skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's more it's an SMS replacement or extension, which is supposed to be an open protocol, and they're not opening up the API to support the additional extended features (which is something out of Balmer/Gates era embrace and extend playbook, "we'll extend JavaScript, but you'll need IE to use any websites using the extended features and the site features will be broken without it" which is an anti-competitive practice that breaks what are supposed to be open platform independent protocols). Do something new, sure, extend features of an open protocol, sure, but if you're going to communicate with other Messaging platforms as a feature, you need to allow other messaging platforms the option to support those features on their end as well. Such as encryption, the ability to add emojis to a comment, full size attachments, etc.

Signal is actually removing SMS support, so problem solved on that end. But Signal can be installed on most platforms anyway, so if someone wanted to participate in the extra features, they always had the option of simply installing the client app. I can't install iMessage for Android if I want to be in the family group message and not see "Mom liked an image" 15 times. I personally dislike iPhones, but I still want to participate in my family's group chat, Apple doesn't give me that option. At least with WhatsApp, Signal or whatever what phone we have doesn't matter and we don't have to join the walled garden to use really basic features. I don't know what phone my friends in Signal group chats or WhatsApp use, because it doesn't matter.

If you're going to bridge different platforms, allow the other platforms to update to support it. It is exclusionary. Apple does this with FaceTime, I have my family install Duo/Meet on their Apple phones because I have to explain to them I don't have an Apple device for it, or if I do, its my work machine. At least that's a little less hostile than, "you can chat with your family but you're going to see activity you can't participate in".
For future reference, you can pay with a Postal Order, which you can get over the counter from any Post Office.
Or -more likely- being afraid of a new ideological framework (wokeness) is a moral panic (like the war on drugs, communist scares, etc.)
I have no comments regarding their dependency system.

But the security features are stupid on their face.

If you can’t trust your own code, why should users?

It’s too naive anyway. Why would I grant carte blanche to any entire feature instead of per dependency?

So Deno started with a bad idea, and then implemented it half-baked.

Which is it? Do you not trust your own code or do you? You don’t? Why not? Or why do you only trust a subset of it? If you do only trust a subset of it, why have you denied or granted the entire feature?

It’s useless. It’s one of the dumbest software features I’ve seen in my life.

Trust a dependency and pin its signature.
Thanks for brightening up my day and giving me some more inspiration to work on these kinds of things!
Gotta love all these articles navel-gazing about the cause of teenage depression by econ bloggers.

Has anybody done a poll and asked teens what they’re sad about?

It’s really quite funny to see somebody take Matt Yglesias seriously. The self-described “professional take-haver” looked at two graphs, nodded his head and wrote down “this is causation”, and he’s talking about people having progressive politics!
Or that it would be a quite surreal (and dangerous) experience walking through a town made of mirrors.

It would be blinding and burning and visually be confusing.
Elon Musk’s Twitter is dying a slow and tedious death
https://archive.is/7T6L0
> Ammonia is somewhat dangerous on a local level

Like saying that the Ohio train disaster may cause lung irritation, that quite undersells the problem.

Ammonia refrigeration is inherently dangerous and has been banned from domestic refrigerators for a long time for good reason. Some regulations are written in blood.
My parents used to successfully get mail addressed to "Green House, [name of lake], New Hampshire"

And I would receive mail to "[lastname] [ZIP + 4]" (when I lived in New York City).
Even the biggest fan of free markets agrees government need to prevent market failures, such as natural monopolies caused by network effects.
Fair points.

What I would love to see is a ban on advertising in the mail. It all just ends in the bin. Such a waste to see those poor postal people sorting trash flyers for each house. Has to be soul crushing for them. And all I do is skim it and chuck it and get annoyed I had to sift through to find real mail…

Some sort of “opt in” code… that companies who sent bills and places I signed up to could use. But that would block unsolicited communications…
Stripe doesn't refund the processing fee too.

> Depending on your fee schedule, you may incur fees to refund a charge. Additionally, Stripe's processing fees from the original transaction will not be returned in case of a refund.

https://support.stripe.com/questions/understanding-fees-for-...
Cog: Code generation tool written in Python
You misunderstand—it’s not a mystery that scale attracts regulation. The mystery is in why people think that OS engineers should have no freedom to make design choices. Where, even, is the disrespect in being a mere option amongst many? It’s not like Apple is forcing people to buy into their ecosystem.

And to your point about comms infrastructure—how does interoperability across messaging apps even look like, and does the idea even make sense? It’s not specified within the article.
I bet a lot of ISPs are also selling TV services and cord cutting is hurting their business.

So they got creative and figured out they can ask for a Netflix tax to make it seems like it's fair compensation for the "huge" bandwidth the service is consuming.
I've heard this story with "MASS" and being delivered in Massachusetts.
I'm sorry, did all Europeans declare them non-human? What a sweeping weak sauce generalization about an entire group of people.
How Is AI Ops Useful for Incident Response?
I don't think we'll see ammonia used in domestic refrigeration. Industrial use, sure.

I think what we'll see for domestic refrigerants (refrigerators, AC, heat pumps) is hydrocarbons like propane or butane (already a reality for refrigerators in most of the world), and in some cases CO2.
>You could cover one football pitch to a depth of nearly 50 meters

I feel like there's a physics joke in here, assuming weightless feathers piled on a football stadium in outer space ;)
The entire point of idempotency is not to always respond the same every single time, it's that the user can always expect the same response every single time. If the user receives a response it does not expect (or no response, etc.) than they don't want the same response on every retry, they still want the expected response

In a perfect world, an idempotent app responds the same every time. But in a perfect world you don't really need idempotency.
ANd yet - Google is making one of the best phones that can work perfectly fine without any Google software installed. (Pixel series).

Nobody forces you to use Apple softeware. I have never owned a single Apple device and never will.
In addition to being branded, not being a multiple of seconds is pretty terrible.

(1 s = 0.011574 .beats)
Poor poor ticket master.
Discussed at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34996382
A senior engineer's guide to the system design interview
That's not really what the idea of determinism excluding free will is about: Let's assume for a second that the Big Bang is the singular starting point of the universe. The Big Bang causes the first things to exist or move. Everything else exists in a cause-effect-relationship with this first move, and we could imagine the whole history of the universe as a directed graph of causes and effects, with Earth, living beings, brains and consciousness being part of this inconceivably complex graph.

If that was the case, then it makes sense that we do not have free will in the Christian sense, we are not really responsible for our actions. If it isn't the case it might well mean there are things that aren't caused by anything, which would be really weird as well.
TFA has a section called "The Burden of Proof" which is a collection of causal studies and natural experiments on the topic of smartphone use.
What Setup are you using?

I've started using /e/OS (degoogled android fork) a few days ago and so far my experience has been fantastic. The "App Lounge" has all Apps from the official Play Store, plus all the apps from F-Droid. I can install apps anonymously or, if needed, login with my google account to get access to my purchased apps.

https://doc.e.foundation/app-lounge
Speed for Who?
Running axle on multiple CPUs
Definitely more fun just someone throwing a date out there and someone else debating it than just staring at a person googling.
yeah, I have a 10 minute commute right now, and I hate it

I have to walk all the way across the building to a phone room every time I need to make a phone call, and the rooms are usually all full. Which means I have to hide in the mail room or walk a couple of blocks out to my car.

The office is full of minor annoyances like broken elevators, full bathrooms, no coffee creamer, etc. It's super obnoxious.

I'm trying not to be a spoiled /r/antiwork jerkbag here, but I really hate this job, haha.
>It's pretty hard to argue with the plain fact that teen suicide rates are WAY up compared to the last 40 years.

This isn't true:

https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/8gKudTKiGtcT11FPjKsB27qh86Q=...

Rates went way down in the 90s & early 2000s before rising back to where they were before.

>I don't really see you making a compelling argument that they're wrong. If anything - maybe they're right...?

When someone cries wolf in the same way that adults have for basically all of human history you don't need a compelling argument to dismiss them. If I had to look at what is different for kids today than when I grew up I'd point to:

(1) Their economic future is uncertain and general economic stress level is higher

(2) Related to (1) the pressure around college is dramatically up. Schoolwork is up, resume building activities are up, and parental pressure is up.

(3) Opioid crisis

(4) Much more likely to get shot at school

(5) Kids are more inactive and way fatter.
The general aviation industry is protected because it's part of the pilot training pipeline, and that is important because airplanes (both commercial and military) have a great deal of importance to governments. About 5% of the American GDP is attributed to commercial aviation. Compare that figure to the number of deaths caused by leaded avgas, and you don't need conspiracy theories to explain the outcome.
I see woke as tolerance, open to each other and acceptance.

Yes it's over done sometimes but it's hard to see how he would connect wokeness with depression.

Or does people understand under wokeness something different than I do?

Like great that black kids get heroes in cinema!
And I don't disagree with that! My point is that the increase we saw went beyond salary fixing. I'm talking seeing TC offers that were more than just stock, and often a cash component, in many cases double for the same job/level at the same company over two years. Where you saw people with no experience hired in at rates significantly higher than high-performers who had worked at a company for a number of years.

Do I personally regret not taking some of those insane offers when I had the chance (prioritizing pay over working in a position I know I wouldn't have enjoyed)? Yes, I do. But I also knew in 2021 and even mid-2022 that none of the offers that were going out were sustainable long-term.
A theory on the mystery trader who took out Terra’s stablecoin
Not really. They are usually a sum of some clique of useful idiot/lobbyists and somewhat competent busybody career bureaucrat desires.
What you’re asking for has been available for years. The answer is to swallow your pride and have a friend set up parental controls on your phone and safeguard the password from you.
Yes, read the other talking points this applause cow for conservative viewpoints is peddling. It has nothing to do with thinking for himself and everything with jumping the bandwagon.
Ugh, yes! I keep coming back to .beats as the general solution for all time-related problems.

Here's my small contribution to furthering the effort: https://beats.wiki
> Technically, any time funds are moved onto a card, it's called a chargeback.

No, this is not true. The opposite of a charge is a credit.
For those wondering why people were living in the middle of a desert 5k years ago...

It seems the global temperature then was much the same as today: https://scitechdaily.com/images/Global-Average-Surface-Tempe...

Would there have perhaps been a locally different climate, for example because the african and middle eastern rainforests hadn't yet vanished after the global temperature rises 5k years earlier?
The base b here would be base 37.5 :)
Surely solar would be a better tradeoff than mirrors? More expensive but you get energy out.

White paint is at least cheap.
>so why do we waste time arguing over trivia that doesn't matter and could be answered in seconds?

If its a waste of time talking about it why waste time looking it up.
Because most ISPs are also offering TV services and Netflix is eating their lunch, so they figured that asking for a "Cord cutter" tax was bad PR, but asking for a "Bandwidth tax" was somehow fair.
Our businesses should be doing more to prevent refunds. The sheer amount of trash every large company makes is sickening.
> netflix delivers data to you

But Netflix, like everyone else, already pays for their use of the networks. This looks like double-dipping.
> People get to choose what is good for them, we're talking about tech products here.

People have decided, by voting.

Why do you think voting with your wallet is the only legitimate way of expressing your wishes? What if someone is poor, they get no vote?

Maybe tbe poor person needs access to technology to not be poor, and the markets have locked them out?

> What about startups

The laws that apply to monopolies / oligopolies dont apply to startups
If it worked that way, then if a company was going to shut down any unprofitable store, the workers could unionize as a trick to keep their jobs.
I will never understand this concept of power imbalance. You are working because you don't have power, so you rely on others with power to give you power (money in this situation). If the power was even, why would I need to work in the first place?
Many shades of grey here.

If someone is telling you a fantastic story about their background in hopes to con you, obviously fact checking is useful.

If someone is simply weaving an interesting narrative, fact checking is at best a distraction, and often just a way for someone to “well actually” themselves into the spotlight.

Whether that’s justified is a question that has no absolute answers, but for most people the conversation is the fun part. (Not me, but I’m an anti-social loner and I have no interest in making other people more unhappy than is necessary.)
If it is a feature you consider "unneccesary", why argue against it so passionately? It just sounds like something you won't use.
The extra fees are simply a way to gouge end users. It has nothing to do with refunds and it is also often out of the control of the promoter of the event.

When I built an event ticket sales site, we tried to get promoters to just raise their ticket prices a bit to include the 'service fees' so that end users got a single price, and they refused.

Promoters just want to advertise $25, not $32.50 (contrived example)... they don't care that the end user has to pay the additional fee. We did all of the math analysis and the end user total cost could have been lower, while the promoter got more money, with our method, but perception is king.
there's no way to sample the behavior then build an algorithm around it?
If people keep spending $40k for a car a millions $$ for a house … well it is definitely not gonna end up well…
I honestly prefer the original version without css. Plain browser styles have a kind of raw beauty that it's very hard to surpass.
It has two main issues:

1. Filters and constant bombardment of beauty and model influencer

2. Bombardment of all the news (climate change, ai take jobs,.political unrest) while neither being able to bring it in relation and also seeing real issues.
Everyone says this but reality never seems to work out that way when push comes to shove.

Will you be singing that tune when a religious minority you hate moves there, establishes a theocratic government, starts teaching women to read, hanging undesirables and troublemakers and regressing on pretty much every human right your ancestors died for, bonus points for starting a war with the locals.

That said, in the historical example I'm referencing the state was too weak to do much about them from afar and they did clean itself up after subsequent immigration diluted their culture over the following 100yr. God what a bunch of assholes they were in the meantime though...
Thank you. Actual insights with how things might be going forward is something nobody else here said so far.
There's no such thing as a progressive company. They do it for marketing reasons, only after a movement made up of many people taking risks "normalised" a particular form of social progress.
Walmart closed a number of stores in 2014-2016, many for as short a time as 6 months, some for over a year. Officially, they claimed that they were being remodeled or that they had plumbing issues that needed fixing (it was only 5 at the time of this article[0]). Employees claimed that they were closed to block unionization moves. Conspiracy theory minded people claimed that they were being turned into prison camps for Jade Helm [1]. Previously, Walmart had stopped cutting meat in stores because meat cutters had unionized in a couple of locations[2][3].

0 - https://www.businessinsider.com/wal-mart-and-jade-helm-consp...

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade_Helm_15_conspiracy_theori...

2 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/2000/03/04/w...

3 - https://www.ufcw.org/press-releases/wal-mart-ordered-to-reco...
I was happy to see someone finally referred to the motherfucking websites.

On the other hand, I was disappointed to see the unique one of those I think it is worth to follow the advice [1] was not cited.

For curiosity reasons, I found out about [1] on a well-known website [2] that definitely puts content in front of presentation, even though I like their website's design.

[1]: https://bestmotherfucking.website/

[2]: https://suckless.org/sucks/web/
The bare html files this links to are very unergonomic for human eye motorics, due to long line length (characters per line). They are also basically illegible on mobile. Which begs the question: why is the mobile default stylesheet set up so that text is unreadable without css?
https://blues.io/products/notecard/
Depends on how much algal I'm drinking.
Yeah that's totally unambiguous for NYC, so I'm sure it would. I imagine they'd really prefer if you also included the ZIP.

An annoyance in NYC is people not in Manhattan giving their address as NY, NY. A lot of street names repeat in other boroughs so you do in fact need to specify that that address is in Brooklyn if it's there. Queens is even more complicated since street names are not unique within the borough so you should use the "town"/municipality name (e.g. Ridgewood, Astoria, Long Island City (of which Astoria is a part so you can kinda use that for Astoria without problems in my experience)) when mailing there, not Queens.
Agreed on most of the part, except work from home/office argument. Working from home allows me to spend lot more time with people who I want to spend time with. I have more time for Gardening, DIY things, working out, etc.
I have just decided to give it another try on a very straightforward thing. I have asked it to get me a Rust function that uses a headless browser to get the HTML of a fully loaded webpage.

ChatGPT:

let screenshot = tab.capture_screenshot(ScreenshotFormat::PNG, None, true).await?;

let html = String::from_utf8(screenshot).unwrap();

>[...] Once the page is fully loaded, the function captures a screenshot of the page using tab.capture_screenshot(), converts the screenshot to a string using String::from_utf8(), and then returns the string as the HTML content of the page.

Of course, it admits to the mistake (sort of, it still does not get):

> You are correct, taking a screenshot and converting it to text may not always be the best approach to extract the HTML content from a webpage.

It's hilarious.
No. The security architecture of Europe remained the same until Russia started the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. No new signifcant NATO members, no significant troop or weapon deployments, no policy changes. Cold War stockpiles were dismantled to cut costs and NATO was so stagnant that French president Macron even called it braindead.
Great article, one of the about ChatGPT which I read
Scabs hurt everyone.
> My wife’s career is in materials science, and she often writes technical papers related to her work. Recently she used ChatGPT to collect background information for a paper she was writing.

Damning indictment of computer literacy, but a good example of the problem facing the majority.

It's not that no one has been raising these issues, just read comments on HN posts. But no one in the hype-industrial complex has popularized them.
Don't forget the largest of them all -- religion. Shared mythology seems to be hugely important to human society. If the mythology breaks down, it sure appears to take society right along with it.

> America would not have been founded

This is a great example, for sure. It's hard not to shed a little tear when you sit through the presentation they give on a US Capitol tour about the founding of the nation and the principles that govern it. Makes you want to stand right up and start reciting the pledge of allegiance, and wrap yourself in a glorious American flag.

I'm only a little bit kidding. It really is a great story. I want it to be true, it makes me feel really good. It's a nice counterpoint to the Internet, which generally portrays America about as accurately but in the other direction.

And I think that the breakdown of this shared mythology may be the most dangerous thing happening in America right now. Which isn't to say that the right-wing nationalist flag-waving rhetoric is the right answer, but we probably would be better off collectively if we all believed in the fairy tale of the founding.
This is what you get when you prioritize companies over users.

There's no reason websites should even be able to set the font in my browser.

If it was just about websites achieving an acceptable look, you'd see people emulating industry leaders, but that's not what you see. Google, for example, uses Arial on its main page on my browsers at least--that's a font that's available on every browser I know of. If it's acceptable for Google, it seems like it's just acceptable in general.

Instead, the fonts being loaded are about websites achieving their own brand. I've built a lot of web frontends, and every time I get a rebrand contract, the designs I get contain a bunch of fonts.

As a user, I don't give a fuck about your brand. Being able to read your fonts clearly is a much higher priority for me than experiencing your brand. Fundamentally there's no reason at all that sites should be able to decide for me what font I read. I am lucky to have fairly good eyesight and no serious processing disorders, but users who have these issues are seriously negatively effected by sites overriding their browser defaults. And since few projects are given adequate accessibility budget, users are left with no recourse. Overriding a website's fonts with your browser settings doesn't really help, because sites often use pixels and other dimension units that make your site unreadable if you use a different font than what they tested with.