skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that a lot of responses are out there "hey, think from a prospect's perspective" or whatever, rather than as a developer. But, as a developer, most of what I'm looking for is information about products I'm already using. It's a matter of where these chat popups are placed. If you place them on the support/contact page, fine. But if you put them on every page on the entire site, then I click through from a search engine straight to a blog post, knowledge base, or FAQ that has exactly what I want, try to read it, and am immediately blocked by a modal I have to close first.

That is annoying as hell. "How can our company help your company?" You already do! You don't need to convert your existing customers. It's even worse when it's my own company. No, you can't sell a support contract to yourself.

Yes, I can go solely through internal knowledge bases, or only ever seek information through our existing support rep. But why would I do that when the exact information I need is already on the public Internet? Just let me actually see it without nagging me to buy something I either already bought or can't buy. The vast majority of information I seek out is for products I already use, not products I might use if you can get me to talk to a salesperson.

I get it from the perspective of the business. Hey, if a conversion rate goes up after we do this, then we should have done it. Full stop. But it's a locally optimal solution that ruins the web globally. They've done the same thing to e-mail. My work e-mail is nonstop flooded with small businesses that think they can solve a problem for my business. I'm just a developer! I can't sign a support agreement with you. I don't care if your project management software is better than whatever we're already using. I don't care if you can help us hire people. I'm not a project manager and I'm not HR. To you, it seems costless to just send out bulk emails to every employee of a company, knowing at least some of them will actually be interested, and any non-zero conversion rate for a zero-cost cold call strategy is worth it.

But you've poisoned the commons! E-mail is now an annoyance rather than useful. I spend more time deleting spam than reading anything. I spend more time closing popups than consuming the content from you that would be useful to me that I was already trying to consume.

This is Moloch in action. Is it worth it for the world to turn every form of information transmission into more annoyance than utility so that some tiny percentage of small businesses can survive a few years longer than they might have otherwise? I see how it is worth it to the owner of the business. Is it worth it to the rest of us who make up the overwhelming majority of humanity?
The government has a poor track record of pushing a technology in this space. They’ve been mandating ipv6 in the dod for - gosh at least since 2008 or so.

Oh, and you have the government to thank for the useless posix subsystem for windows back in the 90s (remember that?) as a way to force software “interoperability” between Unix and windows. Companies vying for federal contracts will look at the poorly defined requirements and find a way to just barely meet the letter but not the spirit.
I have a tendency to "avoid conflict" which I kind of hate about myself, although I try to push myself to stand up more about myself. It's very pleasing to see the author has made peace with himself about this.

Though I've come to understand that in this world you have to be ruthless when it comes to your interests. And I don't mean it in the "wolf of wall street level of ruthlessness" sense – all I'm saying is that you shouldn't allow others to walk all over you, even for things that are relatively small.

It can be difficult for some of us, but it will end up feeling very liberating in the end.
Absent real AGI almost all AI tools are going to assist us in intellectual/white collar work, it will rarely entirely replace humans in the larger picture of the work they produce.

More like having an exoskeleton helping you instead of telling a robot to do your entire job for you.
Apple is a business and does indeed "want to know your shit" for many legitimate revenue-generating activities, such as growing their services business, a top priority for the company.

It seems to me a little bit suspect that they wanted to do clientside scanning as a prerequisite for e2ee, as if they simply would not be allowed to publish society-wide e2ee privacy software (without government/regulatory retaliation) without such a law enforcement backdoor. This screams of prior restraint and we should be loudly asking our legislators why the fuck the FBI is pressuring Apple about what software they do or do not publish.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...

There is a major 1A violation happening here.

Every day the US government takes more steps to erode our civil rights, even against the largest companies in the world. Someone needs to rein them in.
> Let's be clear - we're all obsessed with ChatGPT, but all it does is regurgitate existing works.

So like human beings?
Sort of yeah, it wouldn't be possible with my carrier for example as they would just tell you "login online and swap it" because things like switching sim etc. is just something you do there and not something you call them about. And to login to the website you must use the national 2factor authentication.

So essentially they would have to breach the national 2factor authentication system first here.

And there is absolutely no way that you could "social engineer" the guy on the other end of the phone who works for the telecompany as there is no way you shouldn't be able to use their online tools.
Hydrocarbons are used in tons of chemical processes, not only to produce energy - in this sense they are not replacable.
100%?

At least, I’ve never seen a public toilet with a lid.
Re that M.2 Ethernet card, that's a long untwisted ribbon cable. 100Mbit should be fine, but 1G or 2.5G? Sus.
When I was a kid (almost 40 years ago) the family we went camping with had this setup. A toilet that that put over a long drop, and when you sat on the seat the the pressure would open the inner seat, effectively splitting it in two and pulling it away to open the hole below.

I’d assumed it was some standard pro camping kit. By no amount of searching just now has been able to turn up a device like I’m trying to describe!
I'm not sure I understand the concern. I don't think it's at all unlikely that there are such long standing bugs in closed source software that's been around the same amount of time. We might just never hear about it or those bugs might never be found. Of course, I have no proof that's the case, but I'm not convinced that finding longstanding bugs in open source software is evidence of inferior quality (this is what you seem to be implying, but I may be mistaken).
I remember hearing about this for the first time not too long after Covid started, there must be another study that is 1-2 years old.

Edit:

* Here is one from December 2021: https://www.public-health.uiowa.edu/news-items/study-on-toil...

* Here is another one from May 2020: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0013318 ("...It is clear from daily experience that flushing a toilet generates strong turbulence within the bowl. Will this flushing-induced turbulent flow expel aerosol particles containing viruses out of the bowl? This paper adopts computational fluid dynamics to explore and visualize the characteristics of fluid flow during toilet flushing and the influence of flushing on the spread of virus aerosol particles....")
A Comprehensive Guide to URLs in Swift and SwiftUI
Amazon doesn't appear on the list of entities I'd want to have teaching children.

Nevermind some half-baked AI experiments and parlor tricks.
Yeah, completely valid points and I accept the criticism / suggestions with open arms, so thank you! I learned a lot from your comment.

I was definitely stabbing into the dark with (and self-conscious about) the "distance" - how to make it close enough for curiosity but not outright danger.

Some of the laser + vacuum chunking details I was hopefully going to toss up to the somewhat unreliable (at least not fully informed) narrator, which I was definitely using as a crutch for not having better science details.

This is also part of a "write a short story every week for a year" project, so my research was definitely too limited. But maybe now I'll revisit it in 2023 with your suggestions. Thanks again!
Solution seems easy - make it so that you can register regardless of whether your organs are usable in practice.
"though this still doesn't get around the need for a rental car unless you can get a ride somehow". - do you mean for an American that doesn't already own a car, or a European who's just there for a few weeks? Its possible to travel all over USA in a car that cost very little - an old Japanese car could be reliable and fuel efficient enough. I did this myself between jobs in N America. You can mix camping, staying in hostels, occasionally sleep in the car or couch surf with friends. Or if you could get an old van.. but I daresay everyone wants vans now so they're super expensive. I'd love to travel around USA again but as you say rental cars are a pain and cost. If there's a way a foreigner could travel to USA, buy an old car then sell it after their trip that could be good, however, not sure how you'd insure it without US driving license or address. Also with an old car it helps to have had it a while and do some maintenance before setting off. Of course USA does have some buses and trains up to a point. The main problem is they don't necessarily drop you in a convenient part of town , it could be a "food desert", and mainly serves cities not the remote wilderness
Ideas that changed my life
theres a video somewhere showing how to tap the back of your skull where it meets your neck. it gives temporary relief
Not as big a leap compared to 8.1 since Nikita left full-time development, but still a good trend. Lots of good changes to types (removing dynamic properties by default, redacted properties, readonly classes, more complex types etc).

https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-82
What do you mean by that? Could you give specifics?
A trick I did for NYC on the cheap is just stay somewhere in New Jersey with decent commuter rail line into NYC
I woke up and forgot I have it until stumbled upon this post.

Have had it since I can remember, though two events have exhacerbated it a little: (1) one day at a metal concert I was playing drums and a big amplifier banged all out of a sudden while I was near it; and (2) the pandemic, not sure if when I had covid or the moderna/astra zeneca vaccines (had the AZ shot and got covid syntomps just a few days later).
I simply pointed out a fact that is never addressed by bitcoin propagandists, which is the fact that bitcoin core developers are also working on implementations of CBDCs.

What sort of "technical knowledge" is required to make such an observation? None. Therefore trying to discredit what I said on the grounds that I lack technical knowledge is ridiculous. Calling the statement of a fact a "superficial preconception" is equally ridiculous.
Yes. Tinnitus awareness group, told me to think of it as background noise - seemed, unhelpful, but when you accept that you stop concentrating on it and it goes away.

Hangovers and illness make it worse.
Link should be changed to something that's not an informationless rant. Just look at the "discussion" going on. Looks more like a set of villagers with pitchforks than a hacker news thread.
Is there? Many games actually run faster on Linux via Proton than on Windows with the same hardware. I think the performance overhead of translation layers are pretty overstated in 2022
Long time mild/livable tinnitus holder. I just got used to it, even when I'm programming. And well aware that that sound will probably be the last sound I'll hear in this life.

What worked for me when programming or thinking intensively is getting used to headphones and background music always running, thus once trained to think clearly with noise then the job becomes more bearable.
The article and several earlier comments claim that this song was famously covered by Jean Michelle Jarre. Most of the versions on YouTube that you get when you search for "Jean Michelle Jarre popcorn" are actually the M&H band version. Official video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-q5UrokgW4

Some are the Hot Butter version, which is probably the most popular one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK3ZP6frAMc

Jean Michelle Jarre is not in this collection:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTUM8gFyLqo

I'm not sure Jean Michelle Jarre ever covered it at all - if he did, it wasn't a big hit of his, or a well known version of Popcorn.

P.s. Even if he has made a version, I doubt it can be anywhere near as good as The Swedish Chef:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7UmUX68KtE
They don't do this only in benchmarks, they also do it in actual games too!

Hearing that NVIDIA engineers actually re-implemented many of the un-optimized shaders released on triple-A games and made their drivers to dynamically swap to their shader implmentation on the fly, is a testament to how NVIDIA really did care about game driver performance.
Anyone knows of web based HTTP client? Compatible with Postman Insomnia?
Thank you for the link, I didn't know about half of the features listed there!
on the other hand, now that we all have graphics cards, maybe the notion of a "canonical" projection will slowly wither away?
and... yet another life changing post!
> And, ‘How do you know that’s the version that was published, when it was published?’

That is just about the only valid purpose for using centralized blockchains (no matter what kind, even a git repository is a blockchain!).

A version label in the document, digital signatures and a halfway decent PKI scheme work fine for the "authenticity" part, but they have the downside that should the key material be compromised, no one can guarantee that authenticity any more.
I can contest to this, I am by no mean important and none of my servers that I own have any importance, BUT I have thousands of people trying to remote into the servers every day and also thousands of requests into some of my webservers with things like /admin /phpmyadmin or whatever, you name it.

So yeah even if you aren't a big target then you are still a target for automated attacks as they just pick whatever IPs they can find and try to breach.
I've had what I believe to be "tinnitus" since I was a kid. It's not always a high pitched sound, I only get that sometimes, probably like when healthy people get it.

The kind of tinnitus I have is what I can only describe as the sound a plane makes mid-flight (at least the one you can hear from inside).

It doesn't really interfere with my life, but it can become annoying if I suddenly become aware of it.
> I've also never lived in a place that had the toilet placed in the bathroom.

Where is your toilet?
Regarding 1., Markdown is much more accessible to the average person, especially the average programmer, than the formats you mention. Markdown is basically becoming a common-knowledge thing where if a person is at least somewhat tech-savvy, you can assume they know at least some basic Markdown.
> I've installed a port of OpenWRT called FriendlyElec and Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS.

Which one did you decide to stick with? Or are you using both?

The problem I've had with OpenWRT is updates are a pain.
I mean it has a fake second story similar to the way many buildings in the old west did.

https://lifedeathiron.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/ohio1.jpg?...
Commercial toilets are designed or engineered, but evidently not very well.

And they never have a lid you can close to avoid the spray.
Well, they payed for this text to be included in the game (for further distribution, obviously).

That's a bad legal definition. It needs a clarification which usually comes in a form of a contract.

Mojang clearly acted un-professionally: there's money on the table without a clear job definition. What happens with the copyright? Authorship? Should the author be mentioned in the game? etc.

Same goes to the writer, obviously. Even this post sounds almost... Jealous?

The contract they suggested is a standard document suggested to contractors of the kind in IT. This is not "strong arming". The only thing that changes the discussion is the fact that it happened post-factum. And the text author, having seen the success of the game, is clearly not satisfied with just signing the doc.

He mentions money a lot so, i guess, this is root the problem.

Either way. 99.99% of Minecraft players would still play and enjoy the game with or without this text. It's a nice little touch to a brilliant game, not much beyond it.
you need to study lots of higher algebra to get a sense of what they mean...

all I can tell you (because it's all I know) is that "the structure" is preserved by transformations.

and what the subject focuses on and studies is the transformations, more than 'the structures'.

so I suppose they don't precisely and explicitly know what 'the structure' is; but the incredible thing is how this does NOT matter.

as far as I've figured out so far, the point is that it gets preserved across transformations, and that they can inter-relate it across different mathematical objects.
‘Significant overload’ caused Norway’s timber bridge collapse
You can join the server. Problem solved

But I shouldn't be saying this as hacker news absolutely HATES facts
As I understand, the idea of immutability and usage of packages like Setfield.jl to change struct fields is a safety feature for concurrency. When putting it in as an argument to a function, you can be sure that it would not be changed during execution introducing races without needing to acquire a lock. Also, state machines become easier to reason about when immutables are used.
Github Actions supports heavy parallelization and fan-in/fan-out jobs just like CircleCI does, so I'm curious if there's some limitations that I haven't ran into yet. I'd go farther to say that their documentation is much richer and easier to search for.
Fortran is a case of a language that has grown below the trend of the industry. There are probably more active Fortran projects and developer now than at any point in history. But it became a smaller piece of the much larger pie so people think it's "dead".

Same goes with Perl - probably more Perl developers than at its heyday in the 90s but a smaller chunk of the overall picture. Measure by noise levels and anything that doesn't explode seems to be dying.
They turned £15 million worth of crypto currency into real currency, that will no doubt be realised at some point in the future.
Why would you exclude so many modern MBAs from using chat? :)
He's got that wrong: the average musician loses money, gets nothing.

Honestly, that's true at a lot of levels, not just the poverty level. It is said if you want to make a million dollars running a recording studio… spend three million dollars. If you want to be a million dollar rock star… invest (or have your family invest) ten million. It's like that.

It's like, you can wear rags, or you can wear a suit, or you can wear a Superman cape. Would you like to for-real wear that Superman cape, to be the hero? Well, you can, for real. And it will cost you everything, more than you could imagine.

I read this guy's essay in part because he WAS the Minecraft Story Guy, not because I thought he'd have good arguments. That's what he earned, and that's what it cost him (didn't sign up for his mailing list tho :) )

After he dies (assuming I don't go first) I'll remember things about his words. After Markus dies I won't remember a thing about his money (though I'll remember things about the game he made, he's not so different in that respect). I won't remember a thing about the Microsoft lawyers no matter whether they win or lose, whether they enjoin this guy from public-domaining what they see as their employer's property. So in a sense that thing didn't end up being their property and that's the writer's point.

It all gets into philosophic realms, and that's where poets live, not lawyers.
Seems like it would mirror how the registrar system works, where some registrars are able to register most TLDs and some are more regional.

I'm guessing that for some TLDs it would make even more sense like for .gov or .google or similar.
Toilets on trains (at least in Germany) work that way. Presumably because it cuts down on the amount of water necessary to flush, but may have other benefits as well.
fading the music and overlaying the status would be better rather than the abrupt cut.

Best of all is the system where they ring you back when they are ready
> I had the right package. It just wasn't mine. It wasn't addressed to me.

I think this assessment was the root of your problem. This wasn't what happened. What happened was two separate things and the mistake was tying them together.

You didn't get your package they claimed to have delivered. Full stop. Deal with that problem.

Second, you received a package addressed to someone else. Deal with that separately.
"Please do not eat, children and elderly."
You: "I reject you tinnitus"

Tinnitus: "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"
For better or worse, that's not how artists make a living.
> We're moving goal posts here. You asked whether it was socially acceptable to be a flawed person and I responded to that specifically. I never wrote that any and every flaw should be accepted. That's very different from accepting that everyone is flawed in some way or another and actually dealing with those flaws in stead of pretending we aren't.

No I'm not moving the goalposts at all. It's not socially acceptable to be a flawed person by definition, that's why they are called flaws.

> That's hilarious in a period where politics is turning into nothing more than pointing out the flaws of others, whether those flaws exist or not. Attack ads have become more common than ads talking about plans and politics. There are entire TV shows only taking about flaws of others. All while pretending that the people judging others are in some way not flawed at all.

Yes because those fulfil our desires of the fact that we don't openly attack others' flaws in day to day life. If anything they are proof of our starvation of healthy judgement.
Exactly the same as me. I went to 1(00) too many arena rock concerts in the 80's and now pay the penalty.
"Small kids and elderly people: please don’t eat [these]."

Probably in front of mochi or some other choking hazard.
but the internet no longer teaches you how to use it

that content has been paywalled.
I would say that reputable corporations try to have good business ethics, but that's not really the same as being moral.