skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the author’s insistence on all-male cast is obviously outdated in a “smoking on an airplane” fashion, I would still be inclined to file it under ‘licencia poetica’, and view it as artistically legitimate, no matter what we think.

Arguably, this clear articulation of author’s will could be viewed as an integral part of the work of art.

As much as I think that it should be subject to artistic reinterpretation (like all female cast), and that the estate is being stupidly restrictive in its legal persecution of artistic purity, I believe the opposite should be allowed too. A director should be allowed enough artistic liberty to do a play with all-male cast (as well as all-female, all-trans, all-whatever-your-pronoun-may-be).

University restricting the artistic liberty into a (forcefully diverse) mould is equally stupid as the estate suing any departure from the author’s canon.

Nevertheless, the whole situation is delightfully bizarre. Love it.
I just posted on r/ProgrammingLanguages yesterday asking for examples of languages or papers like this! Nice.

I’m working on a language that will be sort of a cleaner TypeScript, more simple and sound, with powerful static types, but not ML.

I think functions taking not just read-only views of data structures but deeply “const,” unchanging views is really important. Code that runs in GCed runtimes like JS engines or the JVM can be quite performant, but not with the level of copying and allocation that immutable data structures typically require (when you need to model them changing over time), and I want to solve that at the type level.
Can confirm. Discovering out how well Valheim runs on steam deck basically killed my productivity entirely when the Mistlands update came out.
> Every single bank you have an account with already has to keep track of know-your-customer information. It's not like the fact that there's a centralized digital currency will give the government more control over you than not.

This isn't quite true. Most concern is about how mundane transactions are tracked. Things like how your grandma giving you $5 could now be tracked. Obviously this won't be an issue if physical cash still exists, but it would if that was eliminated. The other aspect of a digital currency is that it allows for much finer detailed tracking. High precision. This is still useful in our ever increasingly surveilled world.

I don't know how the UK works, but in the US banks don't need to report when the inflow/outflow is <$10k. Meaning that for most people Venmo could choose not to report to the IRS for them (no idea if they do or not, but if they do, another business model could not) because their annual transactions don't exceed $10k. So even digitally, your small standard transactions aren't (necessarily) being tracked. This could even include things like tips for servers. Of course, the Fed has recently been pushing for this threshold to come down to $600[0] with an explanation that this targets the rich who have multiple bank accounts that are amassing millions of untaxed income.

I am actually for digital currencies, but I personally think we need to make them like digital cash. That is, they use ZKP transactions with minimal metadata to produce as anonymous transactions as possible. Surveillance capitalism and surveillance states have been a mistake. We had centuries of tracking commerce with physical cash and have learned a lot about how to catch fraud and theft. While anonymous payments can enable some more theft I don't personally believe that any government needs to specifically track what an individual person is spending their money on.As a data nerd, I'd be perfectly fine if we had some homomorphic encryption that allowed for some anonymized analysis on how aggregates of people are spending their money but I still don't think we should be tracking citizens.

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-bank-account-update-change-...
The increased risk people are talking about have been demonstrated in the form of crashed airliners.

The entire rubric of reporting deviations early and often was developed as it was identified as a major cause of crashes in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.

Per this particular incident: It is a big deal the FO screwed up. It's a bigger deal that the screwup was not reported, as it's an indication that the culture of the airline is more concerned with reputation than keeping everyone alive.
It’s not. Traditionally the government is in charge of the public square. If a private company is enforcing TOS violations while operating a public square, and operating a public square is traditionally a government function, it’s valid to argue violators are entitled to free speech protections.
I think of doing something like this, but I'm afraid my problem is that I'm self-directed and my motivation comes from within. Working for someone makes it again a job and making me fix problems someone else have created within limits they envision.

Is it different for you?
Advertising is speech; there is no sale.
The problem with alternatives to the "free marketplace of ideas" is that they are all (by definition) authoritative. And who's the best "authority" here? The government? Me? You? Who decides what ideas get to be censored? Imo, there's more problems with the authoritative model than the marketplace model.

Kind of like Churchill's famous quote about democracy: "it's the worst form of government, except from all the others that have been tried."
The other problem with only having a heat pump is if the electricity goes out, which happened across the region (there was a windstorm at the same time as the arctic freeze which brought down trees onto power lines). We have one friend who lost power but thankfully had a working fireplace with fuel, otherwise they would have been in a world of hurt.

The people who had burst pipes mostly seemed to be transplants from outside the northeast, including some from other countries, who have never been exposed to a situation like this or the basic precautions to prevent burst pipes. It's a hard lesson to learn, for sure.
What do you gain from asking this question in an interview? Let's be honest, you've spotted it online and used it to show that you have a higher understanding.
If I had an interviewer ask me this it would be a massive red flag.
You are interviewing a candidate - it isn't the place to recycle someone else's online answer to flex
I completely agree but we also really need to move past Twattered being the social media of choice for change.

edit: Did I just get downvoted by Elon personally? Win!
Shortly before the explosions Russia had shut down Nordstream1 for “maintenance”. This was believed at the time to be an attempt to squeeze gas supplies in Europe in retaliation for sanctions and helping Ukraine. By September 2022 Nordsteam1 was operating at 20%. I think part of the issue for Russia is that contracts specified payment in euros but Russia was blocked out of SWIFT. This effectively meant Russia wasn’t paid for gas it delivered. If the pipes were inoperative then the contracts were void. Germany had already decertified Nordstream2 by this time.

I think it is unreasonable to believe that the U.S. attacked the energy sources of NATO allies as they scrambled to get enough energy before the onset of winter.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/22/european-gas-prices-surge-as...
I am comparing the law enforcement tactics, not the reasons for the protests. The protests themselves being incomparable is irrelevant.
Needed fixing regardless and is fixed in 9.2.
Agreed. The point I was was raising originally is why other options besides sourcing certificates from third parties are not considered. Using a Mozilla bundle is one option. Relying on hardcoded certificates in a web browser or other application is another option. IMO, these are not the only options. The "user" should have a choice.

With respect to computers and the internet, there is substantial history of problems with third party intermediaries. Deliberately excluding, or even just failing to recognise, the option for a user to eliminate a third party intermediary is highly suspect given that history, IMHO.
Interestingly enough there was another major shift that happened in 2012, some say in reaction to the Occupy Wall Street movement.

https://tablet-mag-images.b-cdn.net/production/ca8d4b10f55ed...
I know in the 90's if something had the "Good housekeeping Seal of Approval" then it was usually a trustworthy purchase.

What we need is a regulatory board that, like other people say, curate products based on their quality, not on whatever kickbacks or affiliate link profits they get.

It sucks if, for instance, you go looking for a Towel Warmer for your girlfriend and you have to read through 17 different, "Top 10 tower warmers 2023" pages that all recommend the exact same items with the exact same stock photos from different sellers with alphabet soup names.

What I want is an opinionated site that reviews items, has a short write up, and then keeps an updated list of their top 3 which is split between "Best overall", "Best for your dollar", and "MVP" (Minimum Viable Product, i.e. the least expensive one they've found so far that meets their minimum quality expectations for the product).

Products are allowed to occupy more than a single category.

Give me that site, and then let them develop a unique recommendation logo with a QR code that goes to their page so you can read the review yourself.
> Turing underestimated how easily humans are being fooled.

No I think that's his point. Humans are actually quite stupid so it's not difficult for a machine to emulate one.

It reminds me of a joke from a fictious park ranger about how hard it is to design a trash can because the dumbest tourists are dumber than the smartest bears.
Are you seriously suggesting it's a good idea to kill off a bunch of folks? Let me guess, you are in the group that gets to survive, and you just want to provide a "solution" to all the people that you dislike.

I have a better idea: lead by example. Why don't you demonstrate the effectiveness of removing a bad branch on yourself first?
Process can fail.

Something can be communicated and not acted upon.

Org structure can prevent action.

Failure can be an outcome from a hedged bet, where the chance of success was low, but the reward potentially high.

There are more abstract types of failures than engineering bugs. I would be impressed with a company that can turn a bug report into a ticket owned by a c suite person to reorganize the company.
Hot tip, we experimented with running minisearch in RAM on cloudflare workers and it works excellent for up to 5MB of index due to it being under the 50ms CPU time.

This means, 10M search requests for 5$. The only drawback is that it's expensive to re-index, but if your use case don't require that, it's hard to beat!
The difference in outrage is the same difference in outrage you get between a car crashing in cruise control and a car crashing in autopilot.
Ah, the PSP was so much fun back in its day. I only had a few actual PSP games, I was much more interested in that thing for all the homebrew and emulation stuff I could do on it.

I recently got an Anbernic RG351V, which is nowhere near as capable as the Steam Deck but is a fantastic platform for playing emulated games. The AmberElec custom firmware I'm using just runs a RetroArch installation with some nice theming, and the experience of hacking on it reminds me a lot of the good ol' PSP homebrew days.
I don't totally agree with 'idlewords about Paul Graham's writing, which I find generally effective (especially when he's writing about programming), if dry and often distractingly conclusory. But I think it is in fact a good rule of thumb that if you yourself want to write effectively, it's best to avoid off-putting styles.

So one point to make here is: it doesn't matter why people hate Kenny G. They hate Kenny G. That's indisputable. So: unless the reason you're playing music is to make a statement about smooth jazz, it's best to avoid sounding like Kenny G.

If you want to write as effectively as Paul Graham, it helps a lot to have started one of the industry's most important investment firms, based on no previous experience in finance, and then to write a long string of posts about startups, startup financing, and startup engineering. People accept a lot of "it turns out that" from Graham because he's a credible authority on some of the topics he writes about. If that's not you, people are more likely to laugh at your "it turns outs". I'm sure there's an analogy we can draw to Kenny G there somewhere, too.
I think the Deck's AMD GPU is part of an APU, so CPU and GPU on one chip. That probably helps thermals a bunch. Also, I wonder how much the decision to use AMD was influenced by terrible Nvidia drivers on Linux
You can write UIs in native targeting code (C++, Rust etc) and deploy to browser via WASM with WebGPU targeted render logic and get effectively the same render performance as a native built application, but without having to deal with cross-platform issues. If you really want to eek out that marginal extra performance vs writing directly in JS.

The truth is that the perception gap between web apps and native apps only shrinks over time, so that perceived performance matters less and less
I understand your point, because I was the same. But I’m not sure our experience is a super common one among teens.

Reason I think this now, is that I have volunteered at large local high schools for college admission help. There just aren’t that many students who get pushed or push themselves like this. The majority in the US don’t go to college, and the vast majority don’t put in a stressful amount of effort into college/career prep and extra-curricular activities.

I don’t know what theory to replace it with, but I don’t think the majority of the students in the US are overworked like this.
From the way you write, I get the impression that the project idea you have in mind isn't fun for you to implement.

If dealing with "front-end baggage" doesn't sound like fun to you, don't do a project that needs (much) front-end. Maybe you can build a bot (discord maybe?) instead? Or try some other interaction paradigm?

Or maybe abandon your project idea, and ask yourself what kind of project would be fun to implement, not fun to have finished implementing.

> I feel like there aren't really any good options in software development any more. It's always one big compromise with lots of possible decision fatigue. Every direction has drawbacks.

The beauty of a hobby project is that you can decide what's important for you. You can decide to screw portability, or accessibility, or security (as long as it's just on your device/home network), or whatever else feels like a burden to you.
It's a very large ocean at this point, so while the percentages are small -- the number is quite large.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1623352901111517185

Matt Taibbi (think of him what you will) is saying that he spoke to Seymour and can confirm that it really is from him.
Yeah exactly, even though I'm more of a Linux user than an Apple user, one thing I do admire is that there a lot of apps with UI polish because they JUST build for one platform.

They just focus on making it exist, without premature generality.
Okay, but that doesn't change the fact that you mixed up the terms here. If the right wanted to really stop immigrant sex trafficking or child abuse, they would be promoting for fairer and easier immigration laws.
Not likely. The pattern holds for suicide rates, which are not very affected by ACA "more cogent detection systems."
I think the media is slow to catch up on this stuff, yeah.

The AP's article[1] on the Türkiye rename was datelined from "ANKARA, Turkey (AP)" :)

I don't know whether the delay is necessarily a matter of political preference or just general slowness in English-language media. The press does a good job of changing the names of sports arenas whenever the advertiser sponsorship causes a rename. This kind of inside-baseball use-of-names media stuff is something I used to see on Jim Romenesko's blog 20 years ago and it doesn't really have a good home now.

It can't be all politics; although the US government still prefers "Rangoon" and "Burma", most of the press writes "Yangon" and "Myanmar".
did you enjoy the latest marvel movie
Given that Chrome is the biggest browser by far, and apparently blocks these redirections, why do ISPs even bother with them?
You are getting lost in the weeds of an imperfect metaphor.
"And teaching history does not help."

It does to some extent, but only those who truly learn it. In the current conversation, there are people who have seen this patern of recurring failure and are increasingly skeptical of new stuff. You'd be surprised how many doctors choose the older tried and true treatments for themselves rather than the newest stuff. They have personal experience that says "new" is more synonymous with "untested" than it is to "better".
You’re going to get a bias in here because a lot of folks are STEM focused / high achieving high anxiety types :)
Coincidentally 2012 is IIRC the year I bought (then a university student) my first smart phone. IIRC when doing my abroad term overseas the american students all had smartphones in like 2010, I think most where on plans that provided smartphones eventually.

So I would not be surprised if smartphones are part of the reason for a poor state of mental heath.
Why is more diagnosis better diagnosis? I hear this constantly, literally every time people point out we might be calling people mentally ill now that we wouldn't have called mentally ill 20 years ago people go "wow we must be diagnosing people better". To me better diagnosis would be reflected in things like the suicide rate dropping, drug abuse falling, general health metrics improving, and so on, not in simply increasing the amount of people we give labels and medicalise.

I am so incredibly unconvinced that labelling a bunch of people as mentally ill is "better" because the more we're diagnosed people as mentally ill, the more things like suicide have increased. Now obviously that can be due to an underlying increase in mental illness driving suicide, the thing is the diagnosis itself and the resulting differential treatment of society and your self-perception of yourself can be the cause of that mental illness. Making the diagnosis a self-fulfilling prophecy.

So far the increase in diagnosis over time has completely failed to actually improve peoples mental health. I am constantly perplexed at why nobody is worried about this. It seems how we diagnose people is totally unconnected from any empirical data on if a culture more willing to diagnose people is making people healthier on a population-wide level. To me it seems like most evidence points to the population-wide trend getting worse and the increase in diagnosis being a failure making people sicker, and I can't help but also notice many of those who advocate that the increase in diagnosis is a great thing have a conflict of interest and financially benefit from more people being labelled ill.
Search "What is the world record for crossing the English Channel entirely on foot" and see precision Zero. None of the responses match the query. It should say - not found. Or actually find that people attempted to illegally cross through the Channel Tunnel.

Usually when I search for error messages for a specific version of software it will respond with other versions. That is useless. That's not what 24 years worth of excellence in search should look like.

At the very least they should collate a dataset of say, one million queries, and try to use a LLM to find the correct answers using search. A better search ranking model will make the LLM generate more correct answers. Iterate until score is improved. Just make the result solve the task.
My go to language for the last couple of years has been Dart, and I stuck with it because it's the first language I really enjoy.

Dart's "Rails" is Flutter, it lets you write apps for mobile on iOS, Android, web, desktop on Windows, Mac and Linux, and it's used on large enterprise projects, startups, and solopreneurs / pet projects.

Dart is a very consistent language (compared to others, at least), super easy to learn, null safety, great type system. You can write web apps with it even without Flutter (it can also compile to js), churn out command line tools, run your server, and write user interfaces for desktop, mobile and web apps with Flutter. It feels like it has the best parts of Java, Javascript.

It's been a fun couple of years for me and I created some fun stuff with Flutter and Dart, so if you want to try something new, consider taking a better look at them.
Telemetry embedded in libraries is simply abusive, in my opinion. At the very least, the decision about whether or not to include telemetry should be made by the application developers, not the toolmakers.
Mandatory with an open license might shoot yourself in the foot when people fork your code.

For me, the harshest you can go is to have telemetry and not prompt for the setting on start with the user opted in by default. Ideally, you ask on first load, and that's what I'd probably aim for.

You can't ever try to force people to do anything in open source. They'll run right by you and make it do what they want it to do with or without you.

I'd even imagine paying customers are broadly more happy with telemetry than open source ones. And their needs more important anyways.
A good point that exposes some major bias behind my anecdote. With that said, if these expectations start at elite schools and slowly trickle down, would that not cause a rise in the aggregate across all teenagers over time?
New GPT Bing refuses to write cover letters because 'unethical' and 'unfair'
yes, I found that claim bizarre as well. How does one even form such an opinion about "everyone" who holds x opinion?
Coincidentally (or not), the same year Facebook launched the Feed as the default UI and opened it up to advertisers.

I've been screaming this since the moment it was introduced, but I don't think people will ever realize it until years from now in retrospect, that the concept of the "Feed", an endless scrolling ad monetized horse trough of clickbait, was one of the single most destructive ideas in the history of human civilization.
No, that's not true. Not following the rules strictly around duty time is a great way to have the FAA up your ass.
I sent a picture of Mr. Spock from the first pilot, looking back while walking on the transporter[1]. And it generated this prompt:

> john cena walking on stage at television talk show, very coherent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[1] https://i.imgur.com/L6hbWHX.jpg
You mean the direct quote made above with the "assertions"? Are you intentionally playing dumb?

Here it is (again):

> I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.
Thanks for the kind words! We're collecting feedback over the next 1-2 weeks to prioritize the road map.

Is there anything that you would like to see?

A few things that are on our radar though:

- Support for more APIs out of the box. We've implemented a number of APIs that we've submitted for approval (including a bunch of google APIs). They should be added in the next few weeks.

- The ability to add your own API integrations via a simple form if we don't support them (both token based and OAuth APIs).
Price action of Big Tech companies today:

AMZN: -2.2%

AAPL: -1.9%

META: -3.42%

MSFT: +0.45%

GOOGL: -8.21%
It's super important for hardware that is not fully upstreamed or other projects that carry a large patch burden. The solution is of course to upstream, but being able to pick a stable kernel and run with it for years without rebasing everything just to get a few security updates is a big win.