skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why they're still tracking us. I never ever has consciously clicked in an ads banner. All my ads clicks have been my mistake.

They never get it right with the products they offer me. If I buy a car, why are they still offering me more cars? It's clear that I will not buy any more. There is no way they can track that I have already bought a car.

Every time I try to see a YouTube video and I have to wait because of the ads, I got angry. The product I'm seeing on the screen is associated with my anger and makes me hate that product even more.

There is a whole industry around tracking users that, I think, simply does not work as they sell, and it will never do.
> In environments more suited to them, they learn just as fast as folks with a more traditional background. In these instances, the occupation was fine. The teacher needed to be swapped out.

You're assuming it's the teacher's fault. That will be true in some cases, but it may impossible to tell at the time. What will be true in others is that the person (like me) was far more motivated by work than academia, and university at the age of 18 wasn't appropriate.
I only recently rediscovered that doing nothing is a perfectly fine activity and that it's okay to be bored.

That might sound obvious and borderline stupid, but it really feels like I had forgotten that for a while.
This insight made cutting down my smartphone time dramatically easier and much more successful. Because while I had strategies to replace bigger chunks of social media consumption with reading books, going for walks and other hobbies, you can't really read a book if you just have a short downtime (like waiting in a queue). So I pulled my phone out to bridge that little bit of downtime which eventually always crept back into more and more situations until my screen time ended up right back where it started.

Realizing that I can just 'do nothing' made a huge difference. I also read a paper that found that boredom plays a huge role in creative thinking, which made it easier for me to do nothing because it suddenly felt like that was a productive activity.

It's a little sad that 'taking care of myself' wasn't a good enough reason to accept boredom into my life and that I was only able to do it once I believed it would have an effect on my productivity, but it worked very well and I have yet to see a downside.

I am sleeping better, I am more emotionally balanced, I feel like my problem solving skills have improved and I'm slowly, but noticeably, increasing my attention span.

All in all I can highly recommend reducing mindless doomscrolling as well as accepting more boredom into your life.
I love Thonny. Used it to show my kids Python. It's not quite as easy as Swift Playgrounds, but it was fun showing them how to draw stuff with "turtle", and then collaboratively making a snake game with "arcade".
"The doctor is two minutes late, therefore all appointments today have been cancelled."
> Then who is watching the watchers?

My concern is who is watching the ethicists who are making decisions and regulations "for our own good". All the discussion about AI that i can read about is clearly a power play about who will get to set the rules (and rent-seek) first
Microsoft set to lay off thousands of employees tomorrow
I get surprisingly little. There's about 15 addresses that are persistent, and they're all caught by the spam filters. The most important job is to set up SPF and DKIM properly so spammers can't impersonate your domain and send as though FROM you, rather than TO you.
RTFM aka read the rules and/or what certain things do.
Apart from that get muscle memory.
Setup your key bindings.
And as with everything, practice
> The best "matching" shirts are then likely blue

But this means there are then non-blue shirts.

One of the issues for us is that we wanted to rank by item suitability for the user, not by relevance. When using FTS, this didn't work because you'd get a non-blue shirt that would be better for the user and that showed up first. But when using the filter-based search, that couldn't happen because the recommendation algorithm was only getting blue shirts to rank, so all of them were relevant, and the same level of relevance.
We have switched back and forth on this because we also wanted to stay as close to Markdown as possible, just for the familiarity. However, the fact that Typst also uses the hashtag to indicate an inline expression led to too much confusion (`#thing` was a variable access and `# thing` a heading). And the hashtag is really quite nice for these inline expressions, so it won over the headings. Using `=` for them does have some precedent with AsciiDoc.
I wonder how much shielding is actually needed. 2.4 GHz = 12.5 cm wave. A conductive grid with approximately 6cm (or 2") step should prevent the waves from getting inside. Not a very expensive thing to add even to drywall panels. Can also be relatively easily added into fabrics, to make RF-reflective curtains.
I feel like you can just add a table to your DB and be done with it for most systems. I feel like people with large enough systems where “stick it into the DB” is not reasonable also should probably have a bespoke feature flag system.
For anyone interested in more of this, there are a ton of How It's Made clips on Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/@howitsmadeofficial1334/videos
Thanks for all and that link, but yeah I was assuming 18==19 already and meant to understand runway numbers, maybe should have left out that detail.

Actual question still sticks: Takeoff on 18 southwards basically makes you follow the river immediately. Where did this guy encounter his left/right decision, to get back towards white house? he must have made almost a uturn then?

And even assuming the article is a bit inaccurate and he took of northwards (thanks for pointing out the patterns pilots have to fly if doing that @ others): I still cannot imagine how that plane flew and where it matches the description of: "When I reached 1500 feet I looked down. I was crossing the river. It went right and left."

???
No, productivity is good. For an example of the reverse, as the UK's economy has been shrinking in recent years, carwashes have been de-automating and replacing machines with handwashing.

Luckily, humans are never satisfied and continue demanding new things, so making things cheaper doesn't reduce the total market.

But also, those new things can be services or digital goods or 100% recycled, which is why the US uses less water per year and emits less CO2 per year in 2023 than it did in the 60s. (No, that's not because we outsourced it to China.)
There's already technology to shade a window, presumably with LCD. I'm sure people would pay for the privilege of being able to control how tinted their windows are.

https://www.vision-systems.fr/solutions/solar-protection/
> Its job is to open, view, edit, and save local files

That might have been the case 20 years ago (and even then Office had functionality to self-update).

Now, with OneDrive, cloud storage, Exchange, SharePoint, etc, people expect that Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc should work seamlessly with multiple users simultaneously editing documents.

Even IDEs and code editors have ‘network access’ now—VS Code can download and update itself and any extensions, connect to remote SSH hosts and GitHub Codespaces, use extensions that themselves connect to the Internet (like Copilot), etc.

People have come to expect some form of self-updating mechanism now even for the smallest programs (consider Rufus, an ISO burning program which can update itself, download ISOs to burn to USB drives, etc), and it’s counterproductive to just blanket-ban everything from accessing the Internet, as things are likely to stop working as expected.
I use Win-Key and type stuff to launch programs in GNOME and it works very well, doing this in Windows hasn't worked well in the time I can remember using it - at best the search is slow, but a lot of the time it just doesn't find the thing I want - it feels janky.
Surprisingly zero on one domain. Not because it's ineffective, but because it hasn't leaked as far as I can tell.

The other however has leaked, but that's because it's designed to - it's for social media where the email is available for use and has been abused by third parties.
and became the biggest company by market capitalisation in doing so. I guess when you look at the purpose of profit making corporations, being on top of that particular tree is the stretch goal that few ever achieve.
I am in France paying 5€ per month to red-by-sfr for 20Go and illimited call/SMS/MMS
It is ok if.... if I use it myself? It looks really neat!

And if I can add something, I feel like the addition of plugins might overcomplicate things and, at that point, maybe the users are ready to move into another IDE? Not saying it is bad, just maybe that not all IDEs need plugin support.
There will be opinions baked into any such tool. If they don't select them explicitly then the opinions will be the ones which it just happens to find in the training data, or the opinions randomness imparts into it.

If you think you have a better idea how to handle this drum up interest and train your own model.
These models are way too big for consumer hardware.
People want carplay, but also buttons and knobs for AC, seats, volume. Car manufacturers dont want to pay for both screens and buttons so they push everything into screens.
The Britney Spears Guide to Semiconductor Physics
YouTube. Watch someone who is very good at the game.

> What in your opinion is the quickest, most effective way of learning faster and getting better?

Humans are really good at imitating. Even better than critical thinking in some ways.

I remember seeing a video with a “trick box” with a bunch of dummy knobs and levers. [1] A researcher demoed it to a child, doing all sorts of superfluous actions before finally dispensing the candy. The child imitated and got the candy.

Then they replaced the opaque box with a clear one, so that it was obvious that only the last action mattered. The child still performed the ritual before getting the candy.

A chimpanzee was given the same task and quickly got the candy by skipping all the unnecessary steps.

[1] https://youtu.be/L8spFl1iJfs
We add a "branch config" JSON file for each branch, which is later merged with some CUE. We put metadata and "feature flag" like values in there. This full config value is passed to all subjobs and makes it easy to change and grow our CI.

The main problem I see with real feature flags in CI is that it can make reproducing a build nearly impossible. What happens if someone flips a flag in the middle of a build? (where that flag value is checked in multiple places, so the flip happens in between the checks)
Is there anything wrong with mechanical switches, beside the apparent (though negligible for me) improvement in comfort?
> They were hungry to participate in startupism.

I’ve met a few people who have fallen into this. They spend most of their time hanging around at coworking spaces chatting to other “founders” trying to come up with startup ideas. Never seen one make any progress yet.
Pycasso: How to build a picture frame to show you random AI art every day
Im on the balanced diet committee. But I actively lobby against the ‘cut all of x because I can’t control myself and you should too’ Union.
Yeah that would have been a pretty good intermediate option between our first and second passes at the issue. I think it would have still returned some incorrect results where we had overlap in category naming that was only apparent in context (e.g. jackets – coat jackets vs dinner jackets), but still probably a good improvement.
I was always taught the industrial revolution started earlier than that with the work of people like Abraham Derby, the elder. For perspective, he died in 1717.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Darby_I
Why this Universe podcast is an outstanding resource in this subject.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7zQsqfpx1p3fBUsqLGtHnM
Does this mean microsofts potential billion dollar aquisition of openAI is a bad idea because the IP is already out there and other companies are catching up?
Will give it a try! Want to use it on top of replicas of our work production DB like in an exploration day setting and see what comes out of it, looks awesome!!
A lot of submissions, but with n=11 I can confidently proclaim that this only gets comments when posted in January ;)

102 comments last January: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25674134
Yep this is like saddest thing that 50% of species died in last 50 years due to human activity.
Closer to Johannes Vermeer
The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum launched an online exhibition about Vermeer to explore his life and all of his paintings.

This is made in conjunction with the physical exhibition showing all paintings of Vermeer that will open in February.
The meanings of words change over time.

> Roberts said that the term’s current usage departs somewhat from its original meaning. “It’s not this sense that things are getting so bad that the revolution is going to come,” he told me, “but rather that we see the ligaments of the international system that socialists will be able to seize and use.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/late-ca...

> income inequality is not growing

Global within-country income inequality rose steeply between 1980 and 2020. See p.57 of https://wir2022.wid.world/www-site/uploads/2021/12/WorldIneq...

The growth of income inequality in the US over that same period is really stark: https://www.vox.com/2018/7/29/17627134/income-inequality-cha...
I have a client who's web site is a series of pages within folders, no database, no scripting, html pages only. It's a complete joy to work on. Problems are rare and easily resolved, I look forward to updating it. I can't help thinking more small and medium sized web sites should be setup like this.
Why would work not be getting done? It's just a weed stereotype. Some people are inspired or more productive after smoking.
We Need AI Literacy
There's lots of tools around nowadays that allow you to build a site that doesn't conform to the blog format, but the old web hasn't really made a comeback. I think there is truth in the author's statement:

> Here’s the crux of the problem: When something is easy, people will do more of it.

writing up whatever daily musing into a short-form article is much easier than carefully organizing and categorizing an entire library of work, so there will be more of that around. Writing a 140 character update on your social feed is even easier, so there will be more of that.

The old web hasn't totally disappeared, by the way. It's just much harder to find in a sea of other content that has grown much faster. And blogs are only a small part of that. SEO advertising clickbait spam sites are drowning out a lot of content on the web, because they are extremely low effort and there's money to be made in them.
> Remember Microsoft's Tay? Ah, right, it was shut within days because it quickly became an asshole.

If we consider the context, which is not something that posts on twitter under Microsoft's brand name, but something you communicate with in private. Who exactly are you worried about here, the person who will prospectively coerce the language model into being an asshole? If they don't want to do that, they could just not do that.

If I make ChatGPT say something egregious, and post that on Twitter or Facebook, I'm posting it, and I'm liable, just as I would be liable if I used a word processor with spell checking to make text and post it on Twitter or Facebook.

> Without ethics, you'll likely always end up with a 4chan-bot instead of whatever you intended.

If I ask it to explain quantum physics to me in the style of Donald Trump because it is funny, and it does it (as ChatGPT used to do), who exactly is being harmed and under what system of ethics, because as you may know, ethics is not objective or universal.
> Screenshots are always available

Unfortunately not, certainly not on mobile. I don't know if this is the case on iPhone, but on Android some apps make it really hard or impossible to screenshot them.

I think in recent Android versions they can even prevent the screen from getting mirrored to a connected PC / other casting device.
A workplace where you have to play the above games to get promoted... sounds like a workplace best avoided. To me, anyway.... Apparently many people enjoy such environments, or so they claim... or at least they get paid lots for putting up with it.
I agree, high carb and high fat food are so palatable and available everywhere, which makes them convenient.

It doesn’t take much to go above your RDI. Unfortunately to support a healthy diet you really do need to cook your own food most of the time.
An expired certificate _is_ a soft error, and in most cases nobody gives a fuck. For example, if HN's certificate expired and my browser absolutely prohibited access to it on the basis of that, I'd switch browsers because there's literally nothing at stake if somebody is able to read my traffic to or from this unimportant site. There's even less at stake when it comes to the cryptographic security of some blog. I literally don't care if someone can read the blog entry as I download it from its publicly-accessible URL.

On the other hand, if my e-mail provider's certificate is expired, there's a little more at stake, and there are other services where the HTTPS security being broken can cost me money. Those I do care about.
It's fascinating to me how this is a topic of conversation in parts of the world, and a fait accompli in others. In Israel, may Hareidim use "kosher phones", which the world would recognise as dumb phones. Some allow for texting, some don't... that's it.

Honestly, I love the idea. I've reduced my smart phone usage at this point to convenience of paying for public transit, small credit card purchases, 2FA, and chat - but only to get in on the real world. It's made me happy.
I don't disagree with what you are saying, I just find it funny that this discussion is happening in context of soviet planned economy, which had no market to speak of, no competition, complete politically moderated indirection between demand and production, and entrepreneurship being outlawed thus no concept of market entry.
>The US didn't "lose": it didn't suffer a military defeat forcing any kind of surrender, it simply gave up and went home.

Giving up and going home is a loss where Taiwan is concerned as it was in Korea.

The more astute observers understand this war is already over. More Chinese people are willing to die to maintain their country's integrity than Americans willing to do the same for an island on the otherside of the planet.

The US will lose twice if it continues down this path. It will secondly earn the hate of the vast majority of Asian countries as an outsider bringing yet another uneccessary war to their neighborhoods over what the majority of Asians consider a settled topic.
I don't think it was about safety. It was because they didn't want to make ABSL part of the public API.
Sure, what I had in mind was a more user-friendly UX.
For example, if I could add something to the certificate subject to say: "This is an obfuscation only cert, not claiming identity or MITM resistance".

Then, the browser would either show the address bar like a HTTP page, or maybe show a notification instead of a block page, saying: "This is the first time you have visited this page. Identity is not verified. Trust identity?"

You can tell I don't do UX for a living ;-)
Some people don't wanna get promoted because its too much of the "Wrong Kind of work". (TM) ;). e:g less coding, more management BS, corporate stuff, playing silly games, jumping through pointless hoops, being forced to show off to others, pushing others to do things they don't want to and that are pointless.
I used Thonny from when I was just starting to learn how to code. It was a great experience. Neat, much lighter than the PyCharm, easy-to-use, simple UI, adding packages is just about 2 clicks. Not much to complain, although sometimes the package installation dowsn't work.
I mean that RuntimeBroker.exe was considered so important that the UI process (Explorer.exe?) couldn't proceed to show the start menu while it wasn't running, and instead had to wait for it to run.

That RuntimeBroker couldn't restart until the last instance was dumped is what's true for all processes. But that doesn't explain why the UI block waiting for it and not show the start menu.

RuntimeBroker may be required to show the complete/correct start menu because it relates to app permissions for store apps and similar, but Microsoft (again) likely overestimated the importance of their app store.
Game Feel
Blazer is a particular favourite of mine. A former colleague taught herself SQL from zero knowledge by looking at and piecing together bits of other reports, experimenting with familiar (interesting) data and going on to build dashboards her team loved.

If we'd have just given the team a locked down Data Studio/PowerBI report none of that would have happened. Encouraging people to peek under the hood can be a huge benefit.
Genuine question: What in your opinion are the differences between a great and an average band leader? I've been making music as hobby for most of my life, and band leading is a topic I think about a lot - but it seems for many musicians I meet is not even on the radar.
I think just hovering the cursor above the zoom button for a few seconds will also trigger the left/right tiling options.
The "opinion" is whatever the wranglers didn't yet lobotomize.
Jesus fuck people, the article is literally about new approaches to this.
>>> It’s now a fact that alcohol has negative effect at any dose

Any reference for this ?
https://www.irishtimes.com/technology/big-tech/2023/01/13/eu...

Pretty harsh words here too, but not focused on the amount.
Some active device equivalent to a mouse jiggler, retransmitting the signal and shifting the phase just enough to create the illusion of constant movement.
> It's clearly biased in its outputs, but the article dismisses this concern as "the end result of years of researcher trying to mitigate bias against minority groups".

The examples of bias are themselves cherry-picked, the kind of softball and cowardly questions a journalist would highlight. If you wanted to really show bias, you'd ask factual questions, where one cannot hide behind "oh this is actually the un-biased result". This is what happens when you do:

https://a.pomf.cat/yizwbt.png

https://a.pomf.cat/zpwxcd.png
The discourse around cycling safety is infuriating.

It's bad enough when people jump in with incomplete multivariate comparisons and jump straight to a conclusion. You can't just compare cyclist fatalities between two cities on different sides of the planet without also why people are cycling, what they're cycling on, what's been done to cities and roads to make it safer already, etc, etc.

Then you throw helmets in. More cyclists wearing helmets died? But wait, your data only shows hospital admissions from RTAs. How many cyclists in helmets rode away from their accidents? How many more road cyclists wear helmets anyway?

Then you do a Dr Ian Walker and start muddying all that with psychology.

Then what happens if your enforce helmets?! Everybody stops cycling and obesity rates rocket? What data says that?

It's a mess. There are so many variables. Too many variables. We chase after them, trying to explain human behaviour and prove that helmets are magic, or evil; quickly forgetting how easy it is to die by one simple head trauma, and how easy it is suffer that coming off a bike.

Yes, safe infrastructure appears to be a massive factor, but cities and countries that need it most can't just regenerate their road networks overnight. We should be talking about helmets as a stop-gap; a way to make cycling safer right now with the goal that regeneration follows to improve things for everyone.
> Object Pascal is often criticized for its syntax, which can be seen as verbose and confusing.... But [don't worry] it has had modern features such as ... inline assembler...

I nearly choked on my coffee.