skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same kind of "data science" that associated many people and businesses named after the Egyptian goddess with an Islamic terror group and took automatic action against them?

I think we need to move to some way to identify actual people on the internet. I don't mean that in a "use your real name and upload your passport"-kind of way, but in a "we can 100% reliably tell you've been a twat in the past, whomever you are, so no new signups for you"-kind of way that also accounts for all the various interests such as right to privacy and anonymity.

Many platforms use phone numbers for that now, which is obviously far from perfect as I can easily get 100 of those today if I wanted to.
Are there any cases of this actually happening? There was a NPR story a few years ago about how counties/cities started landfilling recycling because it became too expensive, but I haven't heard of the opposite (eg. cities paying recyclers money for the sake of recycling).
Horizon Worlds has antialiasing, but 3D Movie Maker has legs.

Who knew the metaverse would come with this many choices?
A fundamental difference is Excel just doesn't work with the tools devs are used to for ensuring code quality.

How to you version control Excel sheets? I guess you can technically use git but the diffs will be completely useless.

How do you run unit/integration tests on an excel sheet?
I think getting rid of a stigma for those that didn't go to college is fine and probably something we should work at more as a society.

But the focus on work, jobs, etc. and the general assumption that education is purely vocational and only to serve our capitalist overlords is a really dismal thing. We should also make education free as many countries have, so that getting an education isn't about taking out hundreds of thousands of loans as much as it's about having the resources to better one's life.
That’s reads like it took a lot of effort to write.
Can't we say that trends are roughly similar to trends observed when comparing US and Europe in past... 20+ years? Economic growth happens despite degrading social indicators?
>>How does a "a very good programmer".. "spent over five years looking for a job after graduation" happen?

One of those two things is necessarily not true, not in this market (i.e. for the past 5 years).
No, it inserts a jump instruction at the start of the function, and just overrides whatever is there already. To allow you to call the "original" function, it does some analysis to figure out what it's stomping on, and creates another little bootstrap function that executes that one destroyed instruction, then jumps to the second instruction of the original function.

Basically: black magic
Heard a programmer recently how open source programmers were being exploited by corpos that used their enthusiasm for the craft.
Unfortunately a lot of self-hosted services seem to be heading in the absurd direction of being entirely docker based, often not even having a means of installing the thing normally. It's extremely annoying.
Because the entire purpose of the numbered markings is to allow more plastic to be sold. It's a psyop designed to prevent outrage at the waste and pollution from single-use containers from reducing sales. Any actual recycling done is incidental to the primary goal.
I created Slack and Microsoft Teams apps for chatting with website visitors
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Also, it's a productivity tool if you want your team to use one platform for communication and avoid switching to Customer Support software.

I see my clients enabling their teams to serve Customer Support in a convenient way and saving cost for them.

I'm focused only on Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations development for the Live Chat so check it out if it's actual for your team.

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But what lake house is complete without a boat.

That's why my company is looking for investors who are interested in being at the forefront of the data revolution, using our data rowboat that will allow you to proactively leverage your data synergies to break down organizational data silos and use analytics to address your core competencies in order to leverage a strategic advantage to become the platform of choice in a holistic environment.

Tell me if this sounds familiar, your company has tons of data but it is spread out all over the place and you can't seem to get good info, you end up hounding engineers to get your reports and provide you information so you can look like you are making data driven decisions. Maybe you've implemented a data lake but now have no idea how to use it. We've got you covered with our patent pending data rowboat solution.

This will allow you to impressive everyone else in the mid level staff meetings by allowing you to say you are doing something around the "data revolution" in your org. The best part is that every implementation will come with a team of our in house consultants that will allow the project to drag on forever so that you always have something to report on in staff meetings and make you look good to your higher ups.

Now you may be an engineer looking to revolutionize your career and get involved in the next step of the glorious October data revolution. Well we've got you covered for a very reasonable price you can enroll in our "data rowboat boot camp", where you will spend hours locked in a room where someone who barely speaks English will read documentation to you.

But act quick otherwise you'll end up as one of the data kulaks as the new data rowboat revolution proceeds into a glorious future with our 5 year plan.
I don't find any gender's "locker-room talk" funny and would rather not hear it at all, but if one gender's version of it is on Netflix, the other's should also be.

I think casual sexism is harmful, but I think unidirectional casual sexism is likely much more harmful.
Might not even need a voice. I wonder if you could “tap into” the remaining bits of the optic nerve and send a signal that way. The signal would vary based on distance. Maybe simulate intensity of light or something.

Would probably require some kind of crazy training for it to work. Plus I have no clue what I’m talking about!
You can add a drive, do vdev evacuation of one to another, to grow your pool.
I thought this would be about school lunch debt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_shaming
Hong Kong stocks at 13-year low after Xi's new leadership team heightened fears
That theory has never made a lot of sense to me because the persecution of Christians wasn't a big secret.
Giving an example of what you mean is a very simple thing to do. You're saying capitalism will do badly with the environment, as it will always pick profit over survival.

I'm asking for a previous example of this principle that you're stating will apply to the environment.
I'm skeptical of this article as well, but I think what they are trying to say is that the government forced the social media companies' hands by influencing popular opinion which could cause backlash on the companies.

Right now I don't think that reaches the level of violating the first amendment, but I can understand that argument at least.

I think if we just completely brush away the conservative talking points, the people who consume it will just see us as dishonest and being unwilling to discuss what they think are issues.
Private companies are not required to abide by the first amendment. However it is illegal for the government to ask private companies to censor. The old press secretary, Psaki, went on TV and admitted their administration regularly asks social media to censor on the administrators behalf. That is how the AGs have standing... The press secretary told everyone there were doing it.
Totally. I think more freedom is better. The good comments from experts will be upvoted.
> The conception of culture in the workplace needs to die

Work culture exists whether you want to believe in it or not. If you don't, then you're letting the culture be dictated Lord of the Flies style. I've worked across a lot of domains and a lot of very large companies during my time working in technology and the most obvious differentiator between successful IT/dev orgs and unsuccessful ones is most often attributed to the work / dev culture. This is especially true when trying to change / influence organizations. The number one thing you have to overcome is culture. Why doesn't agile work? Why doesn't DevOps deliver like promised? Why can't the org successfully shift from a project based delivery to a product based delivery method? More often than not it's due to trying to implement changes without addressing team culture issues.

Technology is mostly easy if you can get cross organizational alignment, but you can't do that without addressing culture.
Safety contacts?
That’s one of the issues though, colleges have no skin in the loan game and don’t really care if the students made a good investment or not. They have no principal in the loan and therefore no risk. To them, every student is free money. If the kid drops out and can’t pay any more, they don’t care. If the kids graduates with some liberal arts degree, 6 figure debt, and no job prospects, they don’t care.

The real solution to soaring college costs HAS to include some provision where the university incurs some of the risk of repayment. Imagine how much more selective they’d be if they held 20% of every student loan. Or, imagine the guidance counselor resources that would suddenly appear when they have to care about what you do after you graduate.
Yes, it was just a simplistic analysis to demonstrate a point about large numbers of people.
EDT. It would be a shame if you missed it by an hour.
I am not sure I follow your logic on why a low code tool should generate apps that don't need to worry about being tested. Even regular software _should_ function the way we tell it to but the point of testing is that sometimes this changes to no longer be true _unintentially_. If I generate a low code program with your tool that should have some desired behavior, but then someone makes changes it for it to do new things, how can I be sure the old things still work and a regression has not occurred? I think there is a need to package tests along with the app, even though its being generated somewhat at a high level.
“And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack”

Thanks for this! Always was curious about that lyric but never took the initiative to look it up.
WWW vs. No-WWW – Fight!
That's a different dynamic though. It's one where there is a central authority (even if a questioned one), whereas HN is more of a flat & direct democracy.
Plastic recycling was never real, it was just sticking it all into a shipping container and sending it to China. All that fell apart a few years before covid when China stopped accepting America's garbage. After that everything started going into incinerators and landfills because paying local people to properly sort and clean plastics so they CAN be recycled just costs too much.
> They wake up and realize this piece of paper with old English typography and curvy signatures is no guaranty to land a job.

It might, however, have taught them to spell.

EDIT: “guaranty” is indeed a valid, if archaic, spelling of “guarantee”. I ſtand rectified and expiated.
At a glance it just looks amatuerish too. You can see they're constantly checking the cell D2 and switching on whether it falls under a value 1-5 or so.

This should be 5 cells calculating an output uniquely for each possible value of D2. Then picking the appropriate one later on.
SaaS To-Go
The guy you're replying to isn't the top comment which I believe you're talking about.
Yeah, but I'm not refering to the original post but to complaints that Windows updates will take hours of your productive time each month for nothing. That's simply not true.
> Honestly while a lithium battery might worry me I’d be more worried about heat dissapation.

I mean...isn't it effectively water cooled?
> To be a real authentic comedian is to be a critic of society

I don't think that the comedy masterpiece 'Airplane' (1982) was very critical of society.

There are certainly political comedies out there (Team America), but it's certainly not a requirement of comedy.

I dont even think that most comedies are critical. See Carbot Animation's StarCraft Brood War cartoons and it's more of a celebration of the glitches as opposed to pointed criticism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCEZ2hIcUW0
The former does not in fact work everywhere, it only works on Windows. Once you have your #ifdef, there is absolutely no point in having the wrong Windows-specific code instead of the right Windows-specific code. Also, look at what you're describing as weird bullshit: a function call with an enum, instead of a function call with a string. The only difference is that you haven't bothered to familiarize yourself with the world outside of Linux, so it feels unfamiliar.

Also, you're comparing something it makes zero sense to compare. People are not saying 'you need to fetch $USERPROFILE without calling getenv'. People are saying 'you need to not store random garbage in $USERPROFILE'. Calling getenv("APPDATA") is a perfectly fine way of fetching FOLDERID_RoamingAppData, the same way you weren't going to bother calling getpwuid if $HOME was undefined.
What are Dynamic templates in Obsidian and why you should use them
>concludes that these difficulties undermine the common assumption that real numbers underlie physical reality, strongly suggesting that physical reality may in fact be discrete, digital and computational.

Well, it should precise from what population this "common assumption" is supposed to be taken of. Arguably, most humans that ever existed had basic integer arithmetical notions at best.

What humans take for facts are not given but constructed on social interactions, even when protocolled around scientific methods relying on falsifiable models and sound metrics. The best that science can tell us is how much sound our model is in regard of available data and how much resources we need to produce and test an other one.

Note that philosophy of Karl Popper is not itself falsifiable.

> This statement describes a faith, not a scientific principle.

Ultimately, principles lie on some mental faith or an other. There is no irrefutable evidences that solipsism is less sound than believing in an "outside world".
Don’t expect your car’s safety technology to save you
And yet nearly every single kid got Covid anyway. So the intended goal of the school shutdowns failed.

You can't just consider the intention of a policy, but whether it worked.

One might say "well we had no idea it wouldn't work," but that isn't true. Public health officials had no rational reason to expect closing schools for 1-2 years would prevent kids from getting such a contagious disease. It was only rationalized as a short term measure that stretched to years.
>In case of a dire need for intervention, strap your feet into a snowboard while working.

Or just use some double-sided duct-tape and tape a pair of old slippers to the floor as an economical alternative.
The formula editor is pretty bad. If Microsoft fixed it and added GitHub integration easy enough for non-programmers, I think a lot of concerns about usage of Excel could be dealt with.
> College is important - it’s why there is a cost to it.

True...but the cost varies widely and people need to understand that going to an ivy league school for a degree that gets you into something like being a social worker is not ever going to be worth it...other than to have a news article written about you one day talking about the $300K in debt you are while having a $45K/year job.
Excel is not an IDE, but I find it to be the most accessible thing for the average office worker who needs to manipulate data. Not optimal, mind you, but in terms of someone being able to jump in and start working with data it is unmatched.
Authors should be accredited (as GP requested) , posts must cite sources (we are a scientific community after all!), reposts are low-effort so new posts must contain new content, posts should checked for quality.. hmmm sounds familiar doesn't it?
> can you devise an experiment which will determine if a given entity is conscious?

No, without being able to define what consciousness is we can't make an experiment to test for it. The simplest explanation in my view is that qualia are a base "element" of the universe and information systems and our consciousness is a loosely drawn subset of qualia associated with our brain/body's information system. To be clear this is not dualism, the qualia are not some magical thing riding on top of physics and cannot change the path of particles from their physically determined routes.

Regarding quantum immortality I don't know if it necessarily demands a universe in which some form of every person lives forever by some unexpected chance of quantum improbability. At least in terms of a continuity of normal life it may be that the probability of a person living longer than a human body physically can is zero. However some have argued there is a non-zero chance that random quantum fluctuations could lead to brief instances of a person arising from "nothingness" anywhere and anytime in the universe, and some of those persons could by pure luck happen to match the mind of a person elsewhere. However this does start getting into the realm of silliness and quantum randomness and infinite universes allowing for literally every possible combination of particles.
>However, having seen the science community on Twitter,

What's the problem with that community?
>* that the federal guarantee that student loans not be dischargeable in bankruptcy led directly to the increased cost of education*

Yes. However, there has been an arms race of sorts in the higher education world that is completely unnecessary. New dorms and high quality facilities aren't a bad thing at all (when built wisely and cost-effectively), but having tons of administrators is. Colleges do need to cut down on some unnecessary programs, but they also don't need to go spending tens of millions on football coaches or athlete-exclusive facilities either (which happened at my alma mater).

>* Let’s let lenders and colleges be required to make good investments again. *

Agreed. But let's not also forget that the lenders can make a huge profit on these loans....I've seen loans as high as 8%! If we're going to ask young adults to go into debt to get an education, we should make sure that bankers and other parasitic actors can't make huge profits on said loans. They should be capped at 1-2% interest at most.
If that's something that you actually want don't let this stop you. Just tell your boss what's up. Not because you don't have the right to work on the weekends, because it could be incorrectly flagged as a conflict of duties and you want to get ahead of it. If they see you're on two payrolls, they might jump to the conclusion that it will interfere with your primary job
How old are you? That’s how I felt when I was younger. Now that I’m approaching 40, I have a really hard time thinking of anyone under the age of 25 as an adult. We may legally treat them as such, although that’s mainly out of historical reasons having to do with war and reproductive biology. But in 18-year-old lacks the capability for mature thinking that we characterize as “adult.”

I think it is entirely fair to say that the college loan system is predatory on people who lack the life experience necessary to properly evaluate the burden they’re taking on themselves. If a bank makes predatory loans to the financially illiterate, the bank could get in massive trouble. But for student loans no such provisions are made, and to make matters worse they are not even dischargeable in bankruptcy.
>> The nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh, deep under the waves, far from the glare of the yellow sun.

No. That is not Perl. That is C Recursion: https://www.bobhobbs.com/files/kr_lovecraft.html
>Counterintuitively, recycling plastic tends to involve shipping plastic waste long distances and trading in the waste.

Only 2% of plastic waste is traded between countries. Further, most of that is traded within the same region, so the amount of waste that's shipped across "long distances" is probably under 1%.

https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-waste-trade
Ask HN: Are we in the midst of a systems collapse?
EDIT - My TL;DR is merely a cynical joke based on my experiences and conversations around the oft used scapegoat of all problems faced today. Please don't take it at face value.

TL;DR - Boomers ruin everything.

Hello HN!

While I earnestly desire my question be nothing more than hyperbolic ramblings of a crusty old IT guy, the antidotal conversations I've had with many of my professional contacts (most working in IT, but not all) seems to be reinforcing this drearily pessimistic observation:

Over the last several years a substantial amount of highly specialized, process critical employees have either retired early or quit abruptly across many sectors in the economy. These positions carried immense tribal knowledge that ignorant/incompetent/inexperienced management failed to adequately prepare any succession plan for, leaving entire system processes void of the knowledge and skills to necessary to perform.

These events appear to be leading society towards a sort of "critical mass of burnout" where remaining employees are being forced to saddle the responsibilities of the previous coworker but lack the experience/knowledge necessary to either perform the job efficiently, or at all. The vast majority of these people are have added duties, and the stressors that accompany them, saddled on them without the commensurate increase in compensation.

Thoughts?
Nice hustle, but should people really outsource their MVP to someone? Building it is not the hard part, and they will still have to support it and keep developing it. I think a personal touch matters more (it should be a Minimum Lovable Product) and customer development is everything. Giving $10,000 to some hustler is not the way to go, it's way above the market rate too.

No offense, but you will only make $10,000,000 in 5 years if you manage to rob a bank. You keep focusing on your greed instead of the market, which have certain realities.
What’s wrong with medieval pigs in videogames
The dysfunction is concentrated in the city of San Francisco. The wider Bay Area is not as bad. Also, attributing the whole market cap or revenue of a multinational corporation to its headquarters is not really the best way to measure things.

Also, this is a lagging indicator. A lot of this growth is occurring in companies that were founded before the worst dysfunction occurred. It doesn't mean dysfunction is not here now and won't affect future growth.
"College is important - it’s why there is a cost to it."

What a strange way to look at it. Elementary, middle and high school is important, no? Roads are important. And parks. And scientific research. So much of our civic infrastructure is important without having a direct charge.

A fair trade-off would seem to be higher income taxes and free college or trade school. Would provide more ladders up for the disadvantaged and a stable source of revenue to fund it.
I live in the world of data lakes and elaborate pipelines. Now and again I get to use a traditional star schema data warehouse and … it is an absolute pleasure to use in contrast to modern data access patterns.
Kids are far from the only humans in a school building.
It seems strange that they would post this claim without verifying its veracity since they are a news outlet, do you have evidence they are opinions and not factually based?