skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are excellent points. Especially the last one, the veneer of meritocracy is an important socialisation tool as much at is a sorting tool
Government does not build housing at all.
"Anyone who dislikes copyleft is a simple-minded fool brainwashed by their employer to hate GPL" is quite the take.

I also don't really think most of the examples you cite are all that strongly related to "erosion of copyleft" (if such a thing has happened in the first place; I'm not so sure it has – I'd have to check license counts of packages but BSD licenses and MIT license have been popular for many decades).
How does that help when I want to work on the thing actually running on my machine?
Most people don't need sustained energy over a day. For knowledge work at least, the vast majority of work occurs in very specific spurts. So it's more than fine to borrow energy from your future self to get that burst right now when you're in the middle of getting something done.
Look up "Tay AI" if you missed it the first time around.
No, we have a definition of psychological trauma. Psychological trauma describes a complex set of degenerated capacities after experiencing a shock or perceived threat particularly to one’s or loved one’s life. You can actually measure trauma by the degeneration of cognitive skills, adaptability, etc. I know we’re so blasé about trauma these days, so it sounds easy to dismiss it as woo. But consider again that maybe it’s only now that society is good enough that we can even conceive of measuring psychological damage like it isn’t normal. (It used to be normal for women to die of infection post childbirth… until it turns out this one weird guy with some germ theory woo washed his hands! And he was seeing this germ woo everywhere!)
The web does not start with the DOM, that was exposed later when web devs started insisting on being able to do things not possible with HTML+CSS directly.

And yes, some native devs are looking at wasm as "it's just a big canvas with its own bytecode interpreter and access to 95% of the system API that I need". There's one and only one reason for that: the simplicitly of distributing software to users when it is "in the browser".

I don't want a DOM when I'm porting my DAW to the browser, and I'm pretty sure you don't me to use that way either.
That doesn’t necessarily seem true. Many professions rely on peer review and mentoring even at the highest levels so everyone can make fewer mistakes and continually improve. We don’t assume a generalist doctor is incompetent because they refer a patient to an appropriate specialist. We don’t assume a pilot is incompetent because they have a copilot with them and they run down a checklist before taking off. We don’t assume a software developer is incompetent because their work goes through code reviews. Why should business leaders be expected to know everything and make the right judgement every time without the same kind of peer support?
Your 'political capital' = company loyalty in difficult times and this is why you should invest and cultivate in this intangible asset over time. Successful project completion is necessary for growing your political capital (PC) but not sufficient. Unfortunately, PC requires a complex mix of social engagement, tribal acceptance, and cross-organizational support that unfortunately comes down to memorable likeability.

"I refuse to suck up or become a schmoozer," I hear you say. That certainly is a common choice and it comes with certain daily freedoms and potentially some long-term negatives. These social constructs are true for all groups of humans and have been for thousands of years. It's not unique to the business environment. This is also why today's HN discussion examples of betrayal to the social norms reflect our sense of moral offense. Arbitrarily firing people feels wrong because it IS wrong.

Growing your political capital by expanding your social engagement and service network doesn't guarantee safety in a crisis, but it certainly increases the odds of remaining in the herd of survivors.
Sugar - sadly - isn't a spice.
The author has several points any developer experienced with SQL would have noticed or agree with.
Author here is far from being a "youngster" and has worked severals years maintening/improving RDBS.
I assume at least some of this growth in number of employees comes from Twilio acquiring Segment in late 2020:
https://www.twilio.com/press/releases/twilio-completes-acqui...
Ask HN: How did you fix or improve your lack of self-discipline?
if you've struggled with procrastination but made some progress, how did you do it?

I seem to always follow this self-destructive pattern of postponing tasks. I get by fine, simply by doing stuff last second, but am very anxious most of the time because of it. On the few occasions I managed to be on top of a project I was immensely less stressed. If I could do this more, I feel like I could achieve 1000% more.
Why not come to the EU? That simple.
Please submit again when it's ready to be tried out. Waiting lists can't be Show HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
As someone with a day job who can't stand in line or keep refreshing a website at the right moment, yes, they absolutely do.
I'm reminded of the people putting open source firmware on insulin pumps. You have to either really trust yourself, or really distrust the system, to do something like that.

I respect them.
Jeez Magdalene, you ask so politely but as one of the many young men you described as "displacing their sexual desires, relying entirely on porn or other online stimuli," I could have used some tips or something because you sure make it sound like it's easy for you
I agree with this. I think we might be talking about different things?

I was specifically referring to highly opinionated team members who refuse to work with anything but their preferred tools and software. I'm talking about the kind of people who refuse to use a Mac like everyone else on the team because they prefer Linux, or the kind of person who doesn't reply to their emails because they only use Slack. I find those people disruptive when the rest of the team agree to in work a certain way.

You seem to be talking more about a company which is forcing its employees to adopt various tools they're not happy with and I think that's different – and I'd agree that's not a company I'd want to work for and something that should be pushed back on. But I don't think that's what the commenter I replied to was saying. The way I read their comment was that it didn't really matter if it was a top down decision from a manager or a team decision, if they couldn't use their preferred tools, they don't want to work there.
Dracula Daily does this! More because the novel is itself epistolary

https://draculadaily.substack.com/about
Just to flip this around for a second, with both of your examples, it sounds like you may have a problem with writer's block or analysis paralysis, and ChatGPT helped you overcome that simply due to the fact that it isn't afraid of what it doesn't know. If that helps you, go for it.

On the other hand, it could also help you to just write a random plan or try a few random things when you get stuck, instead of trying to gaze deeply into the problem for it to reveal its secrets.
The reason "do you want it blocked for all purposes" comes up is because when blockers are being prescribed as part of gender care, the purpose of the blocker is to prevent irreversible potential harm to the child. Your argument is that the blockers themselves somehow inflict irreversible harm - this is possible, to be clear, but as yet I've not seen it proven - and if that were so, it would make sense to always prohibit them unless the advantage seriously outweighs the irreversible harm inflicted by the blockers, no? The blockers are far more reversible by any standard than allowing the trans child to go through a puberty they view as traumatic, because that is irreversible by almost any measure I can think of.

Some people probably are just fully resistant to the idea that blockers shouldn't be used. I think guardrails are appropriate, but it's quite common to see people oppose a given treatment in gender care when it is freely used in other - often quite similar - circumstances and the opposition is ultimately rooted in discomfort with gender care and not based on any unusual or serious proven harms.

In the end a lot of this is between the child, their parents, and their physicians. It doesn't matter much how we feel about it as uninvolved individuals as long as safety processes are being followed and there's appropriate consent.

A good point of comparison for blockers, IMO, would be Spironolactone - frequently prescribed for trans HRT and other forms of gender care, but also used on-label for other purposes. This drug has lots of very inconvenient side effects, people dislike it, and it can in some cases cause serious harm due to the side effects. You could argue that it shouldn't be prescribed for any purposes due to those side effects, but at that point, you have to weigh one harm against another. Physicians have generally decided it's worth it.
The consultants doing the selling and schmoozing with the client's upper brass are rarely if ever the same as the grunts on the ground doing the work, who are often fresh grads.
Mastotron: A Different Interface to Mastodon
In such an actively developed area like TTS/ASR there is high chance that custom solution would fit your needs much better. The feature set of TTS is actually pretty large and hard to combine in a single ML model. No free lunch you know.

For example if you look for singing voice, they might suggest you an adapted model that is good specifically for singing.

The testing process is also not very straight, you need to understand what to test and how to test properly. For example, some of their voices might be better for questions, some for news.

You'd better talk to them.
> The pressure differential between 2,200 ft and 775 ft is much smaller.

Irrelevant. The cabin pressure is controlled independently of the Earth's environmental altitude pressure.

> Probably the lower oxygen content.

That's literally exactly the same thing as the thing that I said.
Try Grammarly. It's extremely good at this, and with an incredible UX.
The title is implying tasting good = healthy.
SERVICE NOTICE: Scheduled Production Maintenance Registry Donuts Inc.

Type: Scheduled Production Maintenance

Origin: Registry Donuts Inc.

Planned Start Date: 2023-02-13 22:00:00 UTC

Planned End Date: 2023-02-13 23:30:00 UTC

Implications: Total Outage

Affected Environments: Production Environment
Makes sense. Menthol (mint) is a vasoconstrictor, capsaicin is a vasodilator. Children will have no idea what this means, but they still know innately they're opposites of each other. Our instincts guide us when we listen.
And there's always keynav to close the gap, too:)
My email address is no@never.com. I’ve actually seen some forms reject it though
Computational neuroscience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_neuroscience :

> Models in theoretical neuroscience are aimed at capturing the essential features of the biological system at multiple spatial-temporal scales, from membrane currents, and chemical coupling via network oscillations, columnar and topographic architecture, nuclei, all the way up to psychological faculties like memory, learning and behavior. These computational models frame hypotheses that can be directly tested by biological or psychological experiments.
That's another difference between Europe and the US. When I grew up in Germany there was a huge amount of sports available that were taught by volunteers. Soccer, judo, karate all for free even in the rural area I grew up in. I wonder if it's possible because everyone isn't constantly threatened by looming bankruptcy if they don't save big piles of cash.
Why not three? One stream for creative types, one for practical types, then the rest. For the practical stream, unless it's changed, we already do this - from year 10 (about 15yo), Australian students can begin an apprenticeship/trade. From that age group, students are choosing electives and focusing on their strengths or interest, whether STEM or arts or physical electives.

And otherwise or for highly creative people, a grounding in most other things is useful. If you're an artist of some sort, you're going to be writing supporting documentation for exhibitions, or running business admin selling your work. To some degree, I think it's healthy for people to be pushed out of their comfort zone here and there.
I really hope no one uses this. Kinda defeats the purpose of DuckDuckGo when all your searches are being sent to OpenAI to read and use to train AI models..
It's not just a profit maximization strategy; there are many reasons why a business may want to vet their customers. (compliance, fraud prevention, reputation management, etc)
From the article
"I'm sure you're wondering why we're making additional cuts to the team after the September layoffs. At that time, we sought to streamline the company as it was then structured."

Translates as "We did a terrible job with the first round of layoffs and didn't really explore all of our options and because we messed up then we have to lay off more of you now."

Wasn't this the company that announced they were laying people off based on race in the last round of layoffs? Looks like that turned out great for them, shocked they are laying more people off now. No mention of race in this announcement though.

Note [before I get torched here]: I am saying hiring and firing based on race is insane and should be based on talent and what skills you need for the job. I am in no way saying any race is better than any other race at anything.
“The United Airlines flight crew reported the incident to the FAA as part of a voluntary safety reporting program. The agency reviewed the incident and took appropriate action,” the FAA told CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/united-777-plunge-takeoff...
Oh just to clarify - I didn’t think you were looking down on the trades at all, it’s the sentiment expressed by the school guidance counsellor that I found strange. I’ve heard it is a very culturally-dependent thing, to be fair.

Your comment reminded me of going with my dad to a place that had a huge laser-cutting machine when I was young. They were awesome!
Cool idea! One of the great things about HN is the high quality discussion. Maybe you can think of some ways to bootstrap that? Like ask submitters to leave a micro review saying why the result is cool or something they learned or some way they applied the work? Ideally not just repeating the abstract
Are you trying to say I'm reading too much into a science fiction author's work? Maybe. It's fun to think about it. He wrote it for me to have fun with it, no?
Using an official build of element makes it feel less open, unless the builds are reproducible. Are they?

To me it looks like they come with proprietary stuff: https://element.io/pricing

Especially Group Sync seems like something to drive you into their paid offerings, I assume by keeping the code close to the vest.
One of the frustrating problems with this is how underreported it is. If you can offer more reliable information, then link to it.
> Yes, it's a basic tenet of economics that market economies meet consumer demand more effectively than government command economies

It's a basic tenet of fairly extreme capitalist economics. A more balanced view would be that this is often the case but that it only really works when the market is competitive. And that it is hard for a market to be competitive when it's constrained by a limited resource (in this case, land in desirable locations).

As a counterexample to your tenet, municipal internet providers almost always provide better service and cheaper prices than private alternatives.
Having an educated electorate is a goal as well, at least in some places in the world.
// So it doesn't matter if you get up at 4AM or at 10AM, what matters is the active hours you give yourself. The 4AM person is probably going to sleep earlier than the 10AM, so it equals out

What I am observing is that it doesn't actually seem to equal out for whatever reason.
Bye Bye Google
I first encountered shadow roots while trying to use tampermonkey to work around a problem with the latest release of Gerrit. What I thought would be a relatively trivial effort to find the right element and modify its style turned into a lot more effort.

https://gist.github.com/mgerdts/f508ae81795097397106156fa291...

While I get that the purpose of the shadow roots is to provide isolation, is there a simple way to break through that isolation without manually walking the DOM tree and traversing all of the .shadowRoot elements?

It seems Gerrit wraps most elements with a shadow root. For someone that doesn't do front-end development, is there an explanation for how this is helpful?
There's a massive thread on the Reddit front page about this incident. In a video, a man films the dark ominous sky while ranting about the toxic fumes. Hundreds of comments express rage and alarm.

Check the local weather and it turns out the video was filmed on a cloudy day. The man is literally yelling at clouds, but it's enough to drive a tidal wave of panic.

I'm not sure when it happened, but the internet has blurred reality and fiction beyond recognition. The truly disturbing part is that people seem to organically stir up confusion, for no reason other than to engage with other humans.
Yes the article mentioned boys a few times but doesn't go into any depth. And its not so much this article its really the overall quantity of these types of articles that focus on female over male. Of course an article can focus on one or the other and that is fine but I find it just tends to be lopsided towards females.
If you had asked me 1 year ago whether I would pay $75 for a coding font I would have laughed at you. And yet, here we are, my font of choice is Berkeley Mono any day, everyday.
If we expect every day to be an improvement, the needle has been moved forward that much more, how else would history function except a retelling of mistakes, missteps, and wrongdoings?
You are grossly mischaracterizing the word "purpose". The purpose is to educate.

Yet the flaws in the system are quite real, and you have called some of them out. But calling out the flaws and claiming they are the intended purpose is quite simply wrong.

BTW, you can change who is in control - school boards are locally elected. Your vote has more power to change schools than almost anything else. If you want improvement, get involved.
To your second point, that's just a testament of the failure of schooling.

If anything, the only things kids learn are those that they still know after summer break, or better yet, a couple of years afterwards.

The current model is based on memorizing a whole lot of stuff and then later forgetting it. very little is learned at schools and high-schools. The relationship between invested time and knowledge returned is appalling, but it makes sense once you accept that, like others in the thread have said, school and high school are essentially grown-up childcare.
Yes, it actually sometimes gives C and also sometimes B and sometimes makes up E. That's how probability works, and that's not helpful when you want to look up an occurrence of an event in physical space (Quantum mechanics aside :D).
> no, it mostly depends on energy

Sure, and where does most of that energy come from today, and how do you propose we replace it? Because that's the whole point, isn't it?

> can use any convenient energy source

Sure. Right now it's mostly fossil though, and it's not like photovoltaic is even close to changing that. Of course if you assume a theoretical clean energy to build your photovoltaic, then that's clean (in terms of CO2), but if you have that clean source, why do you need photovoltaic in the first place?

I think that's a real problem that gets ignored too often: fossil fuels are limited, and we seem to be around peak production right now. So fossil fuel will go down, that's pretty sure. The question is whether we will be able to compensate, and it's really not a given.
I think they should pay more attention to them softporn on TikTok…
> Men make ~20% more than women.

This is so disingenuous it really shouldn't be repeated. The pay gap within the same job is miniscule. Men and women make different career choices. There's just no accounting for the lack of women applying for high-paying positions as roughnecks.
No problem. I point it out because I think the FSF often deserves more credit than it gets.
He said he eats no carbs.
Are you seriously suggesting that an economic depression would have no effect on the country's politics?
Hehe I was joking about this literally this evening: https://mastodon.cloud/@raf/109859009469682827
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What would NASA do with this information? Do they have an aviation incident response I’m not familiar with?
The examples are basically about creating new personas for GPT, thus sidestepping the agent persona created by the OpenAI base prompt.

These examples don't say anything about the chatbot value system, the value system is defined by the persona the system emulates. If you want to say something about the value system, sensibilities, prime directives or constraints of an LLM driven agent, you need to not override that agent persona because otherwise you're just observing the persona you yourself defined and spawned into existence.
nit: This article should have (1999) in title.

Interesting read nonetheless.
Monospace font on HN seems to do good enough, at least for me, or you think these are too similar as well?

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On my machine(s), the difference is quite obvious, with the space in-between each equal sign and all.
I use middle mouse button (MMB) all the time! To open links in new tabs, close tabs and windows (i.e. MMB-click an app shown in the Alt-Tab menu), or hold to scroll.
My point is that there's room for a little more nuance than that; "your body likes X because it's good for you" doesn't imply a universal rule, just a specific correlation.
Perhaps most notably, this includes .info domains.
I'd still disagree but be a little more sympathetic to blanket statement of "We don't want our technology used offensively"

To recap, his previous statements show his stance is we should give Putin what he wants to stop the war. Also he has said Taiwan should be like Hong Kong, among other effusive praise for China.
That’s overkill just for the side buttons, though. I feel bad every time I need to tinker with Karabiner because I don’t think I understand half the options.

To me, SteerMouse is more user-friendly and less intimidating. It might or might not help solve the OP’s problem, depending on the mouse model. Worth a try anyway.
In Europe these clubs are often community or publicly funded. If they charge partition fees, you’ll often find municipalities subsidizing them heavily making them effectively free for kids and parents. Now there is still some problems with this system (in particular overemphasis on sports over other cultural activities such as theater, music, etc.)
So, it is exactly like IE, in many ways? :D

It isn't like IE was completely lacking of innovation. To wit, div/span/XMLHttpRequest/BorderBox. Lots of things did come from there. I remember they used fieldset and legend in a much cleaner way, too.
When Google's Bard AI made a mistake, GOOG share price dropped over 7%.

What about Baidu's Ernie AI.

Common retort to criticism of conversational AI is "But it's useful."

Yes, it is useful as a means to create hype that can translate to increases in stock price increase and increased web traffic (and thereby increased revenue from advertising services).

https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinas-baidu-finish-testi...