skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience has led me to believe that most individuals in favor of corporate DEI initiatives are earnestly and in good faith attempting to put into practice the recommendations of critical race theory and related frameworks.

The same experience has led me to believe that most managers and employers are not so crafty, and are going along with it because it seems to be trendy and in-demand and because they don't want to be publicly canceled. It's more about petty virtue signaling among managers than coordinated suppression of organized labor.

Furthermore, most DEI initiatives do not look like what you describe, outside of a limited subset of academic institutions that have always been somewhat radical (including few to none of the name-brand universities in the Americas) and smaller companies/startups headed by highly-opinionated idealists.

In general I think we are right to be skeptical of attempts to divide, rather than unite. It's absolutely possible that DEI initiatives are weaponized at some organizations, and we should be wary of that possibility. But it's also not fair or correct to assume that it's always being wielded as such.

It's worth noting that there are legitimate good intentions behind all this no-subconscious-bias microaggression stuff. It's derived from a very earnest radical academic tradition. The kernel of wisdom at the core of it all is that diversity is good and should be not just acknowledged but actively embraced and celebrated. That is, people can be united together, without all being the same.
IRIS in the title should be all-caps as it's an acronym; Lowercasing the final letters made me think this was going to use some weird quirk of the human iris.
Wait -

> We looked into the top 30 most popular apps people most want to delete in the United States by delving into regional search volumes for “delete” and “deactivate” apps/accounts by each state.

They’re not going off of actual app deletion or account deactivation data… they’re going off of how often people search for how to do it?

Here’s the thing - if I want to ‘delete Facebook’ then I’ll do it - there’s no searching involved, I go to my home screen, long-press the ‘f’ icon and then choose the ‘trash’ option. My decision to delete Facebook is not captured in their data.

What they’re measuring is stats on people too technologically illiterate to manage the apps installed on their own device, right? That’s a significant skew on the conclusions they’re drawing isn’t it?
> For everyone currently over 50 nothing changes. For people between 40 and 50 one more year.... So only a fraction of the population is affected and young people don't have a lobby.

So I'll go to the bank tell them I'm just not going to pay the last year or two of my mortgage?

Or a car dealer and tell them I'm simply going to pay less for their car without them being able to say no?

You just said the same thing - "it's only a small inconvenience, so it's fine".
Why has massive biodiversity losses at multiple previous points in earth's history always resulted in an even larger subsequent explosion of biodiversity?
I assume it's gaming the Google performance review system in order for promotion. That's why you see new Google products/features launched, then left to wither in the sun - ongoing maintenance/support doesn't do anything for your career.
What mechanism does it use to prevent recursion? To even raise the question seems to imply that it supports function calls, and it's easy for recursion to just kind of happen unless there's a specific implementation detail that prevents it. For example, maybe instead of a growable function stack, every function has dedicated stack space allocated up front, and recursive calls would scribble over the local variables of calls higher in the stack?
International Women’s Day: New factsheet highlights gender disparities in tech
> A little snark in there about democratizing, as some people will always put a positive spin on such things

Let's try this:

"Instagram makes pandemic the mental illness that used to only affect child stars and the hollywood famous."
Same here but with Ubuntu and only using the "stable" version. Ubuntu updates have broken my systems over time many times since I started using it around version 9.04 or so, and stopped using it version 16 or 17. Started using Arch after that and the only breakages that have happened since then have been when I've been over-confident in major changes I'm making to my boot process. Never have a normal upgrade broken my system. The experience have been the same for both my desktop and laptop setups, and I'm starting to use Arch for my servers now too.
I totally get what you're saying, and you're right on how individual choices add up, (concentration camp guards were also just following orders after all) and tbh younger me would be like "let's blow some shit up!"... But I have a mortgage and kids to support, and this shittification hasn't reached the point where guerilla subterfuge makes it on my to do list.

Having said that, I do try to fight back in whatever capacity I can by not supporting those decisions at work, and as a consumer by avoiding crap, DIYing and repairing as much as I can, and "fuck your new streaming plan, I know how to download shit" while making sure my kids also know how and why dad does it this way
Another fix would be to independently measure noise isolation and report that, so renters can actually make decisions based on it, and builders would have an incentive to include it, since they could more reliably charge more for it.
Yes, self-hosted miniflux (https://miniflux.app/)
That makes sense, thanks! Will send you the details
Thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32993556 ("Retraction of Room-temperature superconductivity in a carbonaceous sulfur hydride (nature.com)", 46 comments)
And? Just because one aspect isn’t scaling well doesn’t mean the rest being scaled is pointless.

Besides the fact they will probably figure out a way to either replace sram with something else that does scale better or they will figure out novel techniques to scale sram.
I broke a wine glass with my voice (2018) [video]
Did you actually read the article?

> If Amazon stiffs Northern Virginia, future politicians elsewhere may be less eager to promise tax breaks and infrastructure investments, not to mention spend their reputational capital. Politically speaking, it will be harder for urban and suburban leaders to rise to the top by attracting a new major corporate tenants. “Pro-business” local governments may be less common in the years to come.

If anything, the politicians who blocked Amazon from coming to Queens actually got more bragging rights.
Same, site's actually way, way better now for us non-account-havers.

And the dumb shit Elon posts and all the times he kicks himself in the balls are way funnier than before he acquired 'em.

Overall, I'm happier with the site since he took over, personally. But then I'm rooting for its demise, preferably with as much drama and humor along the way as possible, so of course I like it.
Unlike most of HN I am not a "computer person". I know not to click on suspicious links and that's about all that can be said of me. So I'm not sure if you're giving me a hint, or doing the equivalent of telling me to delete System32!
Ahem, typo? Site says it was created in 1998. Which coincidentally was 25 years ago...
The problem with this is that erase-to-program delay is a major factor in bad write quality.....you really don't want to erase a block and wait a long time before programming it. Where "long" is subjective and there are a lot of details here but the general rule is that the longer you wait after an erase to write, the less accurate your write is (colloquially, your zero decays as it sits)......so in practice while you do erase-ahead, you don't erase too far ahead of your writing and you certainly don't erase at TRIM time in most cases.
FTC Twitter Investigation Sought Elon Musk’s Internal Communications
> So it's not at all clear how consciousness arises, and thus not clear that e.g. GPT-7 "cannot" be conscious.

Arguments from position that there is an essential human characteristic that AI cannot capture always leaves me wanting. It seems almost like their arguing from a position of ontological impossibility when I read their responses.

On one had we have a few simple classical physics equations which describe how matter behaves, and brains being matter, should follow these rules. On the other, we have universal function approximators - models which given enough resources can approximate any function. Theoretically it seems like one can be arbitrarily approximated by the other.

That's why dismissals feel like an argument from consequence. As one gap closes, another gap emerges. In the same way that science creates a god-of-the-gaps - incremental advances in science make god retreat into ever smaller and obscure gaps, advancements in AI create a consciousness-of-the-gaps where the justifications for consciousness retreat into ever smaller and obscure gaps. Embodiment is the newest of these gaps and once embodiment occurs, another gap will be discovered and retreated to.

Unfortunately, consciousness and sentience are social categories, not scientific categories - like countries, they gain legitimacy when enough agents say they're legitimate - and just like the gaps, this trend isn't stopping.
> A few weeks ago people on Hacker News were talking about how to help their children cheat at school, like it's just a normal thing.

Link?
I use Feedbro, seeing as I spend most of my time in browser anyways and it's pretty excellent.
> "Why would anyone trust people with 4 weeks driving classes and a test with their lives on a road driving 80mph inside 2-tonne metal cages? Seems insane."

We've run the experiment for n decades with billions of subjects and the results indicate it is actually not that bad.

We have -not- really even discussed, much consider, the implications of having a central system with machine intelligence designed to extract features, patterns, emotions, assumed motives, ..., having access to the entire digital lives of societies.

Is it insane to repeat the same mistakes? Not sure but it's somewhere close in the neighborhood. We could run it by a k-nearest algorithm and see what that suggests as a better category than 'insane'.
Stockade FC in 2023 – Seven Years of Lessons Learned in Lower Level Soccer
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Hello all, I'm Benjamin and I am a IT/Security/Network/Sys admin located in Ohio. My company is exiting the business and closing up shop and is no longer in need of IT personnel. I am attempting to find a job in any form of IT or IT Security. I have a few certs under my belt and I am currently studying for an Azure cert to improve my cloud game. I love learning and I am willing to take a stab at anything. Thanks!
Used to be an app where I would check what friends have been doing on their spare time and vacation. Since the stupid tik too videos started the content I want to see is basically ratiod by an ownslaught of ads and silly videos from people I’ve never interacted with.

Wish I could delete but then I might lose contact with friends.
>In real life, intelligence is associated with picking better goals.

"Better" according to what metric?

It may be the case that there is a tendency for high-intelligence humans to pick "more enlightened" goals. Perhaps there is a natural "enlightened goals" attractor for our species.

However I don't think we can extrapolate from that to a fundamentally alien AI.

I think even if this statistical tendency exists, it has clear counterexamples -- consider that 2 genius chess players may have opposite goals, of beating one another. And we shouldn't bet the future of humanity on this statistical tendency extrapolating outside of the original distribution of human species.

Here are some intuition pumps on how diverse goals can be even across intelligent species:

* Orcas killing sharks for their livers: https://www.livescience.com/2-orcas-slaughter-19-sharks-in-a... I don't believe dolphins show the same level of violence, even though both are smart cetaceans

* Intelligent dogs bred to be responsive and attentive to human needs -- unlike close cousins like the wolf

* Chimpanzees and bonobos are both related to humans, both highly intelligent, but with very different culture and goals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Ko0Hzi47U
my iPhone saves my login credentials when I delete/reinstall it, so I delete instagram every Sunday or Monday then reinstall on Friday/Saturday, because I don't have the self control to actually limit myself with the screentime functionality.
half of the "people" maybe.
Normalizing crash risk of partially automated vehicles under sparse data
A typical Arch installation has exactly what you've put into it, no more and no less, as the setup forces you to decide what you want to put into it. It's in no way a beginner distribution, but not every distribution has to cater to the same crowd, which Arch is not afraid of making a choice to who they rather cater to.

As a professional, it's really simple (as in "not complex", not as in "easy to start using") and once you've understood your setup, troubleshooting becomes much easier if you have to do it.
Most of these types of articles take a "consumer" model of civilization: humans exist to consume, and the primary question is what they're going to consume and where they're going to do it. Labor exists as a phenomenon that enables future consumption, and QoL is measured by GDP per capita. "Countries" are an irrelevant social construct that inhibit free trade between interested, cooperative parties.
This is a very limiting, privileged point of view of humanity. In reality Civilization is a mysterious art that requires cult-like adhesion to certain practices in order to "work". These economics-heavy libertarian open borders guys have absolutely no idea what to do when the power goes out for more than a week, or if they're personally wronged by a neighbor and the government won't get involved. It's a childish, first-world view of Man and Man's culture to assume that the only thing needed for Prosperity and Peace is economic competition administered and monitored by first-world-style democratic governments.
The API is useful because not everyone has quick 10+gb vram gpus lying around.
I mean who is "we" here? In this particular case, it has been decades, and its not like this wasn't known or a particularly spacey conspiracy theory... You either gotta believe the democratic process is totally bankrupt, or that there is an implicit/unconscious compromise among voters to choose particular promises of safety even if the cops are sometimes corrupt.

There is the idea of policing, and then there is the reality. They can only coincide so much, but if you talk to any cop or read an literature about this, it really is only "so much."

And it's not like we have any historical precedence for a police force being different than this either, its just how it always been. You can't blame them for doing their jobs!
As someone who now also works on an open-source personal project, I'm really fascinated by this kind of thing. Especially the "I don't care about dogmatic ways of doing things", this very much resonates with me.

As for SumatraPDF, I haven't used it myself because I don't use Windows as my main OS, but I definitely remember seeing that icon on other people's Windows machines. So it is reasonably popular in my part of the world. It also blows my mind that Windows still doesn't come with a proper built-in PDF viewer like macOS does.

Thank you for doing what you're doing! People like you make the world a better place.
You wouldn't need domesticated bees to match the rest of the insect world's numbers. You'd just need to enough to pollinate crops. And bees can pollinate many, many different types crops. Also, you can always pollinate by hand if need be, which is how vanilla in Madagascar is pollinated. I'm not saying declining insect numbers are good, I'm just saying worrying about a crop-apocalypse is probably unfounded.
Please spend a few minutes researching pollination before just assuming that "technology" can solve a process that is handled by nature after billions of years of specialization by thousands of types of insects on thousands of different types of plants, trillions of times every year. Just hand waving some "mechanical means" is stuff that gets civilizations killed.
A lot of the concepts are similar, yes. A few key differences exist, specifically as it relates to architecture and user experience.
I take it back. There is a god, & she is funny.
It is not "coincidence" that Chinese are born in China and Polish in Poland. It is their inheritance, their birthright, the fruit of their ancestors' labors. To tear out all connection to one's history by calling it "coincidence" is, frankly, sickening.
Hispanic white supremacist groups are nothing new.
Not OP, but I struggle with Discourse search, both in terms of usability (not quite good) and presentation - both D. itself and it's search is made by someone who doesn't need to exchange information and persist it. After some attempts I just fallback to external search with 'site:domain.tld search term'.

Wasting 90% of my screen real estate while actually hiding useful information isn't helping too.
Please fix your printing issue
Show HN: WeExpire.org – Notes readable only after your death
Because your average user has no idea what you're talking about, nor do they care.
Airbnb was wild, disruptive and cheap: it wasn’t a love strong enough to last
It’s a good sign for climate security as USA is the top petroleum producer, but perhaps bad sign for national security as now we depend on less scrupulous nations for economic fuel.
Just a note for anyone basing their business on the .ai TLD.

It's technically the domain for Anguilla, a literal British colony in the Caribbean.

It appears to be managed by some random guy- check out the .ai registration FAQ: http://whois.ai/faq.html

If you are going to use .ai, just be aware the top level of the domain appears to be managed by some dude with a gmail account. Its not necessarily bad, but something to consider if you're planning to host your billion dollar AI startup on it.
VsCode + Volar + Vue + TS do what is expected. Fully typed autocomplete experience, same as for Typescript. Zero problems.
Yep the noise was always an issue, and from what I've heard it's actually getting worse because construction quality is going down. (In the old days, Korea didn't have much experience in construction, so they compensated by pouring a generous amount of concrete and steel, or so I've heard. Now they know exactly how much they need, so walls are getting thinner and thinner.)

A sad state of affairs.
The ChatGPT App for Slack
The Perk-Cession Is Under Way at Some Companies
I had read about the company Beemunity a while back. https://scitechdaily.com/beemmunity-pollen-sized-technology-...

> An early version of the technology ­– which detoxified a widely-used group of insecticides called organophosphates – is described in a new study, “Pollen-Inspired Enzymatic Microparticles to Reduce Organophosphate Toxicity in Managed Pollinators,” published on May 20, 2021, in Nature Food. The antidote delivery method has now been adapted to effectively protect bees from all insecticides, and has inspired a new company, Beemmunity, based in New York state.

The company (I think it's the same company) currently makes flower pots to attract and feed native bees, and they make food bricks that help boost bee immunity and robustness. Still a small company, and frequently out of stock.

You can click through the "health action" drop downs on their lickbrick page to see what each of the ingredients do. https://www.beemmunity.co/lickbrick
I use RSS-to-Email then read them in my mail clients. Most things get routed to a few folders without notifications that I open when I want news.

I'm using my own RSS-to-Email service https://feedmail.org but I've also used https://blogtrottr.com/ in the past.
It's way too big of a task for any one person to do individually (like trying to block ads online), and then you have the problem that people collaboratively moderating a stream together wouldn't have the same opinions on what content they actually want to see.

It's basically a hopeless problem.
I’m loving my A770. Absolutely zero issues with it and it’s handling raytracing and all with aplomb.
I quite frankly don't care if the government knows what porn I watch. I'm really tired of this puritanical-inspired take on privacy. Always the same examples.

Freezing assets is completely different, but I don't see how that's relevant in the context. You're just waving the vague feeling that government is this evil omnipotent being.
My data comes from a detailed analysis from the LAO, but back in 2018.

https://everythingsouthcity.com/2018/02/california-legislati...

It follows trends over the past decades in California where for emigration internal to the US, California loses more residents to other states than it gains, and overall population growth comes from international immigration.

If there were actually a change in this trend, I wouldn't doubt it, but I wouldn't believe the change unless I saw it from an actual analysis, not from the narratives that the media pushes in terms of fuzzy, sloppy news articles about feelings that get published in the main steam media.

The churn of news articles it based on the vibes of journalists, typically their friends and social circles.

For example, note the shift from terms headlines; people are leaving "high tax states" for "lower cost", but it's little known that "high tax" California is actually lower tax than Texas, except for those who are very wealthy.
Brave Search recently added AI answers and I'm surprised at how much I like it. To get the gist of a complex topic, it's better than Google's snippets, and better than being redirected to lengthy articles.
you have no screenshot.
Google Drive Accounts – Unannounced File Limits for Accounts
Relatively underhand change by Google early last month to limit all Google Drive consumer accounts to 5m files/folders regardless of whether you've reached the storage limit or not - paid or unpaid.

Causing chaos for lots of people, especially if you're utilising Google API's for storage and document editing for your own apps.

This was not announced, is not documented and was rolled out without notification.
You seem to be willfully ignoring the point.

There is no business model here that doesn't include "We sell your most private and sensitive data to the highest bidder". Because it's free, they can't make money any other way. And while for other browser extensions/software, you can at least audit the requests being made by the extension, this thing is sending away all your data because it has to in order to work.
There is no bolt! How can that pass manufacturing? Isn't there an inventory of every part installed?
While its fun to point out the hypocrisy and self-centered blinders of Californians, this is how most of the country behaves.

Raise taxes, just not mine (I'm not as rich as that other guy).

More affordable housing, but less sprawl. Don't tell me what to do with my property, but subsidize that last mile of internet.

Those evil (whatevers) need to pay their fair share, and give me free stuff
I saw Zuse's Z1 computer on the Museum of Technology of Berlin and I was astonished. Truly a work of art. He was the real world equivalent of WWII scientist characters that you find in comics.