skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If there was some way to limit YouTube to specific channels and disable recommendations we might still allow it

I do exactly this by mirroring a list of channels to my NAS and serving it with Emby. It's not 100% "educational" material; there's Dude Perfect and alongside Physics Girl, Bob Ross, Primitive Technology, and Technology Connections.

(My ancient wish that Google+ had created personas/facets crops up once again: there's a fair number of creators whose channels have some gold but which I won't add to the mirror because they have a bunch of unrelated content that is far more marginal. Some creators set up multiple topic-focuses channels or playlists but it's not the common case.)

I don't have a content block for youtube.com and the kids can still technically get there, but they know I don't want them going there and they know why.
I would imagine anosognosia could be worse. I know someone who delayed diagnosis and treatment because they didn't believe anything was wrong with them (although it was obvious to everyone around them)

As an anlogy, consider how hard it would be to convince a random person they have to take diabetes medication if they don't have it. It is the same way convincing a schizophrenic person with anosognosia to take antipsychotic medication.
What was illegal about the NYPost breaking a story about content found on Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop?

If you have allegations of illegality, who determined that? Are you saying FBI should just say "Trust us, it's illegal - we don't need a jury or a judge"?

Since when does the FBI just get to accuse people of things and take their rights away?
Most produce is seasonal. So your prices go up during the off season, and/or quality declines as they’re imported from farther away or picked before ripe.
What? What have I done for the last several days? No clue what you are referring to-do you have the wrong guy, maybe?
it's more to do with the limbs on the large trees. they're all problems. just like how in the first big thunderstorm in the midwest you get a lot of treefall.. and that tornado every 30 years takes out everything.
At these companies successful senior folks don't sit around waiting to get told what they're working on. It's their job to pick or start impactful projects in line with their org goals. If they're right they get rewarded but if they're not, they don't.

If you're junior it won't really matter. If you're senior, and you're sitting there hoping your manager is going to give you something meaty you're not long for that company - because that is not your job.

This was my experience at two FAANGs and also at one non-FAANG company over the last 10 years. Maybe it's different at the ones I didn't work at, but your snark is neither useful nor interesting. It also gives folks considering FAANGs here a false impression of what working there is actually like.
Any time the FBI “asks” a company to do something it’s immediately a form of coercion. Government law enforcement agencies shouldn’t be “asking” for anything unless it’s done under due process of law. Sorry but I 100% disagree.
I'd try the Weatherby .220 Swift but I think it'd still lose to the glass. The 120mm smoothbore main gun on the M-1 Abrams tank fires a depleted-uranium penetrator rod that can get near 6000 ft/sec. That'd win.
> The whole thing is insane. So they’ve basically created a system where we have no choice but to pay for the utilities failing infrastructure.

LA doesn't seem to be failing, though. I mean, I get that regulation is unfair, and surely they're doing suboptimal things like every bureaucracy. Yet, the lights are on, the toilets are flushing and the ambulances are arriving.

I don't see how demanding the third largest metropolis on the continent switch to a "hook it up or don't, your call" policy is going to do anything but make things much, much worse.

Basically: your argument is predicated on the idea that you personally don't need to do these things because everyone else already did and you don't need the incremental advantages. But give everyone that choice, and no streets will be lit, no roads will be paved, and power and sewage will be plumbed only to neighborhoods that will collectively pay for it. That's the way it works in most of the developing world, and it sucks. No freeloading. If you want to live in the urban core of Los Angeles you need to be willing to live like your fellow Angelenos.
What does FTIF stand for?
I had a few folks at thanksgiving dinner talk about being active in NAFO, which I had never heard of. They shared some hilarious memes. Seems like a pretty big group.
HN like many other online communities have had a lot of political ideologues come out of the woodwork since 2016ish
It makes a certain kind of sense. Many FAANG companies are in such a dominating business position due to network effects and the like that they capture a massive economic surplus, and when organization capture huge economic surpluses, the employees are less incentivized to help the company succeed (since that’s going to happen anyway) and more incentivized to extract what they can personally.
HN is a lot larger than you probably think and YC has an excellent legal department and even if I do not know for sure that there has been contact between LE and HN/YC about this forum given the fact that we are looking at a decade+ of operation and many millions of interactions, including threats of bodily harm and other nonsense I would expect the chances of there having been such interaction to be better than even.
> Steel just barely makes the list of top 100 US companies by revenue at #100.

What does your imagined tax bracket structure look like if the top 100 companies aren't at the highest, most painful bracket? "Barely being in the top 100" means you're enormous.

> Would steel consumers be better off if the largest steel companies were broken in to smaller pieces?

Well pretty much everything in the economy runs on steel, and you're proposing removing their economies of scale and taxing them on revenue. Do you think they're going to be better off?

Let's imagine it's a true perfect competition world. Steel producers make basically 0 profit on average (this is not the case). Next year supply crunch. Costs go up 10%. Steel producers need to raise prices by 10% to stay profitable. But wait, now their taxes are based on their revenues, so if they raise their prices by 10%, they take on at least 10% more taxes, so now they're losing money. They'll need to raise their prices high enough to earn enough revenue to offset the increased taxes. But wait, turns out other countries make steel too, and these companies are realistic enough to tax on profits only. So now American steel is too expensive to compete.

When you have high fixed costs and low variable costs, a revenue tax is brutal because you need high revenues to even begin to break a profit.
Huh? Using the term whataboutism doesn't even make sense here.

He asked me to list political speech that was censored, which I did.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford and Dr. Martin Kulldorff of Harvard.
Slimming down Twitter's workforce is indeed a valid choice. But perhaps Elon should have spent six weeks meeting every team and asking what they did before acting, like Steve Jobs did at Apple.

As it stands, it didn't seem like it helped focus the company in any way shape or form.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff calls out new workers for 'lower productivity'
No comment along the lines of: "ew, Python."
Thank you! Appreciate that. Hoping to find ways to get the word out and grow the community. So far it's been a fun ride!
I really doubt Carmack would decide his life based on NDAs or non-competes.
Where can I find information about how the German government came to this decision? Does this involve contracts to outside companies for development and consulting or will that all be done by the government? If the former, when and where did the bidding process take place? What alternatives were considered? I don't speak German, so I need some help understanding this. Precise links would be appreciated.
Respect your elders
I interpreted this as coerced positivity and forced happiness. Not organic actual emotion from feeling fulfilled and successful within their role.
Yeah, the OS itself was passable. It had the absolute bare minimum required to work, so not much could go wrong.

The ancient software also wasn't bad. After a few months learning the hotkeys and menu structure, the speed with which you can enter and process data was absolutely incredible. It had problems, but usually minor and patched in a reasonable time for corporate IT.

The real problem was their database management. I don't have any information, so I'm assuming here, but my impression is that they're using some positively ancient database software. Doing a backup of the local cache took multiple days, though it didn't lock the DB. Requests to HQ were incredibly slow, about 30 seconds to pull an account record. Larger queries like neighboring store inventory took a minute or two. Running a report on local inventory would regularly take tens of minutes, and it only had to read the local cache.

The database was a few tens of GB on disk. Granted, I don't know much about databases, but if running something like "SELECT * FROM inventory WHERE sales < 100 ORDER BY lastSaleDate" on a 30gb database takes 15 minutes, something is wrong.

There were a lot of problems we ran into on a daily basis, and almost all of them related to database functions. Particularly when a record failed to unlock, sometimes we'd have to reboot the local server, which caused all terminals in the store to reboot. That usually took a good 15 minutes.

Personally, I rather enjoyed not having Windows at work. For the most part, everything Just Works, and given the hardware, it ran ten times faster than windows would have.

My current job is a Windows development shop, and I don't have enough curses to describe the pure rage I feel every time windows does something stupid (which is approximately every three hours).
I mean, Twitter has (successfully) refused subpoenas for things like demasking pseudonymous users in the past. Of the big social media companies, (pre-Musk) Twitter has probably historically been the most pro-user in refusing to bow to legal pressure.
I was friends with his son back in college. Interesting times
That’s a decent thing to do especially since many of those people bought the system based on pricing assumptions over the next years.
The extra bad part about this is it's propagating into the industry as a whole. Much better to be ruthlessly egoistic and clear tickets. Demo or go bust. Collaboration? Ah well of course as lip service at best, for sure always restrained for basic survival. No wonder people are less happy than they used to be. And less creative in outcome. This is not how humans usually work in groups. Trust and camaraderie is prime. I hope at one point we will look back and say "Wow that was some silly culture we had going back then".
FWIW, my experience is not substantially different from the other poster.

I think that this largely depends on how good or bad one's immediate management is. Good managers hold the line to insulate their teams away from this kind of corporate culture to the extent possible. And the proportion of such managers varies from company to company, and even between different units in the same company.
To be brutally honest it does not seem like Slack is the actual problem. I think you are having difficulties performing and are looking for an excuse, and Slack seems convenient. Just uninstall the Slack desktop client and use the web browser once or twice a day. Get real work done.
I needed a generator in MO in St. Louis and out in the boonies except I lived next to the biggest hospital and we had underground power. We literally never lost power my first 30 years of life.

I live in Newcastle, it's very consistent with the first windstorm of the year. I just assume we'll lose power but you know it's coming. Then it's good for another year. I've considered a genny or a house battery but haven't really needed it. Luckily it happens in november not when it's actually cold.

This is pretty consistent for 15 years here.

The trees here are so much bigger than indiana. my friends come in from there and are like "fuuk you weren't lying". When I took my song GF to STL who grew up here she said "Why do the trees look like short broccoli?"
The Babylon Bee was not banned, the same way someone who tries to go into a store without shoes on isn't "banned." They just need to put on some shoes, then you're allowed in.

The Babylon Bee was told that 1 Tweet violated Twitter's policy, and that they needed to delete it to unlock their account. They chose not to.
‘Privacy is a lost case anyway! Why are you still even bothering?’
So you think it is totally normal that FBI just helps a company to moderate stuff that is legal but doesn't comply with the company's Terms of Service?
It seems really tiny to me. With something like 30 million Americans on Twitter, the FBI only sent about one email a week to the person in charge of safety for that “town square.”

It’s still very interesting data. Now I want to know how this compares to the other big tech companies.
I still fail to understand the importance of a language server.

One could have created a library which conformed to some specification, written the library a single time, then compiled it for different platforms. Editors could then have loaded that shared library and used it just as they wrote in support for a language server. There's no need to get a network server involved.

You still have the majority of development effort in the library, instead of individual text editors. You still have the joy of a nearly pure piece of code, without OS-specific paradigms like networking which impede progress. You still have a simple interface with the editor.

I see exactly zero benefits of having a language server over a traditional shared library, except with a network server you make a trade off where you gain latency and other networking problems, and you gain absolutely nothing.

I don't even know of any central language servers, which were one of the core benefits of the LSP design. "ooh we can all share a language server which is kept up to date independently of our editors! squeeee!" Where's that? Why is that a benefit at all? Presumably you'd still need to shut it down to update it, and someone has to manage it.

The experience that people using editors got when aeditor developers started thinking about how to do something better is what the users love, not the LSP itself. LSP triggered this change in thinking, but anything could have, and I'm honestly surprised that nothing else did prior to LSP.
Having recently been digging into the CDB format[1], this was exactly my first thought as well. `tinycdb` is extremely fast at creating an index, and most successful lookups take only two disk seeks (failed lookups need only one), very close to the optimal possible lookup performance on this problem.

[1]: https://search.feep.dev/blog/post/2022-12-03-cdb-file-format
What you're describing as anhedonia also includes avolition. At least in my case, there are three components that feed back into each other: avolition - that lack of impulse to do ... anything, even when there are strong stimuli; executive dysfunction - even if you're ready to act, a sense of being overwhelmed by choices and unable to put one foot in front of another; and anhedonia - even if you're finally doing something pleasant or productive, there's absolutely no mental reward or lasting sense of accomplishment to build upon. A row-row-row-your-boat of suck as it were.
> The problem was that it was entirely one way.

No, government should not be policing speech on private platforms, period. At most, they should concern themselves with clearly illegal things—threats of violence, child pornongraphy, etc. It doesn't matter whether or not they are being "balanced".
What is your definition of policing? If those FBI agents had been individual citizens who found misinformation and hit the report button, little different would have occurred. They got to cut the line, perhaps, but I doubt it would be much ahead of organizations like Microsoft, Stanford University, or the Archdiocese of Boston, to name some random bigwig organizations who could potentially complain to Twitter about something on Twitter.
> Relate your accomplishments to company goals

Frequently impossible. The annual goals they set are often both vague, and fail to encompass much of the activity at the company.

You can try bullshitting something, but I'd just remind them how either the company and/or customers depend on what you're doing.
> as part of the National Defense Authorization Act

What do shark fins have to do with the military?
Consider the OpenMV[1] camera, I have several of these and find them very useful for everything from simple vision control for robots to automated face detection. I turned one into a license plate reader and had it identify plates that drove down my street. All very versatile.

[1] https://openmv.io/products/openmv-cam-h7-plus
This exactly. The author is not describing their approach very well, so I stopped reading because it was frustrating to try to figure out if they tried this solution.

The simple statement of the approach is:
Use binary search, but instead of using the middle as the pivot, use the estimated position heuristic as the pivot for each iteration.
Well don't leave us hanging. What inherent vices did y'all indulge in?
> "If you solve a few more problems"

The amount of work done by these 7 words is incredible. ChatGPT is far from changing a "lot" of industries. Still pathetic at programming (which isn't its purpose, but is AlphaCode's purpose; which also sucks), use of it for copy writing is nullified since it seems Google will crack down on AI generated copy writing. DALL-E is also a nice party trick but far from being particularly useful.

I'd certainly love to have a useful AI but I think we're experiencing a 80-20 rule situation right now, and that it'll be a few years before we see anything that makes significant improvements on current solutions.
Who is saying that people should be harmed? Seriously. Whoever you have in mind, if they're actually advocating violence against people then I'm in agreement with you. That's not cool and they shouldn't be doing that.

Are you referring to calling a trans person by their biological sex?
That's a possibility, but unlikely. Twitter execs were probably well aware of the long arm of the law and that their ability to stay in business to a large extent depended on staying on the right side of the line legally. That's precisely why you see them arguing about this to such a degree in these articles, they are well aware of their position vis-a-vis the law.

I've had some contact with the FBI over the years regarding stuff happening on one of my sites and they were - it has to be said - polite and arguing their case quite well, in no way did I feel like figuring out whether if I refused them what the next step would be, it felt like I would be the unreasonable party. But if they had made an unreasonable request I would have told them to fuck off.
There are lots of crimes that happen in the USA that should probably take priority for the FBI over people posting jokes on Twitter.
I cant seem to edit the parent comment but you are indeed correct. I thought the water usage was high because I was looking at local water usage from planned hydrogen production compared to human usage, but most of the hydrogen will be exported, so globally it averages out to a small amount that is very significant locally.
> What was illegal about the NYPost breaking a story about content found on Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop?

Who said it was illegal? The FBI? Twitter? Can you highlight a quote here?

Look at the sort of wording used in the examples in the thread.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1603857573219819529 - "notifying you of the below accounts which may potentially constitute violations of Twitter's Terms of Service"
I would actually filter first for who your manager is rather than the specific role. Your higher ups can make hard jobs easy, or make easy jobs hard. If you don't want to lose your grey hairs, this is the start.

Other than that, I would target management work for sure. Being familiar with the tech and implementation is important, but equally so is being a strong communicator. Management is an opportunity to strengthen that skill in different ways to what IC work allows.

Another avenue for the workaholic is founding a company. I'm not equipped to comment there though.
Why don't you just turn on auto updates?
Yes there is a lot of industry in California. It typically leads the nation in its manufacturing output. A basic Google search would reveal the depth of the state's manufacturing capabilities. This includes includes aerospace, automotive, chemical and quite a few other products.
Where is that quotation from? I don't see that in the linked article.
Before 2016, it was a great place.

At least, the kool-aid tasted great.
Show HN: Simply see your client hints sent by Chrome
Chrome will start to reduce the UserAgent string and replace it with client hints. here you can simply see your current UA, the reduced one, and your client hints.
Thanks, happy holidays to you as well.
I have $100 if you can prove that you do "actual reasoning"

I'm not being snarky or sarcastic. This is a real challenge
If I can respectfully add something to this post - I'm not sure how much this might help, but to those who were kind enough to offer to help, I would with great respect ask you to consider adding any internal influence you might have towards trying to make this sort of one-on-one, based-on-who-you-can-connect-with action unnecessary.

There is obviously something severely broken here. Aside from any ethical/moral issue, I imagine Mr. Zuckerberg might be surprised about how becoming the one of the first Big Tech firms to "fix" their response might prove of great pragmatic benefit.

I'm fully aware the product is us, but for us to be a worthwhile product, we have to choose the site, something that is no longer as much of a reliable default for Meta.

Just my $0.02 as a Jo Schmoe in the Midwest.
Yes. Because 'legal' and 'damaging to society' are different bars and both the FBI and Twitter probably felt that cooperating on that front was better than to let things get out of hand.

The alternative may well have been a dead VP, or worse, so be happy that these channels exist(ed). With that whole department axed we are now in much more dangerous territory. That said I'm pretty sure that Elon Musk knows which side his bread is buttered on and that given an appropriately worded request Twitter will comply just like it did in the past. Or do you think they'll give the FBI the finger now?
I think it would be better if PG&E charges were decreased as well.

They currently charge .28-.51/kwh (yikes!)

the wholesale price for electricity in california is 3-4c/kwh
I don't know how anyone lives without this. I have six desktops on my MBP with a similar organization:

1. Communication apps

2. Project management, todo lists

3+. Data science and work tools - RStudio, Excel, etc

There is a left-to-right flow: communication influences project roadmaps and to-do lists, which influence what actually gets done. You hang out on the right unless you need info from the left.
Grid solar is so much cheaper than residential solar. Net metering is a waste of money, which could be better spent on utility scale renewables.
This is probably the best quote about conservatism: Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

See: https://kottke.org/22/12/the-boring-conservatism-of-elon-mus...
I mean, it seems like maybe they need more everything meetings. Because all of their meetings are becoming that.

I would say, start scheduling everything meetings, and then defer everything topics until the next scheduled everything meeting. Work from there.