skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why so much of the "social media is harmful" discussion focuses on social isolation and teen judgment. These are obviously important but none of the linked resources discuss the shift in expectations for life outcomes that is caused by social media and internet usage.

The cliche saying is that happiness = reality - expectations.

The spread of the internet has broken users free of their local bubbles and exposed them to an entire world of possibilities. Everyone is now able to compare their life to the global maximum instead of their local maximum. It's much easier now to be successful (along any axis) and miserable because there will always be people who are more successful. All of this has been moved into the internet user's scope of daily existence.

Any links to research or writing in this area will be appreciated. Also, I am not a specialist but would be open to assisting with research in this area.
Serious question - why are you punishing waitstaff because everyone post-COVID has decided they deserve tips for everything? That has nothing to do with them.

My wife thinks I'm pretty stingy on non-restaurant tipping. I won't tip for pickup, online orders, the type of thing mentioned here. But that doesn't mean a server at a restaurant suddenly did a worse job or deserves a 40-50% pay cut. My default is 20% and I can count on one hand the number of times in the last year or so I've gone under that, and many times have gone over. 10% is borderline "something happened where I need to talk to a manager" territory.
There are also freepost addresses, where you can write "Freepost CompanyName" with no postage. I've found one on google which is just "Freepost OAL".
Senators and their peers don't rely on Social Security for most of their retirement income, so they are fairly well insulated from any change to Social Security benefits even without any explicit carve-out.
I get a blank page, expected?

I use links2 browser.
The use of Sierra Club as the lead example is a good one because of the racialist motivations in the founding of the club.

The change of usage to “enslaved people” is an important one because of the lack of agency in being enslaved (!). It’s easy for the brain to make the connection that a term like “slave” is an inherent property of the person so described, like “brown-haired” rather than something imposed upon them.

But as a non-American who’s lived in the US a long time, seeing the term “American” used generally doesn’t bother me: it’s trivial and automatic to see when it’s simply synecdoche for “resident”, “taxpayer”, or, yes, “US citizen, so not applicable to me”. I am not offended when I see a headline, as I did this morning, saying “your passport will be delayed so apply early”. Just doesn’t apply to me so who cares?
I'm not super familiar with MMT.

What is the rationale MMT provides for why increasing the supply of money available to the elderly would not lead to inflation on all the goods that the elderly purchase with that money?
TFA uses "real" to mean "formal" address systems.
And you can decline to interact with an extension of the US Government, unless there is a law that you can't, which there is. In the same way that there is a law that you can't decline to interact with a union.

My point is that the freedom of negative association does not supersede legally required actions whose performance involves associating with an individual or group.
The money always comes from the citizens, no matter who pays. If the government pays - it is taken through increased taxes. If the business pays - it is taken through increased prices. But it's always the people's money - lifted from you and me.
Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and other related games have greatly widened my musical tastes as I’ve gotten older (game was invented in 2005, and I’m 42 now). Definitely recommend.
Our profession is trivial and full of smoke and mirrors, and barely deserving of profession. It's full of people who have literally no clue about what they are doing creating systems which screw over other people.
> Really the problem are all the frameworks pushing people to create a build step.

I doubt it.

People moved on from jQuery and/or vanilla because they needed to produce more sophisticated apps. And even in those days of yore, for any non-trivial project you still needed to concatenate and minify your code.

BTW Preact can be used without a build step.
There are already mechanisms for donating one's body to science for research; it happens all the time.

There are also mechanisms for people to volunteer for approved medical research studies, in exchange for some compensation. This also happens all the time, and is part of the approval process for new medications and procedures. The caveat being that the medical research must be approved by the FDA or the EU's corresponding regulatory body, and it is extremely unlikely that a Musk company would ever receive approval for trials involving human subjects given their wanton disregard of the much easier and laxer rules involving animal subjects.
In my personal, obviously anecdotal, experience it's always the "technical" guys who think things like this. This is why we have UI/UX teams and we don't let programmers create visual interfaces.
Feels like an Architect interview more than a Senior interview though
If your house is on fire, you best GTFO no matter what kind of refrigerator you have.

American homes have plenty of propane/natgas appliances anyway, so what difference does one more make?
Save money, and force consumers to buy a new one when it breaks
thank you! (was using the wrong spelling all the time, mentally of course)
Why would someone choose to live an hour car drive away from a place they agreed to be 5 days a week?
Not sure about London, but I've always gotten a kick out of Neil Oliver's mail, which manages to arrive despite some of the oddest addresses:

Without even a name:
https://twitter.com/thecoastguy/status/1628434030919049221

With name, but only the city as far as usable address information:
https://twitter.com/thecoastguy/status/1631313939198877696

Now granted, he is a TV presenter and Stirling is a small town (sub 100,000 people), but there is some romanticism behind a letter only arriving because some person in the mail sorting facility has some faint idea of who you are.
So you have never created a bug in your life? Made a mistake?

Your statement is as naive as "A Production Bug / Latency is a sign of Incompetent Software Developer" Should we fire you as soon as you hit the first bug?

BTW, You have a fundamental misunderstanding of Cost of Capital

Tomorrow if your salary is cut by 50%, would you cut-down on extra expenses? Is that a sign of mismanagement from you?
Thanks a lot. Stockfish is used for openings and playing in general. I guess in the future it would be a good idea to give change the engine parameters slightly for each game. It is very configurable. Glad you enjoyed it
> why the fuck am I paying you a 15% service charge for me

Service charge is like not tipping, actually I kinda prefer this to having to look the cashier in the eye and choose which tip button.
That's where I'd push back. If Subway is willing to pay someone $100k to not make sandwiches at a competitor, why stop them?
FTC to Ban BetterHelp from Revealing Consumers’ Data
When you're catching up on all the games you couldn't even consider before, a bonus side effect is all the chaff has gone through the sift of time ;) So there are many games that got struck off my list as time went on.

The only ones that remained, I bought, and were actually _good_: Uncharted, Resident Evil 2 (Remake), South Park The Stick of Truth.

Ones I bought still thinking they should be good, and was disappointed: Horizon Zero Dawn, Borderlands 3, Brutal Legend, Yakuza 0, Metal Gear Rising. They're not bad games, just not worth my very limited time. I probably would have loved them when I was younger though.
AFAIK there's some caching going on.
I was able to convince it that it was the year 2050, and then got it to describe historical events from future, including the destruction of the moon, and the subsequent rebuilding of the moon. Leading questions are fun, because I asked why the new moon was built using cheese, and it happily gave justification regarding the unique material properties.
what I meant from my comment is, when there is un-deniable evidence, it is too late!
Ammonia is quite toxic. Some bad outcomes from leaky ammonia air conditioning in the past. Ok for industrial chillers with good leak detection systems.
> The explanation was that service workers don't get paid enough

The fact that this custom is not only not illegal but even outright defended by folks from the US, was always weird to me.
Virtual relationships with NPCs or digital relationships with other humans?
Pay them more. Otherwise the work goes undone. Civilization is not entitled to cheap, disposable labor.
My family has been living in CR for a couple years now.

Our official address is "$int meters southeast $someStationaryThing, $color house, $city_name, $county_name, $province_name, $postal_code". I've never met anyone in CR who knows their $postal_code, though they do exist.

It's pretty funny when trying to give someone in the US our address.

We usually just send a map pin and a couple pictures or paragraph description to people trying to get to our house.
yes, its ridiculous how in my country people can't plant trees to close to houses due to the summer fires
Yeah, it's still bullshit. Almost all vendors are going to experience some amount of returns and it costs almost nothing to process it. This is just another form of rent seeking from the credit card processors
The problem is not solved, that's a preposterous thing to say. The fact that unused systems exist doesn't mean there's a solution. Addressing here would only be "solved" if everyday people were using the system on the ground, and they're obviously not using Google Plus Codes or whatever when giving someone directions for how to walk to the bank.
> The most plausible explanation for teenage unhappiness.

For any explanation to be plausible it has to take into consideration that America is not the world. We don't see the same sharp rises in depression amongs teens in europe, and guess what, europe has phones too, it has social media too.
The explanation has to be rooted in something that's taking into account the differences between USA and the rest of the world. One thing that comes to mind is that children likley suffer trauma when they see students murder other students or shoot their teachers, or hear news about such events. But I don't quite think the size of the problem matches the size of depression statistics, even if rampant school shootings and gun violence are a uniquely american problem.
I oversimplified this, sorry. You have to pad the plus code so that the segment to the left of the plus has enough characters, and there are a couple other rules: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code
I’m hopeful for protocols like Matrix and ActivityPub continue taking off where monetization is an issue but they place communication as paramount.

More “modern retro-tech” like Gemini is also promising. I made a great friend there which I feel is related to self-selection - as in, maybe most of the people on Twitter and Facebook aren’t a good fit for a HN netizen.
What exactly is the intended inference here?
Hey, Creator of the guide here

Reverse system design interviews have a a lot of untapped potential. They just started getting a bit more popular in the last year or so (however, most companies haven't caught on to the trend yet.)

You're one of the trendsetters @rednerrus
Thanks. I will check it out
They're really more like...gas fees on the Ethereum chain, or spot electricity prices, I guess. It's a dynamically priced transaction fee based on instantaneous supply and demand. If you don't bid enough, you don't get your energy/money transfer/food.
> https://www.looria.com/about

> We strive to be the most trusted place to find honest product information. We work tirelessly to make Looria the go-to platform when making purchase decisions.

> Our user surveys and interviews have revealed the top frustrations with the current process:

> 2. SEO Spam

Well that's interesting, considering when I searched "Sneakers" one of the references is from a spam post.

Also is it running on "ChatGPT" using their API or a "GPT" model
I refuse to get involved in Martian politics. You can CIA them however you want though. I'm sure you can find just as many instances where foreign meddling and infantilization of people had disastrous consequences.

You'll be happy to know that you can appreciate their input on Earth matters as much as they'll appreciate yours on martian matters.
when you observed, they are working faster than other, they just doing with a plan
I spent the first couple years of my life in a small town in Ireland. Small enough that the houses had names, not numbers — my parents were Tolkien fans, and ours became "Lorien".

I'm told that letters were addressed simply, "Lorien, [town name]"
because the code is only one, comparatively small, element of making a modern game.
MGRS military grid reference system works the same way, more digits more precision.

There's a mil-sci-fi novel (forgot name, can't google) where some artillery officer thinks its funny to be a dick and give out ten digit grids "because he can" whereas normal humans mostly use 8 digit grids (like you'd use in a 9-line). I thought that book reference was funny because I'd give out ten digits for the LOLs when I was in the Army. Everyone who gets access to Y or M-code DGPS for the first time has to be a joker LOL.

8 digits is good enough to park a car, 10 digits is good enough to specify an individual theater seat (roughly)

GPS is like TV where most people consider it magic and don't care how it works, but if you're of a technical bent there's an infinitely deep rabbit hole to dive into.
BetterHelp Barred by FTC from Sharing Data with Facebook
Unless the hospital doesn't exist anymore, as mentioned in the article. Then you'd need local knowledge.
That's what I mean. I stay away from dieselturbos etc due to the lag. And now they add another lag on top of that. Bring on electric.
i think that's a purely semantic or terminological debate, so it isn't important which part we declare 'essential' and which part we declare 'accidental', and arguments that one definition or the other is better are pointless

what is important is that we understand which definitions people were using in particular utterances, that our definitions have adequate ontological coherence (avoiding "eargrayish" reasoning errors), and that other people can understand which definitions we are using

in brooks's 01986 paper he clearly considers questions like copying 2 gigabytes of data 'accidental' http://worrydream.com/refs/Brooks-NoSilverBullet.pdf

> All software construction involves essential tasks, the fashioning of the complex conceptual structures that compose the abstract software entity, and accidental tasks, the representation of these abstract entities in programming languages and the mapping of these onto machine languages within space and speed constraints. Most of the big past gains in software productivity have come from removing artificial barriers that have made the accidental tasks inordinately hard, such as severe hardware constraints, awkward programming languages, lack of machine time. ... The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts: data sets, relationships among data items, algorithms, and invocations of functions. This essence is abstract, in that the conceptual construct is the same under many different representations. It is nonetheless highly precise and richly detailed. ...

so it isn't important what mike acton thinks the terms should mean unless we're trying to understand how he uses them; brooks, moseley, and marks lump space and speed constraints into the category of 'accidental' rather than 'essential', and their arguments need to be interpreted using the definitions they intended to use, not conflicting definitions invented by a youtuber decades later

similarly, people commenting on moseley and marks's paper should be assumed to be using the same definitions as moseley and marks, not conflicting definitions, unless they explicitly state otherwise
Doesn't France have a standardized 15% service charge.
Code reuse. If I need to render on the server (for SEO purposes, as most people do not rely on Google's dubious and unknown JavaScript processing ability) then it makes sense to want to share as much code as possible between the server and the client. If you're doing a single-page-application (SPA) you can also share routing code, as your client will need a way to route to pages client-side.

With that said, I've seen people argue against node APIs and this desire to only use web APIs on the server. I don't get that. Node's API is generally pretty good and using JS as a replacement for Python/Ruby/etc. locally is rather excellent today. You don't need neutered APIs to also write code that works in both client and server. Unless you're selling cloud native bullshit (ahem, Nextjs)
Math it out then. How much resistance is that few centimeters of PCB trace costing & what does that translate to in terms of milliwatts?

Resistance is proportional to length, yes, but that doesn't make it significant in the given application.
I believe that the "mechanisms" exist in that you can volunteer if you want.

However, the people on the other end -- the ones conducting the research -- can't an test an unregulated device on you (I'm coming at this from the Medical Device aspect, since that's what I'm familiar with), without following certain procedures to ensure that it's safe and efficacious.

As a result, it really doesn't matter whether or not you're dying.
This is generally but not always true.

Lets make an imaginary situation where you live on an island and are running out of trees. There are mostly two sides here. The people that are burning though trees at a faster rate than they grow are the problem. Not caring about the problem, especially in the case you are the ones burning those trees is going to ensure 'Tree 0 day' comes.

Everyone will get affected if you reach that point.
As a Canadian who lives in the US, I actually think this is playing a large role. When I was growing up, 15% was considered "good" and customary. In the US, that's basically the minimum and the expectation is higher (18-25%). Canadians have a reputation of being poor tippers in the US for this precise reason. Coupling the COVID tip creep with the American expectation has been a double whammy for Canadians.
how do you know it worked in this specific case though? maybe Salesforce would have done just as well financially and also saved 20 million or something like that without that ad campaign
> Someone has put some notion of function identity in his head

The only comment that talks about function identity is this one[1], and it is written by you. "His head" refers to your own?

I used the word identity earlier in that thread, but I definitely wasn't referring to functions. The word "function" isn't even found in the comment.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34983709
You know, I used to think George Orwell's 1984 was fanciful, but then I saw our governments and media do it all the time, including in current and past conflicts:

Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvsnYJPqLSI

Afghanistan: https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/how-jimmy-carter-...

Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn't believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don't regret anything today?

Brzezinski: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
I have a difficult time reasoning about "local times" being more useful than say, UTC, for off-earth locations. The ISS used UTC and it feels right.

Sure, Mars is close enough to Earth that it could work, but the Moon takes 28 days to rotate. Other bodies have even more extreme cycles.

The article is light on details but I sure hope they're just talking UTC.

And for the record, local time can be very useful -- knowing when the sun is up will always have some value. E.g. exploration, agriculture, travel, energy. I just don't see how it works for humans to be human and communicate with other humans.
While there is a minimum quality level, there are still differences between different Dolby and IMAX screen sizes. I dont have it right now but others have compiled a google docs listing the variations across AMC cinemas.
i went to a hotel with an ammonia refrigerator in the kitchen a couple of weeks ago
Locked down computing devices existed well before before the iPhone was a thing. Pretty much all gaming consoles are locked down. I'm fine with them existing as long as a non-locked down option is available.

And controls like that would mean death to open source OSes like Linux, because you can't develop and test an operating system on a locked down device.
It's a compromise position. My intention is not to punish the wait staff, but the tipping status quo needs also needs to change, and how else will that change happen other than by resisting the status quo? So I tip the wait staff, but now I tip the traditional amount rather than the "enhanced" rates. I figure that it's better than just not tipping at all, or not going to the restaurant (when the wait staff would get nothing).

What actually needs to happen is that businesses need to start paying their employees a realistic wage and building that into the prices they charge. There are a couple of restaurants in town that do this and don't allow tipping. I preferentially eat at those.

But don't get me wrong here -- I'm talking about default tipping. If I actually get above-average service, even in settings outside of restaurants, I'll tip more.

Also, I never tip on the card. Always cash.
Not to stray off topic does anybody know anything about Beidu SMS service? How would this compare to Swarm? They have integrated into their GPS satellites.

https://www.communicationstoday.co.in/beidou-navigation-sate...
Nobody uses manuals anymore unless you are a driving an enthusiast car like Toyota GT86 etc
For the exact opposite road experience visit Iceland.
Changes the semantics, but not the underlying ethics.
The FAANG skill set is very different from that of more nimble organizations. I wouldn't call this incompetence, but more of a misalignment of incentives.
Plus codes are now nearly a decade old.

I always thought they were a cool idea, but has anybody actually started using them as part of everyday life? Not as a novelty extra, but actually a main productivity flow for anything?

Seems like usually when people need to send an exact location short-term then send a pin from Google/Apple Maps. While reference works use traditional lat/lon.

It did always seem to me that they'd work well as a kind of foundation for postal codes, in places without regular addresses -- exactly what you seem to be suggesting here. But has any country or municipality done so?
whats the use case? how many users?
> chatGPT is a very confident FICTION generator. Any facts it produces are purely coincidental.

Wish Stanislaw Lem were still alive and still writing great books, this whole mania around chatGPT and especially articles like this one remind me of his excellent Cyberiad, where at some point two robots from those stories almost get drowned by useless info after useless info (they were printing that info out on pieces of paper). I'm really curious how Trurl and Klapaucius would have handled all this chatGPT non-sense.