skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Federalist 10 describes factions as the nature of man, explains why they don't belong in government, and describes how the Constitution limits the sway of factions.

Unfortunately, its claims in this regard were proven false not much more than a decade after it was published.

*> the Founding Fathers never envisioned it would be possible to coordinated across a continent in real time.

This would be a valid argument if factions did not become central to US politics until rapid communication became available. But that's not the case. Factions were already central to US politics by 1800, when the fastest mode of communication was horseback.
Right: "the testsuites visible to Crater are the de-facto spec" is much closer to the truth than "what rustc currently does is the de-facto spec".
I have never enabled Siri on any device. Precisely for fear of this kind of shit, or the ones where humans are listening to the recordings that are obviously being made, and all of the other logical conclusions one can reach on how this can be abused.

Just like HDD failures, it is not a question of if but when.
Any day now, everyone will be playing Half-Life 3 on their Linux desktop during their commute in self-driving cars. /s
They won't pull it from a linked account, just your PayPal balance... for now.

"You acknowledge and agree that $2,500.00 U.S. dollars per violation of the Acceptable Use Policy is presently a reasonable minimum estimate of PayPal’s actual damages.... PayPal may deduct such damages directly from any existing balance in any PayPal account you control."

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full#...
This is why people sell bugs.
> No intelligent person thinks that we got 250 years of relative peace and prosperity by randon luck

Yes, to the extent that the US had more peace and prosperity than, say, European states, most intelligent people with even modest knowledge attribute that not to random chance but to three major factors:

(1) The Pacific Ocean,
(2) The Atlantic Ocean,
(3) The extremely small number of remotely near-peer powers that have ever existed not separated from the US by (1) or (2).
damn, what a coincidence.

i met my wife on twitter in 2008, started dating in 2010.
Adblock and similar tools are legitimate medical needs.
The guy who inspired “quiet quitting” movement is back to working 50 hours/wk
I think the nuance is that money is made up, not that it is imaginary. It is an abstraction that lets you live in a society that will let people be cold and hungry without feeling too bad about it.
lol, it does come off as a little harsh, but I do think it's reasonable to expect the main domain to get blacklisted at some point. Assuming there's some business model to figured out for this, alternative domains could always be added...
For now I was just curious to put it out there and see how people respond / if it even gets used at all.
But that state I will be payed for my efforts.

Unless you do something truly groundbreaking or contributing to a cause I deeply care, which makes me to want to really work there, I will just go to the next company where will be a lot of things that also not work perfectly, but I don't have to jump through these hoops.
>the people familiar with the inquiry said
>the sources said
>they said.
>one of the sources said
>this source said

These articles with no named sources are so tiring. This one didn't even bother to tell us why the sources are anonymous. Hard news and serious journalism is dead and buried. Did this reporter even have to leave their figurative basement to write this story?
meta has bought back 5% of its shares this year. Not sure where you got the idea that buybacks aren't happening. They even took long term debt for what I understand to be the first time in order to facilitate more buybacks.
Wow, please give some examples.
Also, did Private Relay actually get blacklisted?
> If our government was elected based on a "one person one vote" principle, Republicans would be nearly guaranteed to lose the presidency and Congress.

True in the very short term, but that's only because neither party really targets the popular vote. Both would realign their platform and bases accordingly, and we'd just end up with a new system with new flaws.

However, if you are correct, that would mean a de facto one-party state. That's downright frightening to me, even if I am a member of that party.
If the local prosecutor thinks IP address = terrorist, pedophile, drug dealer, or worse of all a copyright infringer then it can be heavily armed police shutting down the business and confiscating all computerized items.
I’m also still on Monterrey, but I just discovered that Skim supports viewing both PostScript and eps files (I assume that functionality also works on Ventura), so that could also be a solution if you don’t want to switch between machines for viewing ps files.
The only people I've met who care at all about the metaverse are terrified of it (giving an advertiser live access to metrics like pupil dilation is creepy), or appreciate the opportunities that it creates to make fun of Zuckerberg. Are there people out there who intend to use it?

I remember when Facebook was invite-only. It was cool. Everybody wanted in. This... I think this is grounds to bet against Mark.
> So you are comparing "any one gas plant", the output of which can be fully controlled, with "whole-grid measurement" for wind?

That was absolutely what I was not doing. That was a counterfactual presented to refute the grandparent, who was.
It’s going to be so interesting to see whose vision of AR/VR/XR/metaverse ends up being most accurate.

Personally I think distributed virtual environments ranging from Zoom to Twitter Spaces to Roblox to Call of Duty are all part of a large splintered metaverse already. Tim O’Reilly wrote a good piece on this in the past year
My father in law (mid 70s) uses it constantly to compose text messages. I'm not sure I've ever seen him type one.
Ugh I hope not. Battlefield 4 took a thousand steps back when they tried to make all the UI a web app

If this shit becomes mainstream say goodbye to ever owning your data ever again
Gambling is roughly described as gaming with higher stakes, IMO. My totally unqualified, unsubstantiated guess would be the average gambler has higher cognitive performance than the average video game player. A dumb gambler goes broke sooner or later, which doesn't make them all quit but it does make some of them quit, which I would wager causes a selective effect towards the smarter ones.
Finland Willing to Host NATO Nuclear Weapons on Border with Russia
Quiet Quitting wasn't intended to mean working less hours – it meant working to your job role and responsibilities.

It's easy to confuse the two – but if you need 50 hours to do your job every week – go for it.
Is that opinion based on speaking with transgender people you know personally, or things you read on the internet?
Videogames as a coping mechanism for stress stopped me from committing suicide. It's not so simple, nothing ever is.
Blackmailing? It's called negotiating from a strong position.
I'd be super curious to run a profiler on those Python builds and see where it's spending most of its time.
> They could totally have made the machine reset if the ME couldn't be initialized. But they didn't.

Hm? That's what they did: if you disable too much of the ME the computer will reboot after 30 minutes.
Alcohol perhaps
Money is politics by other means. It's real to the extent that a certain kind of politics is real.

If you don't have enough to pay your bills it's not because there isn't enough energy for you to heat your home. It's because making sure you can heat your home /pay rent/eat isn't a priority for the people with the political power to make those decisions.
Having crossed oceans on autopilot, I’ve had three very, very near misses - so even in an environment which is virtually an uninhabited desert in comparison to a road, the risk in not maintaining appropriate and proactive watch is real.
And that goes back to the point I made in the first place. We know that Apple isn’t going to abandon Swift while they are moving away from Objective C because the entire company is behind it.

Microsoft isn’t going to abandon C#. And you knew when they moved to .Net core they were committed to it
At least with IPMI interfaces on servers they have a dedicated NIC port you can put on a restricted network.
Classic “screamer” failure—the tag line is that you have the rest of your life to figure it out. “The Man Who Rode The Thunder” is another classic parachute story worth reading.
Finally, Facebook has stumbled on a product the masses actually want.
He was polite and did not spoil the ultimate trick without tilde character.
Depends. Fighter squadrons generally have their own dedicated in-house flight doc. They stop by the squadron regularly, hang out outside work, deploy and go TDY with you etc. The good ones will do their best not to screw you over. It's best to be guarded against anyone external though!
I believe monetizing Wi-Fi is the solution. Most cellular traffic is transmitted while indoors in range of a wi-fi access point. If you could pay e.g. Boingo $15/mo to aggregate paid wifi access then it would be well worth it. Ideally the revenue share would encourage nearly every business to offer a roaming SSID, as ubiquitous as credit card acceptance.

https://blog.google/technology/area-120/orion-wifi/
I don't think this is true. For instance, compare US defamation law to UK defamation law. The distinctions, which are large, are entirely because of the structure of our constitution. Or look at the rules of evidence in Europe, where you don't necessarily have a right to avoid self-incrimination, or to exclude evidence gained unlawfully.
I think you're envisioning gambling as a poker shark, when it could be someone betting on horses, playing slot machines, or buying scratch cards.
Even if you say not signing has no consequence a candidate might not be so sure and see that as a trust/loyalty test.
I posted this on a different topic recently and it's apropos again: I'm currently reading Tim Wu's "The Attention Merchants" about the history of advertising and can't recommend it enough. It's informative, thoughtful, and well-written, but not a happy or encouraging story, alas.
Just saw the question about testing splitting - yes there is automation magic. You give us a command to list your tests and we split them as optimally as we can.
I bet you wouldn't mind 40 of them on the edge of the nearest Walmart roof.
I remember reading a paper that there's a strong association between spatial reasoning and performance in math.

This made intuitive sense to me given that there is some overlap between manipulating objects in a 2D or 3D space and visualizing a math problem whether numeric or geometric.

I find it hard to believe that typical video game puzzles can help increase cognitive performance, but plausible that training spatial recognition might help train the same regions of the brain we use for math.

Even the basic mechanics: teaching math to my kids when they were young was purely a visual exercise of moving groups of things (coins, Cheerios, M&M's) around.
I halfheartedly agree.

Getting into a top 5 school would have definitely been a surprise, but I also doubt the top 20 or even top 50 schools have equal levels of talent.

> People have studied this and found that students that were accepted into elite colleges but ended up going to lower ranked schools had equivalent levels of achievement after graduation. So it turns out graduating from Harvard isn't as important as you think. Unless you want to go into IB or Big4 Consulting.

This tracks but as mentioned elsewhere it's probably a longer journey all around. There very much is an in-crowd of connection pooling when you're an alumni of an elite school, from my experience of going to some meetups with heavy membership from them.
Note that most nuclear power plants are so old that they _need_ to be shut down or they will become a risk.

After Fukushima the shutdown of some of them was pulled up by a small amount of years, undoing that decision does make sense and should be done (and somewhat had been done in a roundabout way where the one side can pretend they didn't do it and the other side can complain they didn't do it but should it matter its basically as if the did it).

The problem is that they use the situation as an excuse to push other things which are neither necessary nor sane.
Is that you NSA?
Not exactly the same thing, but Boeing certainly tried to throw Mark Forkner under the bus.
UNIX timestamps are horrible. You can not do calculations with them, with fractional part they do not sort correctly, and you actually can not reliably convert them back and forth to iso timestamps. Basically to do anything useful, you need additional bit carried along the timestamp to tell if its leap second or not, which is extremely awkward and most APIs do not support that.
Yes, that would be amazing, full classes of approaches to problem solving would be unlocked at once and we wouldn't have to invent new languages, DSLs, transpilers, etc, but just leverage zig.
Computers are nothing but fast morons. They have no knowledge other than what humans have permitted them to have or compute with.

There is the old acronym: GIGO. "Garbage In, Garbage Out". Put in false information, you only get false information out. But which humans have put that false information into the computer?

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." - Charles Babbage (1791-1871), inventor of the Analytical Engine.
Ask HN: Did YouTube just restore the dislike button?
Unless that's just me https://twitter.com/smusamashah/status/1585342580404805633

I didn't find any chrome extensions that would somehow enable this button. Html looked same as like button. Couldn't find anyone else talking about it though.
Coming at this another way, money is only valuable because society and the world says it has value.

Money doesn’t do anything on its own. If I’m cold in the middle of nowhere, a pack of matches and block of wood have value to me at that moment, but my Canada plastic money doesn’t even make good kindling.

If the world seriously falls apart, what are your dollars worth?
I want metaverse content. Still waiting for the matrix.
Apple is increasingly becoming a deeply corrupted institution. It will not have a respected legacy in 5-10 years.
Actual title: "Use scripts as rule actions in Mail on Mac"

You can attach an AppleScript script to a Mail rule. For example, you could have an incoming message trigger a script that copies information from the message and pastes it into a database that works with Script Editor.
what do you call "neat hacks instead of actual math "?
kahn Academy is teaching the Common Core math, and I don't see how it's not actual math.
What is there to realize? Look at the studies and data.

There will always be outliers who get ahead via nepotism, that's life. There are also many wealthy kids who end up squandering it all
It is, though the currency he lays his employees with is equity. That’s the challenge that Big Tech has to confront. If the stock value falls too much, Zuck won’t be able to convince engineers to join him for the ride.
If GitHub Copilot Is a Copyright Problem, Perhaps the Problem Is Copyright
I work in tech, so both.
Xonotic may be of interest to you, it's a go-to for some of my friends and I.
>If I'm serving api requests, does it being 55ms vs 15ms make a difference?

Yes, it's the difference between being able to serve 66 r/s or 18 r/s.
Ask yourself: are you a shape rotator or a wordcel?
I don't know, I think a great number of previous video game players have grown up and become functional humans given the majority of children in the last few generations will have played videos games for entertainment in one fashion or another. There's always outliers who will have problems of course, but that doesn't mean it's bad for the rest.
I think my e-commerce site is niche, I don't have huge amounts of monthly traffic but product sales pay all my monthly bills.

It's just static HTML deployed to CloudFlare Pages with a $9/month Shopify button, and a $2/year VPS acting as an API endpoint.

I've used Ghost, WordPress, Hugo, Pelican, etc...and would 100% go with a static site generator over a full blown CMS.
The only limit is Mark. And he's not showing any signs of slowing down, the earnings report even said they're going to lose even more money on reality labs next year than they did this year.
Senators were meant to represent each state's government not the people directly. The Senate, by being once removed from the people, was supposed to take a longer more measured view on issues. The 17th Amendment[1] broke that and made senators elected by the people. The people have the House. The House has also been broken over time. In 1929 the House was capped at 435 members. Since then the number of people that a given representative represents has increased dramatically from 209,447 people in 1910 to 747,184 in 2018.[2]

I agree that the Electoral College needs reform but I am sure that we will not agree on the solution. I think that each state, being an equal member in the union, should have an equal number of electoral votes. Equal votes per state reinforces the purpose of the republic. The republic is supposed to ensure that each state can live the way they want and have military protection. Having one state with more say in the executive is antithetical to a republic. The president is supposed to represent the union, not the people, on the international stage.

Doing away with the Electoral College and going for a direct democracy is a recipe for disaster. Direct democracy does not work on a large scale.

The answer to much of the contention we have today is to return to the limited government that was originally described in the Constitution. Power has become too concentrated in DC and now everybody is playing the game of thrones.

[1] https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-17/

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/31/u-s-populat...
> Headcount was 87,314 as of September 30, 2022, an increase of 28% year-over-year

Oh wow, that was misguided. Other companies have been slowing down hiring significantly (especially after the war started in February). I don't see how they'd get out of this without layoffs (which is generally bad for the whole industry).
It does have access to devices via those misfeatures called WebUSB and WebBluetooth. Yes, they do require a permission prompt at least.
I like AssaultCube even more. Unreal/Quake were always too fast and cartoonish for me. New-style shooters are too slow and realistic. AC is in between, both in terms of speed and realism, though more on the old side.
Meanwhile, 30,000 people a year will continue to die in car crashes while you strangle the entire industry in red tape. But, hey, at least you're "doing something."
The button has always been there for me (unless the video maker disabled it) just without a counter.
There is an extension that tries to crowdfund/estimate dislikes for youtube videos but who know how correct their data is [1]

[1]:https://returnyoutubedislike.com/
For a side project this is a fun solution I would use.
For longer term, it's not for me.

The automation part is nice. I appreciate your work.
> Nothing he described or talked to me about gave me the impression that he was able to do any programming whatsoever.

Maybe he's just good at the job even if it isn't his whole personality?

Like how do you think someone would get through Google's interview without being able to program? You have to be the very top of your field to pass that interview.
"If stealing is a problem then maybe the problem is private property."

Just because something is created with one's mind and expressed in text that can be copied infinitely on the internet doesn't mean the person who created cannot claim ownership of their work.
Enhanced audience metrics now available in Vercel Analytics
Please post a code example.
Domestic cats should be illegal anywhere outside of a major city. It’s such low hanging fruit in reducing loss of small native animals, with virtually no downside.
So like Star Citizen bit for cars.
I don't want to "own" a 50GB platform-specific root-accessing game.
"unplanned freefall" will get you there. ;-)
That’s implied, either a tunnel or just on the same domain. You’d have to pull some ARP shenanigans as well.

When you are elbow-deep into the state of the interface, those other issues should be pretty trivial.
I'm a bit out of touch with FLL (my kids aged out), but its not surprising. Little of winning a FLL competition is related to the robotic performance. The team that wins the robotic portions won't necessarily do well overall.

Given that, and the sophistication of many of the teams, and the way the competitions are designed. The best teams are usually just doing some form of preprogrammed dead reckoning sequence and getting a bit lucky and rigorously placing the bot at the beginning.

AKA, while the NXT/EV3/etc devices are capable of sensor feedback, few teams made use of it. Its likely all the FLL teams need for most of the competition is three motor forward/reverse.

PS: Maybe I sorta failed to respond to the main point, which is that the spike kits aren't there to be "cool" sitting on the shelf and excite kids who get them under the tree. They are mostly purchased by educational/FLL teams where the build instructions and/or goals are provided by a 3rd party.
Radical idea: Limit sharing to a set number of hours per month. Not that I want this, far from it. I have enjoyed sharing my parent's account for many years. However, the total time that I spend watching Netflix is around 1 hour per month. I'm not a heavy user. I'll binge season 5 of the Crown but may not watch it again for a month.

My parents on the other hand use it more. When we run out of sharing time, I can no longer access it. If I really, really want it, I can get my own account. I feel like that's a good middle ground, particularly for those with kids off at school.
Facebook's revenue could cut in half and they could easily make more profit than they did this quarter just by getting rid of reality labs. The only thing holding the stock back at this point is Mark and I guess the fear that no one will use facebook 20 years from now.
Thanks for the reply! Do you mind addressing this part? "For longer term, it's not for me." - totally legitimate – I'm just curious why. Feel free to be very honest / harsh :) Honest feedback > me feeling good about this
Wonder why it doesn't work in MobileSafari.
Didn't they change this policy with the current energy crisis?
that’s not cool. Tricking computer users who may not be familiar with this command and which could cause data loss with real world repercussions (lost company data, lost treasured family photos etc) is not cool or funny.

For those unfamiliar with this command, it may completely remove all files from your system, resulting in a broken and unrecoverable system.
Doubt. Attention is definitely important but as I keep saying; the value of your contribution is not based in opportunity cost but rather the dependency structure. If many people are providing you with attention then that is making you an important dependency in some sense but someone who maintains critical infrastructure is also worth alot, even if no one pays attention.
I used to use paypal for everything but it occurred to me that I haven't used it since 2018. What niche does it support that direct payments don't? When I think of paypal, I think of delays.