skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is it an improvement if it prevents users from doing what the service has allowed since day one? This is even worse than their disable-wifi setting, which (when toggled from the Control Center) only disables wifi until the end of the day. You have to go to the Settings app to disable wifi (and perhaps also Bluetooth?) permanently.

But the AirDrop change makes it even worse. There is nowhere you can go to make this setting stick. There is no reason to remove this option.
I’m glad someone said it. One random chap on twitter is hardly a reliable source.
huge sponges and felt blocks. not kidding.
What's new is speed-of-light communication.
What language only allows concatenating a non-empty array?

And it still doesn't explain why string concatenation being a monoid is useful in ruby. It's useful in Haskell because implementing one of their category-theory typeclasses means that type now inherits a stdlib-sized API that works for any monoid, not concrete types. But even Haskell hasn't proven that it's worth the jargon or abstraction after all these years; every other language remains productive without designing APIs at such a high level of abstraction.
Elon is pretty clearly unbanning violent right-wing extremists while banning rule-following accounts on the left, sometimes transparently at the direction of the right wingers. Why do you insist on pretending anything else?
There's so much more to it than embarrassment when grief is involved.

For me it felt pathetic because their absence overshadowed absolutely everything else, making it all feel wasted, from the effort to get out of the house to the order to eating to returning home.

It didn't matter if the restaurant or bar was full or empty, what others thought about me never crossed my mind, because all I could think about was the empty seat across from me, the empty stool next to me. Why bother when I can feel like that at home?
Half the world’s population growth will be concentrated in just nine countries: India, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan, Ethiopia, the United Republic of Tanzania, the United States of America, Uganda and Indonesia (ordered by their expected contribution to total growth).
Not many of those countries have any interest in 'intentionally sacrificing to slow climate change'. They are mostly being exploited by rapacious 'green' capitalists for rare earth minerals etc as their populations explode..

Eight countries will make up over half the projected total population increase by 2050:
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Tanzania, the Philippines and Egypt.

India is expected to overtake China as the world’s most populous country next year (2023), when China’s population is expected to start declining.

(Source: United Nations Population Fund, 2022)

These places are ground zero for environmental concerns imo
> But nothing goes directly into main.

That's not a reasonable argument. The problem is pushing confidential info into a repository. It matters nothing what the branch you push it is called.
Yeah I mentioned content moderation
Yep, The United States Military has been working with Hollywood and video game producers to produce propaganda for 3 decades now.

https://mronline.org/2022/08/06/how-the-pentagon-dictates-ho...
> I used to take selfies to help neutrally assess my own mood. A lot of the time I was feeling something and unaware, but I could tell from the photo.

What were you feeling that you could only identify by your outward appearance ? You don't have to look happy and smiling all the time, in many cultures ( Germany, France ) people actively distrust people who do this.
When a person is enveloped in grief, cooking a meal is the most impossible thing to do. The reasons are many, but it is so.

If someone you know has just lost their loved one, in those days soon after, visit them, and take containers with some meals you have prepared. Like, heat'em and eat'em.

Even if you only go to check in and hug and drop them off.

It will relieve that person of a burden.
I really find these mea-culpas hard to take when I know even just a smidge more than they expect.

In this case, I did a Doordash technical screen three months ago during a job hunt. Recruiter painted a rosy picture of growth and outlook, slathered me in honey-words, etc. This was well into the downturn.

Normalcy bias is powerful and I can understand that some companies did not move fast enough to respond to the change in the weather, but I can also fault them for it, and find these apologies self-serving.
This isn’t true. Science is ultimately the scientific method — make a hypothesis, test a change, observe the results, repeat. It’s an algorithm for learning and broadly gaining information about reality. It can equally be applied to things having to do with humans and things not having to do with humans.
I feel like it's not even medical doctors, it's the CIO/hospital administrators and the insurance companies that drive most of the software decisions, since that is where the money for these large Epic deployment contracts come from and they are the true "customers". Most medical doctors don't even know where to start when asked re software decisions.
Hospitals are covered under EMTALA so if it’s truly emergency and they accept Medicare, they are legally forced to.

A hospital that doesn’t take Medicare has no obligation to give you any treatments.
Pot. Kettle. Black. You should stop believing misinformation.

The belief that they ever believed in global cooling is itself a result of cherrypicking. Most papers predicted warming. See https://skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s-in... for details.

The short version is that aerosols in the air have a cooling effect. Papers did predict that a massive increase in aerosols could cause cooling. That increase never happened thanks to the Clean Air Act. Similarly dust from a nuclear war would have the same effect. Thankfully this theory has not been put to the test.
>Regarding 1.1, we continue to find that your app or metadata includes content some users may find upsetting, offensive, or otherwise objectionable. Specifically, Pepe the Frog.

This is hilarious. Apple's ability to remove apps because they feel like it is horrible. Remember how they killed tumblr?
> previous Twitter wasn't as transparent as it is now

Reinstating accounts on the basis of a poll, on a platform you have spent months railing for having too many bots, is a good example of CYA transparency.
Which is why even morally reprehensible companies like Microsoft, Google and Facebook balked at this censorship and ceased business relations with China. Apple is the last man standing, ironically preaching their independence and dedication to the end-user.
Title should be "FreeBSD" rather than the all encompassing "BSD".
Somewhat related, I recently bought a Brita water filter jug which has a little led on the lid which glows red when the disposable filter cartridge has “expired” and needs replacing.

Before I even started to use the thing I knew what to expect. Sure enough it starts to glow red after a ridiculously short period of time of using a brand new filter cartridge.

I’ve been ignoring it for a few weeks now and checking for any difference in taste of the filtered water but haven’t detected anything yet. I’d recently been wondering about how to verify the filter’s effectiveness somehow as I’m sure this indicator is less than useless and essentially setup to “lie” for profit.

There should be laws against this sort of thing. Any indicator that tells you when a consumable needs to be replaced should have to meet some level of accuracy in order to be legal.
Also "Lenia":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT49wpyux-k
Magnesium is a very helpful supplement for anyone taking ADHD meds. Take it at night, and make sure it's chelated magnesium for best absorption. It will help you sleep.
Speaking of "pretending", that is false on both counts.
Ask HN: Is VSCode Open Source? What's with the License?
I've recently switched from Emacs to VSCode and I've recently been looking at VSCode Development Environments and their more recent VSCode Server offering / Remote Development Environments (https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/vscode-server)

I thought wow, how cool, I could run VSCode Server on one of my remote servers or use SSH with Remote Development (which sets up VSCode Server for you and tunnels it I believe.) and edit remotely.

What's super concerning is the license term for VSCode Server (https://code.visualstudio.com/license/server):

You cannot...

host, share, publish, rent or lease the software; or

But I'm pretty sure Remote Development extension installs and runs VSCode Server for you (which means hosting the software.), essentially setting you up to break the license and open your organization to legal trouble since you're now hosting VSCode Server...

Holly molly, there's currently 13,462,303 users using the Remote - SSH extension, all of them breaking the licensing terms of VSCode Server?
Nvidia RTX 6000 48GB Ada Professional GPU Listed at Suggested Retail of $9,999
Pretty sure this isn't new thing, I remember hearing about this ~2 years ago when first COVID lockdowns started.
Humans are stupid, buddy, it doesn't matter what forum you're on. Same dumb meat sacks, same heuristics, bias, emotions. We're even dumber in groups. Thinking you're smarter than the rest is proof that you're not.
Is Facebook the town dilapidated mall full of geezers getting their daily walks?
Judging by the bugginess of recent iOS releases, I'm not sure they take too much time for testing.
It should be able to detect that the date is not valid (and that their precision is wrong), and avoid sending a "If-Modified-Since" header. (The same would be true if they were assigned at random rather than sequential like this; it still should be able to detect that they are not valid and have wrong precision.)
The accompanying video was quite nicely done: https://youtu.be/uOJCS1W1uzg

I have to say that I have a general suspicion of quantum computing research as it seems that the scientists could be making up success criteria as they go along and we'd have zero idea either way. That said, I respect these institutions enough to accept that people much more brilliant than myself are solving problems I can't begin to understand, and so I take these sorts of pronouncements at face value until proved otherwise.
regulated...by the HHS panel that conveniently includes Judy Faulkner, CEO of Epic...
I agree with others that I don't understand where you're coming from in some sort of decline or big change in The Economist. Maybe if you're overly obsessed with the editorials, which I've always skipped, something has changed. But the basic news reporting remains more or less the same as it has been for the 5+ years I've been subscribing.

I subscribed to Le Monde Diplomatique for a year and rarely found more than 1 or 2 articles a month that were interesting info I couldn't get elsewhere.

I subscribe to Foreign Affairs and find it to be 80% boring junk on the same set of topics about the rise of China, what to do about Russia, etc. The occasional article or book review on a less covered country makes it sort of worth the subscription price to me.

If you're just looking for something like "interesting book reviews," I'd take a look at the Literary Review. Or maybe the Times Literary Supplement. And New York Review of Books and London Review of Books offer much more in-depth reviews, but reading between the lines it seems like the op is saying The Economist is too liberal for them and is not going to like the tenor of most of what's in these.
I don't know why anyone would take seriously anything Twitter says, beyond acknowledging they said it.

Everything is currently a moving target, and subject to their owner's whims.
Forgive me, but I'm not sure what these things have to do with my comment. I was more interested in your thoughts on autodidactism and knowing what is true.
> Cancellation is an example of the exercising of free speech.

If the context is a vacuum that might be fine, maybe.

In reality the US is hyper fragile intellectually and it has gotten drastically worse over the past 10-15 years. The way that fragility is being managed is through silencing and cancellation instead of through intellectual strengthening. Younger people in the US are entirely incapable of discussing difficult ideas emotionally, they're weak. Today the US would try to defeat the KKK via cancellation, which doesn't actually work; yesterday the KKK - which was a huge movement at one time, and has almost no power today - was defeated in the public square head-on, not by cowering or cancelling. The people that intellectually fought the KKK at the height of its power would ridicule today's incredible mental weakness; such weakness that someone as trivial as Trump has to be cancelled in order to deal with him. If people today weren't so intellectually weak, they could counter a Trump quite easily. Trump is absolutely nothing compared to what was dealt with in prior generations.

You defeat bad ideology through rigorous intellectual conflict in the public square. It's messy, difficult and it can be violent - so what. Anything else and the bad will fester under the rugs where it has been swept, and you risk it getting far worse. There are far worse things than Trump and they're barrelling toward the US right now (DeSantis), that wasn't stopped by silencing Trump; it only gets stopped through exactly what I said - you have to smash the ideas in the public square, your ideas have to win. Or else. The far right will eventually produce the next version of Nixon, and he'll wield far greater executive power compared to what Richard Nixon had. Trump isn't that, he's a carnival barker at best; a big part of the left is too irrational and obsessed to recognize the difference.

The US is lucky it was Trump. He's a de facto clown show. The US is increasingly close to being primed for real authoritarianism, the levers are there.
The team was all mathematicians. We did the math. I helped one of our data scientists put a model into production that saved $15M a year from that model alone, and we had a dozen people like that. We were working on signal loss models that had potential to save billions. I genuinely do not understand the logic of cutting this team to save costs.
Thank you for your tip. I don't often run into successful people and the few that I do run into it's pretty difficult to have deep conversations. However, I have found people are a lot more open to divulging their inner workings on podcasts. So, I think podcasts are pretty adept at discovering successful people and their strategies.
Oh I don't think you were hiding anything, I'm just saying a single podcast is not enough to convince me of anything.

That said,I started listening to it... It's fantastic. They've made really great points so far. A bunch of questionable stuff too that I disagree with, but lots of great points.

And even not just about obesity. I think they made some analogies that will stick with me about correlations.

I have no idea who these are, but I'm super thankful you introduced me to them I'm definitely going to try more of their stuff.
Open Source Computer Vision Toolset AMA
It's very easy to pick up. The parts you might find weird are mainly:

1) The OO model (composition-over-inheritance, and the syntax may be a little unfamiliar)

2) Slices

3) Goroutines/concurrency

4) I guess multi-return and idiomatic error handling deserve a mention, though they're so minor and super easy to understand that they're not really like the other entries on this list.

... but if you can devote 2-3 hours to reading the official manual for each of those topics and working through an exercise or two for each, congrats, you're ready to work productively in Go. Maybe 20 hours total, at the outside, to get comfortable enough to use it productively. Possibly closer to 10. Assuming some prior familiarity with other similar-family languages, that is, which most developers have.
excellent argument, you sure changed my mind
And the US government can say "no" right back to Apple since iPhone-unlocking tools are/have been readily available and purchased in droves by American law-enforcement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayshift
the marketing team writes a Grown Up , Adult blog post to try to look normal, then commander Elon will come out tomorrow high fiving more nazis [1] and banning more non-nazi accounts for supposedly belonging to "antifa" and saying things he doesn't personally like [2].

This is the same "trapped enabler" pattern we saw with Trump in the early days, with his staff constantly coming out to try to paper over whatever horrible thing he did. They had no shame, and neither does the Twitter staff that wrote this blog post.

[1] https://archive.ph/xYeYY - TPM article without paywall

[2] https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-n...
They already had this once before, then shut it down. Not sure why this time should be different?
I also read that iPhones are quickly growing in market share in China as Chinese people see them as more luxurious than their domestic brands. Which raises the question, how does iMessage, the App Store, data collection and western app policy stuff work on Chinese iPhones? There has to be some collusion/government pressure on Apple to regulate their Chinese App Store the same way Huawei is forced to regulate its domestic app store.
At that point it gets kinda weird IMHO. Especially on HN many believe that work and personal life are two different things. Cancellation in that form makes a bridge between the two I personally dislike and I see no reason to pressure an employer to dismiss a potentially good/productive employee because of his personal life/beliefs.

I doubt many that got cancelled in that way suddenly saw the errors in their ways. It seems much more likely to make them even more extreme in their beliefs and even more against others so it seems petty and counterproductive.
Knowing how they think...this is scary to me. It is not inconceivable they are going to jam their VB ui into some wrapper that somehow runs in an unholy fashion on a web browser...
Mapping out the tribes of climate
Very impressive zero-shot reasoning capabilities.

https://twitter.com/vladquant/status/1598043418135252993/pho...
Twitter has never been more fun, useful, and engaging for me.

I signed up for an account after years of refusing to do so after elon took over
> First, none of our policies have changed

uh

https://transparency.twitter.com/en/reports/covid19.html
Are there any social networks, in existence, at scale, which do not rely on advertising as their primary revenue source?
I agree with you. CT seems mostly useful as a way of devising entirely new abstractions, but once those abstractions are developed, you don't need CT to use them.

For example if it were 2008 and you want to be inventor Applicative functors for use in Haskell, then knowing lax monoidal functors from CT might be helpful. But if you want to just use Applicative functors, you don't need to learn lax monoidal functors first.

So programmers probably don't need to learn CT because they can just let the computer scientists devise their abstractions for them. But if you want to be a computer scientist and one day devise your own abstractions[0], then maybe CT would be helpful.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33805923
I wonder how long it will be before we see this sort of capability getting rolled into AI assistants.

The biggest frustration I have with Siri, Google Assistant, etc is not that they can't do what I want at first prompt but their inability to perform the back-and-forth conversation that humans would normally have to resolve such a situation. AIs shouldn't shy away from asking the user to disambiguate, and preferably should use contextual information to learn from those disambiguations to do the right thing for subsequent prompts.
Obviously something is going on, but there's not a secret info line that big companies are into. Interest rates are up, it's harder to get easy money to expand. Some companies are going to spend less money on new software, and lots of companies are trying to reduce costs because it feels like we will have a recession. At the same time, there are lots of jobs, and out of the tech world people are getting raises for hourly work, and they still can't hire enough people. $20/hour at my local mcdonalds. I am still get random job and interview requests on linked in. If you are an experienced engineer there are plenty of jobs. Google, Amazon etc has done some layoffs but they grew a lot the last 2 years. Seems like plenty of smaller companies are hiring.
To me (without reading any of their stuff, I don't know if this is what they were shooting at), "lunatic" makes me think "high performance" and "this is a very difficult project with high payoff if we succeed, we're a little bit crazy (in a good way) to try, eh?".
Nothing about that article actually describes any harm done. It's often called the Golden Age of Hollywood, and many of the greatest movies of all time were made under the studio system. It's not even clear that the collusion increased ticket prices.

Recently, in fact, the decrees have been reversed. Studios are allowed to own movie theaters again.

I'm just curious why you picked that one. There are many better cases illustrating the dangers of monopolies.
I think what's changed is that Twitter is 1) an established thing, rather than something Musk built up and 2) not really tech.

Tesla, SpaceX, Boring Co have ambitious objectives with clear right/wrong answers. You put something in orbit or don't. Your car goes 500km with 70kWh of energy or it doesn't etc. You can inspire smart engineers to work hard to meet ambitious goals that require creative thinking.

Twitter has none of that, it is more like a club. Having the loudest speakers or brightest lights isn't going to make your club the best club. There is a certain baseline of technical competence required, yes, but mostly its about attracting the right crowd (being extra nice to some people, kicking others out) and making sure everybody has a good time. Musk might have actually succeeded with this using his previous person, but his new culture warrior schtick isn't gonna work.
There have never been more spam bots in the replies and the site and apps are getting stuck in weird cache loops for the first time that I can remember. It's obviously a very robustly built platform but to me, it seems like it's coasting and hoping that nothing too big breaks.
How in the world are you getting from $250k salary to $1M total cost? Stuff like office space and equipment/services, health insurance, HR overhead are constants per person, they don't scale up with salary. Are you assuming that some big bonus or grant package is necessary?
Despite your snark and the downvotes, I am still sure. It's a tiny change in the grand scheme, and it's pretty conveniently being rolled out in China first.
I largely agree with your point, but I have to say as a user I generally don’t enjoy A/B testing at all. It’s invisible to me, and some part of the app or website I’m using is now either broken or annoying in some way, but still works normally for the people I mention it to, since they’re not in my group. Additionally, the changes are sometimes totally transient, so things are disrupted for me briefly, only to be distrusted again.
>Russian troll farms .... increased politicization.

The two are linked. Those who wish to see Western culture fail, just want us at each others' throats.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/3kvvz3/russian-facebook-trol...

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversatio...
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How Amazon grew an awkward side project into AWS