skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So it does plan to replace all up streams eventually including apt, npm, pypi, gem etc by providing the ability to build and configure all software? I am not understanding this, currently the original maintainers release on their own stores. the build and configure steps may change over time. Unless the original maintainers start building for nix, would not this be too hard to maintain?
What I think has happened is that the culture wars are taking over more and more topics. Not only the obvious stuff like race, LGBTQ+ rights, crime, and labor, but increasingly things that don't traditionally fall on the left/right axis: vaccines, lab leak theory, content moderation, and even programming languages to some extent (admit it, the representation of trans people in the Rust community triggers some people).

One thing that gets me is that, putting aside the question about whether one side or the other is right, the culture war stuff is just incredibly stupid. It's like people have gotten a lobotomy and their ability to do critical reasoning and respond to empirical data has been replaced with just pure tribal identity. My sense is that this is happening across the country (and perhaps to some extent the world), and HN actually has it easier than a lot of other places.
I don't think this thread is about comment quality in general (which I agree is still quite good), but conspiracy theories in particular.
I think it's clear that FIFA gives anti-fucks about slave labor.
Seems the distinction wouldn't improve OP's outlook besides.
Also the karma limits. I have almost 150 comment karma and still can't downvote. I'm not sure when downvoting/report, etc. come into play, but I'm fine even if it's much higher -- it seems to be working well.
You can fix that by forcing one or the other OS to use the time method the other one does. The issue is that by default one uses UTC and the other uses local system time.
Can recommend, nicely done and useful. 12 submissions in 8 years, if I’m not mistaken

Most discussed in the first submission (2014):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7951020
I see the more general problem is "automatic responses" to certain topics, where conspiracy theories are a part of that.

If Facebook is mentioned, there is always someone saying how terrible Facebook is, even if it's an article about how Facebook's datacenters run their air conditioning. They just can't help but post about hating Facebook.

Similarly, any mention of certain topics result in someone spitting out the related conspiracy theory.

Perhaps those posts are inevitable, but I wish people downvoted them due to not being relevant. It seems they trigger the right emotional response to get upvotes.
> Moravec's paradox is the observation by artificial intelligence and robotics researchers that, contrary to traditional assumptions, reasoning requires very little computation, but sensorimotor and perception skills require enormous computational resources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
Trucks wait for highways to reopen while residents dig themselves out [video]
Citation and evidence needed.
> the world's dominant economic and political system has been grounded in an ideology of capital for at least half a century

As opposed to what less dominant but still significant systems?
This is really weird because I can't remember the last time I've seen climate change deniers on HN. Your experience seems different from mine.
That’s very narrow minded and incredibly short sighted. Good arguments have a thesis and supporting evidence. Conspiracy arguments have no supporting evidence.
I see it says there's a lot of H1 work are still there…

Musk has said Americans are lazy compared to those not in the US… Maybe that picture shows it… Work balance over changing the world type of work or your stuck cause no job your out of the country. Maybe it's a mix of both

Maybe musk could force more truth on the Internet, somehow through the blue checkmark and verification of each user… Create a reputation system, or may be crazy if you're going to spread lies how much of your own money you gonna back up that silly political lie with (so much drama in politics it driven by emotions more then logic).
The argument is that YouTube rewards what hivemind thinks is interesting and not what's correct or accurate.

Sargon of Akkad has 900k subscribers and according to the dude EU is two years away from collapse and open racial war because of immigration and the left since at least 2012 but none of that has realized. But a lot of people out there like his takes so he has subscribers.
Online pregnancy literature is part of medicine. Including marginalized groups is absolutely crucial and is done or should be done in virtually all aspects of medicine. Your intake forms for a child shouldn't have spaces labelled "mother" and "father" because same sex couples exist. You don't ask a woman "what does your husband do" or a man "what does your wife do" because you never know if they're in a same sex relationship, and there is a significant history of medicine treating queer people poorly and you're at risk of ruining rapport with your patient before you even get a chance to develop it. We don't call people struggling with addiction "addicts" or "junkies" because they still deserve help, and we don't want them walking out the door because they're already suspicious that you're going to abuse them.

Even outside of social denigrated groups, medicine is all about accommodating that 10% or 1% or 0.01%. I spent quite a bit of time on lectures about cystic fibrosis patients considering there are only about 40,000 people living with CF in all of the US, about 1/3200 live births. It costs real money to keep these people alive, and nobody seems to have a problem with that. Somehow "pregnant people" is an absolute deal breaker though, where we start talking about "is it worth to accommodate them?"

All of this boils down to people saying "you can't say woman anymore." Except you absolutely can, if you're talking about a pregnant woman, just like you can say "husband and wife" if that applies to a married couple, because those are specific situations. But when medicine speaks, it has to speak to everyone, especially those most at risk.
They do have a say. Their labour is being purchased from them, not appropriated. They can say no (individually or together) and ultimately they can walk away.

As you say, collective bargaining is usually going to be more effective than individual.
I feel that the goal should be providing tickets to the fans who most want to be there. For example, Round 1 would be for fans who feel confident that a Taylor Swift Eras show would be the best event they would ever experience. A fan in Round 1 must agree that they are banned for life from other Ticketmaster purchases, and banned for life from any other attendance at a Ticketmaster contracted venue. In Round 2, maybe a person is only banned for ten years. In Round N, maybe a person is banned from future concerts but can still use Ticketmaster for sporting events, etc. Ticket prices are the same in every round and there's no dynamic pricing or resale: the only difference is the fan's level of ban commitment. However, the more lenient rounds might not occur if tickets are sold out in the stricter rounds.

This does more to "maximize joy" than the other plausible alternatives. For example, Verified Fan can only select fans who have a life situation allowing them to virtually wait in line (stay active on their device) for hours, and are also lucky enough to be selected. A lottery can only select fans who are lucky, regardless of whether they especially care about Taylor Swift or just enjoy concerts in general. An auction can only select fans who have the most money.

If there's no practical way to implement this, I can still write my dystopian novel about the identity verification and tracking measures where, if a Round 1 person actually shows up at the venue, the full force of society ensures that they are banned for life after that one show.
Well， we wanna use Rssnix in our product, will that be possible?

Here is the link:https://github.com/illacloud/illa-builder
100% agree. Too often we hype up technologies and try to force fit problems to them.
> you can't buy [RAV4 Prime] unless you pay $10k markup

Quite frankly, many people can't buy a RAV4 Prime at any price regardless of markups due to availability. My local dealer just quoted me a wait time of up to 18 months for a non-pluggable RAV4 Hybrid because there are simply no chips to go around.
If so it kind of fails at it. Flight is well defined, intelligence isn’t. Nobody doubts that an airplane flies, but lots of people—including myself—would never call alpha-go an intelligent machine.
Some Maya rulers may have taken generations to attract subjects
This article’s main point is that AI technology has economic potential. It goes about this by parodying common arguments against whether such AI can develop into goal-driven beings.

One example of such criticism is this five year old piece: https://www.wired.com/2017/04/the-myth-of-a-superhuman-ai/ Few are skeptical about AI technologies’ economic impact. In that sense, the article misses the ball slightly, but it’s so funny that I don’t mind.

To state my point in the vein of the article: The bulldozer did change our economy. It does most, if not all, of its productive work in cooperation with a human. Turning a bulldozer on and letting it run by itself is usually a waste, and may be dangerous.
By the time they got to "just stick a beacon tag inside employee badges and measure the RSSI from the mesh lightbulbs" it's pretty clear that it's one of the features they had in mind, though. You wouldn't "just" re-issue all your employee badges and spend engineering time on integrating it like this if tracking the employees wasn't the goal.
To be honest, they don't look like they are having fun to me. Most of the people I can see in that photo read as exhausted to me (which makes sense, 1 am and all). Even the group photo Elon tweeted looks pretty forced to my eyes.
Maybe there are more conspiracies happening - there are more humans than ever and more communication channels than ever, should we be surprised if more conspiracies occur? Or are you simply referring to opinions currently deemed unpopular or outside of the Overton window? Those are the opinions I most want to hear, I can get mainstream thinking almost anywhere, it’s mainstream.

Thus, without any examples your question is impossible to answer.
In popular culture, it's become very strongly associated with sci-fi-ish prosthetics and implants. I've had arguments with people who insist that "artificial intelligence" means sci-fi robots exclusively, despite the actual field of study being older than they are, and it's 10 times worse with "cybernetics."

It's a shame, there's nothing wrong with the term or the people who coined and studied it, but I really think trying to hold on to it would hold the field back unnecessarily.
I've never seen an optional hackathon that didn't come with serious "contribute or else" vibes.
Each version has the correct button prompts for its controller. I don’t know enough about FF7 to know how this was accomplished, probably by editing the script files. One thing you might be interested in- there’s evidence that the team responsible for the new FF7 renderer code either hired a modder to write it or used his code as a base. https://blog.julianxhokaxhiu.com/2020-02-19-final-fantasy-vi...
so something like "when it comes to moving easily, shorts are good!" ?
Yes and it still doesn't quite explain things clearly. Mercury is an element so even if it gets broken down into other forms that are less toxic, isn't it still present and not "cleared" as the article claims? Are the new molecules less volitaile/unlikely to revert to their toxic organic forms or more liekly to drain off into waterways?
Glad you regret it. Not trying to rub it in as I don't think anything productive will come from self-flagellation, but this is truly awful and I think the US should have laws that make it a crime for any US corporation to participate in this sort of thing.
The fact that this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33674562) survived for as long as it did despite wildly transphobic "automatic responses" (nitwit005's words, well put) tells me that we're probably on that downhill trend. I remember (vaguely) a particular automatic control existing to mitigate low-quality discussion by simply demoting threads with heavy flag/unflag trends from the front page, and here we have an example of a thread linking to a pretty inflammatory blog post that managed to stay on the front page for hours despite being littered with comments that were flagged/unflagged repeatedly. Even now it's #50, seven hours later.

Just with that single case study of a topic, yeah there's a downhill trend to be noted.

Edit: oh hey, the flagging actually worked this time. lol
> The best way to reproduce the colors might be to follow Boogert’s recipes for the paint, which I think is what he documented?

That's back far enough that following the recipes is bound to be _hard_.

Chemicals and pigments and such go by different names, are produced in different processes and formulations, and some are extremely hard to get due to someone noticing that it rots your genes or whatever.

Maybe whatever pigments are used in watercolors aren't affected by this much, but I bet at least some are.

It'd should be fun to try though, for a certain kind of person.
You can think of those percentages less like “there is only 10-30% left to explain” and more like “we can explain most of it we think but we have no idea how these complex factors interact”

They basically look at fraternal and identical twins and assume (because their environments are otherwise probably close) that any differences in outcome are heritable. It’s a huge leap of faith.
Waiting for Web 4.0 Myself.
Yes. The problem was that the interpreters for both languages did not have a well-defined FFI. From a native library you could reach up into the interpreter and party over the AST to your heart's content. We couldn't in any practical sense emulate those data structures from the CLR which meant that native libraries couldn't run. That meant that existing scripting code that used those libraries would need to be rewritten to use an equivalent .NET library (e.g., regex). We naively thought that was what people would do and that turned out to be a mistake :(
> Whilst
There are specific comments already, but multiple successive slashes are treated as a single slash, in every case except when a path begins with exactly two slashes, in which case it's implementation dependent.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1...
This non-crypto topic from 7 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33674562
> i understand this topic perfectly well

clearly you do not. you watch a few videos of "cute" animals being mistreated by the worst and poorest industrial farms and think you know what goes on? you don't even know a lamb from a calf or veal from a chop.

> I don’t support the insanity that is animal agriculture

there is a wide range between ethical and despicable. the average is much closer to ethical end of that range - because it is actually more profitable to care for your crop, before eating it.

how many animals (or people) die indirectly due to farming vegetables? ever think of that? do you support the insanity of any kind of farming?

you're human. that makes you, inescapably, culpable for the destruction of nature, same as pretty much every other human. to try to paint yourself as better because you pretend you don't destroy your favorite kinds of nature makes you a hypocrite.

and very poorly informed.
Wanna bro down and crush some code?
Ask HN: How to go from data science to software engineering?
I’m a data scientist working in Tech, and have decent programming skills for a data science position, but don’t have a software engineering background. I’ve found that I don’t quite enjoy the ad hoc nature of the profession, moving from one small project to another completely different one. I’d rather work on a project that builds something and the effort accumulates into something more tangible than an analysis report.
What’s the optimal way to learn the necessary software engineering skills and move to such a role?
There is also devshell[1] which allows you to configure specific commands for your `env` and sits inside your flake.

[1]: https://github.com/numtide/devshell
The Looming Risk of Tailings Dams
the church of england and mine tailings..... ?
Containers run nearly identical to native performance and best VMs in practically every category.

In what way are they slow?
Ignoring the Oz comment I agree. I wish I could see San Francisco or mental health articles and read comments with similar quality as the tech stuff. Anytime psychiatry is mentioned there’s 100’s of parrots claiming SSRIs are a scam
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>After users reach 501 Karma, they gain the ability to downvote another comment.

>If a user has 31 Karma, they can flag submissions.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
Seems like a lot of I/O for a poor SD card.
Time-Shifting Heat with Ceramic Bricks to Lower Energy Costs (2018)
Is this what the OP meant by "conspiracy comments"? Simply opinions that differ from yours? Or controversial content in general?

That's not the definition of "conspiracy" I'm familiar with. Perhaps OP could provide some examples of the conspiracy comments they're referring to.
Where's that? I just got one, it took some work calling dealers for a few weeks, but you can't order them, you have to find the one you want on the lot. All dealers have their inventories on their website and Hyundai's site has a master search for all of them. The exact car I wanted showed up, the dealer had it, so I had to drive from NY to PA to pick it up. I hired a car transport to bring it to my house the next day. So it took me a little less than a month to get it. In the tri state area there's a good deal of ioniqs in stock.
Moravec's paradox is just an observation made on 80's state of AI. It doesn't hold true - high-level reasoning is absolutely not cheaper than sensorimotor stuff, and most importantly there might be no difference between them.
> It's like people have gotten a lobotomy and their ability to do critical reasoning and respond to empirical data has been replaced with just pure tribal identity

Culture wars expose fundamental value differences. Like when someone says “we should eliminate prisons” what’s the rational debate to be had about that? Leaving aside right or wrong, clearly people on opposite sides of that issue just see the world and human nature fundamentally differently.

I don’t think it’s really about “tribal identity” because culture war issues actually expose intra-tribal schisms. I’ve been a democrat most of my adult life but I can’t wrap my brain around some of the stuff that’s been normalized in my Romney 2012 suburb.
> For profit businesses will never apply rules consistently, there is too much profit in inconsistency.

A for profit business definitely could definitely codify how to profit and how to price in its charter. Too much profit is just a bad excuse.
That just feels like Orwellian rewriting of history.
actually your comment triggered the right emotional response from me.
i couldn't agree more and it makes many articles comments section look like a copy paste.
Show HN: Illa – An open-source alternative to Retool
Hey HNs:

This is Vincent from the ILLA team. I'm sure you guys see tons of "Open-source" and "Alternative to Retool" these days. I won't deny Retool is a great product, and so are many open-source competitors such as Appsmith, Budibase, Tooljet etc.

However, what makes ILLA so special? What advantages does ILLA have that allow users to choose ILLA instead of others?

Well, I would like to answer those questions to all folks at HN one by one.

First, we are similar to Retool, or Appsmith but we have many different our own features. We are a true open-source project all the folks here can check and review our Code here: https://github.com/illacloud/illa-builder. We believe as developers the basic ethic is to be honest, especially in "open-source" circumstances. You have to be honest with your team, users, and contributors in order to grow. Therefore, we welcome all the contributors from around the world to build ILLA together, this is a promising project and won't let you down. With your code, we can build the next DevTool together instead of just making some cash.

Ok, so maybe some folks here would say that I don't care about "Code Integrity", and there are many different options such as Appsmith, Budibase, and Tooljet. Why should I use ILLA here? Well, we believe the difference between animals and homo sapiens is that people know to use tools to improve their work efficiencies. Our whole team members are developer backgrounds and we know many itch issues we would like to solve for developers. So maybe our newest 1.3.3 version is not good enough, but just give us a little more time and I'm you will see the differences.

In the end, We are also "open-source" first. We are willing to collaborate with different open-source alternatives as much as we can. For example, we just partnered with PingCAP a few weeks ago. We will support many other open-source databases such as MindsDB, Supabase, etc soon. We can also support many other open-source alternatives, if you are interested, you can always find us in our Discord community.

Our Repo again: https://github.com/illacloud/illa-builder
That already happened c. 2013 when signal declined as early adopters and the cool kids from YC batches were swamped and dissuaded by randos. Nowadays, there are so many on HN who aren't part of the startup, academia, or STEM scene that there isn't nearly as much signal as there was. I think the only solution for a high-signal news aggregator + comments is invite-only with a small fee.

(I constantly throw away accounts whenever they reach 1-3k karma. It doesn't mean anything and it brings out the true nature of people when they believe they have the upper hand.)
What conspiracy theories? I don't recall seeing many on HN.

(Ok, there are some comments about "birds aren't real" on a high ranked post right now, but that's a joke.)
Completely an aside, but consider using hand tools.
Definitely. There are frequently people who state unproven things as fact. For instance, when discussing the FBI informants' role in the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot. It isn't a proven fact that "the FBI planned it" or anything of that sort. Yet, many HNers asserting it was an FBI false flag.
There are a few different time types in Win32, the one I was talking about is FILETIME: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sysinfo/abou...

FILETIME is a nominally unsigned 64-bt value. 1601-01-01 + 2^64 * 100ns = 60056-05-28. That is, Sunday May 28, 60056.