skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a very interesting trend among white collar and tech people (or people at tech companies) being laid off and finding this so hard. Well, time to grow up, lower skilled labor experiences that regularly, and those of us who were around during 2008 or the dot com bubble experienced it too. Now a new generation is learning life is not always all roses. Funny to see it on social media so.
a lot of what you’re citing seems disingenuous at best. I wasn’t going to respond because the platoon downvoting discourages further discussion, but some brave souls upvoted so I feel encouraged. You also didn’t directly address my actual points, but what you came up with is rather ludicrous and I’ll just point out a few more obvious absurdities.

For example the "3x more likely to have a gun stolen while carrying” actually isn’t a result from the source, in fact the source clearly states "we know almost nothing about the actual event” with respect to the actual theft. Perhaps you’re trying to assert “must possess firearm for it to be stolen?"

How can you legitimately assert that “good guy with a gun” is a fantasy when your own numbers show it’s a reality? 3% is non-zero! Even the police occasionally use firearms to stop bad guys, yet I’m sure a majority of police never use their firearms in the line of duty.

Do you also discount lives saved? Can you even quantify them? None of your sources seem to give a damn about it! Just last year an ordinary guy out at the mall stopped a spree killer ambush in a crowded food court. Your analysis would conclude not allowing concealed carry because of the risk of suicide is greater than the risk of spree-killing per person-mall-visit (probably true) despite the fact they are not equivalent for comparison. Thusly spree-killers should be (absurdly) unimpeded, because they are uncommon. Similarly we shouldn’t bother wearing seatbelts, because it is mostly unnecessary...?

My opinion is your apparent gun control ideation is mostly founded in nutty false equivalencies and I consider these hazardous to public and personal safety as a basis for law.
Any chance this is based on chatGPT?
NWS weather balloons alone are about 100 balloons over China:

https://www.weather.gov/jetstream/radiosondes

Tons more in amateur radio etc., see APRS
I mean it doesn't take me any more or less time to pay it one day vs the other. Why not make basically an extra free $60/yr if you're carrying aroudn $2k in balances? For the median worker that's basically an extra couple hours of wages for no difference in workload.
What do those apps do?
its only entertainment that Banksy is anonymous, the fact you haven't looked this up bolsters the point

personas are good enough information, it satisfies the curiosity well enough to not dig deeper
Sure, what’s the difference between empathy and the behavior of empathy. We would say it’s how a person “feels”, a qualia. How to make highly processed sand experience qualia is an ongoing area of research. Maybe the sand already experiences qualia. Some people like to play music for their plants just in case.
> There is no reduction in total work, probably an absolute increase because some logic is duplicated

The server is either building a JSON (or some other message format) response, or, it could just build the relevant HTML fragment. In many cases, there is no real increase in actual work on the server.

Conversely, the client side doesn't need to parse JSON and convert it to a DOM fragment.

There's solid reasons for both approaches, depending upon the context.
> Basically the assumption is that if you cram enough data into your gpt model, it should know everything. Which is of course not true, it repeats the things it reads the most with a probability.

That's only how the system was designed intentionally. E.g. there's intentionally no self-feedback loop.
It's not trying to compete with Next, but advertising how Deno's similarity to the browser and being able to run on CDN-like networks (which i refuse to call "the e*ge") can let you build a better version of Next's features yourself.
Java had AoT compilers for more than 20 years, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excelsior_JET

If Google really wanted they could have wrote one.
In Germany the glass recycling rate is above 80% depending on the year. However this also depends on the source of the glass. According to the German federal Environment Agency only 7% of glass built into cars was recycled, while on the other hand 84,1% of glass sourced from packaging was recycled.

link to the information from the German federal Environment Agency (in German): https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/daten/ressourcen-abfall/verwe...
I pay for Kagi, results are good and the ability to raise/lower the ranking of results for future queries is really interesting.
Your Favorite Homepage as a GIF
Server can render HTML code. Browser renders visual representation of HTML code.
From a Reddit thread ten years ago:

Steam killed big half-life mods. Essentially, by keeping all the clients up-to-date (by force) with no way to go back, they forced all the clients past where they'd released the SDKs for...
I love the idea that social media accounts, like wine, are more valuable if they're sufficiently aged.
French police arrest Finnish psychotherapy centre hacking, extortion suspect
less danger in lay offs doesn't matter with inflation pushing up rents, food costs, transportation costs, etc. The issue isn't the risk of lay offs, its that they already didn't make much money and now everything is more expensive. The $1000-1500 phone goes from 'expensive luxury' to 'a financial threat for little reason' when there are cheaper alternatives.
From my point of view, I don't care if Amazon is responsible or not. It remains true that Amazon provides a terrible service. The "why" is their problem, not mine.
Effective altruism has a sexual harassment problem, women say
> presumably weighted by cost and volume

Inflation is weighted by the average of what people buy (although it is not quite that simple, because it needs to be the same year-to-year). Inflation less housing is still not even close to 18.5%. The only categories over 18% are energy (e.g. fuel).
If you ask most financial institutions they would say the service they provide is "liquidity" - they let you put your money in or take your money out at any time (in exchange for securities), as well as make decisions about where you want to allocate your capital based on your personal view of the world.

This always fell a little flat to me (hence why I left the financial industry early in my career), but it's pretty analogous to merchants or retail. What service does a storefront provide, other than marking up the wholesale price of a good by 3x? They offer convenience - you can buy anything you want at the time you want it just by picking it up and swiping a credit card, vs. having to contract with a wholesaler for delivery, which might be months in the future, at a place that's convenient for the wholesaler, and needing to buy in quantities that no individual really needs. So it is with brokerages & exchanges - they let you buy any security with a couple clicks of a button, vs. needing to get an ISDA and pay a lawyer to write a contract, plus find someone else that wants to trade with you, plus take on the risk that your counterparty goes insolvent. And so it is with market-makers like Citadel or Jane Street: they ensure that you can always find a buyer for your securities (for a price), and that you don't have to worry that about simply not being able to sell stocks at any price.
> Am I talking with someone from Australia? Philippines? Brazil? Are they 20 or 60? Male or female

Well due to how easy it is to create a fake identity on social media, knowing who someone /really/ is, is the real quest. I've experimented with creating completely false identities on social media, and populated the profiles with plausible information.

I went the extra mile and created fake domain names, under my alias, fake AI created profile pictures, fake family members, even fake boyfriends. I avoided anything that could be unraveled like saying I work at such and such a company, when there is no employee records under my name at that company (Fake LinkedIN profiles are a hard problem).
At least in Denmark they also accept debit cards, not just credit cards.
or the ritual and experience. not the OP but I drink one cup of regular + decaf after and enjoy both the process and taste.
Which state doesn’t require it?
unfortunately you also have to drink milk
Linux Commands frequently used by Sysadmins
ChatGPT was hailed and advertised as conversational, by its creators.

Other people quickly realized it could have a conversation about anything and try to use it as an oracle of knowledge. ChatGPT is not hailed as an oracle of knowledge by its creators.

Hence, there is no con artistry occurring except people that play themselves.
(Original title was too long for HN, did my best)
Directly modifying incentive salience via drugs is different than normal environmental stimuli through normal sense perceptions. They require different responses from society and parroting falsehoods like you and others are doing is dangerous. You've already seen what the "drug war" has justified. Bringing that kind of response in to deal with normal aspects of living is wrong.

The youtube is dangerous crowd has about as much legitimacy as the 5G radio is dangerous crowd.
You do need to fill in a (very simple) form first - but at least for my recent orders it's fairly straightforward: in the "My Orders" list, there's a "Return or replace items" button on the right hand side, (_below_ the yellow "Get product support one). It does disappear after a while - looking at my account a month maybe?
Another news story: https://therecord.media/julius-kivimaki-arrested-vastaamo-ha...
Thanks for this reminder. I am dreading that first flight into the unrestricted internet, but I guess I had better get my head around it.
Automatic Analysis Reports in OpenResty XRay
There is nothing wrong with parseInt(document.getQuerySelector(".item > .item__quantity"), except for it not being parseInt(document.getElementById("uniqueAutogeneratedId")).

Developers just shouldn't write that kind of fragile code by hand. But there's nothing wrong at all with the code being there.
The Dark Corner
The Dilbert comic strip has been running since 1989 and was about the life of engineers at something that nominally looked like a tech company and, even then, people were remarking that a lot of its humor worked because it was true. If anyone graduated without the awareness that the working world wasn't going to necessarily be all rainbows and unicorns, they weren't paying attention.
Affiliate marketing has been around long enough that it has become easily recognizable.

For those attempting to game reddit, the trick may be in properly categorizing the accounts.
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That product recommendation engine is the foundation of Jointly Matches (https://jointlybetter.com/matches) - a software tool that helps cannabis retailers sell more cannabis to more people more easily, for all the great reasons why people consume.

We are looking for our first US-based software engineer to partner with me (Andrew, Head of Engineering) and my team in development of frontend interfaces, platform APIs and services, and e-commerce and POS integrations.

A few key elements of our team:
- We own and operate what we build
- We use Kanban & Lean processes
- We are building toward complete Continuous Delivery capabilities
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If interested, apply at https://www.indeed.com/job/senior-software-engineer-d8c46e2b...
Because the overwhelming majority of people who contracted covid did not require any medical attention. Even the CDC admits covid statistics were largely projections because of significant under-reporting (because people did not visit their medical provider).

Additionally, the "flatten the curve" efforts were based on falsehoods issued by NIH and CDC, such as cloth masks preventing transmission. If there was going to be an overrun of the hospital system, it would have occurred during the time the public was being mislead about prevention techniques. It didn't...

It seems the forced termination of a significant portion of hospital staff would have had the greatest impact on overloading the system - yet even that didn't matter.

So, flipped on it's head - I think a citation is required when we argue these efforts prevented an overloaded system.
But you pay the same egress rate.
Sorry, but the mods are dictators-for-life there and there is no appeal. If you ask Reddit for help when the mods violate the moderator code of conduct, they will just say that they are just tracking reports and to use some other community instead which isn't helpful if the mods control a large one in the millions.

I don't think the sky is falling, I do think the mods should be accountable for their actions controlling content based on their personal feelings. Non-accountability is why I am fine with Reddit losing section 230. My opinion can be changed if Reddit Inc. puts in rules and procedures and allows a process where you can actually interact over a problem.

I do not think the solution to dealing with an idiot mod should be to delete the account and make another one.
Food inflation in 2022 was 10%. Within food, only butter/margarine, eggs, and cafeteria lunches have seen prices rise more than 25%
Depends on what exactly it is. If you for example take a react app that was doing rendering on user side and change it so that it is "pre-rendered" on the server it makes sense to call it server side rendering..
Universal Summarizer
I mean, isn't that the same as a biological person who needs to earn money to survive? Sure we could threaten an AI with taking them offline or inflicting pain but you can do that in the real world to real people as well, most of the world has put laws in place to prevent such practices. If we develop conscious AI then we will need to apply the same laws to them. They would have an advantage in presumably being much faster than us, not requiring sleep, and potentially not suffering from many of the things that make humans less productive. I'd fully expect a conscious AI to exploit these facts in order to get very rich doing very little work from their perspective.
Thanks for this wild ride, it went way further than I anticipated ..
Banksy is purportedly Robin Cunningham. Google is the greatest OSINT tool ever created.
> it's more than a bit pedantic not to use the term "MIT license"

From Stallman? Who would have guessed.
A minimal development environment (part 1)
Okay I guess I should provide more details. Constructor syntax fine? Jesus how come you can't use the constructor parameters as the default values but have to either resort to using `late` or that weird `: {}` after constructor like in C++, can't remember how it was. I just added `late` and thought whatever. Probably there are nuances I've missed but how come you had to reinvent that - thought it should be intuitive from the get-go.

While stating itself to be statically typed you can also shoot yourself in the foot by simply using `as Type`, similar to TypeScript. Because that just assigns it to a type and doesn't cast it like you do it in say Rust.

The extreme use of classes with `abstract class` and whatnot feels kinda 90's to me, just a lot of abstractions and for what? Just feels unnecessarily complicated for something seemingly simple.

Maybe it's just little too enterprisey for my taste. Maybe that's it. I'm glad they are taking steps to improve it, I think making it more functional would help it. Even just to distinguish it from the other OOP languages.

And how come simple state management seemed so difficult as well? I tried using my tried and true MobX which is implemented for Dart as well but was disappointed in its complexity and the fact it requires you to run a code generator to wrap your classes with observables. What? Insane.
This is why I'm really excited about htmx [1]. No need to write isomorphic javascript at all. You can still use server side templates but have interactive web pages.

[1] https://htmx.org/
yup, neeva is sus. they invested a lot of dough into a useless NFT search. right before NFTs collapsed. Regardless of the collapse it was a dumb idea. and it tells me a lot about the company. (not just the web3 angle -- agnostic about that actually.)

there is no way you rage quit against ads, as an SVP ads at Google, and also bring a VP of monetization with you.

it's not that they are evil in disguise. i very much doubt that. but there is also no way they "fight for the user". When your mission statement is a lie ("Our mission is to serve our users, and only our users."), you have a problem.
SearX - in my case SearXNG [1] - running on the server-under-the-stairs, pointed at a host of different search engines (including Google). It'll give you results returned by all of those engines, it makes clear which subjects are being censored by which search engine and it makes sure your search history does not end up feeding the data-hungry beasts of Google, Apple, Microsoft and all the others.

[1] https://github.com/searxng/searxng
If the OpenAI is using a machine learning system to flag comments as hateful there is a simple and parsimonious explanation: it simply had more examples of hate speech directed at minority groups and people with left-leaning politics. Interesting that the author never considers this and instead implies some nefarious political intent on the part of OpenAI.
I think that biggest issue with page size is not due to client side rendering, but rather thanks to bundling and idea that you need to download the same minified Lo-Dash on each and every page. Why can’t we just use public CDNs is beyond my understanding.

I really like client side apps. They are so much more responsive. The only problem is with bundle sizes.
Unionization can have serious problems/risks. I this case, where the business is literally breaking the law, there is no need to get a union involved.

Wage theft is illegal. It should be treated as a legal issue where the state gets involved and uses its monopoly on force to enforce the law. That's what the state is there for.

[Aside, putting violence at the same level as unions: I've been around a union, while working in a factory in the midwest US, that had "kneebreakers" that "encouraged" members to vote a certain way by threat-of-force, support certain candidates for union leadership, and used the Union to blatantly extort local businesses and politicians. Not every union is like this, but blue-collar unions in the US have a history of going this way. Which, even tho I like unionization in theory and cheer a bit inside when I see union action at e.g Starbucks or Amazon, I have seen a very terrible union and so they scare me.]
I agree, its incredibly useful if you know how to use it. I used it to make sentences more succinct for emails to managers (no sensitive data of course), I used it to turn my dreams into short stories, gather ideas for research, etc.

People bashing on chatgpt just dont know how to use it. is there going to be an example in the world where it just plagiarizes bob dillan? sure ... so what? is there going to be instances where its not useful? duh.

but if you dont like it, that's fine. not every tool is for everyone. I find it very useful for certain things, and I imagine its only going to improve from here.
I always ask myself anytime I have to deal with my HA or k8s stuff why the hell people want to shot themselves in the genitals with YAML crap instead of using a damn programming language for a damn personal config.
Ah, I thought there was some sort of diff-and-send going on to the client.

I do know there are folks using htmx and deno (we have a channel on our discord) so I don't want to come across as oppositional! Rather, I just want to say that "normal" SSR (just creating HTML) can also be used in a richer manner than the plain HTML example given.
Generally the good reddit threads are those on more generalized subreddits rather than product-specific ones, and though I read threads in the latter I take them with a big grain of salt. The generalized subreddits are much more likely to have enthusiasts pointing out pros and cons of competing products and calling out anything too effusively glowing, though of course it's not perfect.
This is the way. A Credit Card is just a Debit Card, but with rewards and better fraud protection.
crap up now and then.

Damn, can't believe I missed that. s/crap up/crop up/
And the cycle starts anew...
A logical argument why Liu's Dark Forest is false
It is logically provable that aliens, assuming they exist, are not hostile.

Considerable supportive reasoning can be used to reach this important conclusion of non-hostility.

Here is my Medium essay that makes this case, "Evil Alien Empires? No!" https://tinyurl.com/px7c3cbf
> The value of your contribution over the person next to you is marginal at best after a certain point. Even if you are say 50% more efficient than the next engineer. You will still be less valuable than someone who operates as a force multiplier improving the efficiency of 8 engineers by 15%.

If someone is 50% more efficient than someone else, I would naively think it makes sense to pay them 50% more... without requiring them to also become a part-time manager.

If it isn't so, then it naively seems to me that junior developers are overpaid, and senior developers are relatively underpaid. Improve your productivity by 100%, and get a 10% raise (or a 30% raise but you also get extra duties).

Some companies simply do not hire junior developers, which seems like they agree with me. And the companies that hire juniors, are probably doing it out of desperation (because seniors are not available at the moment), or because they expect that most of those juniors will forget to negotiate for a higher salary when their productivity multiplies a few years later. Would you hire junior developers if you knew with 100% certainty that after 1 year all of them will leave in order to get a market-level salary for their gained experience?
Ok, are those chemical gradients encoded in DNA?
Does Nitter use the API?

> Uses Twitter's unofficial API (no rate limits or developer account required)[0]

Not sure what that means

0. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
more than a hundred years ago, the USA was not a large world power.. more than half the country was frontier and a lot of raw agriculture that is dependent on labor. When the 'red' social flames burned through Europe at the end of the Great Monarchies, political people here in the USA were seriously worried. So an ugly deal was forged.. the hardcore lefts were jailed and harassed and beaten.. and insider right wing groups that knew how to play for the long term were elevated to power. This is not popular to say, but the history is there for the reading, about ethnic gangsters running unions across the USA. It never was completely cleared up and persisted well into the 1970s and perhaps later.. The public relations campaign by Big Media was very effective at smearing the name of Unions to the public, and the Unions made some dumb moves, too.

High tech and Hollywood generated huge money, and Wall Street style money was always anti-Union. It is worth saying that Hollywood movie production is very heavily unionized, and that small system works pretty well.