skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> someone should not be expected to read a simple and clear dialog because they were a hairless ape that could be drunk

FINALLY you said something reasonable :-D I'm sorry for being an idiot, I wanted to give a different perspective, I guess I'm passionate about nice and human UI. What happened to OP is what I call a Huge Dick Move. I will defend them to the grave because I like to cut people a big big piece of slack. Because yeah they could be drunk, or just tired, which is cool, you know.

What's not cool at all though is so called "engineers" ebgineering shit like OP described which makes me ashamed of my profession everytime I watch my grandpa painstakingly wade through crap like this all the time.

I will cope, I'm a dev, many people will not and there goes their UX. Straight to trash \o/

I don't want to get absolved of my responsibilities or whatever, I want UI that doesn't suck dick and ideally doesn't star 500 repos by itself
It is not a weasel word. If free market workers were only "allowed" some money, they would all be working at minimum wage. I personally know many working for well into 6 figures.

It's under a non-free market system where the government sets your non-negotiable pay, i.e. what you're "allowed".
> Back in the day Duolingo was already a very slow progression repeating stuff you already knew endlessly.

This is the only way to learn. You repeat things you know many times to commit them to your memory.
They're the only ones who want this change because they're the billion dollar advertising corporation and they want to kill ad blockers on Chrome. The more painful and costly it is for them, the better. Hopefully it will reduce Chrome market share too when other browsers refuse to deprecate the features uBlock Origin needs. Still not enough punishment for them.
I don’t think so. Some people can pick up languages relatively easily, and some people can’t. I don’t really know how AI could solve this, unless you mean that the AI can ferret out your gaps and tune the program to your learning needs. Isn’t this what Duolingo tries to do? Genuinely asking. I pay for the “super” Duolingo for no ads and unlimited learning because I’m kind of addicted to it, but I plan trips to Germany every year because you really do need immersion to get to even basic fluency.
We don't destroy writing as a job. We improve the baseline. So someone who cannot write at all can produce something slightly decent rather than nothing at all. Also this can be useful for inspiration, too.

It's unlikely that the AI will create the greatest scripts for a very long time. Even if it does, it will be like it's "just one more script writer".

IKEA didn't kill hand made furnitures. But it helps some people get some nice stuff.
The typical Home Depot store is 105,000 sq feet, which is about 1 hectare. These tend to exist in the same general area as other big box stores and similar huge flat roofed buildings. Those are much closer to where a bunch of electricity is used than the undeveloped or farm land just outside of the burbs.

Add in covered parking lots and distributed batteries (dedicated batteries, cars, etc.) and I bet that we would reduce the need for building even more high voltage lines across the countryside.

We should be looking for ways to generate and store electricity close to where it is needed where we have already destroyed nature.
> Also b/c you may be sued over what you're saying here and on Twitter

Lol. THEY TOOK MY KIDS! Why would I care if they sued me? Notice how they are not suing me? Because I don't say anything untrue!
For talking to actual people, you know...

Might as well ask "Why cook when there's delivery?"
Very cool, you sound like a resourceful person!
Of course they are training their own AI with the inputs and outputs of this tool
The removed the dislike button after some exec video of google got so many dislike.
You're right. If all you want to do is literally copy bytes without any other processing then those instructions will handle it.
Wasn't that what KeyBase was supposed to do?
Metaverse Mind Palace
> But surely, it isn't enough to "know"

honestly, I think the missing part is trying harder than you did in person. Applying what you've learned.
To be clear, I work on Google Registry, not Google Domains. I don't particularly know anything about Google Domains other than basic generic information that applies to all domain name registrars. I can't even say that I know what most parts of the Google Domains UI even look like, let alone the 'why' behind them.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines. (Btw, I'm not talking about the GPT-3 reference; I'm talking about posting flamewar comments and attacking other users.)

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
>employee gagging clauses related to workplace harassment

maybe I'm incredibly naive to the world, but the fact that this is a thing completely baffles me.

How can an employer prevent you from speaking about working conditions? Even from the companies perspective, this ban would seem to make it more advantageous to go public first, before reporting to the company which would limit your ability to do so...
To clarify: my next move regarding Twitter! Do not say "Hire a lawyer". Save your breathe.

I have plenty of lawyers advising me pro bono.

I am unwilling to pay a ransom to get my kidnapped kids back.

That's how we've gotten to this point as a country.

Where are the good men?
You are trying very hard not to think out of your box.
First Lafargue was by no means rich nor a capitalist.
Then this is not about promoting a "lifestyle", it is basically a proposal to have everyone work less by sharing the workload. Think of it what you will but do not misrepresent it.
I suggest you actually read the book.
Clearly another case of Russian interference in our elections!
Alphabet’s Wing shows off drone deliveries from new command center
> see this new trend of squishing down longform information (such as books, courses etc) into short tidbits with the promise of «infusing you with information»

I see a general decline of attention spans around me and I wouldn't be surprised if more learning content takes this route.

There is also something to be said about the fact the I often remember things I saw in edu TikTok more than things I read in a book because it's presented in a more engaging and visual manner. So, I assume it actually helps some people learn easier and lowers the "activation energy" threshold to get started.
Some good links for further reading.

https://www.coldwarcomms.org/

https://coldwar-c4i.net/
This is interesting. I read this link because I've been curious about exactly how these work, and I like knowing that sort of thing.

Turns out, it works precisely how I would have expected it would work, and indeed, probably using the first approach I would have used for designing such a thing (granted, I'm not a mechanical engineer.)

Most things I learn about do NOT fit expectations that well. Truly a simple, practical device.

Also, incidentally, all the pencil gauges I have are +/- 5 psi relative to my digital gauge, so despite all these balances it might only be an approximate technique after all.
Hey look it’s the brake pad myth again!

I’m kind of tired of debunking it, so let’s try putting the onus of proof on the person claiming EVs burn brake pads at any rate even remotely comparable to gas cars. Is there anything out there that says that?

(My Nissan Leaf’s service manual says otherwise)
I'm not sure that being in any presumed majority group of humans is something I'd want to be smug about.
The pasteurization process itself is much less impactful on taste now than it used to be.
Ask HN: Esoteric Web-Dev Implementations?
What's the most esoteric webdev ideas you've encountered?
I think that the statement "taste is not relative" is so strong and counterintuitive that it must be thoroughly supported, otherwise it is absurd.
For some reason this reminded me also of early navigation aids for air-mail flights: a series of concrete arrows and beacons along the routes.

https://sometimes-interesting.com/concrete-arrows-and-the-u-...
The Samsung Galaxy S22 was just hacked in 55 seconds
I take lessons through verbling.com
Even Tesla knows this is a bad idea. They have a volume dial on the steering wheel, for your thumb.
> they're just beating domain scalpers to the punch

Not quite the same punch. A domain scalper can only demand a premium price once (when they sell/transfer it to you.) But, a registry may charge you a premium price every single year.
Awesome! Babylon Bee quality Headlines!
https://nebuchadnezzar-megolm.github.io/

The cryptography itself didn't come out unscathed, but the basic nuts and bolts semantics of the system itself had devastating vulnerabilities.
Category theory is very helpful when looking a programming from a metadata / multi-domain interactions perspective aka (interaction between different abstraction layers / non-linear scip )

Although, applying CT to lisp ( . ) bit more handy (to quot(.) or quote()
We put in 40 KW and in the racking was a nightmare. The government required soil analysis, reinforced racks, and cement pilings 4 ft deep. Probably could have put in double the panels if we didn't have to deal with the f*** racks

I think this approach has interesting applications for small-scale solar in rural environments if the permitting can be streamlined
Clever Code Considered Harmful
All of these examples show flaws in applications that libsignal didn't intrinsically mitigate. I think your response here is knee-jerk and superficial.
ChatGPT will still completely contradict itself sometimes, even with a quite brief conversation.

e.g. ask it for instructions on how to commit a crime, it will tell you its ethical guidelines prohibit it from answering. Ask it for more detail on the contents of those ethical guidelines, it will tell you that as a large language model, it is incapable of possessing any such thing as ethical guidelines. Point out it just contradicted itself, it is likely to respond that as a large language model it is incapable of contradicting itself, or else give some non-sensical explanation as to why the two statements aren’t contradictory

Ask it if it agrees with what you just said, it might reply that yes it does. Ask it again, it may instead give you a lengthy lecture on how as a large language model it isn’t capable of agreeing with anything.

I suspect it just wasn’t trained enough on the importance of self-consistency; nor on the principle that it is better to honestly admit to contradicting yourself than to give a non-sensical defence of your own contradictions

I even wonder if some of its training may have actually been contradictory - if trainers individually reward it both for saying “my ethical guidelines don’t permit me to answer that”, but also “I’m not capable of having ethical views” when pressed for judgements on ethical matters.
The author isn't a prominent cryptographer, but he definitely knows a lot of them, and is a prominent security engineer and researcher.
I have found 1 to 2 week leaves not unusual. I am taking a month off this year after not taking any ptos around the holidays other than the mandatory ones for the last several years. I think I have seen summers to be much more common for long time offs.

I am in Canada.
You can walk on them? So i don’t think it’ll be much of an issue.

Link from someone else’s comment: https://www.erthos.com/reducing-degradation-rates-with-earth...
every sixth month is the charm
I want this argument to work, but when cops aren't fined or imprisoned for every mistake, but have the effective capability to fine or imprison others for mistakes just as small, the end result represents an asymmetric imbalance of power that serves as an exploitable attack vector. Like any other exploit the options are patch it or let the exploiters run wild.
It is an absolutely ok price for any profitable business. Domains like that are expected to be owned by real businesses, not just cybersquatters, trying to sell them later to profitable businesses. Try to find prices that cybersquatters are asking for 5-letter domains - $850 is nothing in comparison.
The power draw and size is substantially lower.
I ponder about this as well but I wonder if it's not simply that these things felt more magical just because well... I was a kid back then, I can't expect to get the same level of wonder from a videogame nowadays.
.io is a country-code TLD that uses Afilias as a backend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io

That a bunch of startups and small companies use a trendy .io suffix to their domain is entirely by the grace of the British Indian Ocean Territory's permissiveness on the matter.

CC-tlds are owned by their affiliated sovereign nation.
Anarchist worker syndicates
> bacteria that can digest the sweetener win big, others lose out.

Artificial sweeteners tend to be very sweet, so the actual amount consumed is quite small, which means that their caloric content available to hypothetical bacteria that can digest them is also small.

I imagine that something else is going on here, likely involving the fact that sweeteners taste sweet and that the act of eating something sweet may have some effect in and of itself.
Nominal terms may not be the best way to look at it.

Here's a more intuitive visualization[1] of just how ridiculous the situation is.

The at-a-glance takeaway is that those who bought anytime from 2021 and today are, on average, almost certainly holding an illiquid bag that's even more overvalued than the inflation-adjusted peak of the housing bubble leading into the GFC.

The original Black Knight press release[2] cited by the article highlights:

> Of all homes purchased with a mortgage in 2022, 8% are now at least marginally underwater and nearly 40% have less than 10% equity stakes in their home, a situation most concentrated among FHA/VA loans

> More than 25% of 2022 FHA/VA purchase mortgage holders have now dipped into negative equity, with 80% having less than 10% equity

In other words, low income and veteran home buyers. What I'd like to know is what percentage of these homes were financed with adjustable-rate mortgages...based on the implied trend, those people are liable to be sucking hind tit sooner than later.

As for those with fixed-rate mortgages that are able to continue making payments, being underwater just means less future business for Black Knight...soon to be ICE's problem if/when the acquisition closes next year.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=kYEb

[2] https://www.blackknightinc.com/black-knights-october-2022-mo...
I don’t think that’s fair.
There's a little bit more to it than that! We did indeed launch our first TLD, .みんな, in early 2014, around 8½ years ago, but the team itself has existed for around a decade. There was plenty of work to do prior to launching our first TLD, namely, writing the software to run our TLDs (Nomulus, available at https://nomulus.foo ), and of course, all the admin work required to apply for and delegate the TLDs in the first place. ICANN's first round of new gTLD expansion occurred in 2012, and the second round ... hasn't happened yet :(
This is the very same argument that artist are dealing-with with AI artbots. The bottom line is that GPT, and such, are tools that humans must adapt to use in their jobs. Companies will not hire ChatGPT to do the work, they will hire humans to use ChatGPT to do their jobs. As good as AI bots are, they still need a human to figure out how to best use them.

Computer jobs have always been about adapting to the changing environment. We are here again. Adapt to AI bots or get left behind. There's still time to adapt but you can't wait too long since the tech is evolving really fast.
thanks! those are photographs of non-existing Santas generated with diffusion models like Dall-E, Midjourney or SD, animated with a GAN-like architecture.
There is no depth involved as for other methods you mention, just user-rgb-in -> Santas out.

There is a simple voice changer as post-processing but nothing too fancy.
Based on a similar amount of research, I would have guessed the causality ran the other way. :)
> Something that bothers me both about Duolingo and Rosetta Stone (and similar apps...) is that they don't let you fail enough.

I mean, if you get the pronunciation wrong, you're going to have a terrible time and I speak from experience trying to get a bottle of water in France and not having realized that I had the pronunciation so badly wrong they thought I was a Brit trying to find the bathroom (l'eau [~low] vs. loo).
But the registry / team could have existed before the launch, building the product.
Recently found myself in the same business. Early similar to you. Small business', strictly local.

I've got a couple high level questions for someone more seasoned than I.

Could I email you?
They just did. Due to their contract with ICANN, it is a political, negotiated process. The newer gTLD registries have a freer hand.

Edit: "contact" to "contract"
It's the same for employees. New hires generally get considerably better comp than veterans. In both cases it's taking existing relationships for granted.
Nope. I quit news years ago. Consuming it can't do anything for you but rile you up, distracting you from your goals. If something serious happens in the world, you'll hear about it via social osmosis.
ICANN decides how the internet addresses and TLDs work at a base level. As far as I understand, TLDs have always been a monopoly for their owning registry. Verisign, the various country codes by their country's governments (or whoever they delegate to), PIR, and many many others.

That's why it was such a big deal when .net and .org were looking to change hands.
> A lot of people in the third world trust the cola cola company more than the local water supply to not poison them.

What a rotten situation to be in. Last time I was in India, there was a story on the local news about how the Coca Cola bottling plant managed to contaminate the product with motor oil somehow.
I mean, with the reputation that Google has in regards to customer support, you were definitely whacking the beehive by doing a chargeback to them. Wish it wasn’t this way, though.
My understanding is that a marginal transaction on lightning is pretty lightweight, so it seems like the compute is kind of a non-issue in both cases?

But driving Visa et al to be cheaper sounds like a good outcome. I think it might be hard to get them to give up their current firehose of rent they're extracting by sitting in the middle of so many transactions.
Well it depends on how long you own the domain for. A one time 5 figure price, then $12 each year after that will be cheaper than $850/year if you keep the domain for decades.
Right. Which is what I was pointing out. The chart disproves the point he was making.
Earth is a much worse heat sink than moving air. You can check it while stepping on the earth on a sunny day.
Yeah it's right around 30-35 hours per week. Not to toot my own horn but I am very good at what I do, which is software & data engineering. Most importantly, both are jobs that have a large and talented support system of fellow engineers, scrum masters, product owners, and management. In fact, that's precisely why I took these two. My previous jobs were extremely stressful and left me no time for anything outside of my immediate work and I ended up switching jobs last year as a result.

Both employers allow me a lot of leeway and flexibility so long as I can continue to deliver products on schedule, which to this day, I have never been late. So number of hours worked is fairly inconsequential to actual work that is done in both jobs.
Indeed that is correct. For more information see:

https://registry.google

https://nomulus.foo (our open source software that runs our TLDs)
> if one registrar doesn't want to work with you, you can work with another.

Registrars are domain *resellers* who sell your domain by buying it from the *registry* for you. There is only one Registry per TLD.
> and you paid that same premium price at initial registration

He shared the invoice: https://twitter.com/emirkarsiyakali/status/16014366748564643...

According to that, he paid 4360TRY last year ($300), and now asked to pay 13040TRY ($850). You can’t even make up the difference with the exchange rate changes.
For algol language inclined, lot less shell sourcing/chaining before waterfall of understanding.
Yeah- its open extensions model was a neat idea, but in practice it made it slow, buggy, and complicated to configure (extensions would have dependencies on other extensions, etc). I really tried to stick with it, but as soon as I tried VSCode I sighed a breath of relief and knew I couldn't go back

I think the most egregious example was having two competing IDE hints extensions (not the content, just the GUI). They could both be enabled and they could fight each other or overlay each other if they were. Some language extensions then depended on one, and some depended on the other. It was kind of a mess.
Over the past few years I have tried every language learning app I could find. The most success I have had is with LingoDeer. The formatting and I instructions really give that feeling of a classroom lesson. Learning Korean as an English speaker has been very challenging. I feel that LingoDeer has gotten me further in a few weeks compared to what I learned with a months of Duolingo or Rosetta. Duolingo if not paying for it becomes absolutely ad filled and frustrating.
There are good points to discuss on this topic, but my opinion is that this "debunking" is full of junk with twisted facts or "opinion" being confused with facts.

From my own experience driving there, I noticed that the average speed on the left lanes are usually around 160 with faster cars around 180.

But the truth is that with the traffic, it is very rare that you can go fast because when there start to be a reasonable amount of cars there is no way you can go too fast without doing slaloms. So speed is more low in real average.

I also noticed that people were driving more seriously and safely than in other countries because of the no speed limit:

In France for example, some people will go very fast in a dangerous way like an race, because of the thrill of being outlaw or something like that. Otherwise, everyone will try to be stuck to exactly 130 or a few km/h more to be exactly on the limit. Reluctant to slow down when needed and having difficulties to overpass cars that are just a bit slower without exceeding 130.

Another surprising fact is that, in Germany, when there are speed limits, they are usually lower than in France and very strictly enforced. Like driving at 30 km/h on streets crossing villages.
Maybe it's this? https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/28/matrix_encryption_fla...
Then it's better to basically float them on water. That's what US Army is experimenting with: https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/energy/3...
I've been watching Fireship for years and it has enhanced my JavaScript and CSS skills. With his easy to understand concepts and skills, I have entered a new world of knowledge.
The sun is never directly overhead except on the summer solstice at noon, assuming you're in roughly the part of your timezone.
It really feels like you’re talking past GP. GP does not appear to be saying that most people need to eat enormous amounts of protein in the pursuit of peak physique and performance. Simply that, for most people who aren’t already focused on high protein intake, increasing the share of protein relative to other macronutrients will likely correlate strongly with increased strength, athleticism, longevity, and looks. There’s no call to take this to extremes that I’ve seen.

Which seems to be mostly true from my research.
This is how registries have worked since their inception (afaik).

And yes, it's a monopoly.

ICANN designates what TLDs are valid
Registries own individual TLDs fully
Registrars resell domains on those TLDs that registries own.