definitely. The almost real time nature of video chat kind of kills the experience. That doesn't mean there aren't other things you can do to improve cross team cohesion and moral.
You can still buy spherical neodynium magnets if you want to. They are just not sold as toys.

Also even the ban on the toy has been overturned: https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/a24110/buckyballs-l...
For the same reason that people come to HN and other social media channels like Twitter, FB and so on, for support with their problems with the big companies (Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter...) that refuse to pay for proper support and moderation.
They don't want to go into all the trouble of establishing proper support and dispute channels with real humans and they rely on the (cheaper) AI/ML solution.
Real support is broken nowadays :-(
Researchers create synthetic rocks to better understand rare earth elements
You’re claiming an entire extremely diverse set of people is not motivated by money?

What do you think scientists are doing when writing grant proposals?
Did people enjoy this?
I think we need more competitors. I use Braintree, and their support response times are about two weeks, and the first response is rarely helpful enough to solve the problem. Well if my customer has a problem paying me, I can't expect them to hang around for two to six weeks while I "talk" to my payment processor.

Things seem to be universally bad, except some companies (Stripe specifically) seem to have really good PR.
-Hardware too expensive,

-Depends on other hardware that is even more expensive,

-Market forces are pulling different directions

-One substantial market player is trying to turn what is glorified monitors into a new platform with accounts which is at odds with everyone else

-One substantial market player is turning VR headsets into a useless gadget extension for a games console that will otherwise serve as a paperweight

-Games are all a bit samey

-No killer app

-Hardware is large, impractical

-Not convenient for work yet

-Ongoing effort required to nail down drivers, user experience whilst using

-Still debate about viability of player character control via controller, or whether a full running-in-place frame is the way to go

It's promising, but pending a turning point at which point it becomes essential and not just a novelty.
It’s a good thing if you are a homeowner. But homeownership is further and further away from the have-nots. It’s getting to the point where generational wealth is needed to come up with a down payment in a lot of regions. And there’s no way to square the circle—we can’t have affordable and a great investment that goes up all the time.
IMHO, an outright ban is exactly the right thing. The typical person will not turn down a bag given for free every time they visit the store. They get home, unpack and dump the plastic bag. Having people purchase reusable bags makes folks think and actually plan their supermarket visits (how am I going to carry my purchases). In Kenya, single use bags are completely banned, in less than 5 years, plastic bags on trees [1] became a thing of the past.

1. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/df/8f/52/df8f52035377cf815650...
You are succumbing to the fundamental attribution error.

You described your comment being an attack on modern development culture, as your use of euphemism, you chose the insultingly denotative word “kid” to attack the project.

Cool attitude, too?
I second this. Building relationships with your co-workers that includes non-work contexts gives you more background to understand their motivations, and they yours. As as side benefit it can pay off as a great friendship that extends past the time when professionally speaking you go your separate ways. Five of my favorite friends are ex-coworkers.
They deserved to lose you, so it's a tragedy for them but should not be for you.
Not disputing your story, but wouldn't the bad be on the business owner, not on the payment processor?
"The genesis of rare earth deposits is one of the most complex problems in Earth sciences, but our approach is shedding new light on the mechanisms by which rocks containing rare earths form. This knowledge is critical for the energy transition, as rare earths are key manufacturing ingredients in the renewable energy economy."
I don't know if you're from the US or not, but in the US the term telemarketer usually refers to someone that makes cold calls to private residences. It is usually low paid work and usually outsourced to countries with cheap labor.
https://vmssoftware.com/products/clusters/

We had machines in two buildings with multiple machines in the cluster. You could upgrade machines in a cluster and not lose any time. I thought DragonflyBSD is trying to head in that direction with storage (HAMMER).
This is a fair point. If you don't want to be intrusively tracked, you should not expect "free" services.

However, IMHO the answer here is to find a different model for funding online software/services. Letting advertising firms run the internet does not really seem to be taking software in a user/consumer-friendly direction.
> Yes. A pattern of things, on the other hand ...

Is it a real pattern? Or maybe just a simple feedback loop caused by click-bait journalism and confirmation bias.
I hope that UBlock lite will take this rare opportunity to aggressively let the public know the real version of the plugin works properly on Firefox wherever they can.

Ideally replacing all of those banners on Google sites saying to switch to chrome to say to switch to Firefox for proper ad blocking
There is a reverse situation too, alas.

Sometimes, a bottleneck appears. It just happens. It's a fact of life.

Classic bottleneck theory tells us that the best outcome is to focus all your energy to resolving the bottleneck as quickly as possible, so that normality is reestablished before an insurmountable mountain of tasks manifests suddenly, seemingly out of thin air.

And yet, tragically, the first sign of a bottleneck is exactly when we (or worse, your spouse) remembers our past resolutions/promises about appropriate work life balance and whatnot, dooming us to yet another unnecessary cycle of losing sleep and struggling to catch up for the next couple of weeks/months.
When fans first restored the Lars Homestead exterior in 2012 [1], one of the goals what it should last, but I've heard that people would have been back in May this year to patch it up.

The homestead seen in the end of Rise of Skywalker was actually built in Jordan. It was last seen in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series a few months ago, but I haven't seen any evidence that the crew would have actually gone to Tunisia and didn't build sets locally/digitally.

[1] <http://markdermul.be/savelars/>
> Like paying schools from taxes and never have kids

I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of people paying taxes for school have actually enjoyed the benefit of free schooling. It can be helpful to think of things that way... (another example: people complaining about kids being loud in planes, restaurants, etc - remember that you were that kid once too).
You can approximate that with being paid more and buying company stock - but most would recommend NOT doing that. Pre-IPO stock options and grants are a separate discussion; I was thinking mainly of the equity portion of Google, Facebook, et al.

It ALSO allows them to "pay" people the same even though total comp may be very different, (this looks good on reports about pay equality) AND it allows them to institute pay cuts without ever having official pay cuts.
Why not get an Apple TV in that case? That has exactly the workflow you’re looking for.
Because banning things has never worked, for literally almost anything in human history. It just makes it more desirable since you can't have it. Humans are weird like that.

But maybe it's fitting we are like that, because at the end of the day, who's right is it to be banning anything? Certainly not yours, or mine. Sure, protect the children... but against what? Themselves? Kids have been doing stupid things for a long time, and been mostly fine. It's only recently that society has decided to ban joy as well by happenstance via the many methods employed to reduce the spread of covid that things started to go overboard.

How about we just stop making life shitty for people. That will be what makes this entire discussion moot.
I'm a little over 2 months post-op after replacing my bicuspid aortic valve (more common and not as serious as what these four kids have). Growing up, I always enjoyed seeing the EKG printouts and listening to (and watching) the echocardiogram. I was never very good at hearing my murmur through a stethoscope, so the sounds of the echo were super exciting.

My new mechanical valve ticks audibly, and as a musician I was a little worried about how it might affect my sense of rhythm or tempo. Fortunately, I've gotten pretty good at ignoring it, especially when there's lots of other sound, but I can pretty much always hear it.

The sequences shown have BPMs associated with them. I wonder if the product engineers adjusted the EKG results to line up to a particular BPM or just selected portions where the patient's heart rate was pretty steady. I also wonder if there will be any ability to change the BPM on the drum machine. Either way, this is a fun project.

Edit: wording
See my other comment, but I wonder if someone could coordinate an open source deck using github. It would have to use a text-based flashcard deck format, and as with other open source, would require some coordination to curate the deck.

That said, I can see some negatives as I have read that for learning, it's generally better to construct your own flashcards.
Having a real weekend shouldn't be a novel idea.. I assume most people in our industry have that? I know it would be a luxury for some, but I couldn't live without it.
I guess that’s be cool. I just want to take advantage of this phone that I carry around in my pocket that’s more powerful than my laptop.
The necessity of rewriting the world in javascript as richer browser-based apps took off and native browser plugins went out of style meant everyone and their cousin needed (or "needed" https://xkcd.com/927/) to implement some library or functionality from scratch themselves. On top of that, the npm default of publishing everything publicly meant that what once would have been an internal utility or wrapper became a de facto public api.

That behavior ingrained itself into the culture and community around the ecosystem far more than is good for it, imho.
looks cool but this sentence "and all OS that belong to this family, such as Linux, the BSDs, and even Mac OS X" triggers me a bit because MacOS is the only one of those OS' listed that are certified UNIX.

Technically Unix is trademark, you have to pay to be Unix.
I've integrated spaced repetition quite effectively into my daily life and I've found that it's incredibly important to learn how to write good prompts.

The naive approach definitely leads to rote learning of factual trivia, but proper prompts can definitely foster curiosity and understanding. In fact it's often times the process of creating new prompts that reveal a gap in my understanding.

This Article from Andy Matuschak is a very thorough introduction to the art of prompt writing: https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/

Of course it doesn't mean that practical experience is obsolete, quite the opposite. But spaced repetition works great in conjunction with practice. I'd go so far that it's more effective to do both, than just practical experience.
isnt there a fairly stiff fine for annoying 911/making many spurious calls
> living w/ your parents or in-laws.

This does not help if your parents are working, which they usually are.
don't know why I need to log in after searching, but glad you at least offered the demo account

seems to only want to show me SF.

on mobile, Android, it seemed... jumpy. Things would load quickly, but too quickly, and we're jarring. And the alignment of different elements is off.

When I did click on a place in Oakland, it loaded infinitely

not sure why I'd use this instead of Airbnb
I know that HN is crazy about their homelab setups, but please consider whether having a rats nest of jumpers and a breadboard in your comms cabinet is reliable, let alone safe... How about a tweak to the BIOS to auto turn on power, then plug it into a Shelly Plug running Tasmota? You get your remote turn-on, you get a tested, reliable, and safe solution, and you get power use monitoring on top of that.

The difference in price is ~ 10 eur where I'm at, and I'm not including the rest of the BOM of OP:

Shelly Plug S: EUR 25

NodeMCU: EUR 12.5
Breadboard: EUR 3
We have a couple of sms enabled plugs for some remote places, worst comes to it we can send a txt and power cycle the devices
The red and green is just the Iranian flag though. What culture were you thinking of? Suiseiseki?
This isn't the gotcha you think it is.

You can just accept that you were wrong about my experience with the issue, if you want to.

That's actually the major issue in this area - people assuming things, and assuming that their experience translates to others.
I can't imagine what they would sue for in a US court. Most states are at will and refusal to comply with company policy and procedures is a one-way ticket out