skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Figured I'd ask any fellow hackers. I'm considering getting therapy or something because it just feels wrong to me to go no-contact with my blood relatives. However, the amount of gas lighting and toxic in fighting is really driving me crazy.

You didn't pick your blood relatives, but you can pick if you want to associate with them. Would you intentionally take your children to any other place where they would experience that sort of arguing? If not, why do it in this case?

If you really can't deal with avoiding a toxic situation, maybe you can take a partial step and only meet with one relative at a time (or only meet with groups that consistently get along). But, don't expect positive reactions to solutions offered when people only wanted to complain and weren't trying to solve the problem. Everyone is entitled to their wrong opinion and adults can make their own mistakes.
I think April 1st should definitely be "Crazy-but-real announcement day". It'll take some attention off the unfunnier-every-year "jokes" which have turned a pleasant and fun yearly occasion into the internet being unusable for ~36 hours.
Frankly, whatever laws politicians in their ivory towers write to dictate what the State's Officers should do in a given circumstance hold 0 bias in my judgement of what the Right thing to do in that circumstance would be.

You seem to be really badgering the idea "wait for the State to intervene, they'll do the Right Thing". I'll give an anecdote to counter that. The one person who really wronged me in all my time as a hobo was a State Official. He decided I had spent too long where I was (<24 hours) and in order to get me to leave he took my only pair of boots, broke my only lamp, and for good measure stole my binoculars too. That's a wrong I would not wish upon anyone, even the bums. Do you have any idea how much harder shit is when you have no shoes? Every store you go in will ask you to leave. As your feet grow dirtier their insistence grows stronger.

Fuck that guy. I was soaking wet for unrelated reasons the night prior to that (among many, many others), the collective discomfort of all those soaking hours doesn't hold a candle to what that State Official did to me.

For the homeless especially, but also everyone else (besides billionaires perhaps): the State isn't your friend; their solutions won't help you; you want a problem solved: solve it yourself.
What is a 3 star comment?
It seems like you need to worry about people wielding the AI before you have to worry about the AI itself. Just think how most people are at least somewhat immune to the advertisement / mass persuasion techniques of today. But what happens when there is an army of bots with the equivalent of 1/10/100/1000 human minds assigned to sway each person on an individual level of various political things? If there were 1000 people working to investigate you and manipulate the information you see, subtly rewriting your incoming and outgoing text messages/emails, while playing off your biases, desires, etc., wouldn't that be troubling? Or course that would be too expensive to do right now, but with an AI in the cloud in the future...
> 1. Overuse of antibiotics in non-theraputic settings (e.g. agriculture)

How is agricultural use of antibiotic fueling antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea? Are people having sex with animals, picking up STDs from them, and then passing them along to other people? Is there some other common repositiory of gonorrhea that both people and animals are coming into contact with to a degree that it's causing selection for antibiotic resistance?
Honestly a very confusing move for Twitter, third party client users are probably the easiest to monetize users that Twitter has. They have already demonstrated that they get enough value out of the service to go out of their way to use a different client, potentially one that they pay for. Make them pay some monthly fee and everyone is happy?
In the dark I perceive an extremely "noisy" visual field, with lots of different color dots like on a shitty camera sensor at low light. Is that not normal?
> After all, lots of online service subs eliminate ads in the product, so why not Twitter?

Lots of online service subs are eliminating the ad-free thing now, because they know they can prove more value of paying users to their advertisers. I don't think the NY Times subscription was ever ad-free, and many publishers are now removing that perk.

But I agree with you. I would've paid for Twitter Blue if it were completely ad-free. This is the main value of YouTube Premium to me.
Ask HN: Non-profits that are looking for SWEs?
I've been doing a little financial auditing for a friend of mine who has been incapacitated and taken advantage of by relatives. It is laborious and boring work. But it is also some of the most satisfying work I've done in nearly two decades. The last time I felt this satisfied in the grind was a missionary trip to Africa I went on when I was a teen.

I work for a startup that does B2B software. It's work, and it pays well. I could subsist here until the company is purchased or we go public -- I've got options that are actively maturing. But money isn't everything (or barely even anything) to me.

I'd like to know if there are any non-profits out there in the "actively helping individuals have a better life" space that need a SWE or SDET or even a hardware test engineer.

I'm sure work like this exists, but I'm not even sure where to look.

I want to help people. I want my work to have greater meaning than "we sold X to N businesses over the last year and look at that, their regulatory compliance has improved -- butt covering achieved". These things are important. It just doesn't feel that important to me.
didn’t say that being a high performer meant you were protected from layoffs…just that high variable pay is a consequence of at will employment system
Hi ABM. Good question. Here is my perspective (I could always be wrong).

I listen to a number of news podcasts and they still tell people where to find the hosts on Twitter. I have yet to hear someone tell people how to find the author on Mastodon. Never.

News personalities are the bread and butter of Twitter. They are normies (compared to most of us).

Mastodon had its five minutes of fame when Elon started making changes. I was quietly rooting for it, but I think it will be tough.

That's why I don't think Mastodon is going to replace Twitter anytime soon.
> I don't think a vaccine is really the best option here (although you could expand on that point. We already have proven prophylactic measures to prevent this disease.

Existing prophylactic measures have proven to be a failure in practice. We wouldn't be in this situation if they were successful as a broad public health measure. Moralizing about how people should use condoms or abstain doesn't help; in fact, it's been proven time and again to be counterproductive.

Absent discovery of new antibiotic classes, an effective vaccine is the only way out.
Yes, but because of the high value of the property, your deductions can be huge. I was using the word "credit" a bit loosely. The point is that her deductions is well above the quoted $180K. The equivalent extra refund she'll get due to them was $180K.

This is also because they are high income earners (one of them has a regular job), and they've manipulated things so that they can apply the deduction to the W-2 income (not usually possible). The federal tax bracket is 35+% - not sure if they can apply it to their state's income tax, but if they can, it's another 10-11%. So you don't need a massive deduction to get the equivalent of $180K refund.
Charging at a rate that makes up the missing revenue from user tracking/ads would kill these 3rd party apps anyways, and I'm not sure if Twitter still has enough of the right people remaining to figure out all that to begin with.
In fact, some elements of the military and police not only supported the coup on Jan 6th in spirit, but showed up and took part in the violence at the Capitol that day.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/emily-rainey-fort-bragg-captain...

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/15/956896923/police-officers-acr...
I'm not going to read an article that has a pop-up about "woke Twitter mobs."
Sorry but it is very misleading to say that fossil fuels sources are a bigger cause of blackouts than renewables. Without dispatchable generation, like nat gas plants but also hydroelectric, the grid would black out every single night.

Yes dispatchable generation may fail to materialize at times, but renewables “fail” to provide consistent power every single day, when the sun stops shining at night or wind stops blowing. Future battery deployments may be able to smooth these out over long enough timescales, but we are nowhere near that point right now.
Their cash balance doesn't really matter, it impacts their cost of capital in various ways, but you can still compare the ROIC of any given project to the overall company's cost of capital.
It's funny in that the structure is inherently what Economic Fascism is, separating the economics from the nationalism/racism typically associated (from Nazi Germany). The economic bits seem to hold over though.

Nothing is really stopping similar organization from happening in the formation of Corporation in the US and elsewhere. But it has to be part of the foundation of said company, especially if it's publicly traded, as it's very hard to do after the fact. I'm not convinced it should be restructured via force from the Government, and not even as a bailout, as I'm not a fan of those govt actions either.
So why don't they just build a ton of un-safe nuclear reactors where they used to test nukes and use long-distance high-voltage lines to transfer the power?

If you can test Tsar Bomba somewhere - why can't you build a nuclear reactor there that might melt down?
For those curious about AI safety I heavily recommend Robert Miles channel on YouTube. He has lot of good content describing out the challenges we face when trying to create safe AI. Here is one potential starting point: https://youtu.be/lqJUIqZNzP8
so it would only really be an issue if we had some reason to think that people were changing how they responded to it in one year vs. the next.

Such as, gee I dunno, a change in the nature of peoples' light exposure, like spending more time inside and more time staring at a screen every year? No way that could possibly throw off peoples' subjective feeling of how bright the sky is, right? I'm sure there definitely hasn't been any other types of changes to human vision over time, like an increase in myopia over time. There also definitely hasn't been an increase in photophobia over time due to, among other factors, changing demographics resulting in older people making up a larger percentage of respondents, no siree.
> a problem in a secondary system (an added safety system)

"Secondary" in nuclear parlance for a PWR refers to the loop of water that cycles through the steam generators and turbines, while the "primary" loop cycles through the reactor and steam generators.

Not to detract from your point, which is a good one, and the pressurizer relief valve that stuck open and through which the cooling water escaped was indeed an added safety system.
No it clearly is targeted towards them too, judging from OP's other comments where they directly include people who have real issues.
> unless something is actually checking that what's "reproduced" is the same as what the original developer originally produced

They do.

The way it works is, developer builds and signs the APK and sends it to F-Droid. F-Droid then builds the app from source again, and if it gets the same APK, it publishes the one with the developer's signature.
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>... a private company is making changes which they believe are in line with their business goals. Who cares? Why get so riled up about it?

Someone you don't know doesn't like a move that a private company made, or it's CEO. Who cares? Why get so riled up about it?
Did I ever say it was the fastest way to build a program? No, I said it was the simplest. But you might be surprised at just how fast it can be; it can scale to programs of significant complexity. Incremental compilation made a lot more sense back when computers were a lot slower.

With large complex programs using complex incremental build systems, especially programs written in C++, you often end up spending most of your time processing the same header files over and over again. Some compilers use complex systems of pre–compiled headers that can paper over this cost, but building your whole program in a single compilation unit that only ever includes each file once eliminates it entirely without adding any additional complexity. If you want proof of this, go look at the efforts over the last year or two to shave a few minutes off the build time of the Linux kernel by carefully adjusting all of the header files, splitting them all into even smaller files so that each #include can bring in just what is needed. This avoids burdening the compiler with parsing things you aren’t going to use just to pull in a struct definition or two.

Plus, by having a single compilation unit you avoid the need to link a bunch of small object files together. Linking is the final step of building an executable, and it cannot generally be parallelized much. By reducing the amount of work the linker needs to do you can greatly speed up a step that can’t be sped up any other way.

But the real reason I recommend it is its simplicity. By spending less programmer time on the build system you can significantly reduce the overall development cost of the whole program. This is a huge benefit of Rust (and a lot of other modern programming systems) that is often overlooked. With a complex C++ program I might spend 10% of my overall development time monkeying around with the build system. If I write it in Rust I can avoid all of that; cargo can do everything I need while requiring only a very small amount of time configuring it. 10% of a project that takes a year is over a month, and with cargo that time expenditure is reduced to minutes or hours.

On the other hand, I have worked as a contractor for many years helping companies develop complex systems. It’s only a rough estimate, but I believe that I have earned over a hundred thousand dollars just by helping them with their complex build systems. A few days here, a few days there, it really adds up.
I doubt it, unless they choose to not update the game and stay on an old version (at which point no one would play on them anyways).
Hey, thanks for checking. I appreciate it! I built a “subtract” feature for this use case. Once you’ve stopped doing a task, you can subtract whatever minutes you felt distracted. You can enable this in settings, and set a default value. I use it to subtract 30 minutes from my day of work for lunch time.
> I know last time I had to be treated for it (3ish years ago) I remember my doctor mentioning concerns about it and this being why they were attacking it both with a pill and a shot.

Even that is no longer the course of treatment for gonorrhea. Now it's a single shot (no pill). The protocol was updated in Dec 2020 due to... increased antibiotic resistance.

You're correct that we knew that this was coming. Unfortunately, much like many other societal problems, knowing about it doesn't actually translate into the necessary actions to address it.
Back when street lights were all sodium vapor, you could use a filter and eliminate a lot of light pollution. These days sodium vapor streetlight are being replaced by LED lights, that emit a white light and also frequently turn bright blue when they begin failing before long, and filtering out this source of light is no longer so simple.
FWIW, I tried to read that book. It really didn't connect with me. Probably because I don't understand where it's going.

Does anyone have a good pointer to a different tutorial that tries to teach type-driven development?
My understanding is they didn't turn off the APIs, they disabled API keys for any large clients
That's true, but even at 10-20% as much money, at least there would be a voice, and it would be a little bit easier to listen to that voice out of conscience. At least there would be another perspective being shared.
No more invites. Their TestFlight allocation is full.
"SPDC is a quantum optical technique in which correlated pairs of photons (called signal and idler) are produced probabilistically from a higher energetic pump photon in a non-linear crystal following energy and momentum conservation16,17 (Fig. 1a). By detecting one of the photons (idler) and sending the other (signal) to the observer’s eye..."
I suppose conservation of momentum allows them to guarantee pairs, in which case a photon in one direction guarantees a photon in the opposite direction.
28% of construction costs not total costs. If we are assuming magic such that you don’t need fuel then you also don’t need armed security, nuclear decommissioning etc etc.
That first impression (and how you tackled it) of system design interviews makes me question their usefulness. Like, how good of a signal can companies really be getting if it's too different from real world systems?

Feels like an artificial wall too - many companies don't approach the scale where this stuff matters, so getting that experience is hard.
It looks like it's somewhat unclear.

Here's the first reference I've found, which appears to be reasonably trustworthy at first glance. Note that it's very much from the perspective of industrial farming.

https://www.grandin.com/humane/meatfocus7-92.html

Basically, there are studies showing that pigs die a suffocating death with CO2, and there are studies showing that they don't even know it's happening. Both could be true, if there are genetic differences that impact the suffocation response. According to the article, those same differences seem to be present in humans as well, when exposed to high (but non-fatal) concentrations of CO2.
We used it at my first job, up until a disgruntled contractor locked every single file in our repo on the day he got fired. We couldn't do a damn thing for like a week, until we migrated to... TFS, sadly, but even that was an improvement.
I think its just virtue-signalling for the people soon to be out of work as the coal mines are slowly shutting down, also mentioned here [1] That said the state has little demand for EV's so probably not too many people noticed. Probably also to give some confidence to the oil investors but I am not an investment expert.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34395111
$300 doesn't sound like that much to me, if we're talking about the price in the developed world. Did you mean $3000? In the US, $300 sounds like what you might pay as coninsurance on a non-particularly-generous health care plan for treatments for much less harmful diseases - I would have paid for it out of HSA when I was on a high-deductible health plan, since that insurance only starts covering anything besides an annual physical and flu shots if you spend more than $2000 a year.
It's not the same as tuples and records. You can do the following with them:

const first = #{a: 'b', c: 'd'};
const second = #{a: 'b', c: 'd'};
first === second // true

So no more deep comparing of objects if they have the same properties.
> filled with ads and irrelevant clutter.

I always assumed the third party clients just provided a better interface. I didn't realize they circumvented the income stream.

If the third party clients were removing the means of monetization, for a company who struggles to profit, then it seems obvious that requiring paid access on its way, regardless of the owner. Twitter can't go forever at a loss.

The "surprise" is surprising.
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I feel like carbon monoxide would be so much more humane too. I used to work a job where we had to vigilantly check for CO because it could kill a whole family without anyone realizing they were in danger.

1200 parts per million is fatal. Pump like 2500 PPM of CO into the chamber to be sure, everything dies, no suffering needed.
Buffer's not a third-party client (in the sense of Tweetbot etc.), though.

You can't consume or publish to a personal Facebook profile or an individual Instagram account; it's restricted to Facebook Business Pages, Groups, and Instagram Business accounts.

It does compete with the Meta Business Suite, though.
Plain old combined cycle can handle a lot of the demand peaks. We already have that in place.

If they operate 1% or even 5% of the time, we've still cut vast amounts of carbon. There would be much lower hanging fruit than trying to replace that last fraction with nuclear. We have a solution already in place.

That doesn't mean all research on modular reactors should stop. It would have a niche if it worked. It's just not the thing holding back decarbonization, and not an excuse to hold back as much renewables as possible as fast as possible.
Air is 30% nitrogen. Air separation (into N2 and O2) is a well understood process, liquid nitrogen is abundant. Lowering them into the chamber, putting them in a chamber and filling it up, it makes no difference. The only reason is that no one cares.
It was a nice event! So happy to devirtualize some people
I appreciate that and I didn't take any offense. I just wanted to add my own experience. And I do think there might be something to the recommendation algorithm being different for Premium.
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Buffer's support for non-business Instagram is "set a reminder for you to post by hand" because Instagram removed scheduled posting ability a good long while back. I suspect their non-business Facebook support is similar.

I know I was a heavy user until (uh) 5? years ago when Instagram and Facebook posting was nerfed into uselessness.
They can't even get people to put nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain which just so happens to be adjacent to the Nevada Test Site. That's one of the most contaminated locations in the entire United States. The US government detonated 928 nuclear weapons there between 1951 and present.
You might also be interested in the story of UA 232. They lost all controls and somehow used engine thrust to keep the plane airborne. They called the Maintenance department for advice and were basically asked where they were going to crash. My grandparents were standing on their porch waiting for the doomed airliner to fly over their house. Instead, the crew wrenched it around the city to save lives on the ground when they inevitably went down. ATC offered to let them crash land on the highway, but the flight crew insisted on crashing at SUX. By the time the plane came into view at the airport, ATC had already declared a crash. Just about every fire apparatus in Woodbury County was sitting on an abandoned runway, waiting for the inevitable. Then they realized that the plane was lined up on the same old runway, which resulted in a panicked move of a whole lot of trucks. Knowing he was about to crash somewhere (maybe near a runway, maybe not) Captain Haynes exemplified grace under fire, as shown in this exchange.

ATC: United 232 Heavy, Roger, Sir. Wind 010 at 11. You are cleared to land on any runway.
Al Haynes : [chuckles] You want to be particular in making a runway?
[staff at the control tower laugh nervously]