skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I don't know the details of their thinking

Oh I can tell you pretty much exactly their thinking. If Google folds the functions of their products into another product/team, a number of them are going to have to find a new role. I think you'll be hard put to find a product manager or development team that goes "Eh, we should just kill my product. The competing product is better for most people."
I believe consensus is that there's a tremendous (like, wow, tremendous) cherry picking of data and spurious connections to create a catchy engrossing narrative that makes us feel more enlightened and with profound new understanding of the world... But has no actual rigorous methodology or statistical significance. He is unashamedly a teller of stories, not a scientific researcher. They are fun but should not be taken as accurate. As tptacek says, pretty much all of us have gone through that cycle. He's a great read but should be taken as casual entertainment, more closely related to fiction.

Do not make policy decisions based on Gladwell :-)

Edit : a perhaps stretched analogy - his stories are to me akin to Taylor Swift sharing her story and saying "I practised hard and didn't give up and succeeded beyond my wildest dreams". It's true but not as meaningful or applicable as it may seem - it's insufficient causation and incomplete correlation.

Majority of people who practice hard won't be Taylor Swift.

Conversely,There are many additional reasons beyond practicing hard Taylor Swift succeeded.

It's a compelling narrative but horrible statistical model or understanding of world and causality.
I'm a mechanical engineer (satellites currently, launch vehicles and satellite payloads previously).

On the side I sell budget star tracking astrophotography mounts I designed and build in my basement. I also do a few consulting gigs each year. These efforts combined bring in an extra ~25k annually. My plan is to develop two more space-related products, hire a tech, and transition to more of an oversight and design role rather than the one guy running the whole thing.

For the record I don't think most people should do this, it is not a balanced life to work this much, generally speaking. But for me it's a worthy discomfort to relieve financial pressures from student debt and being the only breadwinner of a young family. Plus it's fun stuff, I get to design cool products which is what I do for fun anyway, I just usually stop at the level of prototype when it's just for me. ;)
The RDA is very rarely discussed anywhere online that I’ve seen, if at all.

While it is an official statistic, it isn’t representative of the average person’s idea of protein needs.
Did anyone tried https://kopia.io/docs/features/

It is Awesome !

It’s very fast usually I struggle with backup tools on windows clients.
And it ticks all my needs. deduplication, End-to-End Encryption, incremental Snapshots with error Correction if any, mounting snapshots as a drive and using it normally or to restore specific files/folders, Caching.
The only thing that could be better is the GUI but it works.
From what I remember he also traded the up leg, and then the down leg. But it has been years since I read anything from him.

Also, I remembered what it was called, the Reagan’s “Imperial Circle”:

https://www.georgesoros.com/1984/05/23/the-danger-of-reagans...
Sorry, that sounds awfully nihilist to me. No, I'm not terribly excited in becoming an expert for the latest API or framework either, but I'm very interested in understanding how the world around us works. There are also some skills I'm proud to have and others I'd like to have.

I share the worry of the article that AI might become the ultimate competitive artifact: Make us able to realise any idea on a whim, while at the same time making it actually harder to gain a deeper understanding of something or acquire a skill. In that world, everyone will basically become a pure consumer.

It's not the only path a world with AI could take, but it's one that I worry is quite likely. And I don't think this would make anything better.

At least I don't support the notion that as soon as you have a child, the entire rest of the world stops being relevant. First of all, that sounds horrible, secondly, not everyone will have kids.

> a world where children, helped with AI tools, can learn whatever they want - as an innate ability? curiosity?

That would be a better vision. I read in some other thread that at some point we all might get personal assistants that go with us through life like some non-imaginary imaginary friend. I think this could actually be awesome.
Apple spent nearly $100B on product innovation in last 5 years: Report
The content in scholar.archive.org has been indexed in to Google Scholar (and other indices are likewise welcome to crawl the sitemap). There was some content "only" in scholar.archive.org, but now it should basically all be in Google Scholar. We haven't gotten around to describing this publicly, but it was an explicit decision and partnership between the organizations.

Indeed scholar.archive.org does not currently use citation count in search rankings. We have a decent citation graph, which we are working to expose in scholar (it is visible in fatcat.wiki today). Would probably only ever use citation count as a weak boost in search rankings (eg, "any citations at all", "more than 25 citations" as boosts, nothing beyond that), don't want to create too strong a feedback loop influencing future citations.

scholar.archive.org specifically was partially funded by the Mellon Foundation (and partially through donations and other service revenue). IA overall has diverse funding, including grants and service revenue from the USA (Library of Congress, IMLS, etc); other national governments (paid crawl services); foundation grants; universities and libraries (crawl, preservation, and digitization services); and of course general donations. The last category of course has the fewest strings and lets us pursue new projects which might be hard to get traditional funding for. Remember that the whole premise of web archiving was considered radical and quixotic at the beginning!

(source: I work at IA on scholar)
The people who aren't amazed by it, are either afraid of it's misuse and I can see that, like the inability to ever know if written word is truly unique to the user. I do not envy teachers right now lol. The second group just haven't groked how it works or found good things to ask it, once you find something and it blows you away with like it helped me write flutter code and i've hardly touched flutter except for a small tutorial here/there.

I literally was able to build an android app that interfaces with chatGPT, I'm thinking it might be cool to also create some sort of web scraper that scrapes many pages, for instance all of the 'how much have you earned with sideprojects pages' on HN, then summarize data from 50+ webpages into bullet points. It doesn't have access to the internet but that doesn't mean you can't GIVE it access to the internet, through the prompt...
I'd like to see you tell the difference in a decade or two.
Thanks for the detailed response we really appreciate it and see where your coming from. We definitely are not for everyone but if you want to completely stay in the python ecosystem we are a solid option compared to other frameworks. I think we are in a different class to some of the frameworks you mentioned though because you can actually create fully customizable web apps with us.

For you react/js was easy to learn but a lot of people don't want to take the time to learn this. At the end of the day every one has a preference and I see where you are coming from on this.
No court has decided over this. It's the decision of a regulator, so Meta will most likely appeal to a court, and then we will know what the law allows or not.
If you have kids, you lose "come home and relax" unfortunately.
> ...this site is offering to automate solving captchas for you? Is there any non-sketchy use for this?

Accessibility.
While I don't think many of Jay's points were wrong, he sort of established himself as an anti-establishment person. I think if he had acted slightly differently, we'd all be praising him for keeping us from making a big mistake.

But the reality is that the medical establishment has an immune system honed by decades of vaccine denialism (remember "vaccines cause autism because mercury") and tends to overreact when people- acting in good faith- question its findings publicly.
> how I could use it while working.

The readme clearly links where to buy a license for that.
Could you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? It destroys the curious conversation that this site is supposed for. You can make your substantive points without that.
That's a big claim. Section 179 only applies if you have a business. Your average suburban neighborhood is filled with light duty trucks owned by regular people.
Or, let's just kill FB.
How I got involved in the Rust community
It's not that his stories aren't true, so much as that he has a tendency to draw grand conclusions and compelling narratives from history and events that are far more complicated than he depicts. I also personally didn't like his podcast because he has sometimes will make absurd analogies or emotive appeals, but that's more of an academic criticism than his points being bunk.

eg: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/when-pop-history-bombs-a...
I would argue that those low-level workers also have the right to free time to be human. Work hard yes, but don't be a slave with extra steps.
Gladwell wasn't even correctly identifying the period in which Cronkite got those high poll numbers. Those polls occurred during the 1970's and 1980's, long after the "Norman Rockwell" period that Gladwell was obsessing over.

What a great way to unwittingly prove the point of those arguing in the affirmative: that people like Gladwell are so ensconced in their bubble, that they have no idea how petty and silly these unfounded accusations of racism sound to most people. He kept hammering and harping on that point because it plays well in his circle of NYC elites.
I am hoping that people can make the difference between large scale blanket state surveillance and police investigating organised crime...
Unless I'm mistaken, the "Sign in with GitHub" referred to by the OP was a styled button on the attacker's site, entirely in their control. There's no way to force a site to be well-behaved about this. The question is entirely whether Github's warning was reasonable here. What others have noted is that at the very least, even if "starring" wasn't mentioned, the OP did give the attacker full read/write privileges to their public repositories.

You can think that Github should improve their processes on the permissions presentation front, and still think that agreeing to this was a massive fuck up by the user.
How are 99% of us making money? The government is going to redistribute all the wealth to us?
> But if your social network is just your colleagues,

I found this to be especially true in academia ... I spent about 10 years at the same university in different groups and have not kept many of the friends I made along the way.

This goes both ways, I spend a lot of that time in one group and got to see several "generations" of students and colleagues come an go ... After a while you just stop trying to have deep connections because most are there only temporarily.

(Also at some point students just become to young to befriend :-) )
Service providers provide APIs.

Devs build apps that use APIs.

Users install apps that use APIs.

Users build their workflows around apps that use APIs.

Sometimes devs get bored/burn out/get a family/die/get a promotion, and stop building new features for apps. Sometimes, if users are lucky, they'll stay on top of security issues. But maybe, users install an app once and never update it even if it is getting updates. Which is risky, but if it works for them, whatever.

Service provider kills API endpoint.

App breaks.

User's workflow breaks. Worked yesterday, does not work today. :-(

Maybe, if the user is lucky, they connect with other users of the app, or users of other apps that are similarly affected, and they figure out workarounds, or someone creates a fork of the app(s) to use your new equivalent endpoint (if you even created one!) and, eventually, after much wailing and gnashing of teeth, they pick up the pieces of their workflow which you just broke and cobble together a new one.

But you caused them hours and hours of pain.

See also https://xkcd.com/1172/
Can you share what you have?
Positive and negative for battery terminals.

But "minus five degrees" for temperature ;)
Closets? Don't you store these at the dry cleaner's until it's time to pick them up for your cousin's wedding?
Great podcast recommendation - the 5 out now are all books h enjoyed for their perspective, but it wasn’t a perspective I was a supporter of / believer in.
I think Austin Allred gets to the heart of the matter, which is that the Twitter statements were crafted to give the impression that deboosting / deamplification was purely algorithmic, rather than based on unappealable human tagging of accounts: https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1601032626004930560
> the research roundly rejects the idea that deliberate practice is as big a factor as Gladwell claims

Do you have more information on this? I know lots of social science studies have not stood the test of time, but I didn't know Anders Ericsson's paper had big problems.
PSA the Internet Archive is a 501c3 non-profit (library!) and survives on donations and grants.

A huge percentage of the operating budget is from small donors. The funding is preposterously small compared to other public-service public interest such as Wikipedia.

A lot of us take it for granted and assume there is e.g. support from FAANG companies proportionate to the degree they lean on it.

This is 100% NOT THE CASE.

Please advocate for recurring institutional donations from your firm. The audience reading this has a lot of voice in a lot of organizations who could without a though sign up to make annual 10K, 100K, 1M donations...

...and essentially, none do.

Please help change that!!!

https://archive.org/donate/
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-briefing-notes/2022/09/arrest...

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/women-trouble-soldiers-w...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/europe/russia-dagestan-protes...

https://www.reddit.com/r/N_N_N/comments/yn7x0s/hundreds_of_u...

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-war...

https://www.newsweek.com/vladimir-putin-facing-revolt-after-...

https://www.ibtimes.com/over-100-russian-conscripts-stage-ma...

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/12/does-this-video-show-rus...

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-briefing-notes/2022/09/arrest...

just first results from "protesting against mobilization" in google
I made about $10,000 over a few years on Fiverr doing voiceover work. Then the algorithm changed and poof, no more orders, ever again.
This looks like subversive propaganda.

If it were a valid study, it would have done a multivariate analysis because anyone can see there are multiple variables that would impact these types of decisions.

This is no better than a poll which can be swayed by confirmation bias or anyone with a creative flair in numbers. Its flawed on multiple levels, and attempting to drive a false narrative.

Just flag it and move on, this shouldn't be on HN.
> To recap: a law was put in place 5 years ago that said if you get consent you can basically use data in any way, with some very vague and general language about how consent can be gathered and what it means.

The article makes it seem pretty straightforward:

> Meta explained that its updated terms rely on the GDPR concept of "contractual necessity". The GDPR mostly prohibits companies from forcing users to turn over personal information to use their services. The only exception is when that information is necessary to execute a contract: For instance, a car sharing app needs to know your location so that it can show cars near you.

For a car sharing app, it is necessary for them to get your location for the service to work. In Facebook's case, personalized ads are not necessary for Facebook to work. Since it isn't necessary, Facebook needs to get express permission to use personal information for ads.

Facebook took an overly optimistic view of the law expecting regulatory capture to allow them to skirt the rules. It didn't work, so their investment was a poor one. Regulators didn't force Facebook to make a poor investment.

Also, Facebook can decide to pay the users it tracks in Europe. Maybe the investment has poor returns, but the money hasn't entirely gone to waste yet.
Well, that issue explains a lot. The data source went missing, so the website just made up some data and used that instead!

That whole website is a nonsense, what's the point in visualising imaginary data and pretending it's real...
A good reply to the "we should write more efficient code today, like we used to do in the Good Ol' Days". Inefficient code is not a new phenomenon!
Couldn't they simply require all goods to come to FBA pre-packaged, so it's all in a box, and boxes could be easier to grab since they're all square, etc? then put all the boxes by size in the warehouse, so robots could specialize?
- You mean the wars started by Bush?
- Both parties have zero credibility in that respect, republicans stance on free speech is as much perfomative bs as woke posturing is on the left. There is plenty of cancel culture and attempts to suppress dissenting speech on the right, just listen to the average fox news outrage rant.
- There is absolutely no country that is envious of our gun problem, quite the contrary. Also always good to remember a large majority of Americans are in favor of reasonable gun controls, so was the NRA at one time, yet Republicans continue using the 2nd amendment as wedge issue to get people to vote for them. There are other rights in the constitution you know.
> leukemia doctor story

What story is that?
How are these collected and ranked?
More than 50% of people are dead before 80. Seems like a strange age to choose for this measure.
It's depressing to read that animals are treated somewhere like that. Meanwhile I can see funny looking highland cattle grazing in the pasture from my window. It's so delicious and comes with zero ethical issues (for me, I'm a proud carnivore but I despise mistreating animals) when contrasted with the horror stories of cattle spending all their lives indoors and such. Heck, I am grateful that the locally produced quality meat is basically prized the same here as the stuff you know nothing of when bought directly from the farmer.
> Methodologies can only address devleopment where people agree

Methodologies are largely about managing, resolving, and/or moving forward in the face of disagreeement. Some may be unrealistic in how they do that (e.g., assuming consensus is always attainable).

> software development methodologies don't have dispute resolution in them.

I know of no software development methodology that does not address dispute resolution (usually, with different mechanisms for different kinds of disputes.)
Yeah, Instruments is pretty great and it can even do that thing the article mentions, showing the hot lines of code annotated with their percentage of runtime. It’s not always perfect but at least it’s a quick way to know where to start looking.
Just hopping on your comment to make a tangentially related point.

I think the thing the vast majority of comments on hn regarding fake meats miss is the 3 factors in going vegetarian (1. environment, 2. animal welfare, 3. health) are completely independent.

Like I care a lot about 2, some about 1 (in that it's not my motivating factor just a nice side benefit) and not at all about 3.

I'd be eating like crap if I ate meat too, sausages, KFC, McDonald's. The cool thing about meat substitutes is you no longer need to be an incredibly intense lentil-weaving, yoghurt-knitting hippie to go vegetarian, you can do it if any one of the 2 non-health factors is motivating enough.
I fully subscribe to that goal, but I think we'd need some far broader changes in society to make that a reality. We could already greatly reduce the amount of working hours and distribute essential resources more fairly. But what actually happens is that any increase in efficiently is frantically translated into an increase of output, even if that output is completely unnecessary.

Work as of now is not a necessity to archieve some outcomes, it's what society is organised around in many aspects.
See also table of versions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python
The detachment from reality is thinking that your few moments of contemplation on this topic is worth more consideration than someone’s expertise.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried agrees to testify at U.S. House hearing on Tuesday
Threat of punishment is the basis of all law. You can call it "fear" to garner sympathy for your argument but I think you're not being consistent with your application of justice
> In such a world, what value do us engineers provide, if any?

We would do systems engineering at the domain level. And when AI can do that, we don't have to worry about jobs anymore.
Seems as though this is rephrasing the old adage from small-a-agile "Individuals and interactions over processes and tools". Until we normalize asking "who is problem?" rather than "what's wrong with our process?" we're doomed to miss the mark. Excising counterproductive individuals will make any process work well. Discussing methodologies in isolation from individuals is a waste of time.
It's caused by a mix of defensiveness from those who prefer to eat meat, and propaganda by the meat industry.
Tangentially, anyone knows how to securely implement OAuth2 in a native client (like a desktop app)? How to deal with client secret?
Getting enough protein to meet the needs to sustain exercise is pretty awkward without substitutes in our sedentary lives.

It'd have probably been easier to manage when we didn't have to put hours of intense exercise in bursts to compensate for working in offices and stores, and instead did physical labor.

Eating lots of legumes and groats to fulfill protein needs is more viable if the calories are needed for your daily labor, then the starches are an upside.

Tofu fortunately makes things easier, but it's not always readily available in many places where its consumption wasn't a cultural practice already.

Still, you've got to pay attention to eating some protein in every meal, and if you're in the West and similar (Latin America will have many of the same patterns, but I'll always find it weird it's not considered "Western" culturally despite being an offshoot of Spain), you may have to deviate plenty from the diet of your culture.
Did you miss an /s?
This text captures how I felt about this stuff, but could not put it in words. The "art" feels empty, repetitive, derivative.
The text sounds like BS, like a student trying to make up the answer as they go.
Today someone in my work channel posted a ChatGPT's text about our company and ompetitors. It was all wrong, but sounds "probable".
> so when you say a crazy way of making laws, you mean the way that laws basically get made?

I think what's being characterized as crazy is that the laws as written are at best vague. It takes years to find out what they actually mean in implementable detail. This makes it very difficult to comply.

Have you read through GDPR? I have. It talks a lot about "reasonable measures" and includes vast swaths of other laws while being very light on details. Compare to, for example, electrical codes. Those tend to be quite specific and clear with sharply limited room for interpretation.

With this in mind, I can see why someone might regard this as an insane way to create laws.
i use it a lot, but if someone tried to sell its output as a work for art i d laugh