skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate it.

I believe it comes down to the fact that most things are optimised for different things than what you use or want it for.

i.e the best social network would connect you to the world, let you see what was important and give you that as easily and quickly as possible so you can spend as much of your life enjoying actual life and less using the tool, however it's ad supported and there goal is to keep you on it as much as possible, so they have to give you a little of what you want, so they can get as much of what they want as possible.

And it's the same as anything, you want news, you want to be informed, they want clicks and page views, most news it could be enough to just read the headline, but they have to put it in a clickbait way and then burry the important sentence within a huge article of adverts, what's worse is that sentence wasn't even that relevant when you actually found it.

Youtube should be great for content, but it becomes a business and 'content creators' are't really producing that valuable content, they are producing content that feeds the algorithm and grows there subscribers, there can be some value in it but the value is massively diluted by any major content creator to fit in with the rules.

It's annoying and I haven't found a solution. It feels like a losing battle.
I was part of that group. Just went with an external keyboard because realistically going without a workstation for up to two weeks wouldn’t happen unless I planned my vacation around Apple’s repair appointments, which also wasn’t going to happen.

I’m just happy everyone’s on the same page now that those keyboards were an abysmal downgrade from prior generations.
Ah fair enough, that’s a pretty small amount of work!
In theory less people working means less demand, which means less of a need for labour. Places like Japan where you have had a collapsing working population for years have never seen similar spikes in job openings like the US is currently seeing,

https://tradingeconomics.com/japan/job-vacancies

The US saw a crazy spike in job openings at the start of 2021 which has only recently started to show signs of cooling. So imo what we're seeing in the US is much better explained by the $2T stimulus injection that occurred at the start of 2021 than demographics.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/job-vacancies
imo, Ruby optimizes for flexibility over consistency in a way that is unpleasant and lends itself to unforced errors.

The Python standard library has never straight up failed on me in the way that Ruby has.

Ruby had buggy named-argument splatting, i.e. func(*kwargs), until 2.7, and even that was a half-realized implementation. It took something like 5 years to fix: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11860

I've had similar experiences with Rails.
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When this collapse in workforce population occurs perhaps firms will learn that they can survive and even thrive with much less "fluff staff" who mostly sit idle or contribute very little to the overall success of any given project. I continuously see a decent amount of what I consider staffing excess in a large fraction of the companies I've worked with. (My personal philosophy here is that companies/projects/etc are better off with fewer and much higher quality employees. The challenge is finding them, hiring them and keeping them.)

It's been echoed here often that many of the large SV firms and MAANG-type companies were just hoovering up talent to keep them away from competitors. This seems like a decent corp strategy when cheap money is raining down for 1-2 decades. However, now that we're entering into a new macro-economic climate maybe this practice will subside a bit, too.
> Ultimately I think that's why Python has gained more traction than Ruby, it's an "easer" language to follow and start with. Ruby is probably a more fun and intellectually stimulating language to work with though.

Working with various Ruby-adjacent stuff for 10+ years and nothing about Ruby was even "fun" to work with, it was mix of "WTF" and "who designs language like that!".

Python is also not "easier" to start with, I'd put Ruby/JS/Python to be at pretty similar level there. No worrying much about types (till they bite you, inevitably, of course, and cause untold bugs), simple things are simple and actual proper (i.e. "not send it to some piece of C code to calculate) multithreading sucks donkey balls.
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Read the rest of the comment...

EDIT: Since you modified the comment, it can at very least assume the existence of a compiler, a linker and make.
I understand that HN has title length limits, but removing "police say" from the title changes something from an accusation to a statement of fact. Innocent until proven guilty and all that jazz.

If we cannot fit ", Police Say" then maybe change it to:

> Man Who Survived 250-Foot Cliff Plunge in Tesla [Accused] of Trying to Kill His Family
The entire import of the Lascaux paintings is that they are made by humans 10000s of years ago and seem to serve something more than mere marks. We know humans (or at least individuals with agency) created them and so there is something awe-inspiring and fascinating about the connections between ourselves and these prehistoric works, and yet they are ultimately still something of a mystery for precisely the reasons you say.

> But that connection is entirely one-sided and based on our perceptions and knowledge and our _model_ of the artist and his or her intent. Humans have no problem reifying an artist where none exists and being just as moved as if the art were "authentically human-sourced".

You're over-emphasizing how one-sided looking at something like the Lascaux paintings are. Their value is not the same as beautiful natural phenomenon, like a fascinating stalagmite like seems to be a sculpture, it is precisely the human agency we understand in them (even if we cannot explicitly understand the use of them, that is, their meaning) and connect with that makes them so important and profound as a means of connecting --- tenuous it might seem --- to prehistory. We've been making "stick people" and finger painting for 10s of thousands of years.

You're right that we don't know who the artists were in any explicit sense, but we do understand that they were human, and in quite fundamental ways, us as well.

Generative AI art is really more like a beautiful natural landscape. Lacking agency, it nonetheless appeals to our aesthetic sensibilities without being misconceived as art from an artist. It is output, not imaginative creation.
JS was slow before V8. Also TruffleRuby brings Ruby very close to V8 speeds. I just didn't consider that because it's not really a drop-in CRuby replacement.

Also JS is still too slow for most things compiled languages are used for.
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I think both of them should be in the standard library at this point. The API has been fairly stable for over 5 years.
If you're talking about the author, she cited SPLC. I'm not familiar with ADL, but I'd be surprised if they're more ill-suited for assembling blacklists of racist reading material than SPLC.
> " could it somehow get access to the subtitles and then use them to answer queries?"

It's not even necessary - computers are already excellent at understanding spoken words. Have you tried automatic captioning recently? Half the inputs to my phone are already voice, not text.

Video is a harder problem, but it's not too far behind.
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I am curious about the use of the word "adjacent"

Do you think people writing game software are not software engineers?
Google/Fitbit refunded entire price of Ionic watch when they found out that there were issues with battery.

Apple under Tim Cook has gone into a state where it doesnt care about the customer.

The whole no adapter thing moved the entire industry into suck a Scam-Customer state that even Trimmer companies are not offering adapters.

Apple is spoiling entire electronics industry.

I will keep typing 'i' in my keyboard, and it will instead type 'ii'

Apple - You need to send a full refund for manufacturing such as pathetic laptop.
Revenue multiple per employee.
At the Stanford shopping mall Apple Store, they told me that they don’t even try to fix space bars there because they’re so tricky, and can end up making matters worse. Whenever a space bar needs work, they literally send it to Texas.
I think the timing was the most important factor.

Perl was everywhere (on Linux/Unix). Then Python came along an offered enough net benefit over Perl that it really started to displace it, and became the defacto scripting language that you would reach for when creating programs on Linux/Unix.

Ruby has some niceties over python, but doesn't provide enough of a net benefit over it for that same kind of displacement to happen.
0, 1 and 2 - companies pay me for my time but when they don't pay, it's none of their business what I do, so what's the point?
> But it would only make sense if I owned a larger part of the business

Co-owned companies are not easy to run, but when You have more than 10% of shares, You already have hard matter, which You could use as foundations for future grow of Your shares, if other coowners are not smart/experienced enough.

And You don't need to make deal with daemon, in most cases You just need to know very well, what You really want in Your life and what You want to pay for it.
Oh gosh, maybe we'll actually have to pay for things, and we'll find that the market for the fifth random blog trying to make money off of free information using ads doesn't really exist. What a terrible world this will obviously be.

No. The weird thing is this idea that because you put ads on your site, you deserve money. Your ads are making the Internet worse. You probably don't realize this, because you most-likely use an ad blocker, which means you want people too dumb to use ad blockers to subsidize the web that you can use for free, but the current web is working well for approximately no one.

Would I pay $5 a month for StackOverflow if it didn't show up for everything I Google? Most likely. Would this be a better world? almost certainly. We tried the thing with ads. It sucks. I welcome our new AI search overlords.
"Rich" is the wrong word.

"Wealthy" is a better one. But even more meaningful is "owners". Or "capitalists" -- people who own capital.

Ultimately both amount to control over resources and their allocation. Factories, land, even human beings. And that's "the economy" -- the productive aspects of society. Which in our model of political-economics, are privately owned and managed by individuals and their corporate conglomerations.

"Rich person" is short hand for all of this.
It would have taken you two minutes of investigation to realize that these books are nothing like To Kill a Mockingbird. You could have read the SPLC article that the author linked, which lists numerous books explicitly promoting white supremacy, violence against minorities, and ultimately the extermination of anyone who isn't white. Or you could've just looked up the books' summaries and a few choice quotes to see how overtly racist they are.

From Mein Kampf:

> The Jews were responsible for bringing Negroes into the Rhineland, with the ultimate idea of bastardizing the white race which they hate and thus lowering its cultural and political level so that the Jew might dominate. For as long as a people remain racially pure and are conscious of the treasure of their blood, they can never be overcome by the Jew. Never in this world can the Jew become master of any people except a bastardized people.

From the Turner Diaries, in an extended passage describing the author's extermination fantasy, much of which is too grotesque to even share:

> There are many thousands of hanging female corpses like that in this city tonight, all wearing identical placards around their necks. They are the White women who were married to or living with Blacks, with Jews, or with other non-White males. There are also a number of men wearing the I-defiled-my-race placard, but the women easily outnumber them seven or eight to one. On the other hand, about ninety per cent of the corpses with the I-betrayed-my-race placards are men, and overall the sexes seem to be roughly balanced.
Fair, and there are also of course ISAs that could be drastically impactful like the ill-fated Itanium or the doesn't-seem-to-be-real Mill.
yes, i meant groups of 4, there's 3 groups in total!
Screen Actors Guild is not a traditional employment union in that your membership to SAG is not tied to your employment with given corporation. Members agree to only work with companies that have a contract with the Guild, and most members are "hired" by companies as contractors or via "loan out" companies or other such things not as w2 employees.

This makes the makeup, laws, and conditions of a SAG contract FAR FAR FAR different then what is being talked about here
I agree with you, and have the same problem. Even though staying anonymous is not too difficult, it's frustrating that it's required. It feels alienating to learn that others are hostile to your thoughts and ideas, to learn that under the freedom of anonymity others still disagree with you, more harshly than they might in person. And it's frustrating to see that some other people are able to fit into the social zeitgeist using their real names, seemingly with no socially unpalatable opinions. (I suppose they probably have their own secret accounts, as well as thick skins.)

I don't think of myself as having particularly offensive or niche opinions, but I probably have a contrarian or confrontational style of communication which causes offense. Certain people (such as INTPs, which we probably both are) tend to pride themselves on being smart and logical. It hurts our self-image when someone disagrees with us.

We also like to discuss things in purely logical and theoretical terms without regard for the context or connotations of the logic. For example, when discussing incest like you did, most people would use a bunch of disclaimers, like "I'm not actually into incest at all, and definitely not a pedophile, but...". You and I would tend to leave out those disclaimers as a matter of pride, because they aren't relevant to the logical idea that you're proposing, and are only useful at defending against ad-hominem attacks. We expect the reader to discuss the topic on purely theoretical grounds in pursuit of the truth. I dislike having to use those disclaimers and often leave them out on purpose because I want to "win" the discussion with my ideas, not my character. This tends to make me unpopular on Reddit. In real life, of course, I would use disclaimers because I care about my reputation beyond the realm of ideas. It's just disappointing that even ostensibly-anonymous social media isn't free of those constraints.

Honestly, I like 4chan for this reason. People don't shy away from uncomfortable opinions there; instead, they run towards them. I strongly disagree with most of the 4chan zeitgeist, and hate a lot of the people there, but its unfiltered nature is refreshing sometimes.
Apparently Kansas banned the 3rd edition of O’Reilly's Python Cookbook for "Describes procedures for construction of weapons, ammunition, bombs, incendiary devices" and Connecticut banned everything related to Rick and Morty for unspecified reasons.

Curiosities aside, this is all quite sad.
> problem with the internet as it exists today - there is no incentive for producing accurate, unbiased information and non-sensationalist opinions.

I think this problem is orthogonal to the internet as medium, though I’ll concede that it has proven to be the biggest amplifier of this dynamic.

Correct (or correct as far as humans know, or most likely correct, etc.) costs money to create. False or completely made up information costs nothing, plus has the potential upside of sensationalism, thus further increasing its ROI.

Agree with your point about developing more incentives for correct information and penalties for false.
> month, Google employees asked CEO Sundar Pichai and AI research chief Jeff Dean about the chatbot’s threat to Google. Google has been working on similar technology in its LaMDA, or Language Model for Dialogue Applications system, but faces reputational risk from any mistakes or errors, the two executives said, as reported by CNBC

It’s amazing watching (a possible) paradigm shifts occur in plain sight, and how history (may) repeat itself:

Google is not willing to add this feature to their main search product, and looks like they wouldn’t make a smaller “toy” search engine, that can fail. They are too afraid. It’s the innovator dilemma at play.
If training machine learning models is Fair Use (not totally settled, but seems likely) then they aren't bound by the license of the original content.

Setting up robots.txt is probably your best choice. In the EU commercial text and data mining must respect a machine-readable opt-out. In the US they could legally ignore it, but I reckon they'll follow it anyway to stay on the safe side and avoid having their crawler blocked for misbehaving.
Organizing for massive political change has pretty much no overlap with arguing with people on Reddit. Arguing on the Internet is just a lame hobby some people get caught up in, and it would be good for everyone if they found a better one to spend their time on.

If he wants to spin up an Incest Rights Advocacy group, he can certainly go do that. But arguing on Reddit and then feeling sad about it is not Step 1 in that process.
I still have a Blogger site just because I am not sure how to export all the data without days of work to copy the content, images and reformat everything to go to something like WordPress or markdown [0].

[0]: https://github.com/Cristy94/markdown-blog
Python still forces indents for code structure.
The true anarchy language would probably be PHP.
It is very nice of you to be so concerned about these folks' inner lives and psychological well being! Are you going to pay their rent, and feed them too?
> I have no children, I will never have children, and I rarely get sick, and I hate to trave

Ah yes. Because it's only people with children who get sick, need time off work, wage protection or pay for overtime, how could I forget.

> Has a highly compensated employee that knows their value to the organizations I work for I have never been forced for work overtime with no pay.

Me, me, me, I, me, me.

I wonder why overtime and crazy hours are then the norm across so many industries, and parts of industries (including IT).
I'd consider readability to be paramount in any design described as utilitarian. HN is one of the most readable sites I visit.

UI/UX in software is a field which, to me, hasn't found it's feet yet. In physical architecture(buildings), there are common patterns recognized to be aesthetically pleasing and useful. Industrial design like the cockpit of a car has done the same. Most people recognize a door or a steering wheel instantly and can make use of them. I don't think these things have materialized yet in software. So if your goal is to create software for a specific purpose and you don't have the interest, time, or budget to solve this general design problem, you're just going to punt on it and make the UI basic and functional.
The thing I've struggled to achieve in VS is using spaces to align function arguments split across multiple lines to the open parenthesis in a file that uses tabs for regular indentation. I'd be pleased to find out I'm wrong though :)
This is Wall-E
Always the class action lawyers (plaintiffs’)
Summer 2022 saw 20-year freak fires in historically immune regions of Europe
Nope, there are already several services transcribing the audio content of video so expect that to be ingested too. You’ve seen the video suggestions with timestamps in google search right?
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Hearing that an off the cuff idea has been proven out before is such a pleasant feeling, thank you!

I suspect that coordination also occurs on the in-video ad placement side as so much of the content I enjoy pimps rapid PCB services or online learning. If a cooperative works on the YT money-side, it could also work from the opposite side for videos with great SEO but where the author's content isn't right for "Subscribe Now!"
thanks, i'm feeling pretty unappreciated here, and comments like yours help a lot

fuck the haters, man
PHP got popular coz it could get barely code-literate HTML/CSS web designer to write a dynamic app, and host it easily

Ruby got popular coz Rails could get barely code-literate graduate to write CRUD app and so it was cheap (famous 15 minutes to blog tutorial) for companies.

JS got popular coz, well you ain't got fucking choice on frontend and having your then-frontend JS/HTML/CSS designer be able to also do backend is, well, again, easy and cheap.

There is clear pattern here...
David has looked preternaturally young for as long as I've known him (25 years now!)
I found out some years ago that certain kinds of tax-related federal student aid is cut off for people who've been convicted of crimes like, say, drug dealing.

What. The fuck? A 19-year-old gets caught selling drugs so we... make it harder for them to get an education that might give them more attractive options than selling drugs? We... make it more likely for them to go deeper into debt, if they do try to get an education, so make certain kinds of alternative income more attractive to them? What possible sense could that make?

I expressed, to the tax accountant who'd told me this, some confusion re: why we'd have a policy that would clearly tend to increase recidivism, hoping he'd be able to explain why this wasn't obviously stupid, and all he came back with was something like "I guess you're some kind of bleeding heart liberal then." Dafuq? I mean, on the one hand, sure, guilty as charged, but what does that have to do with preferring to have less crime happen?
I wonder when that monetization model comes to other devices outside. Just imagine how much companies could make if it costed money to use your smartphone, tablet or computer...