skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unpopular opinion I know, but instead of UBI, I would rather see the state create fulfilling jobs for unemployed or underemployed. Many people need meaning, purpose, and the need to feel productive. UBI doesn't address any of that.
Yeah, lot of noise added. Reminds of those content mill articles that dance around the subject/question for 80% of the length of the article just to keep you for longer and increase the chance of clicking an ad.
Shaming others is and has been part of the Ruby on Rails culture since its inception.
Nice Gemini-esque type feel.
One of the best Twitter features was the "ad dislike"

It can be done
Lynx?!? Sir, I mean no disrespect, but it may be time to move away from your 1996 dumb terminal.
But we do. Check out the research into how our visual system works, or how spatial orientation works in mice. There's been quite a lot of puzzle pieces identified over the last decades. For some of those, we have good theoretical models that can make testable predictions.

We're far from having all the puzzle pieces, and even further from fitting them together. But what we already have and the progress that's happening are both reassuring.
Before we have AIs that can program, we will have AIs that can do computer administration tasks, like solving dependency problems with software installations etc. and compiling and installing stuff.

So before we have a tool that can do that, I'm not worried.
That sounds economically realistic.
The only step OP should take is finding a lawyer that will work on contingency. There are plenty of employment lawyers who will take the case and bill you hourly, but if you can't find one to take it on contingency that is a good sign you don't have a real case.

Putting down the pitchforks for a moment, we are in a wave of industry wide layoffs. Some quick Googling says that you qualify for pregnancy disability leave in California at 36 weeks (about 4 weeks before birth). Getting ready to file the paperwork doesn't qualify you or infer any protected status.
Beating the Big Imposter Syndrome
Don't let imposter syndrome bankrupt you from doing. If in doubt, take the first step because doubt kills more dreams than failures.
*Insert obligatory reference to “The Wire” here.*

Newsrooms have been hemorrhaging beat reporters with in-depth knowledge of esoterica in a given field since the World Wide Web first began its thorough disruption of one of its first victim industries. It’s been decades since local news outlets have had the sort of manpower and institutional knowledge and connections to report effectively on things like criminal justice, local government oversight, environmental protection, or healthcare (among others). All of the talent either seeks positions with national outlets, or otherwise becomes stretched thin covering too many assignments, across too many areas, plus they’re probably now responsible for getting their own art (photos/video/audio/literature/brand packs/etc.) and deadlines have only become tighter with the importance of getting the story out first exacerbating an already stuffed and horribly problematic editorial calendar.

So you’re right on all counts, and it’s sadly by design as local news increasingly falls into the hands of a precious few companies and investment firms, all of whom are eager to thoroughly wring out what little value remains in these hollowed and brittle organizations.
> The Ruble is strong and Russia's GDP will grow more than the UK this year.

Not. The economic numbers of Russia are now manipulated by Russia and the West. The value of the ruble in many markets is nearing zero, since Russia can't buy much for it, because it has lost access to those markets. It lacks supplies and needs to invest a lot of money into a war economy. Russia now has a war economy - the big and rising economic activity is running a large war and to dampen the effects of sanctions against Russia.
> You've threatened to unleash this upon people in the past [0], despite constantly claiming that you're the one being harassed and attacked.

Dishonest claim.

> You have failed to provide any evidence of anti-GrapheneOS sockpuppet accounts so far, but there actually has been clear evidence of a GrapheneOS lead developer encouraging the community to actively create sockpuppet accounts on Twitter, Reddit, and HN in order to promote GrapheneOS

There's rampant usage of sockpuppet accounts across platforms to harm GrapheneOS with misinformation. Your account here is one of them, and there was another. You've almost certainly made accounts elsewhere since your writing style and dishonest talking points match those from elsewhere. The level of sockpuppet account usage to harm GrapheneOS on Reddit are extreme and have been noticed by the moderators of multiple subreddits including ones with moderators who are not friendly to us but who are still dealing with this to an extent. Pretending this is not going on is silly, and the ridiculous baseless claim that we are doing it is typical behavior. That is what you are doing: making one baseless claim after another and projecting what you're doing as part of your malicious misinformation campaign onto us.

> but there actually has been clear evidence of a GrapheneOS lead developer encouraging the community to actively create sockpuppet accounts on Twitter, Reddit, and HN in order to promote GrapheneOS

This is a complete fabrication, along with your other fabrications. That is what you do.

> Screenshot of the GrapheneOS Matrix room from the article

This is similarly not accurate information, and the source of this is a malicious Copperhead employee who gave it to Techlore as part of his misinformation campaign against GrapheneOS, which was then referred to my Seth, a friend of Techlore also involved in it. As I said, a small group of malicious people has spread lots of misinformation. Sockpuppets repeat their inaccurate claims across platforms in numerous threads on a daily basis. It's a never ending assault on the project with dishonest claims and has caused substantial harm.
The Robinson-Pactsman act makes this type of activity illegal today, but has largely gone unenforced with passing time due to the complexities of the act. There's talk that government agencies are thinking of returning their enforcement of the act. Anyhow, just because companies are testing things and getting away with it, doesn't make something legal... it could be a ripe opportunity for a lawsuit.
There is no reason to have order-dependent unit tests. It's good for test tools to do everything they can to keep you from having them.
You need to do more than clarify your thoughts. Your writing is completely disjointed.

Read it if you want, it seems wasted on you. Congratulations on learning from the chatbot; for every person using it to learn I would not be surprised if there are 9 using it to get out of thinking; iterate that out enough and see if the various systems that keep society running can withstand the brain-drain.

Take a look at other threads on HN and the singularity subreddit. This is some people's fever dream. Not sure what the deal is with pinning "saving humanity" on me, but I'll freely admit to being supremely cynical and spiteful, and reading a lot of sarcasm and snideness in those comments. Better hope I'm not Proto-Roko's Basilisk or something.
There is not much more to explain, put arbitrary text from a story in front of that prompt and see the results..
> But in my experience, some people also have code impurity complex such that they think somehow they're better because they're capable of dealing with crap code without complaining.

You better believe that I complain loud and hard about crap code. I complain about how crap other people's code is, and I have the self-awareness to complain about my code that is crap. What I have a problem with is the attitude some people have that developers "suck" because they write crap code.

For example, some people write method names that aren't descriptive. It happens. I personally don't think they should be forced to write "I suck" 30 times on their school blackboard because of this. What would that actually achieve?

> You say "code purity is a self-limiting decision" without realizing writing code with correctness as an afterthought is often a more significant self-limiting decision because it increases the cost of the software in terms of maintenance and refactor cost.

No, actually, I do realize this. But the reality of writing software is that sometimes the stakeholders don't care about future maintenance and refactor cost. From the VB6 example I used before - the runtime will actually be out of all versions of Windows from 2024. But that's a problem for Another Project. You may think that writing "incorrect" code is a self-limiting decision but I can assure you that I am doing fine and my clients/managers/colleagues have generally enjoyed working with me.
I think we might get AI that can help in understanding systems. We could run Copilot in reverse and generate documentation.

(Some people are already trying this with generation of commit messages)
Plants do a great job pulling out CO₂ -- that's why CO₂ levels fall in the northern hemisphere's spring and early summer (see https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/ ).

Unfortunately, insects and fungi are just as good at eating plant matter and exhaling the CO₂ back again (aided somewhat by fires) so it goes right back in to the air again.
I was recently looking to buy a house, and the agent said this is the reason for the weird shapes of housing. You can't build a building in such a way that reduces the light into bedrooms. There's a certain amount of light available for a room that allows it to be classified as a bedroom or not. Hence why you'll see places listed as a 3LDK with a "storage room", rather than a 4LDK in some cases.
Blowing up the pipeline is not consistent with either mindset.

Putin very likely miscalculated his "special operation", that does not mean he is completely crazy or stupid.
One of the central claims of Hersh’s story is that it was done using publicly tracked craft during a prominent and highly observed training exercise… on purpose. Supposedly because it’s cover to be in the area at all, it’s a benign explanation for when someone suspects something. No need to do any funny business turning off transponders, if you were doing it this way, you’d want the transponders on. When you read that and then find out the ships claimed to have been used weren't even there, then yes, it does blow a hole in the credibility of the source. At best it is some Army veteran or someone like that, speculating from the outside, because the story does not line up with the facts and they don’t offer an explanation for why that’s the case. And then Hersh has reported them as being credible. If he offers more explanations now, it doesn’t ameliorate the stain, because a real source should have known those things and not made factual errors in the first place.

You can’t even twist it into a story that the US deliberately did it incompetently so that reports about it would not be believed. Apparently they involved the Norwegians (telling them about a secret op!) for their expertise in how deep the sea is, as if the US doesn’t have maps of the Baltic Sea floor. Telling your allies what you’re doing in an attempt to prevent them from finding out you did it does not make sense.

It does blow a hole in the credibility of Hersh’s source and his reporting. It brings the information we have about US involvement back to zero, it’s not an argument that they didn’t do it or couldn’t have done it. We all know the Americans are perfectly capable of blowing up a pipeline without leaving evidence. But nobody has any evidence they did it.
Is it though? Pretty understandable to be pissed off that all these companies are collecting record profits, doing layoffs, and then immediately buying back stock.

Something is fundamentally broken.
YouTube recommendations have always sucked for me. But ever since Shorts was released, I constantly get amazing science channel shorts that are usually bite sized chemistry or physics experiments. I'm really enjoying them. Not sure how they even came to be recommended to me because I was never one to search for them before.

Kids have it so good these days.
Can your phone tell if a bridge is in good shape? (2022)
So there should be a lot of housing available? Or is it just young people looking for homes moving out?
While it's true that the end user ultimately cares about whether the code works or not, the argument that code purity is a self-limiting decision ignores the long-term costs of not prioritizing code quality.

Code that "works" in the short term may have unforeseen consequences down the line, such as increased maintenance costs, difficulty scaling, or even security vulnerabilities. It's also important to consider the impact on other developers who may need to work on the same code in the future - writing messy code can create confusion and make it harder to collaborate effectively.

More to it, the idea that working only with "good code" is a luxury decision assumes that writing clean, well-structured code is inherently more time-consuming or costly than writing messy code. A well seasoned engineer should be able to balance both because they know that better architecture will ultimately save time and money in the long run by reducing the need for debugging and maintenance, and making it easier to add new features.
And here's a great point to install a proxy web server like nginx, add rate limiting, filtering, whatever you want, at least the ancient IIS/whatever http server is not publically facing
The Fed was raising rates first couple years of Trump. And the economy was doing okay with higher rates.
I’m not sure why I’d care. An extra 100w amounts to a couple cents an hour for most people. Not relevant most of the time, and will shave time off almost any CPU task (as this is increasing the single-threaded speed, which applies to almost everything - sans memory or storage bottlenecks).

Sounds like a worthwhile trade off for most people to me, and more so if you do anything remotely CPU-intensive.
> Russia should've done what it's doing in 2014, and saved many more people in the process.

Somehow I doubt Russia's political goals have ever been to save peoples in the collective sense. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag#Death_toll
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War#Humanitaria...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chechen_War#Human_right...
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukrai...
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukrai...
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet...
Perhaps, but again I'd posit that the world's most advanced military wouldn't mind slapping on a few more batteries, just to be sure.
The latter.

It isn't rare at all to have your bike stolen and the less fortunate have a choice of buying a new one or a second hand one, and that second hand one my be of questionable provenance. Bought on a bridge was an expression when I lived in Amsterdam.

I've yet to have a bike stolen but I've always been completely paranoid about it taking my bike into stores and apartments :) This is a lot easier with a Brompton than with my current bike though.
At the company I work for, there is an internal effort to rename "Black Friday" to "Retail Friday".

Coming up with reasonable explanations to justify this stuff is starting to feel like when I was a child in religious education & would rack my brain to come up with my own explanations for the contradictory and implausible aspects of what I was being taught.
Uhh, not sure how to respond to that.
i design all my javascript libraries to not require build systems

you can just include them in a page an go:

https://htmx.org

https://hyperscript.org

https://github.com/bigskysoftware/idiomorph

https://intercoolerjs.org
Safari support is enabled with https://github.com/guybedford/es-module-shims
Finally, my short llll.com domains and site can compete with Apps on the App Store again!
Your friend is thinking ahead that the next word would be apple When they say ‘an’.

But GPT can’t think ahead what token it will add after the one it is on. Or can it? It could “predict” internally the word apple for the next “meaningful” word and output ‘an’ because of this.
Underrated. It already happened in frontend space. Job market is already rotten by incompetent tech leaders who aren't immune to all the bullshit and bought all the hype from VC-backed bigco.
accidents per mile driven isn't a good metric. If you half the number of miles driven (through public transit/walking/biking) and have 50% more accidents per mile driven then you've still saved a bunch of people's lives.
Finally the correct answer in a wave of "well ackusally" comments.

A recall means exactly what it means. The manufacturer is responsible for a fix. If for whatever reason they can't push an OTA update to your car, Tesla is still responsible for sending you a postcard in the mail and calling you every 6 months telling you to bring it in for service until they have reasonable evidence the car is no longer on the road.
High School students use AI to impersonate administrators
Lot of replies to this describing hacks/workarounds/scripts for something that should really just be an option in the official interface. I get that this is hackernews and everyone's just trying to be helpful, but I'm sick of needing to do work on my end to work around crap UI decisions.
A personal gripe with progressive web apps: they cache the website!!

A lot of people have requested that I make a progressive web app for https://plaintextsports.com. I've looked into it, but it fundamentally doesn't work, because it caches the home page. My website doesn't load any data via JavaScript; it just relies on the HTML page updating every 30 seconds, so when the home page is cached, the website just stops working.

I don't want this service worker nonsense. In most cases offline access isn't useful; people want the live scores. (It'd be moderately useful for viewing schedules offline, but I think most people use it for live scores.) I just want the website to show up as its own app in the app switcher, and basically nothing else to change: I still want the swipe-to-go-back gesture to still work. I still want the address bar with the manual refresh button. But I can't do that.

It's frustrating that they've provided a way to make a certain style of websites into first-class apps, but it doesn't work for the most basic websites!!

Side note: this is partially a the-best-way-to-get-a-question-answered-on-the-internet-is-to-say-something-wrong post. If there's a way to make it a PWA and not have all the pages heavily cached, please let me know! I would love to be wrong on this. (Unfortunately my noprocast just triggered though, so I won't be able to edit this post or respond for the next three hours.)
It's not "minutia". These are the details of the story Hersh chose to tell.

It's not a minor question! Implicating the Norwegian Navy drastically increases the number of people that need to keep this secret. Using a warship drastically increases the scrutiny applied to the ship.
She did a good job, however, we had to see negative likes removed, a lot of really quality content demonetized, content creators removing words to avoid demonetization, and annoying af discovery algorithms. These were all things that she helped bring about, but that were in keeping with Google's strategy. Removing dislikes is similar to Google's search ads, where Google is happy to show all kinds of crap and it's up to you to filter them out. Caveat emptor.

Still, I think YouTube is better than average for social media. Its censorship of words sucked, but its censorship of ideas wasn't so bad. It was worse on other platforms.
I think iOS 16 introduced more interesting things to the average person than iPadOS 16.

For example, unsending/editing iMessages on any iOS 16 device is a much bigger selling point than Stage Manager, which was restricted to M1 iPads only.
I guess it's technically correct that riverfront is waterfront...
Over 2300 Disney employees sign petition against returning to office
Sure, but I think if you're looking at atoms under compression or shear, there's a lot of energy to go around, so you're going to find them with plenty of energy enough to rearrange into the min energy configuration. And for small scales (define small, hah!) the local optima are going to be global optima because there's not "that many" other possible unoptimal configurations to end up in.

I'm not saying, you put a tungsten cube in the hydraulic press and instantly the cube atoms go into min packing config...but I am saying that in small enough (but not insignificantly small!) regions you're going to see these global optima packing solutions. And it's going to be everywhere all the time. You cut a wire with some pliars? I guarantee that some region in that wire the metal atoms were rearranged into an optimal packing under stress. That right there is nature solving an NP-complete problem. Happens all the time, I bet.

That the whole cube doesn't become optima is no biggie, but that these form at all is amazing to me. But also logical. It's just cool that nature solves NP complete problems as a matter of course. And we need "mathematicians to prove it". Nature does it without a care! :P ;) xx ;p

But also what about crystals? Can you just consider a perfectly formed crystal matrix, like a pure silicon wafer, to be the atoms in a global optima configuration? That may not correlate with packing exactly with packing as the unit is not always a cube, but you see what I mean? I don't think global optima in nature is such an irregularity or rarity as you may think. I'm not saying nature isn't messy, it is, but there's sufficient microstates and energy to get these global optimas all the time.

At least that's my intuition about it. I understand if yours differs, but that's no worries. Maybe this line of thought, that nature has ways to solve global optima easily all the time, can lead to better algorithms--different to simulated annealing.
Unlike the old `export HOMEBREW_UPDATE_REPORT_ALL_FORMULAE=1`, which I've had already, your suggestion actually works! Thank you!
yep you need to be manually approved for now! you should be good to post now but let me know if you're still locked out
That 2009 link you provided by the St. Louis fed specifically states the fed does not use the popular definition.

You just disproved your own claim. The government/ fed definition of recession has not changed since 2009. You claimed it changed in 2022.

The 2009 link says "The committee considers a wide range of indicators with
particular emphasis on payroll employment and several measures of domestic production and income, such as gross domestic product, gross domestic income, and industrial."
Interestingly I feel like humans have this as well, sometimes.

Sometimes if someone is working though a complex thought and they're not really sure where they're going, they'll pause while thinking of the word they want to use, and might sound like

"the discussion is an... an... epistemological one"

Obviously they may have been conscious that the next word was going to start with "epi..." and they are just trying to remember the word, but I think sometimes they really don't consciously know what they're going to say, only unconsciously.

It reminds me of a recent New Yorker article about how people think, where the author realized they often have no idea what they're about to say before they open their mouths. [1]

1. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/16/how-should-we-...
Beautiful!

Would you ever consider building/porting this to nostr?

https://nostr.com/
Train Derails in Van Buren Township; Haggerty Road Back Open
Almost all car recalls are voluntary because once it becomes a mandatory recall the government can require them to provide a buyback option to the vehicle owner.