skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think maybe you have fallen prey to the misconception that there is a single "HN crowd" or an "official" HN community position on anything. That may have been the case in the beginning, but as far as I can see, any position on any topic can find a sizeable following here, to a large degree depending on the title of the article, what comments gets the top spots, and how the conversation develops from there in each case.

If at all anything of the sort, the HN crowd might be critical thinkers, and so will tend to upvote anything that picks any popular notion apart, laser focused on the negative aspects. Just a reflection.
It's not as important as people think it is.
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It's like watching Trump meltdowns in the middle of the night for four years, but the blast radius is just one company and not the Whole Country, so it's a train wreck that's actually fun to watch.

And since [checks notes] that other guy is back in Twitter, there is now TWO of them Lord have mercy.
Dijkstra said the same thing. Why bother trying to make a computer think like a human? Why not make it do something better? I tend to agree.

Or to borrow from Chomsky, why would we try to make a machine deadlift a box like a powerlifter when we can just make a fork-lift truck / front-end loader?
Is it still commenting if I’m “just” typing this and hitting enter?
<meta>This is why I love HN. You ask a random question and the devs working on that project reply to you.</>
Heeeee's baaaaaack. So keep your Twitter account active and ready for the "Big Flush"!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-says-donald-trump-rei...

There used to be a prank people would play back in the day when the Johnny Carson show was live on the air: everybody would flush their toilets at the exact time the announcer said "Here's Johnny!" to simultaneously blow out the water and sewage system.

How about orchestrating a protest DDOS of Twitter like that, where everybody tweets as hard and as often as they can the first time Trump tweets some bullshit on his reinstated account.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDpipB4yehk
My question is:

How is the outlook of Estonia in startup scene? (how the world perceive Estonian startups)
At the risk of breaking the rule against complaining about "tangential annoyances", I really dislike how Medium decrements the metered paywall as soon as the page loads, rather than letting the user decide if s/he is interested in actually reading the content. Sometimes you open a page without even knowing that it comes from this site (people sometimes host a blog on Medium under a custom domain).
That's a post not a visit
The natural sciences are, put simply, the study of the natural world via experimentation and the collection of empirical evidence. However none of the empirical evidence you might collect (or any other type of evidence for that matter), can survive the scrutiny of the trilemma. You cannot prove that a chair exists, or an apple, or a pen without relying on circular reasoning, an infinite regression of reasoning, or by inventing some axiomatic foundation. I’m not aware of any scientific knowledge that’s capable of circumventing this trilemma, as you put it.

You might think it’s sensible to believe that apples exist, and that the world you perceive around you is real, but this is strictly a faith based position, no matter how perfectly obvious it might seem to you.
That's strange, wouldn't a plastic be much easier to drill into? Maybe it required a different kind of drill head that they had no way of getting down there within budget?
Dockerfiles don't compose. If you have two containers and you want to take their union, you are simply out of luck unless you know exactly what you want to take from each one, and you'd better hope they don't interfere with each other. Nix specifications compose perfectly.
Where does this “instances.social” get their list from? Does mastodon phone home to record new instances or something?
Also, any system old enough to be affected is likely to be doing something so critical that no-one wanted to risk touching it.
If you want odds visit a betting site.

Twitter has graduated from “don’t believe it’s plausible that Twitter will fail” to “anecdotally things seem to going badly” to “empirical evidence of service issues and mismanagement”.

I don’t care what you believe, those are the facts, right now.

I think then next month will give us a reasonable ability to forecast as we get spikes in usage during the World Cup and we see if the service goes down and if people keep using it.

Until then… who knows?

More than 0.001%; that’s just random variance. Don’t be ridiculous.

I’m not waving my hands and saying stupid meaningless shit like 0.0001 > 0 so there’s some meaningless increase in the chance Twitter will fail.

I’m saying, there is a tangible increase in the possibility of failure, and already a concrete notable decrease in value of the entire platform.
i like how americans say annamull :)
Adoptive parents are called such as a legal fiction with the necessary mental qualifications. The transgender activists aren't content with that solution. They insist on the terms in the full metaphysical sense.
Weird. It wasn't paywalled when this first hit HN. They must have noticed the traffic.

Anyway, you're on the right track but the article was actually far worse than your example. There was a chart showing "recommended gender-neutral language" for pregnancy literature which had some real head-scratchers on it. For example, instead of "penis" you should say "erect erogenous zone." That's almost bad enough, as if I had encountered it in the wild it would take me a moment to figure out what they are talking about (erect penis? erect nipples?).

But it gets better! Guess what they recommended you replace "vagina" with? Also "erect erogenous zone"! (wtf?!) Now beyond the fact that its is anatomically wrong, I can't even know if they're talking about male or female genitalia. If I am on a medical website reading something about changes to my "erect erogenous zone", does it apply to me? Heck if I know!

That's part of what the article covered and what I was responding to in my above comment. This goes way, way beyond the relatively harmless change of "mother" -> "birthing person."
Yes, a lottery system would require non-transferable tickets, but those tickets could be refundable, and returned tickets could be redistributed in a subsequent lottery round.
This complicated mess makes me think maybe language models like Codex could be trained to solve any configuration request by learning from trial and error.
You think you should have nuked the Russians for their own good? Horrible people
And I'd be happy if companies supported Linux because they like free software and not for economic reasons, but the end result is still traction for Linux, so I'm not complaining.
> Science isn't static.

Very true, but what was claimed in the comment you replied to is the current scientific position, has been for some time, and hasn't changed. The idea that mammalian zoology will suddenly find a third sex at any point in the future also seems fanciful, regardless of any theoretical possibility that it could change.
If you want to do "office heroics", this isn't it. Office heroics are needed when the management is broken, but sometimes you just work through it, look back, and you can tell yourself "hey, I did that, I did something cool".

This is next level, however. This is management pro-actively trying to sabotage you and create obstacles for no reason, and it's only getting worse.

Stay away.

P.S.: what is this code review nonsense anyway? Twitter has a solid codebase, the site had very good uptime. Why is the "code" the problem here? What is he trying to "fix". Total insanity. Next thing he will announce a "total rewrite" and then it's Game Over for Twitter, for sure.
I don’t think detecting illegal border crossings is inherently bad. A lot of stuff Surrounding it certainly is but that part in particular id be tempted to call neutral
> all the resources got stolen along the way

and transferred to the West
Yep and if you look at it through that lens it all becomes fairly predictable. Bringing trump back presumably increases controversy and engagement. Everything he does between now and taking it public will be to maximize attention no matter what. Expect many more off the cuff decisions/announcements in the coming weeks.

As an aside it would be interesting if after all this football spiking by the Elon fans about how dispensable Twitter engineers are (I don’t have a strong opinion on this not really knowing the answer) the site does end up suffering a major outage due to a hack or something else. Given the number of personnel and policy changes that have seemingly been made with no planning or thought the odds of that would seem better than zero.
If you are a parent and your son doesn't do well in school but seems to be interested in tinkering and building things and looks like he might suit STEM but does not have the scores, sit with him and help him crack those exams. DO NOT send him to a tutor, I literally mean sit with him and make a plan and sit with him and help him execute it. schools and colleges are less about education and more about cracking exams with a high score. This does not help boys who know there isn't anything to learn and works well with girls who follow instructions to the dot to do those assignments, rote learn and spew.

I was suicidal at a point when I could write simple RDBMS servers in C++ and was constantly reading research around computing when in school but could not clear my school exams. and everyone including my parent and teachers made me feel I was stupid. This is the case with most boys out there. It was only when I went to university and research was more important than rote learning, I suddenly realized I had the highest scores with very little to no effort whereas girls would struggle and somehow get their assignments and projects done through the nice guys.

but guess what, I was a very lucky boy to reach the university, most are not. If you are a parent of a son, make time, sit with him daily and help him crack those exams. the society or the education system will not change, all you can do is to take advantage of the broken system.

+1 to parents who help their kids with their assignments even with their tight schedules, you deserve a lot of praise.
The problem is the pressure. Even steel gets soft when it gets hot enough and with the pressure its like trying to push folded toilet paper through cake dough.
Just search for "full movie" and filter for videos > 20minutes and you'll find some immediately. Youtube is falling apart!!! Google will not exist 6 months from now, the cracks are showing!!
In GCC, local functions are both closures and first-class values. I'm not entirely sure how it's implemented on all architectures, but on x86, when you convert such a function to a function pointer, a stub is dynamically generated on the stack (which thus has to be executable) that pushes the frame pointer on top of all the arguments before jumping to the actual implementation, and the pointer then points at that stub.

In standard Pascal, functions are closures but not first-class values (can be passed as arguments to other functions, but cannot be returned or assigned to variables); a typical implementation would implement a function pointer as a tuple of function address and pointer to stack frame. Some dialects - notably, Turbo Pascal - don't allow pointers to local functions at all.
20 years ago I bought a domain which is <my username>.co.uk.

I didn't know what to do with it, so I collected GIFs of women... Jiggling.

At the time I thought it was humourous but now I just cringe.

I should probably take it down sometime, but I just don't know what to do with it.
Ownership of AI-Generated Code Hotly Disputed
I have this feeling that with the increasing complexity and sophistication of the technical environment/tools we have in our hands, there is an increasing amount of people simply unable to cope with everyday challenges of modern society.

Of course, there have always been these kind of people, but in the old days they were easily identified groups of disabled and elderly people, who, most importantly, understood also themselves that they need help.

The bleak future I see that increasing amount of normal people with normal intelligence are just going to be financially destroyed, all while they themselves believe that they are fully qualified and justified to decide whether their money is "invested" in the next cryptard scheme, sent to a nigerian prince to get millions, or put in a crappy health insurance covering accidents once in a blue moon, instead of those damn government elite experts taking their money and actually providing health care and pension. And after they are destroyed, they become even more hostile against the "elite experts" who just seem to be laughing at their faces "told you so".

(To be extremely clear here: I believe intelligence is a highly multi-dimensional thing. And yu can be intelligent only in very limited dimensions. so practically all of us - me very much included - are morons in most of the dimensions. So I am not pointing here to any specific group, but all of us are vulnerable in some dimension. I may be able to above average avoiding certain kind of scams, but I am for sure vulnerable - even laughable stupid looking afterwards - for face-to-face friendly scams. Which, luckily to me, are typically not expensive.)

Unfortunately I have no good solution anywhere in sight. The best idea I have so far is to mock online the idiots who think Ayn Rand was a genius. I have to admit, though, that even that is likely to be useless even in the best case, so most of the time I try to just bite my lip.
> undeniably

I'll have a go. The word democracy in modern usage is associated with the will of adult population at large. This was a vote amongst users of a service who happened to know about the poll and wanted to respond. I think "popular vote" would be a better description.
Can nukes have their explosion shaped to be directly downward to dig this far?
she wrote a whole paragraph about the certificate errors and ends with asking if anybody knows how to fix it .... maybe you can help her out
Unrelated question: Is there a good book for us laypeople on the Big 5 personality traits/dimensions (like agreeableness, etc)?
The mechanical analogue of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxation_oscillator#Pearson–...
> Moreover I think pointing out that 95% of the people in question clearly have cells to produce a single type of gamete AND ARE OFTEN FERTILE is instructive.

It’s only informative if it’s true. With regard to the second conjunct, people with Klinefelter syndrome and Turner syndrome are typically functionally infertile.

I’m not convinced that ‘a lot of experts’ are even working on defining what counts as ‘interesex’. It would make more sense to listen to intersex people, who as far as I can see, tend to think that a fairly broad definition is useful.
That’s quite a distance between the two dual uses.
This is HackerNews for you. Call out any of these magnates for their lack of moral compass or incompetence, and get downvoted. Somehow being rich and "successful" automatically makes your shit not stink, even though usually the opposite is true. This is how they make their money - by being assholes and walking over people. You can acknowledge it but I don't get the admiration of this sociopathy.
Instance owners manually register their instances here if they want to: https://instances.social/admin
Thank you, makes sense now. So anything that isn't anonymus can potentially get sold or obtained by the gov.
> I'm not sure the fact that they have data automatically attached to them is really enough to warrant a completely different and confusing name.

It is, since the lifetime implications are profound - either in form of dangling pointers, or in form of local variables outliving their execution frame.
Google didn't have SRO. The closest thing was Traffic Team's oncall; Which was stressful, for sure, and hired some dedicated alcoholics, but it wasn't anything like Facebooks (I knew people on both teams during my time at each). Google had a constant stream of alerts that someone was aware of and handling. Facebook had a constant stream of fire that someone was beating back the flames of.

SRO is madness. SRO is admitting that you're enough underwater and there's enough unexpected critical events to dedicate a team to burn out on it. There was a lot of spend in overcapacity and failover automation testing that kept it that way, and explicit mandates by a C-Suite and VP to keep keeping it that way. More importantly, though, it was baked into the architecture.

Everyone's talking this week about how Twitter will go up in flames in the next few days; I don't think so. I think they're closer to Google in that respect. There's a lot of automation that will keep things alive and a lot of redundancy that will handle the immediate problems of having a lot of the team leave. I actually think the company can continue to run indefinitely if they just follow the operations manuals and replace failed drives and machines. But I think there will be a major outage when they try to launch a new feature and fail.
Meanwhile SBF is free, and the people investigating him have all received donations from him in the past.

11 years is too much for Holmes, people have done much worse and gotten a lot less than that.

My guess is the sets of people who lost money on Theranos and those who lost money on FTX don't intersect at all, the former is made of rich people and the latter of everyday people, so it makes more sense...
"Because they don’t generate revenue from procedures, non-procedural specialists are pressured to increase their patient volume and are often given appointment slots as short as 10 minutes."

Which I've heard from friends in the field is quite accurate especially in the family practitioners; the business leads want to keep cranking the volume (then all it takes is one person in the morning being late and it offsets the whole day).

The article also fails to mention patients who are at the end of their 10mins and then mention some quite serious issues which require more lengthy tests which now also eat more time.

I feel it is a sad state to be in; and I'm grateful there are some out there that are still actually willing to help given the nightmare scenarios they deal with daily.
>I interpret the platonic ideal of objects as simply doubling down on the part of our brians that classifies stuff. People getting obsessed with unreasonably large breasts aren’t chasing some ideal outside of their own perception of the world, they just get stronger signals from some neurons in their brain.

In other words, create AI with neuronal networks. However, if we figure out which ideals make people get obsessed with large breasts, wouldn't we have a framework to build AI with logic, abstractions and ontologies?
Minor Scale
Just like to say a big thank you for this. When ActiveX was no longer acceptable I wrote some desktop integration technology which replaced it for web apps with an http based background messaging protocol and activation via URL handler. This was sold to some large corporates. This made me a fuck load of money over the last decade or so. If you hadn't built ActiveX this wouldn't have been possible.

You wrote me a house.
Like on an Apple II?

https://web.archive.org/web/20150405004057/http://apple2info...
Operation Sailor Hat
> it will produce a different result than today, and it will likely not even run one year from now

Any way to hack this? Just pretend it's a different date, the pointers to the latest package will changed to reflect that.

Or somehow record the exact versions when you first build the container, and freeze that.
> What do you think any definition is other than the creation of a socially shared construct?

A definition is simply a definition. It doesn't have to be social or shared. I can define addition in any manner, and in fact there are many other definitions of addition.

> Let’s test this. Axiomatically I am always right! As such, I derive that it is illogical, dare I say irrational, of you to disagree with me. A truer statement has never even been written! Facts!

You have a very interesting misunderstanding here. A fact is true only relative to an axiom. So yes, relative to such an axiom you are right, similarly how relative to the axioms of the field of real numbers the statement 1 + 1 = 2 is true.

You can construct any axiom and derive facts from it. I can construct axioms such that 1 + 1 = 0. That doesn't make the statement 1 + 1 = 2 in the real numbers any less false!
> such usage of employee surveillance should be just plain out forbidden by law

By law, like by some Patriot act?
The Making of Toy Story (1996) [pdf]
Can an _intelligent_ man from my dreams get out and materialize into our world? Good look to him doing that, as I've already awoken, and won't be dreaming him again any time soon.
A pop up builder for WordPress.

Received a lot of requests for this from my existing SaaS customers then started out as a corner-only slide-in modal.

Eventually I caved and added a centered modal… It’s currently in active use on at least 30.000 websites.

I’m sorry for making browsing the web suck a little more instead of less.
No, I'm merely pointing out the absurdity of asking "what's X" to a needless extent.

Everyone knows what a rock is. Everyone knows what I mean by "throwing two rocks on a pile of two rocks and getting a pile of four rocks" - almost everyone has done it countless times as a child. The "What's a rock" comment is just pointless philosophizing, masquerading as profoundness.
The part of the speculative realist movement in philosophy which overlaps with software developers (which is relatively large) has put quite a lot of effort into such surprising software. https://10print.org/ is probably the most publicly-accessible reach of this. (Some parts of this movement also stand in direct opposition to the anthropic view the article takes, but there's also a lot of overlap.)

Unfortunately this is insignificant compared to the explicitly anti-speculative reductionist mode most software developers operate it.
At least it's not goatse :)
I see. GPL-3. And it uses NASM, so I'm also happy about it.

I guess I now have a large amount of code to read. Oh well.
I think SBF and EH were transparently doing things that were never going to work. The Silicon Valley issue is the overreliance on backing the right founders as opposed to the right ideas, and that - just like backing the right ideas - can be successfully gamed.
Yep sounds about right
I still struggle to have the esp32 Cross Compiler Toolchain with the esp-rust llvm Compiler fork working with Nix.
Everything without the
Esp32 rust Compiler is already in nix pkg.

Also when trying to adopt nix for the enterprise it is still a tough barrier. At least for me struggling how to package something like the synology active backup client nix or how to setup your cups printers in nixos.

Besides that I hope for nix to get secure boot support.
Business Insider: Amazon is gutting its voice-assistant Alexa
> In anisogamety, an individual's sex condition coincides with the type of gametes it produces; male if it produces male gametes exclusively, female if it only produces female gametes, and hermaphrodite if simultaneously or at different times

Cambridge University Press
The Biology of Reproduction
So far they have been quite clear that there is no plan on converting everything into Jakt, because they are quite pragmantic about their need to keep using C++ in some parts.