skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our current collective knowledge strongly indicates that pre industrial societies really, sincerely believed many things we consider ridiculous today. Those beliefs were the product of an ecosystem that was just as detailed and complex to them as our society is to us - a realization the author of this blog post had after viewing a Viking ship that you apparently haven’t had yet.

Of course our beliefs make sense to us in our post industrial society, and even if those beliefs aren’t some kind of ultimate truth they are incredibly useful for navigating our world. For instance, even though the function of corporate logos may be closer to magic sigils than rational objects, thinking of them as rational objects allows branding agencies to design more effective logos. But in a past world where marketing agencies didn’t exist, treating symbols as having inherent magical power more closely reflected the realities of certain times.

There’s a further step since our world isn’t static, and many of us carry beliefs that just don’t work well anymore. An example some might agree with is the rejection of any kind of religiosity. Humans need social community to live a healthy and happy life. While I’m not saying that we should return to a religious era, someone who found themselves in a lonely situation might want to reconsider what beliefs led to that situation and update them to be more effective.
Yes, the questions are now gone, but the person who replied went through the trouble of linking the questions in the first place so we didn't have to take their word for it.

You can even read the questions from the URLs: "/meaning-of-dollar-sign-after-digit-and-dash-in-a-regex" C'mon.

This is a common trope with people complaining about SO, so it's not surprising they had terrible questions. Nobody likes to admit when their questions are bad.
There's also been a steady increase in the difficulty of obtaining a license over the years. My grandfather started driving at 14; at the time you didn't even need a license to drive. My parents were required to pass a written test, wait two weeks, and then pass a road test. I had to pass a written test, wait 6 months, and then pass a road test. Minors in my state now have to pass a written test, wait 6 months, then pass a road test to get a time-of-day- and passenger-restricted license, and then wait another 6 months for an unrestricted license.
And it predicted that the most likely continuation for "trying to make" should be "conversation". Not "money", not "breakfast", not "it home", but "conversation". What kind of word-counting statistics on a modern english corpus would give you that outcome?
> On the contrary. The pthread community knows that pthread_cancel() is poorly behaved and constantly tells beginner programmers not to use it.

Now tell me: how should it behave?

> Its never worthwhile to use that function because it just leads to severely buggy behavior in practice.

Well yeah. That's why we don't use it. There is no possible sane way to implement this safely. But that's not the point. Cancelling a thread is like pulling the plug on your PC. It's obviously not the right way to stop a thread. What you should do - and everybody is doing in practice - is telling the code in the thread to return. Just like you ask your OS to gracefully shutdown your PC. In the example I gave above (ofThreadChannel) this is as simple as calling the close() method.

(In the same way, sending SIGKILL isn't the proper way to stop a subprocess either. It is the last resort.)

> ... you know that Win32 doesn't support pthreads, right?

There are in fact pthread implementations/wrappers for Windows, e.g. libwinpthread from the mingw64 project. pthreads is short for POSIX threads, it is not tied to a particular OS.

> And C++ std::thread doesn't support anything that we've talked about either.

You mean something like pthread_cancel? Of course it does not. We do not need it.

> To answer your question: Win32 job objects.

The question was more rhetoric... but thanks :-)

> And you damn well know that under a thread-kill or thread-cancel scenario, this code stops functioning. While all the code I talked above will function correctly even in the worst-case "kill -9" SIGKILL.

You are right that interrupting a thread can be desastrous. However, I never ever needed to do this... and I have written a lot of multi-threaded code.

> Whatever underlying synchronization that channel is using to synchronize thread access will stop working if a pthread_mutex_lock() is called, but its corresponding pthread_mutex_unlock() fails to be called due to cancellation or other issue.

What other issues? Never had this problem... neither do all the heavily multi-threaded programs I use daily.

You somehow try to paint threads as fragile based on some obscure pthreads feature that almost nobody uses in practice...
Where there's a will, there's a way. If people want to discuss something that is "banned" they will just use replacement words or find another place.
My Inventions: Nikola Tesla Autobiography (1919)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdK4y6O-llE
I am really struggling with this currently, I have agiled myself into a spiral of never being done. I am wishing I took a more waterfall approach so there was a fixed endpoint.

For personal projects in the future I will adopt a more rigid design phase as you don't have designers and managers enforcing deadlines and sanity checking whatever tangents you go off on.
Feel bad for him. Just as it’s experiencing a transcendent moment.
According to the wikipedia article, Conrail actually inherited a terrible maintenance situation when the railroads bankrupted and were nationalized. Conrail then proceeded to manage maintenance and got things profitable.

It was doing just fine when Reagan decided to privatize for some reason.

Nationalizing actually fixed the situation so I don't kmow where you got the impression that it made things worse

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrail
AWS will offer HF’s products to its customers and run its next LLM tool
Dying how?

I would say there is MORE high quality photography than ever.

I would also say there is LESS high quality photography per unit (picture taken?) than ever.

Specifying the units you're in dramatically changes the dynamic you're trying to state.
They're trying to figure out what to do, but have already rejected these ideas for good reasons:

https://twitter.com/clarkesworld/status/1628049689374334980

A dollar isn't nearly enough to deter most of the crowd that's flooding Clarkesworld -- and much more than that would start to be a real burden for submissions from non-Western countries which they're actively soliciting. Current detection tech is too unreliable to trust and too expensive for them to run in bulk. And going through the submissions pile is already a tedious and thankless job.

(BTW, part of their problem is that some sleazy "get rich quick with ChatGPT" guides were explicitly telling people to have it write some crap story and submit the result to Clarkesworld -- which is ridiculous. The mag is quite selective, and the fraction of sweated-over-by-human submissions that get publication, and a check, was already quite low.)
Sounds way too familiar. I tried to make things more pragmatic and exciting for everybody and was put down. Human nature at play.
I'm not one to vouch that security through obscurity is good, but knowing how the algorithm works, depending on how its designed seems prone to abuse. If what they release is not specific to avoid the potential for abuse, I don't see how useful knowing it will be. If it ends up like I believe it will, all the useful stuff will be in the weights and models that run it, which they probably won't be able to provide since they will be shifting all the time and adjusted to up engagement and lower non desired outcomes etc.
Don't just assume, measure.

I have a newer ~1800sqft home with a good HVAC system and 2 adults and 3 kids in it.

We pretty much have to open a door and window a couple times a day in the winter to get CO2 levels back down from ~1800-2200.

During the milder seasons, we just leave doors and windows open most of day.
HN has way too much of a hate boner for enabled by default. If things didn't have any features enabled by default, 95% of people would never know they existed. Hell, why have the ability to have multiple tabs enabled by default?

For invasive things like data collection, sure. For what amounts to garbage collection, does it really matter?
> wish I could just visit about:tabs and see a plain text listing, one URL per line, of all the tabs I have open.

Tablist[1] does this

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tablist/
Yep, they've started nagging for donations too. Signal, no means no.
Two women mistakenly issued the same Social Security number
If anything, Twitter locking an incredibly insecure method of 2FA behind a paywall is a GOOD thing IMHO, cos it forces users to use a more secure methods instead such as using an authenticator app (Authy et al)
Good, you all work 4 days and I’ll work my standard 6x10 6 days, 10hrs a day.

When people get fired presumably I’ll still be standing. When promotion time comes around, the person who does the most will get the promotion. When bonus time comes, I’ll have the most done.

You can try to regulate day(s), but if there’s people willing to work more they’ll set the standard.
But it doesn't seem so intricate compared to other things people print successfully? Especially considering the scale, it's not very detailed.
Can't modify the license without the approval of previous contributors, and I don't think the F/OSS Qt/KDE devs who originally created WebKit are going to agree to that one.

Thankfully.
This is a long article that has some history in it, but I don’t think it makes a point. Who cares if Agile came out of Lean? It didn’t, but they are closely aligned.

Agile is all over the place so it’s kind of hard to cargo cult agile. Maybe author is confusing it with scrum or whatever. And since agile is just a bunch of principles, there are also lots of dumbasses claiming to do agile when they are really just chaos.
Are you doing unpaid overtime?
But ignorance of the law is not a defence. Given everything can be assumed to be under copyright, I don’t see how it can be a valid denfense that you “didnt know” something was under copyright.
What is your problem with them? I play a lot of web games. It's a good platform for games outside iOS.
They advertise “With the added trust of Microsoft”. That goes over like a lead balloon in some circles. Now pardon me while I run screaming in the opposite direction.

Seriously though, do normal people like Microsoft?
This is about Activision purchase. Hey regulators, look we play well with others companies... and 10 years is pretty good right we can buy Activision now right? (10 years 1 day later all Activision games are Xbox XL exclusives)
Monitoring an Aquarium with InfluxDB and Grafana
The site needs questions and answers. And most of the people who answer want different things than most of the people who ask. It's a fundamental tension. Both groups need to be kept somewhat happy.
You know it, you love it. PORN.
Fatal flaw for outdoor games: what keeps this from picking up pieces of gravel or debris from the court?

Anything sharp or rough it picks up is then immediately headed for somebody's hands on the next pass.

And even if it wasn't sharp, it would shift the CG away from the center of the ball, which isn't a problem that traditional balls typically have as they deteriorate with age.

And even if it wasn't heavy enough to impact the CG, it would rattle around on the inside.

Still, I guess it could be nice on an indoor court.
Not sure how this is supposed to prevent a correctly verified, genuinely authentic human from pasting ChatGPT output into a submission box, and claiming it as their own.
Firefox Developer Edition detected a potential security threat and did not continue to www.lucy-ives.com.
Nah, you can always argue that a hacker did it or some friend that was staying overnight used the computer, legally speaking.

Morally? That is different.
“…OR child’s family members.”

That includes everyone know and trusted by the child, which obviously includes internet friends known only to the child

Quoting meaningless stats to prove nothing
or I could see it as another tool in the toolbox for smaller private companies that simply cannot match the offers of the big FAANG tech companies with their sky high pay and oodles of RSUs.

A private tech company can't match what Apple can do in financial compensation, but what they can offer is better quality of life. Previously that might have been something around benefits and vacation days, but four day work week is a new lever.
Or more simply to convey "I sent this email while on the go so without access to my pc/office/documents/files/etc". Gives important context.
Yea Chrome would be a lot more secure if we didn't let anyone view any data at all.
> This looks very much like Make Me A Hanzi (MMAH), which is exactly the same (Chinese) characters. It's just that Japanese knows those as Kanji.

Well "kanji" literally means "Han character".
letmechatgptthatforyou.com

but seriously, you might get something interesting from chatgpt
Not too long ago, these magazines didn't accept electronic submissions. You were required to print it (conforming to a certain format), and mail it. The rationale at the time was that the editors weren't going to read it on a screen, and so you should print it instead of making them do it.

Seems like a simple solution. If a manuscript is accepted, only then request the electronic version.
Careful. I did this more or less by accident, with a main account, a porn account, and a goof off account. I didn't maintain a list of which ones had been banned from where and there were subscription overlaps.

One morning all of them - including the one that was 9 years old and had awards from participating in the first ever reddit gifts - got banned for "ban evasion".

Now I just make a new one every few months and distrust any account that can survive for more than a few years without getting banned.

So they encourage throwaways, but also ban you for using them.
It would be nice to have something like that, but have libraries for most common languages.
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Let me tell you about the tens of thousands of open cyber security positions.
The original DVD-only Netflix was amazing - it expanded my horizons, I started watching entire catalogs of French, Serbian directors, and not very popular but deep films of both U.S. and non-U.S. origin. It's not the DVDs - it's their matching engine. You wrote reviews, 1-5 stars, you could type in reviews (which I loved doing), and the matching engine was suggesting stuff and it was AMAZING.

When streaming came online, I was excited.

Everything since is a blur. All I know is, now, I spend 10 minutes scrolling stuff that is not even remotely a match for me - you don't need to be Pappa Google to know I won't like Marvel or various woke-y movies. I have esoteric tastes, but more importantly I want to discover more.

But the entire 'Silicon Valley content' culture appears to be: get stuff TO the customer, don't let the customer get stuff on their own. Which, if you recall, television used to be. Broadcast television you had to wait til 8pm for your show, and sit through endless commercials every 8 or 10 minutes. Then there was a solution: Remember TiVo?

HBO isn't any better, it just has better content. I was looking for "Stand-up comedy" and I couldn't really get that as a category, just UNSORTABLE search results. So stuff from years ago is mixed in with stuff that is recent. God forbid I look for RECENT stand-up comedy.

It's pathetic and it's a "conspiracy" in the sense that it's clearly intentional: it's a disempowering of the consumer with some vague promise of customization, AI, so forth and so on.

God, I am angry at Netflix after all.
I might agree if Edge wasn't just Chrome with a bunch of Microsoft-y bells and whistles attached.
I think it's a pretty basic law of supply and demand: increase supply and value goes down. Sure, there's lots of "good" (mostly AI assisted) photography, and its value is mostly worthless.

Take Instagram for instance. If you use it, do you even remember a photograph you've seen in the last month? Things are so ephemeral now. Most things are not worth remembering.
> “The Union have definitely broken through, but it’s not as big a deal as the Phillies being in the World Series,” says Jonah Gardner of sports data website, Sports Reference. “When people talk about how Philly sports is having a moment, they mention the Phillies and the World Series and the Union in [MLS] Cup and the Eagles [reaching the Super Bowl]. They’re being presented alongside the others as part of the city’s sports.”

Hey, Sports Reference. They ran a graphic last year that showed the most-viewed team pages on their FBRef subsite in 2022.[1] Not a spoiler to say MLS didn't do well; their teams didn't rank in in-market states, including Oregon (NWSL's Thorns FC), Colorado (Crystal Palace), Minnesota (the US national team), California, Washington, Illinois (Chelsea), Florida (Liverpool), New York (Man City), and New Jersey (Liverpool).

So... MLS maybe still has a ways to go.

1: https://the18.com/en/soccer-entertainment/us-map-most-viewed...
Is the problem that they don't want AI generated stories? Or that AI generated stories are increasing the costs of their curating?

A publishers entire value add is curation of content for their readers, and possibly increased exposure/recognition for writers. AI generated content has skewed their costs of providing their base service. They either need to find a way to make their curation/review cheaper, or pass on the costs to either the readers/writers.

If we find ourselves in a world with infinite mediocre content, we'll see the true value people place on content curation, in the amount that they can charge the consumer.
Alive and well. Many photographers migrated away from instagram after the shift to reels, and you’ll find them on Vero, Flickr, Glass, etc.

While it’s no longer necessary to learn the complexities of photography or buy a standalone camera to take a reasonably good photo, the folks who love photography for the sake of it and dedicate time/effort to honing their craft and producing great photos are still doing what they do.

The quality gap between a modern smartphone and even a lower end mirrorless camera can be significant in the hands of a skilled photographer.
I'll cop to the same thing, but neither you nor I would claim that knowing "rosebud was the sled" is equivalent to watching Citizen Kane.
I actually work 6 days a week (only Sunday off) noon until midnight with a two hour break 5-7pm.

That’s 60 hrs of work a week, but I get to spend every morning 7am-noon with my kids. It’s been a great change of pace for me personally. We have a garden we do as a family, I can do doc appointments, some field trips, etc. while still working extremely hard. It’s not for everyone, but that schedule has been great for me personally.
>We all know this "40 hours" nonsense is just historical happenstance, not some ideal or even well-reasoned number, let alone balanced in the interest of the overwhelming majority (working people).

The more and more I see cases like this that exist, the more I feel it's yet more supporting evidence that the US is a failing democracy. We can point fingers and play responsibility games, we can claim its minority protection (are wealthy and powerful individuals really a minority that need more protection in our current structure or should they even be considered a minority), but at the end of the day it doesn't seem to be working in some respects. If we aren't seeing labor law improvements and most fall in labor, something seems amiss.

I'm not advocating for mob rule, there are very good reasons for minority protections, but in some cases when the majority of a democratic society abhors the state of affairs yet we continually have no significant influence to at least try something different, that to me says we're in a failing or failed democracy charading around as a democracy. The older I get, the more I want to call a duck a duck if it walks, quacks, and looks like a duck.
Yeah. I applaud Microsoft for their balls in launching this in its initial incarnation as part of an LTS release!
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Yes, but at least it’s a real story in stead of a fantasy.

I’ve worked in orgs where the resume passers and lying applicants are heavily screened out. There’s no perfect way to do this, but as an applicants, I’d rather tell the truth and demonstrate my value than lie and be believed without demonstrating.

One thing I really like about programming is that you end up with a portfolio of projects where people can evaluate your design decisions and code and whatnot down to an individual level. I think this is harder with other professions that don’t produce direct paper trails of individual contributions.
I wholeheartedly agree. Our time here on Earth is limited, and I think that as a society we should aim to work less and have more time for ourselves and enjoy everyting life has to offer.

The huge productivity increase in the last 40 years have been entirely siphoned into maximizing profits while working conditions have remained essentially stagnant, so I'd say it's about time to start making some progress on this front.
That is such a perfectly apt summation of modern SO. It actually made me lol.
Um, a post-doc is not "mid-career." A post-doc is a beginning researcher. Just like having a black-belt does not mean you are an "expert," it means you have achieved satisfactory competence in the basics of the art and can now begin your serious study.
https://earthly.dev/ is an interesting way to run CI workflows locally
Gnome Web/Epiphany.

I've been using it a fair bit recently, and don't come across issues very often at all. It doesn't support Webext extensions (there's a bug in the tracker to do so, but it hadn't got much attention in years, last I looked) but it does have a built-in adblocker that works reasonably well on a decent percentage of sites, so it's not all bad.

Edit: some particularly JS-heavy sites do peg my CPU pretty badly, so it appears that the JS engine isn't as snappy as FF/Chrome, but sites that use either don't use much JS, or that use have optimised the use pretty well are fine. Airbnb was a notably bad case that I spotted last week.
From your link:

> Another minor disadvantage can be the time needed to adapt which is valid for any reform. But as it was also already mentioned, the availability of modern day software can diminish these difficulties.

Lol. I think the inertia of all our software running on the Gregorian calendar is probably the single biggest reason we'll never bother changing it.
Oh boy, you're in for a surprise.
That is one possible way to approach this situation, but it has some problems:

* It's a well-established social norm (at least in the SF world) that money should always flow from publishers to writers, never the other way around. That's one of the signals that distinguishes reputable journals and publishers from vanity presses. (Google "Yog's Law".)

* As Neil Clarke points out on Twitter, Clarkesworld aims to accept submissions from all over the world. Not everyone can easily make international payments to the US, and not everybody can easily afford what would be a "token fee" in developed countries.

* I'm guessing payment processors wouldn't look too kindly on a business where virtually all of the payments are either refunded to real users, or falsely reported as fraudulent by spammers.
I can understand why someone would think it's ok to use this tool, and I can understand why some people are upset by it. I hope that they will take a lenient approach in this case considering that the norms in this space haven't been firmly established yet, even if we ultimately decide that going forward communication of this magnitude has to be handwritten.