skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would caution anyone against using AsciiDoc. I really want to like AsciiDoc, but it has glaring issues for many years, that the developers seem to have no interest in fixing:

https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor/issues/1087
Do you see that archive.is link up there?
How is it like working there?

Also looks like they have only staff positions available, I'm not yet at that stage haha
> crosswalks go across 8 lanes of 60+mph traffic

Do such crosswalks really exist? Seriously. AFAIK, 60+mph speed is allowed usually (if not exclusively) on Controlled-access highways where pedestrians are not allowed at all. I highly doubt such crosswalks exist at all.
No, and this is exactly the problem. There's a difference between telling the truth civilly and doing so as an a-hole. It's amazing people struggle so much to distinguish the two.
How is Apple stock a scam? You own a small part of a business which makes lots of money, they give some of it back to investors every year. What about Coke? Google?
It's aggressively anti-poweruser and will reset your settings and even delete your programs. It has many baby's first computer safety features that are difficult or not intended to be turned off. For example the new Windows Defender equivalent now runs in the background and uses up disk and CPU (which can easily be near 100% on older HDDs or weaker hardware), even if you switch it off.

When I lost my technician job a few years ago, I took up a repair shop job to make ends meet. Basic Windows features (starting with 8 and going up to 10, can't speak for 11) were just completely broken on a lot of budget hardware. A little over a quarter of the non-hardware problems I fixed were SysMain and Defender deciding they deserve all system resources.

If you have hardware it 'likes', and you don't need to edit settings other than what they provide to you, you'll be fine with your use case. A ThinkPad probably would not have the issues I saw.
>are saddles with 6 figure student debt ... and are lonely.

While I sympathize with the plights of younger generations, student debt and (mis)use of communication tools are not one of them.

Unlike wider problems such as cost of living/housing and geopolitics, student debt and communications are two things completely within your domain of control. You choose to take on debt in the six digits, you choose to use communication tools the way you do.

If you don't want crippling debt, don't take out that loan; college isn't the end-all-be-all in life. If the likes of Facebook/Twitter and Discord are making you miserable, just don't use them or change how you use them; life doesn't revolve around social media.

Hell, even buying a house is still within the realm of sensiblity if you look beyond the metropolitan areas.

There's more to life than permanently connected city life stemming from a college degree.
But then when is any button in the UI not considered an Ad?

Chrome's new Side Panel button is an ad for the side panel feature.
Must be sad for other countries to have an independent financial system, right?
I suppose that reveals something: cheap virtualization completely changes the OS development experience.

Even beyond teaching toys, there are huge projects now (SerenityOS for example) where "runs on bare metal" is barely, or not a consideration. I wonder if this causes stagnation in the niche of device driver development-- if all you have to worry about is a handful of "friendly" VM devices, who is learning to deal with the hassles of persnickety real hardware?
I think the idea is that ‘something’ must exist by necessity. Sort of like how logical truths are eternal and have no beginning: the laws which make up matter appear to follow mathematical (logical) rules, so maybe matter in some sense is eternal as well.
The whole history of AI is one of moving goal posts:

X is hard, only people can do it. X requires intelligence. A computer doing X is AI.

AI researcher programs a computer to do X

Oh, X isn't AI, it's just [describe what AI researcher did]. That's not real AI.
Freedom bad.
The irony is that people who are looking at their lost years are not realizing that they are probably making the same mistake with their present. In 10 years they will look back and think those were lost as well.
The volatility of any cryptocurrency "investment" makes it more like a gamble pure and simple than any other investment.

It's irrational to take 10% of your savings, walk into Caesar's Palace, and put it on red.

People are injecting much larger percentages of their savings into cryptocurrency.

No matter how many wins, no matter how high the cryptocurrency market has climbed between crashes, the volatility of it makes it irrational for anything above 1% of your savings... If even that.
Seems like the problem is that not enough is produced to meet real demand instead of mere regulator-approved demand.
Just read up about stock buybacks for a bit and tell me the whole thing isn’t a rigged scam.
Less harassment, I’m all for it
"If"? The market cap of the S&P 500 fell many trillions last year.
nope. That filter already happened years ago on snapchat. It doesn't have the same effect at all. Teens can see themselves as old all day long and it is impossible for them to really react to it in the same way because it hasn't happened and there are no memories or experiences of being that person. Going the other way tho...
I consider those sign in with Google prompts, to be far worse than what Microsoft is doing.
Ask HN: Distinctions btwn Data Scientist v. Machine Learning Engr v. MLOps Engr?
I know, i know - there's probably overlap. and it's not the first time a question like this has popped up.

nonetheless, what would you say are the distinctions between these roles now -- especially now in 2023?
> I am sure Musk wished the DOJ could have helped him out as well.

In what way? None of his existing businesses operate in even remotely the same market as Twitter.
Altruists?
So long as you accept that Bitcoin therefore has no future as a stable currency and will remain a speculative virtual asset.

In which case, enjoy the crypto casino
I want options tbh, not one solution fits all.
As a general rule, parents seem to be blamed for anything happening to a kid under any specific setting.

Kids playing outside is one of them, kids talking to strangers, kids browsing the internet will also be seen the same...and then kids using voice chat in online games, kids talking to strangers in VR, kids just playing in VR, kids watching youtube etc.

It seem well accepted that pervert/criminal will go after kids at any occasion, the community can't be expected to police itself nor stop other people from hurting kids, and kids need to be locked away or under adult supervision 24/24 until adulthood or the parents are failing their job, and they shouldn't have kids if they're not up to the challenge.

I think there is a real issue on what people perceive as society's role and what parent's role is.
I'm upvoting, because the crux of this comes down to proper parenting.

It's the job of the parents to teach kids how the world works, including what are fictional constructs that should not be used for any kind of measurement.
I formerly used CentOS on everything for a very long time and was a strong advocate for it. I moved to Alpine Linux for all of my personal servers, firewalls and routers. I alternate between VoidLinux and Qubes OS for a daily driver. Any time I get bored with a daily driver I try out one of the options on without-systemd [1] but I typically fall back to either Void or Qubes.

[1] - https://without-systemd.org/wiki/index_php/Main_Page/
If labor is all that we have to worry then yes. But building materials prices are almost the same everywhere, so they still wouldn't be able to afford it
That's the latest one. It is the same as on the website.

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Good. Do this for political spam next.
>He poured money into several digital currencies—some $90,000 in all, pulled together from his savings, the proceeds from selling his house, and a business loan. “I took out some leverage, and I just kind of went gung-ho,” Mr. Johnson said. His timing was disastrous, as one currency he invested in, ether, plummeted in price and a pair of coins, TerraUSD and Luna, collapsed. He lost most of his investment[...]

This is just nihilism. Tone throughout the article largely paints a picture of disenfranchised people who see no path for career advancement and resort to casino capitalism. Immediately brings to mind the 1920s which we seem keen to be repeating on several fronts. That a non-trivial amount of people resort to what is effectively gambling as a means to build wealth should create some attention. And I think it's time to hold the predominantly very affluent people accountable who peddle these financial instruments to the masses.
I'm surprised that mermaid is gaining so much traction in comparison to plantuml which is much more powerful. I guess it's the ease of integration - you don't need to setup java backend just to render diagrams.

I'm still choosing plantuml over mermaid whenever I can. Mermaid has too many quirks and limitations.
A Simple Wrapper for [SharedPreferences]
You only need to use the get and set methods by simple_shared_preferences, which supports all types, such as Map, List, String, Number, and bool...
But the point is that you're finding out about this potential consequence now, from the safety of your own home.

It'll be hanging over you when you're out, as things get worse and worse. You'll start thinking of alternatives much earlier, because the potential of living the rest of your life in debt if you only find a destructive way to stay alive won't let you wait as long to be thinking about solutions.

Nobody's reading this article from a place where they're already at "light a forest fire or die" danger level. This only works as a deterrent and a cautionary tale because people are finding out about it before they're in dire trouble.
Should probably RTFA, friend. There's a whole twitter thread full of people taking full-on psychic damage from this filter. It's definitely hitting a significant percentage of people pretty hard.
Interesting company. I wonder if their "unique culture" is still around or if its toned down now that he's left.
The difference is that one of those sets of standards is actually more of a file system hierarchy and API standardization thing, whereas the uni-desktop would presumably force a particular set of gui widgets along with the filesystem hierarchy and APIs that those widgets are built on.

We of course already have something like this (POSIX, Freedesktop, etc). However neither is abided by very well and neither of them go far enough up the stack to deal with certain very visible issues of desktop application incompatibility.

What I think could be done to fix some of the compatibility issues (like when running QT on gnome or GTK on KDE or applications that eschew them both and have janky window decorations) would be some more serious standardization onto something like Wayland. We would of course need something more than a reference implementation for that, but fundamentally I don't see why that would be too restrictive for projects that still want to make their own widgets.
I hear the idea the S&P will go 10% every year (in real value) being treated like a natural law by some people despite the fact that this is obviously impossible. It's a heck of a thing to try and time the peak of the market though.
> It isn’t like investing in Apple or some solid company with a track record. It’s much closer to just gambling, and people don’t beat themselves up about not gambling.

Yeah, like buying Apple at $180, Meta at $300, or Google stock at $140 last year. /s I don't see anyone here screaming that they are glad that they bought at those prices.

The clever strategy was to just wait for the market to crash [0] after the giant run up to 'All time highs' in a short space of time.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29508238
> I don't even see what the issue is here... He's supposed to just give this away to the workers?

I think the issue (poorly put in the article) is that the founders shares he has still gave him control, whilst the company was ‘owned’ by others, forcing them to do a secret deal giving him better returns than other shareholders.

Surely the workers and board should be loyal to the current shareholders and investors rather than the guy who started and ran the company previously (however successfully)
The thin silver lining of the stock market is that gains don't necessarily require losers: gains can come from companies increasing revenue, value.

If a coin is up 50%, what does that actually mean other than that there's more bag holders?

If you're seeing gains, it's because someone else took a haircut previously. Maybe even you，lol. Isn't that a zero sum game?
Wow this is really amazing. I'll have to try that and also show my 88 year old mom this.
That's also the case on iOS, the tracking has been a security exploit since it has a lot of permissions.

At least on Android there's a way to use a custom rom even if it's difficult.
How is risk lower?
Drug use was always common and not just among people arrested.

"The War On Drugs" really butchered how we view that. Goodhart's Law states that "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." Since at least the 80s, incarceration for drug use has been batshit crazy in the U.S. It's the metric, so it's what people work for. So of course it's common among most people arrested.

But how does it relate to actual crime? Or to people feeling that kids are able to play outside safely?

Well, since I was a kid, crime rates have dropped in half (literally they're like 40-49% what they were in the late 80s early 90s). Maybe some part of that is indeed because we incarcerated so many people for drugs instead of actual crimes. But maybe not, and also even if it did, that doesn't change anything for the better. Things are actually worse now, societally. Why?

Back then, in objectively more dangerous times, it was normal for kids to play outside and everyone thought that was ok. Now, in objectively much safer times, that's not a thing.

I really don't think we can pin that on drugs or even crime. Especially not when we've incarcerated so many many people because of drugs and also crime rates have dropped in half.

No, there must be a societal effect that isn't really related to drugs or crime or actual danger.
This is literally the whole point.
Just re-sync at the start of each song. Sound propagating through air introduces ~ 1ms of latency per foot. So if tracks drift out of sync by a few milliseconds, it's no big deal.
"Just put down the fork" is why we can't have single-payer healthcare. Come back when you have feasible suggestions for the population level.
People saying that you have to be on X drug forever to solve your problem as if it's some silver bullet argument think.... what exactly about Type I diabetics who need to inject insulin every day, forever, to solve their problem?
He is not We.
I am unclear what the complaint is here - it seems to be implying that the author thinks that me providing my contact details to one company _should_ be a valid reason that an unrelated company should be able to contact me, and that somehow a "lead generator" is anything other than that?

I get that there are people who's business model is buying contact information and claiming the sellers of that information gained a blanket consent to spam that contact, but I don't know a single person - who doesn't make money from spamming people - who has ever wanted that.

I also appreciate the euphemism of "lead generation" rather than spammer.
Do you have any resources/information you can share on this? I’d be curious to read more.
You are definitely onto something. Humans are horrible at estimating risk, but are forced to do it all the time. In some cases, it is a very clear miscalculation resulting in overdoing it one way or another. Sometimes it is just dumb luck.

<< Terrible things happen. They aren't likely to happen.

I think this is the wrong way of looking at this. Most people believe that lightning does not strike people that often. This does not give one has carte blanche to prance around the backyard with a metal rod.

Or, to use less crazy example, my street is relatively quiet and slow. And yet, I still look both ways crossing the street, because you never really know. Individual disposition and approach affects statistics.
While Chrome uses the same rendering and JS engines as Safari under the hood, it doesn't share all features (like the extensions API). I think only DNS-based ad blockers work for both and content API-based ad blockers like Magic Lasso don't.
The "absolutely not, never run a machine I manage" thing of uncontrollable updates is only a problem with snap.
This is driven by tax policy more than anything. It’s cheaper to make the pool of available stock smaller vs distribute as a dividend.

The CEO’s fiduciary duty is to shareholder value. The rest is a game.
To me this is first order thinking. If paying to keep workers and the environment safe means developing countries are denied work and resources, is that actually better? The simplistic "dangerous work is bad" analysis doesn't account for the upside compared with not bringing this work to the subcontinent. And the solutions seem to ignore the downside of shutting down or rendering economically unviable the shipbreaking yards. There's certainly going to be a gradual pathway to improving working conditions, but I think it has to be gradual and deliberate, or it's just going to shut the current workers out.

More regulation always favors big companies. A bad end point would be where Indian and Bangladeshi shipyards are regulated out of existence and established companies that can do lots of paperwork get to benefit from a regulatory regime that makes them mandatory. That's where is is likely to head when the problem is considered in a shallow way
Handing money back to stockholders isn't a scam. Every stock buyback either a) gives me money if I sell and I get to keep the same % of the company I owned before, or b) makes me own more of the same company. And the tax treatment is better than a dividend.
They also make it harder for your opponents to keep their $200 when they pass Go, especially when you throw in the income tax space. Anyone who's on the ropes has a harder time coming off of them this way.
Linux Mint > Software Manager > Search for "Flatpak" > it's at the bottom of the list of results > Remove
I'm not on board with cryptocurrency at all but didn't SPY just lose trillions in value and is in the process of maybe recovering?
I think at this point in time any image on a screen should be at least suspected of not being real. It’s just too easy now but our sense of credulity has not kept up.
Aren't we maybe jumping the gun here a little? Human creations are far better still than AI ones.

People seem to (very understandably) conflate "impressive because of the technology" with "good," but either way thats not going to last forever, even for the most passionate AI-heads. We will take this stuff for granted pretty soon here, and then inevitability remember again what actually enjoying and connecting with a work of art or song or film is.

I think its probably impossible to actually appreciate an AI work on its own terms right now, simply because its too loaded with external significance. You can't take it in without considering what it means to like it or not. In this, we seem collectively to be erring on the side of saying its positive or worthwhile if only because of the promise each AI work carries with itself.

This makes the fervor and proselytizing of some make sense to me at least. Most people have better taste than enthusiasm for AI art would seem to show.
For serious the last Election Day resulted in me getting a shit ton of BS text messages, all structurally the same, and all without any valid contact information.
I’m having a really hard time, feeling sorry for these folks.

I get a ton of spam texts, every day. Not quite as bad as the spoofed robocalls, and a mere shadow of the email spam I get (which suddenly exploded, so I guess they figured out how to get past the low-level gatekeepers).

The legit folks sell you to the non-legit folks, then say “I’m not responsible for what they do with it!”
> This is why academic research is so important.

The problem is academia just doesn't pay a livable salary these days. When I'm getting hit with thousands of dollars of medical bills on a regular basis, despite having insurance, having a corporate salary cushion helps for peace of mind. A lot.
The rate at which finance mints extremely wealthy workers dwarfs the rate at which software does.
Giving LLM the ability to query other services like Google should solve much of this. For example ChatGPT can be initialized to be told it can output commands like "QUERY_GOOGLE:What is the current time?" and get Google's response, which it can incorporate. You can actually do this yourself and prove it works by performing the Google search for ChatGPT.
It certainly fits some folks I know who made (for a while) some money and lost some money in crypto. In many ways their attachment seems to be about what they think the ethos of crypto currency is. But their own distaste for the existing financial system is quickly having the worst of it ... reflected in crypto currency.

In the end everything is just people so yeah similar things come up.

But man they believe.
That, and if they're all built and someone has to sell one, it gets auctioned off. If you're building on green where houses are $200 anyway, you're willing to pay more for them than someone building on light blue where they're normally $50.
I maintain that the best analogy for life sciences research is naval exploration. Some people tell tales of their great voyages but never set foot on a boat. Some sailed, yet found nothing, and still spin a story to avoid embarrassment. And some actually found America. Science is obsessed with these stories enshrined in journal articles, which are elevated to the status of artefacts of knowledge, complete with Excel spreadsheets in the supplementary info. Creating such artefacts determines everything in your scientific career. That is the actual problem in my opinion. Of course people will want to fake these powerful status symbols.
I live in Ukraine and I’ve had to shelter from the missiles. I’ve seen and heard them. And the attack drones. The sirens. The explosions.

Who the hell are you to tell me where my priorities should lie?
Gnome used to have a polished interface for editing the positioning of top bar widgets circa 2001.