skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to see the stats on the "quality" of comments over time.

Quality is subjective, but I'd put some qualifiers such as:

1. Grammar and spelling
2. Length of comment
3. Relevance to previous comment and subject matter
4. Lifetime of account
5. Posts per account

Obviously these can all be gamed, but might be interesting to see potential trends, because while it's a real trope to mention it, the quality of discourse seems to be falling off a cliff.
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ChatGPT isn’t always accurate, but neither are books
IIRC, the Myst game creator was largely inspired by HyperCard.
2 was my impression for why they were looking for remote candidates, pretty hard sell to move to any of UC's areas on a $55k salary.

Someone else probably accepted, in her case she'd already taken a better opportunity elsewhere. I just thought it was strange for a grad student position to be so disconnected from the university campus.

But with the insane cost of living I guess it's not surprising.
Many of these students ultimately end up going into finance or consulting, not because they were particularly excited about that as a career path but because it’s the easiest high-status next step from their in-retrospect-poorly-chosen major. Unfortunately, those are also career paths that require long hours and where the work is often meaningless. While I’m sure that finance and consulting are the right career choice for some elite college graduates, I’d be surprised if it was the best choice for nearly 50% of them.

But the pay is so much more too. This means you can retire sooner and then use the free time to find meaning. It also means you have more money to fund your hobbies and interests, and also just having a nice standard of living is good too, and not having to worry so much about unpaid bills, medical costs, etc. . People who have crappy jobs also work long hours too and find the work meaningless.
Its not stealing your writings its sharing the conclusion in its own words like you can legally do a book review.

It wont be just like search as we burn all the books (websites) on the www. Each website needs a human to pay for it and to lure at least some traffic to it.

This preservation after death has its downsides too. It will turn into the steroids v of stack overflow outdated answers.

It will be (or already is) brilliant at combining things writing humanly readable code in your favorite language and bake the same in lower ones that are perhaps oddly stable.

So I guess we will finally be able to do away with all popular languages and use them for pseudocode only⸮
This looks like more of the same from this union: Below rent pay with increased gender inequality in the health care plan.

Normally, what happens is students in lower cost of living campuses vote yes, but places like UC Santa Cruz overwhelmingly vote no, and end up on wildcat strike. I hope UC doesn’t deport too many grad students this time.

What should happen: Students should vote to replace the system-wide union with campus-wide unions with campus-wide contracts. If campus-wide unions / contracts are deemed illegal, they should wildcat strike until the law changes.

What will happen: Grade students will realize that a $10K raise and health care for a few years is nothing compared to getting a summer internship or going to industry, so the union will continue to negotiate increasingly abusive contracts.
> Gee, Schopenhauer. What are we going to do tonight?

> The same thing we do every night, Kierkegaard. Nihilism and despair.
DMCA Section 1201 criminalizes breaking any “technological protection measures” of any kind, unless there is an exception for it on a list decided by a librarian that changes every 3 years. It’s absurd.
Let me guess, Russia is the good guy?
The hotel, or any other business really.

If I buy a farm/restaurant/hotel/retailer for top dollar and complain about cost of wages making it unprofitable, the problem isn’t the wages. But you’re stuck with your acquisition price, so you’ll lobby for lower wages and make no mention of your sunk costs.
Is there a fixed virtual address that the system promises never to use?
There is no panacea. Many children may be tragically under-served by their home educations, but a great many children are tragically under-educated in the public school system, too.

My partner and I, not at all religious, are home-schooling our eleven-year-old because the public school was completely failing him. Pandemic-era zoom classes were especially worthless. By contrast, a few hours of parental attention each day has him thriving. We have the freedom to work with his natural curiosity, and the normal variations in the pace of skill development, instead of boxing him into a fixed curriculum.
> Appearances can be deceiving.

They aren't in this case.

There's a reason I'm picking silk. As a hint, palladium and tritium would also be good picks.

> If more people want silk than there is supply of silk, then that increases the value of the silk itself and in turn increases the value of the labor to produce said silk.

Tomorrow, a famous tik toker posts about how awesome making silk is. Hundreds of thousands of young adults decide to work in the silk industry - and are in fact hired.

The price of silk does not move. Not one inch.

Even though the labor pool has expanded (silk production is not a difficult skill) the cost has not moved - yet the labor value of silk has crashed! Our young adults make terrible wages!

> Why would this be any different for a product of said labor?

Not all products behave like software or agile consulting. There is more or less infinite software. There is a fixed cap of most other things.

> Do you think that wholesale and retail prices are always identical?

Tomorrow you go to a silk seller and ask to buy silk.

The silk seller tells you it will be $40 a yard.

You laugh and tell the silk seller that no no, you aren't making a garment. You want to buy many warehouses of silk.

The silk seller returns your laugh. "That will be $40 a yard still."

You get frustrated and tell the silk seller you will buy ALL of his inventory. Metric tons if needed.

The silk seller replies there is not that much silk in the world, but what he has will still be $40 a yard. Maybe next year he can give you some more.
> there will always be diversity and inclusion issues

This is a totally unsupported and hypothetical claim. Given the gargantuan investments in DEI by universities, I'd be amazed if it were true.
The thing is this is something we suffer through while we wait for companies to get enough, and large enough fines to actually read GDPR and respect it.

Once that happens it will be almost as before, just with less battery usage, less network usage and less tracking.

Will it happen?

I think it will. I know see even Google - who I expect to have a small army of lawyers - have given up to certain extent and now lets me opt out directly without any extra steps.
I feel like this was true a few years ago but things have changed a lot recently.

In my opinion Bevy may be one of the better ECS implementations I've seen, as ex-gamedev it's just very well thought through. It's never going to supplant Unity or Unreal but that's less of a language issue than just the scope of those codebases.

You're seeing a lot more of it showing up in OSes across Android, Linux and I've seen a fair bit of movement in the windows space as well.

As for IPC, C/C++ doesn't help you their either, that's more of a framework level concern. If anything the threading model helps when you're doing concurrent IPC dispatch(ex: MTA COM or equivalent high throughput IPC) and preventing data races.
> is there a danger that hiding them from people just means that they are more likely to fall for them when the inevitable happens.

Probably, but there's so much variance in human behavior and circumstances that your vulnerability to scams never drops to 0. A call telling you your child is in the hospital and you need to pay them because their check has bounced sounds a lot more convincing during times when you know your child is actually in the hospital.
I currently have 17 extensions installed on my iPhone for Safari. There’s some overlap, but not total overlap with the 7 content (read: ad) blockers I have installed too.
Every 2-4 years?! That's wild. I live in a rental house that still has all of its appliances from the 90s. They definitely look dated - all white, lots of plastic, no stainless steel or water dispenser or anything - but they all still work perfectly. I haven't had a single problem with any of them since I moved in several years ago, with the exception of the dishwasher coming unplugged and having to be removed so it could be plugged back in. This post is making me grateful for my shabby appliances (and the fact that I'm not on the hook for fixing them if they do break)!
Cookie banners are simply the most annoying and spiteful way to fulfill the EU regulations. You don’t need to block access to the website until you accepted tracking. If you don’t track you don’t need any thing at all.
Not much.

My Bose QC's made me nauseous when I started using them. I acclimatized to a degree but only ever use them in flights. And they "sound" weird compared to eg. covering my ears with my palms.

Also tried AirPods Pro and didn't like the feature (or the amount they stick into your ears); swapped for the cheaper / older model which I love.
Other People's Problems
we have a few small "rules" in indian income tax calculation.

* gifts to family members is tax-free. they incur no taxes and you can gift as much and as frequently (because it is already tax paid money)

* business expenditure has to be verified to have been actually paid and for business purpose. (doesnt matter if advertising budget is 90% of sales which has incurred losses. if you have paid that much for advertising, you will get a deduction on your profits.

* loss can be carried forward for only 8 years.

* "speculative loss" can be set off from that income only. ( no cross utilization of speculation loss from your regular business)

* corporations (limited ones) can only have 2 levels of hierarchy. no "shell" companies with webs and webs of orgs.

* the taxpayers are divided by geography and then by levels of income (currently 5) so level 1 will have the lowest income earners and 5 will have highest. cases are taken up and scrutinized accordingly. (hardly anyone from 1 will be picked up because those are slim pickings)

* automation is used to identify problems and correlate many things, like income to actual tax paid ratio. if it is too low, your case will be auto scrutinized.

i fail to understand (for lack of information), if trump is "incurring losses", how is his wealth increasing and not decreasing?
from wealth i mean say i have shares i purchased for $100 5 years ago and today they are worth $40,000. if i sell today, my income (wealth) will increase by $39900 and i will pay long term capital gains on this amount @ 10%. So net i will only get $31920 to invest for future. so on and so forth.

if i do not "sell" that share, in my books, i will only show the share as $100 because of historical price rule.

if i earn a dividend from my $100 cost price share (which is now $40k without selling), that dividend is also taxable as my income.

Now, if in the sale case, if i had $39900 gain but i had lost 50K in a second sale of a share, i would have a net LOSS of $10.1k so my wealth will decrease...
> It's hard for people to take your business elsewhere when you need a place to sleep

I think this is actually how most people end up deciding to take their business elsewhere: they give a company their business once, are let down, and decide to never patronize that business or chain again. This is why customer recommendations and reviews hold weight at all -- they help give signal before your first business interaction.

> but fraud is only something you can charge a business with because of regulation.

I don't think almost anyone is in favor of no regulation, only the prescriptive step-by-step guideline regulations. If a hotel says "we have beds!" and then they don't have beds, that's a very different regulatory case than a hotel saying "our bed are comfortable!" and then their beds are not comfortable.
Reads like an onion headline
I love the fact that I can play with the leds of my device without specialized tools. Yes, it is sysfs, not procfs, but it is the same idea.
You're 100% correct that the target audience of this isn't HN readers. Having worked in this space for a number of years and having written this same fluff article in 2020, this type of content is marketed directly to engineering managers and VP types who are looking for solutions to issues around their SDLC or developer productivity.

The technical implementation part can be interesting to readers and potential engineers who will use the platform and is worthwhile to have available, but this content is purely meant to cast a wide net.
Karma is just confirmation bias
> When it goes wrong, it goes WRONG. See Chernobyl and Fukushima.

This is a very weak argument. It's akin to comparing driving vs flying in terms of safety. Flying also goes WRONG when it goes wrong. But how would a comparison based on energy output vs material/human damage look like? I mean coal also goes WRONG, see the Aberfan disaster.
Because the DMCA says that if you try to use property you own as if you own it, and that property came with DRM, you are a criminal. Stop thinking you own things pleb, that's not for people of your class and the masters decided to put an end to that nonsense.

(the thing you want to google for a non-snarky explanation: "anti-circumvention provision")
Makes sense thanks.

Also the actually intersection of the green and red curves looks more like 3M Safety Green to me (the yellowish hi-vis vests). I wonder if that’s how they developed that color
Funnily enough, Juicero is a great example of a rugged product. It had ridiculously over-engineered mechanicals and a very beefy motor. The whole concept was silly and the business model was ridiculous, but it was built to last!
PIHole + Privacy Badger + UBlock Origin
More than that, the first Myst game is literally a hypercard stack.

They didn't make their own engine until the sequel, Riven, and the "Myst Masterpiece" remake.
It is. And that quote is correct.

There's two problems here. One is that XX/XY is not even a majority of the common human chromosome karyotypes, and changing karyotypes does not change someone's sex characteristics; those are determined at one specific moment during gestation, which may or may not be affected by changing the chromosomes beforehand, but certainly would not be affected by changing their chromosomes after that moment. Primary and secondary sex characteristics are determined by androgen metabolism, not by chromosome karyotypes.

Secondly most of the human karyotypes are not assigned a sex until some time after birth, and XY is often assigned female at birth because the divergence of homologous structures depends on androgen metabolism, not chromosome karyotype. Sex and gender don't exist for cell lines in the same way they do for people.

TL/DR; This is an article about a study that found they could change a cell line's karyotype, not a person's sex characteristics which are determined not by chromosome karyotypes but by androgen metabolism during gestation. Whoever wrote the headline didn't understand the topic.
I remember being blown away the first time I saw the visual programming tool that came with Silicon Graphics workstations.

Visual programming works great as long as you restrict it to a particular domain (e.g. data processing, visualization, audio processing etc).
Show HN: React Log Hook, logging hook in react components lifecycle
When I visited my alma mater, I told them I wanted to endow a chair in the CS Department.

Not a professorship; an actual, physical chair.

They weren't amused. I think they'd heard that one before.
> Monocrystalline Si solar panels have so many advantages that it's hard to get interested in anything else for home or business construction.

I agree.

"Classical" is already cost effective in many areas of the world, and would be in even more if the electricity price accurately reflected the societal cost of releasing CO2 into the atmosphere.

These paper-thin solar elements would fill a different niche though. If it's cheap enough (and doesn't come with other downsides), you could plaster any surfaces with it that aren't suitable for panel installations (think car hoods, boats, whatever).
Politicians never thought the 'cookie dialogue was a good idea'. Politicians aimed to reduce the use of cookies for tracking without consent. That the industry responded by either ignoring the directive and/or by harassing their users to give that consent forcibly isn't on the politicians but on the owners/operators of those websites.
I've been wanting to read some of his stuff--is there a website or book that you would recommend as a starting point?
That, and/or first-party hosted ad delivery.
> so they can track users by logged in state.

This is not allowed either.

GDPR, unlike the previous attempt isn't a cookie law but a data law.
My kids both went through music lessons, and I believe a lot of this "culture" is brought by hyper competitive parents. It's not inherent to the process. The Suzuki method (which is the dominant variant in the US today) starts kids playing by ear, and involves them in as much group playing as possible. You can't get in the habit of stopping, if nobody else stops.

Imposed on top of this is a culture of treating it like a contest. This is an easy trap to fall into, because the repertoire is organized by difficulty. But I quickly noticed that the most laid back parents were the ones who were performing musicians themselves. I'm a performing jazz musician so my kids have heard me play plenty of clams on the bandstand without stopping. ;-)

The parents have to get out of the habit of stopping their kids when they make a mistake. I read a comment from a famous teacher, that he doesn't stop his students when they make mistakes, because it kills their flow. Unless the mistake is repetitive. Isolated mistakes are not teachable, repetitive ones are.

My daughter's teacher had a really nice thing, an open recital at his house every Friday evening. Because it was so frequent, kids could just show up and play whatever they were working on.

There are alternatives to traditional classical teaching. In addition to their classical lessons, my family has gotten into fiddling. That's a totally different vibe. We went to a fiddle jam, and recognized one of the fiddlers from the previous night's symphony concert.

Now for my own opinionated opinions, not necessarily contrary to yours: 1) At least in classical and jazz, a player has to get over the hump and learn to play in tune at some point. In any event, intonation problems typically reveal technique problems. 2) "Feel" is not orthogonal to technique. Wherever the note belongs, your brain and body working together have to put it there. And "feel" is anything but absent from classical music -- you just have to listen harder for it because it's more subtle. You can hear it when it's too rigid.
Microservices became this mess because people only think about production. Nobody builds microservices as standalone units that should be testable and runnable in isolation, with ZERO external data. Instead, everything relies on everything, so it's just a monolith split up into microrepos. Worse, people have started putting app configuration in S3 and other dumb things (I've seen it...) do you cannot run things locally, or even match production unless you have AWS creds. Madness.
Perhaps a little, people who knew had higher end options for plenty of things. Now with a inflationary recession ongoing I fear we are back to initial purchase price.
Uranium also needs to be mined actually and there are also fatalities.

> Once again 'paid the (nuclear) price', is 1 death. One.

Claiming a really low number of fatalities has almost become a meme for every nuclear catastrophe. I remember reading articles of people claiming really few fatalities related to Chernobyl. But if you've watched the Netflix series, you can easily see that this cannot be further from the truth

By the way, in the same article it's also written that 'Predicted future cancer deaths due to accumulated radiation exposures in the population living near Fukushima have ranged[14] in the academic literature from none[15] to hundreds.[12]' ... 'For long-term displacement, many people (mostly sick and elderly) died at an increased rate ... As of 27 February 2017, the Fukushima prefecture government counted 2,129 "disaster-related deaths" in the prefecture.[21][19][22][23] This value exceeds the number that have died in Fukushima prefecture directly from the earthquake and tsunami.[24]'
OpenID Connect basically only shares the name with the OpenID from back then too.
Image super resolution models for PyTorch
> A good ORM user is thinking in SQL but writing in C# (or whatever your business layer is in).

That doesn't sound like metaprogramming; it sounds like insanity brought about by bureaucratic limitations on language choice.
Adam Savage, of Mythbusters-fame, has one of these - and loves it dearly. He had the opportunity to have it CT scanned, to show its inner workings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n564Cw0lHLk
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2016/07/13/are-f...

https://atomicinsights.com/smoking-gun/
If you do this, then you can't add new fields
I am playing a video game now, where I should run a nation. Most of the game is about making economical tradeoffs. I want a GDP growth, so I have to develop sophisticated industries with higher throughouput. These industries has better margins and can afford better wages. As a result, no one wants to work in agriculture. There are three ways out of it:

1) make agriculture more sophisticated, like automatization, which requires less headcount with higher qualification. It is not easy way, requires lots of gov sposored R&D.

2) make food more expensive. This makes life of everyone worse.

3) import food. This is the easiest way, but you cannot import services (like making beds) - you need to import low-wage workers instead.

So, of course there will be hotels where you have your bed made for you, but those hotels will just be expensive. And, by the way, you may order your masonry to be 3D-printed from cement the way no old day mason can do, but it will be quite expensive too.
Are finance and consulting really high status beyond the pay? Why? In theory it seems like they might be, but most of my peers in these fields are pretty uninspiring
Court bars Australian company from releasing unsanctioned Pokémon-branded NFTs
Subjectivity is an abyss. The Real is the tension between symbolizer and symbolized as we try and fail to fill reality, which is unfinished. Theories of Everything do not come from science but from philosophy. Plato, Hegel, Lacan, McGowan, Dolar, Zizek, Freud, Fanon.
Interesting thanks. Have you looked into Apple's Local Push Connectivity API? It's specifically designed for VoIP calls and text messages, but perhaps the latter is enough. Not sure if it requires you to bake in any keys at compile time, or if the iOS app could allow the end-user to configure the push server.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension/l...
A week ago i first saw this word "skeuomorphism" used on HN and now i'm seeing it nearly everyday in the comments on HN. Is this Frequency Illusion [0] or does the word get used very often now?

[0] https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
I miss the days when things became memes. Memes are now just the Elon Musk of jokes.
Lawmaking is like chess. Politcians and their lawyers should anticipate what bigcorp will do in response to new law and inject countermeasures before the law is introduced.

Cookie law was lame af from the beginning and did nothing but annoyed end-users.
Elon Musk’s Campaign to Win Back Twitter Advertisers Isn’t Going Well
There should have been a control group of college age adults.