skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Some applicants will make some big deal about pronouns not being necessary, and we will have to reject that application because we all have our pronouns in our signatures. Not for political reasons, but because we have many trans students, and it makes things easier for everyone when pronouns are used upfront

You have just told me that putting pronouns in one's signature is effectively a condition of employment, because it "makes things easier for everyone" if people comply with this policy. That is a remarkable statement.

Consider how asymmetric these affordances are. On one hand it is considered a top priority that trans students are not only accommodated in their desired pronouns, but that everybody participates in a shared pronoun protocol on an ongoing basis to make trans students feel more welcome. On the other hand the community cannot tolerate a faculty member who prefers not to put pronouns next to their name; it is so intolerant of this behavior that the institution will not even hire such a person, let alone attempt to make them feel welcomed or accepted.

It is right and admirable to expect faculty to treat students with respect, including using requested pronouns within reason. But why should a faculty member be expected to put pronouns next to their own name if they prefer not to? The choice of how to identify is a very personal thing; that is the entire reason why this topic is so charged. What if someone strongly does not identify with putting pronouns in every place their name appears? Shouldn't they get a chance to decide how they identify?

It is not the accommodation of student requests that makes this political, it is the highly asymmetric offering of affordances. You are describing a culture where some people's choice of how to identify is protected as sacrosanct, but other people's choice is rejected as unacceptable and disqualifying. That is picking winners and losers on a charged topic where both sides have strong and closely held beliefs.
The meme worthy thing is thinking that, given 3 sigfig inputs, 20 sigfigs is more desirable than 3.
It's failing to distinguish noise from data.
> the authors want to know 'is this popular? can we deprecate XYZ method?'

This is something that was common for internal libraries at some of the places I've worked. I'm honestly a little surprised it isn't a thing we see externally. I for sure do not want to see it, but I'm surprised we don't. Its probably enough to look at the public usage on GitHub, and make inferences and post notice on future-major-versions of libraries. Github honestly should make a tool to do this, they'd have a huge opportunity to inspect the data.
Since when does HN allow not only unsourced claims, but unsourced claims about massive geopolitical sabotage operations?

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle

You're just baiting everyone in this comments section. How long have you been moderating this site? Have you ever seen a post like this cultivate a productive comments section?

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

Evidence? I don't see much evidence of anything here

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like

This last one you are guilty of, maybe this post was being flag brigaded for a reason
Child poverty has declined significantly since both 2007 and 2012 (although they did rise momentarily after 2008).
Good call. Like it or not, reputation counts for a lot. Particularly in reporting of matters the government prefers remain private.
Because most of us can afford food for our families, even in the last week of the month.
How am I getting good performance on Integrated Graphics?
Me before looking at the price: "That's a $2k table if I ever saw one."

It belongs in the background of a scene from Succession.
Agreed: the data in this article only discusses the US, so I was only discussing the US here. I'm not sure if there's a similar crisis in other countries. Some in this thread have indicated yes, others no.
Teaching ChatGPT how to write robust code (it is just another lazy developer)
THIS IS A TRUE STORY. (The end could have been just another ChatGPT technical issue. It was pretty slow...)

me: write me a regex to check if a CSS color is transparent

ChatGPT: Here is a regex pattern to check if a CSS color value is transparent:

/^transparent$/i

This regex uses the ^ and $ anchors to match the entire string and ensure that the value only contains "transparent". The i flag at the end makes the matching case-insensitive, so it will match transparent, Transparent, and TRANSPARENT.

me: You forgot to check for rgba, hsla and all other colors formatting where alpha can be set to 0 (including hash)

ChatGPT: Here is a more comprehensive regex pattern to check if a CSS color value is transparent, including formats such as rgba, hsla, and hash colors with an alpha value of 0:

/^(rgba|hsla)\(0,\s*0%,\s*0%,\s*0\)$|^#?0000$/i

This pattern matches the following formats:

rgba(0, 0%, 0%, 0)
hsla(0, 0%, 0%, 0)
#0000
#000000

The i flag at the end makes the matching case-insensitive, so it will match rgba(0, 0%, 0%, 0), RGBA(0, 0%, 0%, 0), hsla(0, 0%, 0%, 0), etc.

me: What about the other formats that also accept alpha (like HWB and LAB) plus the named color transparent itself from your first answer?

ChatGPT: Here's a regex pattern that matches all the CSS color values that can be transparent, including rgba, hsla, named color transparent, and the other color formats that can have an alpha value of 0:

/^(rgba|hsla|hwb|lab)\(0,\s*0%,\s*0%,\s*0\)$|^transparent$|^#?0000$/i

This pattern matches the following formats:

rgba(0, 0%, 0%, 0)
hsla(0, 0%, 0%, 0)
hwb(0, 0%, 0%, 0)
lab(0, 0%, 0%, 0)
transparent
#0000
#000000

The i flag at the end makes the matching case-insensitive, so it will match rgba(0, 0%, 0%, 0), RGBA(0, 0%, 0%, 0), transparent, etc.

me: There are other allowed color formats. You should read the full css specs

ChatGPT: An error occurred. If this issue persists please contact us through our help center at help . openai . com.
How Russia decides to go nuclear
I'm pretty confident in Google's ability to protect the results from AI-farm spam (unlike YouTube).

But I feel like these guidances to not be precise enough, especially the part on "Author bylines". Could it be possible for Google to voluntary remove from results AI-generated content? Google is strongly able to detect the presence of AI in content, I doubt however they can understand it well (for instance, low-quality and automated comparisons sites can still hit the first result of Search). Therefore it could lead to bad quality bans and mass-move to "human-generated content" (which is AI-generated with quick review for human), leading to more problems.
> What I find particularly odd is that this entire thing appears to be based on a single, unnamed source "with direct knowledge of the operational planning".

Why is that weird? Assuming this is true, there would be rather many people with such knowledge. One of them may feel the need to talk. Would you expect such a source to be named?

Also, I find it a lot easier to imagine why the US would want to do this, than why Russia or Germany would want to do this.
But if not a programmer or knowledgeable about crypto they definitely should shut up about how Rust will save us all from all bugs for all eternity :)
If that is the case then there are way more conspirators and the likelihood of the facts getting out are much higher.
> I get a lot of benefit from this information but somehow it feels shallow.

I take a longer view to this. For example, a few years ago I read about an algorithm to calculate percentiles in real time. [0]

It literally just came up at work today. I haven't used that information but maybe two times since I read it, but it was super relevant today and saved my team potential weeks of development.

So maybe it's not so shallow.

But to your actual question, I have a similar problem. The best I can say is that deadlines help. I usually put down the HN and Youtube when I have a deadline coming up. And not just at work. I make sure my hobbies have deadlines too.

I tell people when I think something will be done, so they start bugging me about it when it doesn't get done, so that I have a "deadline". Also one of my hobbies is pixel light shows for holidays, which come with excellent natural deadlines -- it has to be done by the holiday or it's useless.

So either find an "accountability buddy" who will hold you to your self imposed deadlines, or find a hobby that has natural deadlines, like certain calendar dates, or annual conventions or contests that you need to be done by.

[0] https://github.com/tdunning/t-digest
Clavicula: 3D Modeling for Desktop and VR
> If there's not a sale it's not advertising.

This is a really strange perspective. Advertising is only advertising once the advertised product is sold? A billboard is simultaneously an advertisement and not an advertisement depending on whether the observer has purchased the advertised item?

Not the GP but no, I'm not fine with arresting people over light bulbs. I am totally cool with arresting them for fraud if it meets that standard. I am also cool with the business being fined or otherwise sanctioned for false advertisement. The product is beside the point. The deception is what the punishment is intended to address.
>The problem in the US is that conservatism is also conflated with lots of other random ideas

They're not conflated. They are stances held by large swatch of US conservatives.
Not sure if this is an appropriate ask, but I'd be interested to see some of the download shops you're referring to - I'm putting my art up on print-on-demand sites and I'm interested in continuing the endeavour, but it's a slow process - I'd love to get some inspiration on the business side of that sort of thing.
One thing that makes this distinct from much of said kindling is that it hasn't been reported on before. This isn't someone coming into an unrelated comment thread and commenting "9/11 was an inside job!"

I would encourage any who disagree to consider truly why this reporting upsets them.
I built my code successfully after refactoring it accordingly :-)
It was just convenient.

All the guys pointing out what ChatGPT can't do right now are simply missing the point.
It's disruption baby. But if you feel better then: Don't look up
If you are unhappy living in the West, there is no reason whatsoever why you cannot move to a country with more compatible values. Russia is accepting new immigrants and that is certainly an option available to you.
@knodi123: You write: "The issues are wattage and whether the radiation is ionizing or not". Wrong. Sorry. You are out of date with the science on this. Weasel-wording like "every reputable study" can't change that.

Its the modulation, polarization mostly, and to some degree frequency that are the culprit.

Did you even look at the linked study?
So many people here want to say, "That's not it, it's {something else}."

Might be more fruitful to argue about a stack-rank of the things.

But, as the father of a son who is a freshman in college at a Research 1 university, I'll say that his college experience so closely mirrors my enterprise organization work bullshit experience it's shocking. And he doesn't have a social media account or a mobile phone.

So, my humble counter is: it's all of it. We've entered a peak bullshit culture moment in time. We throw a million negative and spurious cultural and professional expectations at young people and then couple that with the death of a reasonable middle class end-game, and then are shocked that so many of them, and the rest of us, are angry and unhealthy and impoverished in various "whole person" ways.

(Not to mention climate change...)
This is a great summary of this issues with trying to even determine objective reality. I would say that the simple popular consensus approach is not even that great because there are plenty of things in the past that have had consensus that were later determined to be objectively false.

My point was even a step before this, that even getting the consensus facts correct is a major challenge when the internet is written by children, bored volunteers, mechanical Turk contributors from across the world, adversarial actors, and content producers churning clickbait. Having a professional journalist investigate a topic, then have a separate professional fact-check, and yet another professional edit all for a publication that is trying hard to maintain a reputation and will publish retractions if necessary is all miles better as a starting point for determining truth, but sadly that cultural activity is nearly dead.
I guess you can say the human brain operates only on the data it gets from our ear drums, optic nerve, etc. Might as well call that numerical input, it’s certainly not grammatical or logical, all that is internal and arises after many layers of neurons.
IBM Acquires StepZen
simple answer is the consensus groupthink on Hacker News is deeply wishful

i made this same point at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34699087 and got nothing but pushback how there is no real problem with ChatGPT and Bing just fixed all the problems
(which didn't exist) anyway.
> he would spend 30min+ in the restroom

> The bathroom policy was put in place after having multiple meetings with the district manager.

Did he have health issues? I have never seen a healthy adult hide in the Bathroom. Is this something that happens? Has an effort been made to figure out whats wrong with them?

I have also had a junior colleague and a family member go through stomach related issues where they required over 100 days of sick leave and 4 surgeries. If they were working for amazon warehouse, they'd be disposed of quickly.

I definately dont want to work for a company that timea how long I spend taking a shit.

For every 'lazy' or 'unproductive' employee i've seen, I can name two that create negative productivity for an entire team through office politics and maneuvering.

They are much more damaging and management never seems to catch on!
Maybe it's not types, but Python.
Why is it baffling? Not everyone needs a company to create a work environment for them, and not everyone has to be commuting in order to catch up on their podcasts. Not everyone needs a company to decide what they eat for lunch, and most people do not get lunch provided anyway. Not everyone has a chaotic family life with children and spouses that don’t recognize their boundaries when they are working.
Another thing that gets overlooked is that in the months prior to the explosion, Russia had cut off the gas and lied about the reasons why it was cut off twice. Europe kept asking them to send the gas Russia had agreed to send, and Russia kept making up false excuses for not sending it. And then the pipelines exploded, giving them an actual excuse.

The pipe that survived? It would need Germany to backtrack on sanctions to open it. Russia said the gas was ready to flow as soon as they did so.
I have a son who’s a sophomore (15 yo, second year in HS) and this comment absolutely rings true. He fences competitively (2 HR training four times a week plus a few hrs with physical therapist) and his life pretty much consists of school, homework and sports.

He has to be at school at 7:45am so gets up around 6am, goes to bed around 11am usually, so much for the 8 hrs of sleep per night!

And he hasn’t even started the college death March yet.
None of this is proof, of course. But it logical. Who else would do it? And why?

I think it's great the topic has been brought up again. This was a major event that somehow got swept away like nothing happened. The propaganda machine even tried to sell it as Russians blowing up their own pipe. Cause you know, at this point they could be blamed for the most ridiculous thing and it would still "track" because crazy.

What really matters is who else here in Europe helped them. And why. Norway stands to gain but did they help with the sabotage? Things don't look good at all. I am scared. Russia is just across the black sea. I don't want war
I also find access to limitless information addicting, and get bored at work sometimes. Practical advice:

1) Cut internet to your house, or get someone to change the WiFi password if you can't do that.

2) Remove your SIM card and glue it into a dumb phone

3) Delete social media and things you find distracting (steam, instagram, etc.)

4) Organise your work tasks by priority if you haven't already. I use Kanboard for this. Otherwise the former steps will leave a void you'll fill by procrastinating.

That is essentially the only thing that worked after trying many other solutions over three years. Some people don't have to go to that extreme but... different strokes for different folks. One year later and I'm still going strong! I now rent in a co-working space, but a library was perfectly adequate before that.
Having a bachelors degree and going to college are different things. You can go to college and not get a bachelors degree.
Great question. You and I sound alike in this respect. I created a quick-and-dirty marketplace for my own portfolio (https://clearance.domains) but it does not get much traffic. I have also tried these:

- Dan.com (now part of GoDaddy)

- NameLiquidate.com (part of Epik)

- Sedo.com

- Have converted a few to stand-alone, no-maintenance sites using newsy.co (if you are open to referral links: https://www.newsy.co?r=newsyco-1000) and really dig it. But sadly, I'm pretty much convinced that trying to build any meaningful revenue solely from PPC ads is no longer a viable model.

If you find something that works for you, please let us know here.
Meh. This is a content-less article, that seems to be exclusively about how many DNS requests Windows 11 makes on first boot.

Absolutely nothing on what data is being sent, if any, or why.
Do you honestly see value in comparing scars? Does that matter in any meaningful way?

The worst stress of someone's life is the worst stress of their life. It's unproductive and petty to bicker about who has it worse.

If life is stressful for anyone, regardless of status, title, age, etc. there's a good chance it's undeserved.

The takeaway is to treat people better, not dismiss their stressors as less significant.
Except the OPCW says themselves they have grounds to believe Assad did it. Any "leaks" were part of an ongoing investigation, and not conclusive. I'm absolutely baffled how naive people are in defense of people like Assad & Putin.
sounds like the process of becoming a civil servant in imperial china.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination

> During the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), authorities narrowed the content down to mostly texts on Neo-Confucian orthodoxy; the highest degree, the jinshi (Chinese: 進士), became essential for the highest offices. On the other hand, holders of the basic degree, the shengyuan (生員), became vastly oversupplied, resulting in holders who could not hope for office. Wealthy families, especially from the merchant class, could opt into the system by educating their sons or by purchasing degrees. During the late 19th century, some critics within Qing China blamed the examination system for stifling scientific and technical knowledge, and urged for some reforms. At the time, China had about one civil licentiate per 1000 people. Due to the stringent requirements, there was only a 1% passing rate among the two or three million annual applicants who took the exams.[3]
According to https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/debug_mode_u... there's a D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG_BACKTRACE that will show a backtrace for the line number too
Id be very curious to see player counts from then compared to know, but at least in the quality of servers they feel comparable and even better than osrs in some aspects!
Show HN: Filmbox, physically accurate film emulation, now on Linux and Windows
We released Filmbox two years ago, and it has gotten a great response. It's been used in huge movies like "Everything Everywhere All At Once".

It's been a huge rewrite to get this working on Linux and Windows from our original Mac and Metal code.

We also have some interesting uses of cross-platform Swift + Electron in our plugin manager app, and cross-platform Swift generally in the plugin. Hopefully we can detail that in a blog post at some point.

There's a free Filmbox Lite version to try, if you're interested.
I'm not sure how 3 out of 4 instead 4 out of 4 (which we don't know why, might have failed, might not have been possible) says anything about who might have done it.
“Trickle down” isn’t necessarily a good mental model here. Maybe the high achieving types from across the country and world are increasingly concentrating their attention into admission to a few top universities. So the max effort expended by the top students may be increasing, but the median effort could be unchanged or dropping.
> Is there any indication real attribution is coming?

Looking at the main article on HN yesterday around it: https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/7/23587454/microsoft-bing-ed... you can see citations in the examples provided.
There's a whopping bit of selection bias in that Gallup poll; it polls only people still living in Crimea. Some of those are Russians who immigrated in, and there's a big missing chunk of people who left because of the invasion.

It should be unsurprising that the folks who stayed tend to be the folks who support the Russian annexation. The opinion of those who fled matters, too.
Russia does that every day on a mass scale and so far is getting away with it, unfortunately.

If US is truly behind it, the Swiss company can sue US (and perhaps Germany) and I believe they would have a chance. Certainly better chance than Ukrainians have with reparations from Russia.
I'm writing a book[1] with a variety of coding projects.

Programming is not always about building the app foo with the language bar. You can have fun by recreating and understanding how existing stuff works.

[1] https://build-your-own.org/b2a/
The vast majority of kids are not focused on college like you were, while that might have been a problem for you, that doesn't mean it is the problem.
> for (size_t i = 0; i < raw_level.size(); i++)

They say this is C++ code but, this is all C code.
For instance, why aren't they using a range-based for loop?

for (auto& level : raw_level)

Boom! No more bugs.

> I certainly don’t feel as safe writing this code as I would in rust

Ah... there it is
I don't think they need to worry about this — traffic from Apple devices is oxygen to Google, which is why Google pays Apple $15 billion per year just to be the default web search provider.

But Apple has been quietly working on a search backup plan for many years, and they've been in the email business for longer than Google's existed. (I migrated a couple decades worth of email from Google Workspace last year, and I haven't regretted it so far.) I don't think building a YouTube competitor would be interesting for them.
Actually Unsafe Rust is arguably more fraught than C because the rules in Unsafe Rust are just as tough as they are in Safe Rust - much tougher than C - but in Safe Rust the language and libraries promise to take care of that, whereas in Unsafe that's on you. So choices which are in fact harmless in C will result in UB in Unsafe Rust.

The benefit is that unsafe passages of Rust are rarer and should be safely abstracted from APIs for use by Safe Rust. Mellisearch seems to often (but not always) provide safety rationales for unsafe code, explaining why whatever is done is OK. I don't understand this domain in enough detail to comment on the quality of the rationales.
lets see how long Apple keeps the store open.....
Look at the images in the announcement from yesterday: https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/7/23587454/microsoft-bing-ed...

Those look like citations, to me.
Important to note that S3 does not have any Durability SLA. We promise Durability and take it extremely seriously, but there is no SLA. Much more of an SLO