skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The west fears machines too much for some reason.

I unironically attribute it to the Matrix. The movies have somehow weasled its way into the public discourse as either some sort of prophecy or actual reality (the 'pill' speak, living in a virtual reality, etc.).

I won't comment on the validity of any position, but I think it's pretty cool that a piece of art has proliferated in such a way. I do wonder how impactful it has been in comparison to stuff like the Bible, Tolkien, etc.
I've bought three cars in my life and never drove any of them before buying. I know it's unusual but they've all been great. I did do a lot of research ahead of time though.
'Black box' doesn't mean 'numbers in a computer', it means 'nobody can explain to me precisely why I was rejected'. A score calculated from an obvious formula is fine (regulations permitting) since you (or a regulator or court or the institution) can establish precisely why you were rejected. A black box system is one in which this cannot be established by any person.

This is obviously bad for both legal and moral reasons. Legally you may be (unintentionally) violating anti-discrimination laws. Morally you may be setting up a system that arbitrarily denies people who are otherwise deserving with little to no recourse.
I also used to work on email at scale (XXX million per day), and even then I encouraged everyone to click spam[1] for any email they did not expect to receive and do not want.

My email address and phone notifications are a direct link to me and are sacred in terms of getting my attention. Yet many companies confuse getting my email address with permission to mail me anything at any frequency. They also believe that "unsubscribe" should be able to redirect me to a website with a bunch of confusing checkboxes. Neither is acceptable.

So, when I click "unsubscribe", that should immediately unsubscribe me forever with no extra efforts, but so many emailers don't do this that I just gave up and started reporting spam.

> emoji in the headline was the campaign that caused 9% of people to mark spam and 20% to unsubscribe, but it was enough to have us blackholed for 2.5 months

A guess with no info, but it sounds like a case of not removing unengaged recipients, then suddenly getting their attention with a different looking subject line or an email that came at an unexpected time.

If people receive bulk for a long time and they never engage, remove them from the list or pause sending to them to avoid this effect.

[1] - For those who don't know much about email, two things should happen when you click the spam button in Gmail and select "Unsubscribe and report spam" (it's been a while, correct me if this changed):

1) List-Unsubscribe should be triggered and this should unsub you from the list. In 2023, I personally expect this to be immediate and receive no more email but I give senders a window of a day or so.

2) The FBL should give the sender a signal that this specific campaign was considered spam.
Implemented in rust, not python, so it's extremely fast. It's orders of magnitude faster than pylint itself.
I hear you.

I was younger and didn't have kids yet. I couldn't do it today. I was probably 8 years into my career making I think around a 100k. I travelled for work every couple months, 11 days at a time. Those trips I worked 6am to midnight every day. I was so burnt I couldn't think straight. Prior to that job I was burnt as well, I just couldn't take it anymore. I was late 20s and felt 50. I called my wife from one of the trips and asked her to just start reading me the list of open positions at her company that were not tech. She mentioned one, I said that's it. Interviewed the next week, they offered me the job that day and I started 2 weeks later. It was try something different or be miserable. I was very seriously considering enlisting as well just to get out.
I clicked through, did a search for Ruff, then looked up the Github project. Okay, but… so what? Is this another case of "I rebuilt X in Rust and hit the front page of HN"?

It seems so.
I think OP is just highlighting that yes, they indeed bought a 30 year-old sound card only few months ago, and that they did not mean to write "many years ago", or "a few months later" instead.
> state-co-ordinated disinformation

What was it before Musk? Battery Man Bad.

This is really missing perspective, not surprisingly. I personally found Twitter an absolute insufferable place before that was much less diverse. I still don't really care for it, but it does seem better. Can I be in the article?
The real answer is likely because it's performative bs for an American audience.
Yeah, this doesn't get mentioned enough. 3Dfx's first few cards were revelatory, but if you used the same computer for "actual work", the passthrough tended to kind of make your text look like ass in Windows/DOS.
I can’t find any reliable sources on this either way, but some blogspammy sites suggest that merchants are within their rights to pursue legal action outside of the credit card channels
These intervention studies aren’t measuring what you’re suggesting they are measuring.

The specific question is if elderly people starting exercise late in life received similar levels of benefits. They then look at studies lasting between 1.4 and 5 years where the median participant age was between 72 and 78. The exercise group did have lower mortality but it wasn’t considered statistically significant.

Unless you’re 70+ and only planning on exercising for a few years they don’t say much about what you should be doing. Especially as by this age a significant percentage of the most sedentary people have already died.
Enjoy the Season You Are In
I'm not sure about three years, but anywhere the service and entertainment industry was shut down due to Covid. Eg California.
In 2021 or so, the UC Berkeley chancellor sent out an email to students and alumni (that's me) cheering an increase to racial diversity in the incoming class following them dropping the SAT requirement. The timing of that change was uncannily close to the failing of Prop 16 in 2020, which would have repealed prop 209 of 1996 and was publicly endorsed by the UC administration.

Back to the email, it showed before and after charts. Asian percentage dropped sharply, and all other percentages rose.
just tried it and this is immensely fast.

too bad it doesn't appear to support flake8 plugins and only has a small subset hardcoded into it. if it could support arbitrary flake8 plugins I would move SQLAlchemy to this tool immediately.

the main reason people want to move off flake8 is not so much a speed issue but that its author refuses to allow it to use pyproject.toml files for configuration, meaning every project's configuration has to remain half-broken using obsolete setup.cfg files. A very silly situation.
> Last I checked, rates of out of wedlock pregnancy are down.

What on earth? When did you last check that? Percent of births to unmarried women has gone from 5% in the early 1900s to 15% by 1980 and then ballooned to 40% this decade

https://www.statista.com/statistics/276025/us-percentage-of-...
>"I asked ChatGTP..."

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

-Charles Babbage
I found the publicized evidence fairly overwhelming in Johnys favor.

Now I don't follow celebrity worship very closely, but it seemed like mainstream media was in support af Amber until very late in the process, and once Johny's evidence was public, there wasn't much of a case left...

Since you seem to be in opposition of the popular opinion of this forum at least, do you have any insights you could share that clarify how Amber was the innocent victim, or is your stance more in support of women than in support of fair evidence based trials?
Personally I’m uncomfortable that a centralised government is “choosing the winner” rather than having the standards duke it out on the open market.

In this case, USB-C is pretty much expected to win and be the dominant standard - even Apple was already moving towards it way before the mandate - but it’s the principle of it.

In what other area will the EU elect itself to “choose the winner” next? The whole thing sets a bad precedence and opens up the possibility of corruption - which the EU isn’t immune to.
Yeah, I don’t know a single person that didn’t work.
Was your “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the message in small print or was it a large button labeled “stop emailing me” at the top?
There's something to that, but when an application and the libraries it uses don't agree on interfaces (ABIs, APIs, codecs, etc.) then the problem is unique to that project, and possibly that specific build of that project, so it's a little different than a buggy CPU.

It's fair to try to simplify and tackle sets of distinct problems one at a time. Hence an abstract machine to assist in reasoning. But it's not the same as practical soundness or safety or whatever adjective people want to give. It's important to make that distinction because lightly technical people seem to ignore the subtlety here and think "well, it's a Rust program, therefore it's safe!". Reality is a lot more complicated. Unfortunately.
Were you actually "problem solving", or could it have been more like being a back-seat driver?

> the simple solution being to just change the pharmacy

Is that, in fact simple? Seems like it would require contacting the doctor/prescriber, some setup with the new pharmacy, it's not the "default" pharmacy so it would be an unfamiliar process for the doctor / patient who are used to the existing one, possibly different pricing / insurance issues, and no doubt the new / other pharmacy also has issues sometimes, etc. Are you, in fact, an expert on pharmacies, more so than the doctor, or the patient in this scenario?

Just trying to point out some possible reasons why you may not have actually being as helpful as you might think, and may not in fact have all of the relevant information to hand when making your suggestion.

If someone has a problem with CVS, saying "you should use Walgreens" is not actually that helpful, because Walgreens sucks sometimes too...
From an international perspective, most reporting about gun control being a big issue in the US appears to come from mass shootings, not the misc. causes such as gang activity or suicides.
Maybe I'm weird but I kind of like the take-home assignments. I find them pretty fun and not at all stressful like a whiteboard interview. And I've never not gotten an offer this way because I think there's a lot less variance (whiteboard style interviews you might get asked some random BS that you don't figure out).

IME you also often get paid (albeit a relatively small amount) for doing them. And FWIW once they want to hire you many employers will actually spend hours trying to sell you on joining. Usually not in the form of an essay, but doing several hours of sell calls or lunch meetings with different people at the company is not that strange (especially if you are higher level).
The MiSTer is so cool, I wish I could just buy one though, with the whole kit. It seems impossible or extremely expensive. I hope this will improve as the component shortage subsides.
> people are subjects who are given tiny freedoms, but are kept on tight leash,

This take comes across as insulting and I am not even from there.

Do you, by any chance, hail from the land of the free, where government can seize your property without even accusing you of a crime? (Civil forfeuiture)
Thanks! I don't remember the name, but I bet it was, because really how many simulated sports game screensavers can there have been?

There doesn't seem to be any particular record of a soccer/football version of Lights Out Sports Fans on the Internet that I can see, but then it was a long time ago and there isn't much info on the other sports either.
If one thinks about it, they were minions in a monopoly, and a pretty dysfunctional one at that even if lucrative. What the heck do they know about how to run a competitive business?
For sure, I've been trying to cut down on dependencies and JS where possible.

I'm curious to give WebComponents a try as well.
You could bisect the sheet. Bisection would be fastest algorithm to identify the "bug".

Bisection would be to split the sheet into half and half into new files. Split the offending sheet further and so no on until you identify the offending entry.

This method should work even if more than one vendor/ row has a problem - you bisect the parts which are bad and keep doing it until there is only one record.

Note: This assumes that Google scans consistently and immediately the same way immediately each file

--

Important Note: Your ToS violation notice may become a suspension if more than one violation is tagged to your account.

Knowing Google's support quality I wouldn't personally risk my Google account and would move the entire file contents to say Notion which perhaps is more suited tool for this kind of planning .
There's no task I cannot complete without ketamine, except for the consumption of ketamine itself. Without a computer I cannot perform my job, nor basically perform any modern professional job.
If cheap drones dropping charges was enough to win the war then why does Ukraine need other weapons?
>The credit score system already in place in the US is frequently as arbitrary in some cases already.

The credit score system is not arbitrary, it's a specific formula that applies equally to everyone.

>You get punished for just looking at it.

No you do not. There are hard inquiries and soft inquiries, and an individual viewing their own credit score is considered a soft inquiry which has absolutely no effect on your credit score.

As for Europe, there is no one homogeneous answer. Different parts of Europe handle credit differently. The UK and Germany are very similar to the U.S., whereas in France there is no concept of a credit rating or credit score.

With that said, generally the countries that do not have a credit scoring system are much harder to get a loan from.
I've interviewed people from $BigTechCompany (with 5+ years experience) that couldn't do some basic whiteboard coding question. I wasn't asking any dynamic programming-type obscure thing that no one actually uses, but rather a realistic question that they might actually have to code (indeed it was based on a problem I had to solve myself at my job).

So it's not that I don't trust that they didn't work there, but that doesn't mean that they can do a good job here. Every company has low performers, perhaps their previous employer was just bad at detecting them.
Oh no, I was fully asleep. I remember nothing of the surgery.

The bad experience was after I woke up. The pain was excruciating. They had first tried to zap it with ultrasound but it didn't work. Then they went in and did some kind of scraping of the urethra. I know this because there was a descent amount of discharge that I can only describe as skin scrapings. It was insanely painful to pass each of these and I think it was that painful because it was passing them through the raw skin that was scraped off itself (within the urethra).

To alleviate the pain I was put on some kind of opioid pain meds for 2.5 weeks that had an insidious effect on my personality. During that time I was (without realizing it) a total unhinged ass it had a terrible effect on my working and personal relationships.

Beforehand I asked the Dr. do I need the surgery? He said "Well we don't really know. You haven't passed it yet (2 weeks) and the only way we can be absolutely sure is with with surgery." There was no real explanation about the tradeoffs of how painful scrapings etc would be.

After the fact, the cynic in me wondered, was this guy gaming the system by tipping the scales in favor of surgery (since he was the one to do the surgery in private US medical healthcare system). FYI It was a 4-5mm stone.
Echoing others, Ryan and Railscasts (and Asciicasts!) were instrumental in my own Rails and web development journey. When the subscription episodes were introduced, it was a no-brainer to pay for that for myself and for my team.

Obviously it was sad when Ryan had to stop, but it was important he focused on himself. Either way, still grateful for all the helpful content he put out to make us better developers.

In no particular order, some interesting flashbacks to that period of web development:

Billing with Stripe: http://railscasts.com/episodes/288-billing-with-stripe

Upgrading to Rails 4: http://railscasts.com/episodes/415-upgrading-to-rails-4

Facebook Open Graph: http://railscasts.com/episodes/363-facebook-open-graph

PayPal recurring billing: http://railscasts.com/episodes/289-paypal-recurring-billing

PDF with Prawn: http://railscasts.com/episodes/153-pdfs-with-prawn-revised

Thanks for all you did Ryan! Hope you are keeping well.
I'd check the urls contained within against Google's Safe Browsing Site Status[0], then maybe virustotal[1] or urlscan[2].

Sucks that Google isn't more transparent in its email.

[0] https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search?h...

[1] https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload

[2] https://urlscan.io/
It's too bad it's not a culture of interview questions to learn how well someone will work with you and your team, how much of a creative they are, a coach, a mentor, etc.

I'd pick someone who really clicks with the team and is smart any day over someone who's brilliant but hard to work with.
My account is 9 months old and definitely not a throwaway.
I was trying the same and this is super impressive… only 1 main engine fire??? I think this is actually part of the constraints of the real world landing problem.
There were rumors of both a surfacebook and a MacBook that would’ve used it when the first rumors of Van Gogh circulated. The persistent story I’ve seen is that Microsoft wanted an apu for a gaming capable surfacebook then scrapped it, and valve ended up using said apu.
I didn’t and don’t do that. This account is 9 months old and my only account.
I've been very interested in this space (political group for AI regulation). And actually, I just recently got an initiative I've been thinking of for awhile off the ground. How can I get in touch with you 00F_? You can reach me at lustig.jj@gmail.com
This kind of regulation is one of the most basic functions of government, without which trade between states and countries becomes much more difficult. Of all the things a government can do, requiring certain standards on things like connector types seems the most reasonable.
FYI I replied about the particulars of the surgery here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35036735 . I post this because I don't think you would get notified otherwise.

It was nothing like a colonoscopy!
> nothing prevents me from modifying the code and removing the part that adds those watermarks.

These regulations are aimed at major institutions like banks. Those rely on government-provided privilidges and protectuons to exist. In return we expect they follow some rules.

Nobody cares about AI running in your garage.
FYI I replied about the particulars of the surgery here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35036735 . I post this because I don't think you would get notified otherwise.

It was super painful!
Usually you have 3-6 interviewers. It seems unlikely they would all "not like you" as the reason for not getting hired. Now sometimes a single very strong no is enough, but IME a strong yes can easily override that. I myself have interviewed 400+ people and have definitely had cases where I got people hired over objections because I thought they were really good.

I would say it's more common to not get hired because you didn't have a strong yes. Maybe everyone thought you were ok but none of the interviews really wanted to argue for your case. There are also cases of people that are just obviously not qualified, like every single interviewer says 'no hire'.
This account isn’t a throwaway. It has 9 times the karma of your account.
I left software completely. I had to get out. Every software job I have ever had results in me working 60+ hours a week, often more. I took a random office job at my wife's very large company. I was able to leverage my tech skills and excel. Got promoted very quickly. The main difference at least fore is when you leave the non tech job for the day or the weekend, it's gone. No need to think about it. Software is different, always some stupid deadline which requires nights and weekends. I eventually went back to software and have been here for many years now. I definitely feel like leaving again but the golden handcuffs and having kids makes it harder.

It was relatively easy to get another job. It was an entry level job making 55k but I only kept it for a couple years. Which is really a shame because it was the best software job I've ever had but it was a small company and I had kids to provide for.
> Don't have a clear picture of what "better" mean? That's also simple. Look at what people were eating 100 years ago, and how much physical activity they were doing then.

Do you mean fructose? PUFAs? Be specific. What do I eat/avoid?
CRTs weren't that power hungry at all. E.g., an entire 8-bit computer from 1979 (Sharp Mz-80) is rated 45W, including the CPU, the entire PCB, and its 9 inch monitor. A 21 inch Trinitron CRT monitor is rated at 1.2A (this is less than a Raspberry Pi 3; there's no Watt rating on the label, but I recall it as about 30-35W). These are actual ratings from actual equipment, I have.

In fact, early LCD monitors were (much) more power hungry. E.g., a not that early Apple Cinema HD Display from 2007 is still rated 2.05A (65W) at 20 inch and 3.7A (90W) at 23 inch. Taking the weighted average, this is double the energy consumption of the 21 inch Trinitron CRT. A modern 24 inch M1 iMac is still in about the same range as this LCD, at about 80-85W (including the CPU and PCB).
I find it hard to believe that a good use of the EU’s time is regulating USB-C.
Ask HN: Has anyone made a profitable website/SaaS from purely donations?
>Putting it in a TOS is one thing, how is it enforced?

This comes off like a bad faith question because OP wrote this article because AirBnB's TOS was enforced in explicit detail.

> Also, it’s trivial to book a room at a hotel and have someone else check in under the reservation as long as you put them on the guest list. I’ve done it before.

Did you have to present ID? Were you over 18? Did someone in your party already have a credit card on file before anyone got the first set of keys? If you do those things, there's no trivial difference between making your own reservation.

The issue isn't whether you can get legally away with spoofing a reservation account. The issue is whether you're potentially liable for breaking a contract or committing fraud.
How many orders of magnitude?
Context: Ruff is a Rust-based linter for Python. It’s much faster than Python-based linters for Python because Rust is much faster than Python.

There are a couple of drawbacks to Ruff that mean it may not be right for everyone: since it’s a compiled tool, it’s harder to add custom rules — you need to fork the project to add your own, and also you need to know some Rust.

When checking the Pylint codebase it makes sense to use Ruff as well as Pylint — it’s a good sanity check that Pylint’s own tooling is not letting issues through that another tool is catching.
Yakuake: Drop-down terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology
And I say a third time: if you want to have a discussion about unfair distribution of monetary effects on specific populations, you need to have that discussion and not just shout "inflation!". Because while your point is true, it's specious. Changes are always happening (c.f. eggs, mentioned upthread). The question isn't whether things are changing, it's about what is changing and what to do about it.
Ah, thank you! I feel like a fool. I was assuming any 2 arrows. Now it works :)