skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think that women in general give up on a relationship any faster or easier than men do. In fact, I would probably say that it’s men who give up first when things get tough. (It’s only that women notice problems sooner, while men often are still in denial and think all is fine.)

Saying that technology is the reason why relationships no longer work sounds like a big fat excuse to me. The facts are certainly true. But the conclusion is, in my opinion, a convenient tale to avoid responsibility.
Why would it be useless? Just pick a random date for each user.
Credit cards are a legacy system. Stripe is upgrading this critical system
This is discussed very heavily in economic theory. Basically possession of capital is such a powerful advantage it basically destroys a lot of the adaptation that should be forced. You see this a lot with VC companies, like Uber needing to subsidize every ride or Internet providers monopolizing by endlessly buying each other and merging instead of improving customer service.
AU Parliament approves privacy penalty-increase bill
Just like at Hooli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u48vYSLvKNQ
its part of why i moved there from germany. its crazy how especially germany treats its citizens time as an unlimited resource without any respect what that could mean for peoples lives. neurodivergence is especially amplified in such a system if you have strong adhd or depression like me, 1 or 2 hours paperwork per month is not just 2h but potentially weeks of dreading and self hatred. knowing what life could have been like it hurts to think of all the lost time but i am truly thankful i can finally experience it. there needs to be something like a human right to be left the fuck alone by your country if the task can be done automatically or semi-automatically.
I want the option to control my devices. I don’t understand the arguments that claim Apple needs to rule the device with an iron fist. What problems does it cause to make the locked down experience the default with the option for me to disable that and take control of the device after I buy it?

I want to own my stuff. I want to repair it and I want complete control over it. I think that in 10 years we’ll all have cars with a half dozen subscriptions forced on us and the apologists will still be here telling us how 10 companies all doing the exact same thing to deprive us of true ownership is a healthy, competitive market.
Yeah that’s especially unfortunately true for data science and data engineering teams in companies where ml or data are not the core business but nice-to-have. They are usually the first ones from engineering being axed in times of lay offs.
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Why not just use the phone as a virtual hand of cards?
Out of curiosity, what conspiracies is he peddling?
Is it only available in the US? Can’t open it in the uk store.
In a lot of European countries there is a system to legally sign documents with a digital signature. Either via SMS/App TAN - like for online banking - or a smart card/HSM (mostly used by corporations).

I think Austria moved even more services to the digital age then Estonia. It is not fancy, nor modern. But a lot of documents primarily exist only in a digital form (all laws, court files, official documents, financial administration documents, ...). They are often printed out, but they are just a random piece of paper, just a "copy" of the original. The official and valid version is the digitally signed PDF.

It is mostly implemented via some really boring and antiquated Java Server Pages HTML forms, that are not always easy to use. But they work nearly all the time, and once you send them you immediately get a signed and legally binding confirmation that it was filed.

The roots of the system go back to the early 2000s, and used elliptical cryptography right from the start. Which was really hard back then to deal with, because most libraries or applications didn't support it yet. For example native Windows support came only with Windows 7.

In Austria everyone and every company that has E-mail is required to accept digital signatures. If you cancel your phone contract with a signed PDF via E-Mail the company can't refuse to accept it, as every court will instantly decide in your favour.
Then we should have licenses for bicyclists too!

The reason we have licenses (aka controls on who can drive cars) is to curb dangerous and irresponsible driving, mark drivers for driving egregiously, and remove people or not allow drivers on the road when they don't have the motor skills to navigate a vehicle on the road.

Knowing the rules is secondary, if not tertiary. Otherwise bicyclists should also have licenses and license plates because rules apply to them as well.
> Do you assume that only poor people are earnest?

I don't assume, in my experience I've seen that highfalutin self-advertising of progressive ideals is concentrated in wealthy areas. It's sanctimonious and always among people who are insulated enough from reality to pretend they actually believe in those ideals.
Cancellation and censorship mean a lot of different things in different contexts. For example, OJ Simpson has largely been cancelled. But it doesn't feel like censorship per se -- for example you can still purchase writing by him or find video of him. If he's not on Tic Tok or YouTube, I don't think they'd block him. Yet, I don't think Disney is going to make a movie starring him.
This is one of the things you're (supposed) to learn about during the interview processes. Lots of companies absolutely will flag as "run by psychopaths" during the interview process. But it also helps to look up the company/founders and see what their general reputation is. Lots of places are an obvious "no thanks" after a bit of googling.
Agreed.

I spent some time maintaining a fleet of printers, among other things. Toner cartridges streak when they are near empty, and can be restored by shaking them, for a time. Shaking them more and more as they near the end. I can understand why you’d want a cartridge to report “empty” before it starts streaking.

I don’t really care about a bit of wasted toner, though. What I really want are more durable mechanical parts (gears, etc) and a ready supply of replacement parts like fusers.

I also wonder how the printer counts its toner “empty”. If it’s just a page count, surely it wouldn’t be accurate. I know that you can measure page coverage, but I wonder if they actually do it.

I’m also sure that they have no incentive to make the “empty” threshold more accurate.
Brother lasers also have a funky reset procedure (depends on model, but searchable on internet). It’s outrageous. You can get another 500 to 1000 pages out of it.
Don't use fake words like 'upskill' when you have perfectly good words like 'improve.' Get them copies of 'the little book' (Strunk and White) and the Economist Style Guide.

Also, pay attention to grammar, even in headlines: it will significantly improve your teams' output.

Beta test their output by giving it to first-time or newish users. Be willing to accept harsh criticism, because much technical writing is just really bad writing.

Minimize the length of sentences. Avoid repetition. Writers who are struggling often just rewrite the same information in slightly different ways, failing to explain their ideas clearly and wasting readers' time.

Humor and flair are good and help to make a good text memorable, but can also make a bad text annoying.

Pay attention to layout and pagination. Many technical documents are just read online by scrolling or consulted only occasionally, but for a large project some people are going to want hard copies, and they're the most likely to be your future power users.

Fonts, whitespace, heading weight etc. matter a lot. O'Reilly books owe part of their good reputation to their visual harmony. Packt also do good layouts.

By contrast, I'm reading a book from Apress at present and the body text/code fonts are too large. This makes it tiring to read: I am constantly flipping back and forth to refresh context because nothing fits on a single or double page. I've noticed the same complaint from buyers of other books by this publisher.

This also applies to things like tables of contents, which are one of the few things where repetition is appropriate. There's nothing more annoying when I'm trying to get familiar with some new library than scrolling through long texts of reference material in order to get an overview of what functions are available in each module.

Try to avoid the trap of a tutorial that stops shortly after 'hello world' followed by in-depth reference material, which often creates a yawning skill gap.

Between the two, there's room for discursive sections on why those functions exist - outlining some typical use cases, indicating which ones often pair with each other, and alluding to the outside knowledge that an intermediate-level coder or user might need to fully exploit the reference material.

This is a section where you can explain your design decisions and offer your readers a roadmap for deployment. Without this the reference material can resemble a list of tourist destinations in alphabetical order, with no clues about their geographic relationship.

Finally, writing is not a one-way process; you need to go through review and rewrite cycles. If you can't edit yourself it stands out on a first reading, even to people who can't articulate why. I delete 50% of everything I write and rework phrase/sentence/paragraph structure constantly. This comment went through 4 revisions and each paragraph was reworked 3 or 4 times while writing. Adding more words is the least interesting aspect of writing.
I got pretty good at avoiding fights with bullies and dumbasses. And I never started a fight. I always made an effort to avoid fighting.

But I did become a "fan" of boxing at a very early age and studied how boxers fought. How they setup opponents, threw punches, and especially how they avoided getting hit. Most kids don't do that so it's pretty easy to gain an advantage. And bullies tend to leave kids alone who they know will fight back.

I grew up in some pretty rough neighborhoods so I was motivated to learn.
More precisely, 16.1, a month before the protests. Suspicious that it was China-only.
Thanks to Ritalin I'm were I'm today.

Unfortunately it also made me more annoyed so I stopped taking it after taking it a long time.

Still think it's super shitty that it was so difficult to try it in the first place.
a deliberate attempt to undermine confidence in government

Yes. The strategy is known as "starve the beast" [1] and it is pursued with ferocious determination by its proponents. The goal is to create some kind of minimal government libertarian paradise.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
Can't read past intro because protected.

I know a couple named "Bobbie" and "Bobby".

George Edward Foreman's five sons are all named George Edward Foreman - George Jr., George III ("Monk"), George IV ("Big Wheel"), George V ("Red"), and George VI ("Little Joey") says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Foreman .

Here's a 2012 article from Slate on the same topic: https://slate.com/human-interest/2012/08/couples-with-the-sa... .
I support this change. It's a simple but significant improvement to the basic usability of AirDrop. It's conceivable that Apple came up with this simple usability improvement, publicly announced it, then rolled it out deliberately to hamper the efforts of protesters in China, but I think it's more likely to be a coincidence.
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And just try saying it about all sorts of other freedoms and see how chilling it sounds: "freedom of the press is not freedom from consequences."
Counting is not tracking, but counting unique visitors requires tracking to know they are unique. If the person outside of Costco is counting unique visitors, they must be tracking who has already visited and who has not. Even if they aren't doing anything else with that information and forgetting it each night, it is tracking. The existing abuse of tracking has led to a level of backlash where any tracking is seen through the worst possible lens.
Isn't this an outright lie? "First, none of our policies have changed." I don't mean just generally.

Specifically, their policy around Covid misinformation changed November 23. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/29/twitter-stops-policing-covid...
I recently discovered that Linux handles processes holding files open a little differently from FreeBSD, too, when I tried to unmount a ZFS volume. Something had ahold of a file on it, so I couldn't unmount it—on FreeBSD you can just say "I want all programs that are preventing this to fuck off and, if they're so inclined, to crash"—and ZFS provides a flag to do just that—and go on with your day, but Linux evidently won't let you (I ended up on some ZFS mailing list archive to confirm this was the case and I wasn't just holding it wrong). You have to go track the process(es) down and kill it(/them) yourself, not unlike how you can't delete a file that's in use on Windows and have to go kill the processes. It was faster to just reboot the damn machine than to do that (a very Windows solution).

[EDIT] It may have been a ZFS export operation, not exactly an unmount? I can't recall for sure. Point is, Linux made you go find and kill the relevant processes yourself, while FreeBSD made it trivial to override that and do what you needed to do with no further fuss.
Would you be able to expand on this? Why do they do that? Sounds shady.
Something similar happened with the Carolina Panthers in the NFL. The owner sold the team because of allegations that he was saying racist and sexist things, although there was no recording of him AFAIK. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/18/facing-misconduct-investigat...
That is a fair point. However, my point is not that the CEO should face consequences, but voluntarily take responsibility in some meaningful way. "That's on me" in a corporate email != taking actual responsibility. The empty platitudes are the problem. The accommodations for employees who are being let go are above and beyond, which is the silver lining.
It sounds like the author was never given the chance to build organizational redundancy. It was done around and without them in a strangely secretive way.
Brevity and directness are appreciated. People's livelihoods are disappearing from underneath them -- give tangible reasons why, in plain language.
Twitter cutting down the bloat and going start up mode is probably the best thing. Twitter before Musk isn't any better than after Musk.
I do not see how they can say they still prioritize broad safety when there is reportedly only one person left on the child safety team.
Yup, the connection to self-replication has showed up mostly in the discussion here, in relation to true self-replicating patterns like the https://conwaylife.com/wiki/0E0P_metacell -- which does have a few vaguely cell-like attributes.

The RCT design is very much a mathematical construct, as opposed to anything with a biological inspiration. And the RCT's ability to construct itself is more of a theoretical afterthought at this point -- the engineering work hasn't been done yet to produce a demo of that kind of thing.

The point is well taken, about the fragility of Conway's Life with respect to environmental noise. That topic has also come up here and there in these comments, e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33797799#33800301
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Yep; we went eighteen months between the first "no toner" and visible impact on print quality, despite two kids in school needing stuff printed daily.
> First Twitter was going to crash in a week

Was it? I read a lot of comments saying that mass-firing people is going to cause immediate degradation in some areas like content moderation (which we have seen) and eventual unpredictable failures in others. If you saw people predicting a sudden crash I'd take their opinion with a pinch of salt in the future, sounds like quite a reactionary take.

> then it was everyone would flee to Mastodon

Well some people have been trying out Mastodon, some have been tinkering with Tumblr or Instagram, and some communities have started to solidify around discord servers and other places. One near-universal thing I've seen is more popular accounts being very vocal about sharing their links to other services with the aim of making Twitter non-essential - so if it goes down, or they'd rather leave then they could do so without starting completely from scratch.

> now it’s that all the advertisers would leave.

To be fair it sounds like a lot of them have, prompting this very letter ...

> Maybe Twitter really didn’t need 7500 people

Maybe. It remains to be seen whether axing so many so suddenly was survivable in the long-term financially or operationally, though.
It's not like A/B tests approach anything like the rigor that we expect from actual science, though.
Apple did not block AirDrop in China. Apple made it harder to fingerprint protestors who forgot to turn off "Everyone" sharing.
> The bigger news to me was that Apple blocked AirDrop in China

Why is this bigger news? Seems equivalent to me.

Is it because Huawei is already seen as an adversary while folks persist in seeing Apple as somehow more benign?
I thought they had sacked the entirety of the Trust & Safety team. Especially considered I got added to something like 30 spam DM threads over the last week, and that reporting them did exactly nothing.
It's only weird, if you attempt to parse it with a straight face.

This is some B-grade best-effort spin on what has been uncontrolled chaos with predictably awful effects.

The only thing keeping Twitter rolling is the majority percentage of the casual niche user in non-political and non-technical niches, who haven't been paying attention to the chaos; and who by virtue of being casual users are not notably surprised at everything that has broken both culturally, wrt safety and content, and technically.

Unfortunately for Leon the money comes from corners who HAVE been paying attention and not only see what's happened, and ongoing—they see through this kind of comedic college-try at handwaving around it.
You are underestimating how severely it cripples it for sharing of protest material, especially between people who may not formally know each other. It is a fatal blow, make no mistake.
There are a lot of things like that. Although browsers changed it recently, you also used to be able to use TLS session tickets.

Another one was the favicon cache.

Pretty much any state on the browser can be used to track people.
> “ studies suggest that public health interventions could aim at preventing children from becoming the target of bullying behaviours from an early age.”

> Sounds almost like victim blaming. If true, if there’s something about the bullied that causes them to be bullied, perhaps bullying is actually a form of social correction. Not that nature should be our guide, but often harsh social behavior is functional from an evolutionary standpoint. That said,

A distinction needs to be made between post-facto "victim blaming" and prevention that involves potential victims. Conflating the two leads one to oppose good measures out of an allegiance to an unrealistically perfect, ideologically-motivated fantasy (that social problems can and should be solved only by authorities applying pressure to the "guilty" people").
George Gilder, definitely a more niche and controversial author with a lot to disagree with, but I think his frameworks finds the right balance between libertarianism and full government control of the markets.
The consequences of the lack of competition are borne by a huge number of other wealthy companies/people.

Affecting pretty much anybody that builds a product that spans across mobile devices.

Spotify and Netflix pay Apple a huge percentage of their subscription revenue, for example... simply because the consumer signed up via iPhone. This is not a chorus of small time devs, these are huge companies
Nomad on bare metal.
Given the $300 price point it sounds like you may have been on vyvanse? I found vyvanse to be way too intense of a medication for me personally. I shifted to extended release Adderall which has been much better at managing ADHD symptoms without turning me into a robot running on overdrive.
You will get dirty if you cut it open, we are no longer living in the stone age.
https://archive.ph/2fmbc
> If you have an aversion to answering questions that's fine, but I'd prefer an acknowledgement

Not gonna lie, if you're genuinely struggling to understand that a sentence that begins "We are HNers participating in the discussion" [emphasis original] might actually be intended as an answer to a "who is the 'we'" question quoted directly above it, not a separate sentence fragment for you to come up with an obtuse response to, I'm not sure you're really equipped to pass judgement on other people's thinking skills through the medium of text.

If you're merely feigning ignorance of the basic syntax of the English language as a rhetorical flourish, it's... also not impressive.

> What's cute about it, and what's the problem with including links that are relevant to a discussion?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

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> At the very least, conspiracy theorists had the ability to take this story very seriously, and discuss it in much greater depth than normies. Opinions vary on how seriously child abuse should be taken - some are strict, others are more accepting.

Ah... an actual argument in favour of conspiracy theorists. Trouble is, whilst conspiracy theorists had the ability to take the Epstein story very seriously, so did courts, the police, editors of mainstream newspapers of all persuasions and the millions of sheeple that need to wake up, so it's clear that the ability to take it very seriously is not a skill unique to conspiracy theorists. And many conspiracy theorists - at least those of a certain political persuasion - also had the ability to take very seriously the claim that Donald Trump had been fighting a secret decades long battle against paedophile cabals that would be resolved in a judgement day called the Storm, as soon as those pesky fake ballots had been sorted out. I'm not sure the ability to believe something about paedophile rings most other people also are able to believe is really a superpower which makes up for believing in stuff about paedophile rings which didn't happen and was never going to happen because it was utterly silly.

But hey, maybe the Storm happened and disputing the fact that Trump is actually acting POTUS and rounding up Deep State paedophiles for execution as we speak is just overconfidence in the wrong sources, a form of naive realism no conspiracy theorist could ever be guilty of.
Also: why don't give users both options? Is up to the user to decide which to use. Make it 10 minutes the default but leave the unlimited option available.
But google analytics isn't viable. It's illegal to use in the EU. Here's an explanation by, well, a viable alternative to google analytics: https://matomo.org/blog/2022/05/google-analytics-4-gdpr/

(I don't have a horse in this battle - my personal website doesn't have analytics at all.)
Make sense.

It’s hard to share something like this and be taken seriously.
The link is a doctor explaining how this work.
People make the judgement in a split second.
How is that different from Tesla essentially using Tesla car owners as unpaid betatesters for their autonomous driving (and other) software while disclaiming all responsibility when anything happens?

This "learn by doing" is going to end up well ... not. Especially when trying to learn by repeating mistakes with completely foreseable consequences, like that blue "verified" badge being available for anyone who pays without any verification.