skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
people tune these stories out because they've been published continuously for decades

we were told the US Debt at $10 tln would doom us

then $20 tln

then $30 tln

no different than pension funds...doomsayers were declaring CalPERs dead in the late 90s

maybe the USA is the ultimate Too Big To Fail and we can take the national debt to $100 tln?
I suspect Twitter is also "dead walking" at this point.
CRT places black people in the center of the political universe in the same way that Marxism places the proletariat at the center of the political universe. (I’m not using the comparison to Marxism pejoratively, it’s simply apt.) That’s the whole point. It is by design a framework for criticizing the failure of traditional liberal principles to remediate the disadvantages facing black people in America. When CRT purports to address other non-white races, it does so only by treating them as another kind of black person. Hence the term “people of color,” which is just a way to project how the CRT framework conceptualists black people onto all non-whites. (And on the front it’s wrong. It’s central premise that racism is a structural problem requiring a structural solution is wrong as applied to Latinos and Asians just as it did not apply to Italians.)

That focus carries through to the “pop” version of CRT manifested by folks such as Ibram Kendi and Nikole Hannah-Jones. In “how to be an anti-racist” Kendi doesn’t grapple with any of the implications of his ideas beyond the hoped-for effect on black people. In the quote from Hannah-Jones, she reduces “nearly everything truly exceptional about America” to slavery.

It also manifests in how ordinary liberals today talk about political theory. For example, despite the obvious advantages of federalism for a multi-ethnic democracy (which is why India has a federal structure) it’s impossible to get ordinary liberals to approach federalism except from the perspective of how it was used to uphold segregation. Similarly, critiques of the Senate invariably mention that it empowers primarily white states as if people’s skin color is the problem.

This is of course not a critique of CRT. It’s an analytical framework designed to analyze and solve the challenges facing the specific group that created it. But when it’s adopted as a generalized political theory, it leads to the antagonism noted above.
They should make Ultra have a limited time countdown, to stress people into FOMOclicking.

But of course, for maximum trap potential, we need to find a wording such that Premium is the option without, while Ultra tracking and Basic tracking should both do roughly the same amount of tracking (modulo not really relevant details). With a sufficiently discouraging wall of text, a bad UX, and a limited time option, no one would spend the time to figure out they need to click the middle option.

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My Emacs eye candy
And doesn't Feedback Hub require signing in to that app with a Microsoft Account? And the default behavior when signing in is a prompt that says "sign in with a Microsoft everywhere", with the "just this app" option in the corner? Dark patterns everywhere.
> Why would tech companies, who bring in billions in profits each quarter, be so dependent on zero interest loans?

At least in the case of Facebook and Google, they were getting revenue from the rest of the startups that were dumping cheap money into marketing for growth. When that cheap money dries up for the startups it dries up for GOOG and FB as well.
I had a Zune back in the day and I loved it. It had FM radio! And I was able to write software for it!
I don't think deniable encryption is needed, you just need to not say under oath "there is nothing on the drive that could incriminate me". If you say that you lose your protection and they can force you to provide the contents. Destroying keys, including wiping a LUKS header, wiping a TPM, destroying a USB hardware security key, etc. is destroying evidence and a crime. Not providing your really long password is not a crime, as long as there is some doubt (doubt you and your lawyer can carefully cultivate) regarding the fact that nothing on the drive incriminates you.
oh, I'm sorry, I wasn't talking about Scott. I don't have any problem with him. My problem was with some of the comments on Scott's blog, specifically with the (suspected) troll who used degrading and objectifying language to talk about Scott's wife, rating her appearance and calling her a "TERF Karen." There's a stereotype of trans women as violent men shouting down and degrading women by calling them TERFs, which has been used to rile up the public against us (particularly in the UK, see JK Rowling for example.) I assume that was a troll pouring fuel on the fire.

So to sum up, I have nothing against Scott, I'd greatly enjoy meeting him and reading his blog, I just had a bad time in the comments section today.
Psoft Pencil+ 4 Line for Blender
Are local libraries still offering DVD checkouts? May want to renew my card.
This is a neat way to discover subreddits; arguably better than mechanisms already built into Reddit.

Also TIL that only ~15-20% of reddit is NSFW.
The only was I can remember which is port and starboard is by thinking about boarding an airplane. The steps/tunnel are always docked on the 'port' side, just as boats always dock on the port side. The cockpit/bow is always on your left when you board.
There's no exception for "functional cookies". There's an exception for cookies "strictly necessary" for an "explicitly requested" service. I don't see how remembering you don't want cookies is strictly necessary or explicitly requested. Unless you have a separate optional check for "remember my decision" I would argue that not asking every session would be a violation of the ePrivacy law.
Once you've recorded your vote, you personally insert it into a sealed box with a slot.

The boxes are opened for counting as part of a public process, with independent observers.
Yes, in that situation, you can confidently tell them to look to their right, because you can assume that most of them will sit in direction of travel and face forward. However, the same is not true for a sailor who might be running around on deck.
I'm confused. Are you sure high DPI needs patching system controls to avoid pixelation? Doesn't dpiAwareness avoid the pixelation? I certainly haven't needed to patch anything for this in the past. If you have an example you could point to, that would be great, since I don't know if I'm missing something here.

Also, question: do you know of a good way to test for high-DPI mode on a low-DPI screen?
There's always tracking via the googleapis.com domain which breaks the site if you try to block it.
Stop using Telnet to test ports
Any room for error is a guarantee that a human will mess it up. Left already has a definition, so there's room for confusion; a word specifically talking about the ship is more concise.
Wow.

I have used Arch as my main system for 6 years now (was Gentoo before) and never had anything of the sort.

How does this even happen?
> at least is an attempt to follow the standard

There's a standard that blesses automatically running a media application when headphones are connected?

Unless it can be disabled, that behavior is beyond obnoxious.
Beautiful animations! I love how they make understanding this more intuitive and can be adjusted to play with different settings.

One thing that I generally felt is missing in these discussions is how TLS messes up load balancing strategies. I did my own research on what to do when you want to have TLS and not terminate at the load balancer. I covered that in a blog post available here: https://er4hn.info/blog/2023.02.18-tls-load-balancer/
> OneWheel group rides

Nah, learning the unicycle seems too difficult just for the off-chance of making new friends.
> With paper and pencil, what happens if a mark got erased? If the circle is half filled? If the circle is quarter filled? All of these are questions that will be the subject of lawsuits in a mix of jurisdictions.

Votes are counted by humans. It's not "fill a circle", it's "draw an X in a box". It's not ambiguous.
I like this description, but I have always thought that the saying "There is some red port left in the bottle" a much simpler way of remembering the conjunction of these terms. Assuming you are fasting forwards in the boat of course!
They should get rid of these terms, as they are distracting.

A big part of the training material for boating license is about learning things that people are not using in practice, which makes less time / mental power to learn what is really important to survive and avoid crash (what's really important).
Serious question here: Why would someone NOT want to know Linux?

When ignoring the short term, what's the advantage, if any, of using a system without mastering it?
Is it any comparable to the APIpocalypse that already happened to Twitter a decade ago ?
Imagine you are crew, standing on a ship. You are facing east, and the bow of the ship is facing north. It’s night and there is a thick fog.

You hear a cry “man overboard on the left!”

Where is the overboard person? Are they to your left, the ships left, or the left of the person shouting?

If the cry is instead “man overboard on the port side!” there is no question.
There were a ton of people here really into Ivermectin in the late 2020's.
Of course, but this article explains what each word means.

Starboard => Means "steering side of the boat" (b/c the oar was on the right side due to sailors mostly being right handed)

Port => The side that faces the port when docked
Historical Usage of Memory Bank Controllers in Game Boy Carts
> so what's left to value in their overall organizational brand?

They have the worlds greatest dataset of everyone - their posts, their photos, their social graph. Now train generative AI on this.

They can build personal and unique AI products that no one else can at their scale because they’ve sent the last 20 years getting to know everything about everyone.
It's still self-incriminating to say you were guilty of covering for the murderer or, in this case, terrorist.
It's a shame too for those that live in more rural areas where broadband services / streaming really aren't a solution.
Ask HN: People with “prompt engineer” in their title, what do you do?
Forgiveness definitely came with a hefty price tag --- not just in monetary terms but also credibility --- assuming their viewers really care.

I think most Fox fans are seeking affrimation more so than truth --- it's how religion works. We're going to lie to you --- but it's for your own good.
There is no budget, for a long time. Only spending resolutions. And they’re not b balanced.
I don't think any OS comes with all games made the last 20 years out of the box. Nor one which supports any game made the last 20 years.

But yeah, mouse scroll speed is an excellent example of the harm GNOME does to GNU/Linux adoption.
The idea is that the mail-in ballots go into the same kind of chain-of-custody ballot box that happens in a polling place once the identity is verified (same as what would happen at the in-processing table in a polling place). Once your ballot makes it in that box, it's counted. If you've got a competent election system (e.g., Oregon), it's easy to figure out if your ballot has made it into that box or not. You don't need anything fancier than that.
Answered upthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35615264
I think the markets have already priced this in, so there will be basically no reaction. Zuck has more or less announced the cuts already.

"but ... why?" they have a ton of talent because they pay top of band and they staff their workforce with great employees. Great talent wants to be paid well and wants to work with great talent, meta has both.

For what its worth, meta has more employees now than they had in Q1 2022, and these next rounds of layoffs put them at staffing levels of like Q3 2021. The reality is that Meta and other huge companies grew headcount faster than revenue, and need to unwind some decisions they made.
I definitely get hit with a "sign in to siri" on a regular basis. The iPhone I use is a dev phone, I don't need all of the iCloud, etc services. So I suspect that anybody who says "Do it later" will be hounded just like I am.
Yup, after a few seconds I was stressed out and had to leave. Imagine the added anxiety when I swiped left to go back (safari) and it didn’t work!
I see that you are probably referring to the claim at 4:30... but I'm not sure he is actually saying that the early model had no text capability or if it merely was not something they were given access to.
My shortcut: "port" and "left" have the same number of letters.
I'm a CPA, so I super do get it.
It is cheap.

It's a neglected heap of legacy garbage, maintained just superficially enough to maintain profitability from its inertial marketshare (i.e., how everything runs on it already and how it's a massive coordinate problem to ever change that).

The KDE Dolphin file manager is way better than Explorer, feature-wise, and has been for probably over a decade. Dolphin was made for free by like five Dutch guys. Explorer is from a multi-billion dollar corporation that's buying every service and other company you know. I guess it's not profitable to improve user UX, so you have ridiculous artifacts like how much Explorer still sucks and how long it's sucked. :D (I think it only got a dark theme, like... 5 years ago? Linux file managers have had those for decades.)

If you're lucky enough to experience a change in your priority matrix such that things Windows is bad at (like programming) become more salient to your well-being than things Windows is good at (like playing AAA games), I recommend trying Linux (shout out to Manjaro) out. I'm glad I experienced that change, allowing me to flee to Linux and never look back.
That's not true. Directive 2002/58/EC explicitly says that it's fine to condition use of websites upon acceptance of cookies:

> Access to specific website content may still be made conditional on the well-informed acceptance of a cookie or similar device, if it is used for a legitimate purpose.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX....
The industry grew a lot. I don't have the recent numbers but around the time AWS became a household name the growth in the industry was about 5% yearly. Programming was one of the fastest growing industries for a while (probably not true with recent wave of layoffs, but it's probably still growing). But it grows very non-uniformly. There's a lot more growth in the Web sector. Web is one of the areas with more simplified infra, which can be catered for by the public cloud providers more easily. So, while there's growing demand it's satisfied by services rather than employees knowledge.

Another factor is promotion into management. Programmers have very little to look for in terms of professional growth. Those who "make a career" tend to go into management. It's so to the point that if you were in the industry for 20 years and you aren't a head of a department at least, you are seen as a loser. So, a lot of those who did know their trade decade or two ago are ticking boxes in Excel today.

Yet another aspect is the nature of venture capital investment into startups which encourages very wasteful short-term solutions. So, while it may be a more financially sound strategy to do things on-prem, the investments are rationed in such a way that there's no money to build the infrastructure upfront, even if in the long run this would've been a better financial strategy.
But then how can their license allow commercial use?
It's funny to me that some olaf 1000 years ago just called them what they were; the steering side and the docking side, and now we have to use the same words which don't make any sense to us. I vote we just call them the steering-side and the docking-side again.
I doubt this "potential market" is going to shrink, relative to when Valve started investing in Open Source operating systems.
As a user, I generally agree with this article. There are a couple of things that I don't like about Safari (extension icons are on the top left, not the top right, and the security certificate icon is too close to the site name in the search window, just to name my top two peeves). But it works well. Firefox is fine, Edge is acceptable, and Chrome is crap.
Namshub et' tulpa an open source digital novel
Hey there… I’m doing something a little weird.

I started off writing and then a while ago I learned how to code, this project I’m combining the two.

So it is a ‘digital book’, incorporating JavaScript into the narrative.

It’s also open source, I’m not trying to make any money from it, so if any of the underlying ideas or code is useful - just reference where you got it from :)

The premise is as follows:

Martha wakes up finding she may have killed someone. And a stranger named Rossin, claiming to be effectively an imaginary friend warns of a creature bound in her head.

He tells her of a world controlled by the Awakened, people able to use namshubs: crafted pieces of information designed to control and bind minds. And that this complete control of the populous was pedestrian to what they could do, and what she could eventually do.

Rossin tells her she was pulled into a plot to kill his author, and asks her to help him extract revenge.

Currently it’s not hosted anywhere - so to read it, you need a dev environment (think vscode/nodejs/npm), that’s one of the pain points I’m smoothing over. (also, the code quality is meh, it needs work)
Most of the headcount is to maintain an advantage over competitors in a competitive market, thus ensuring future revenues.

It's mostly not for this year's revenue.

Related to this, the government now requires accounting Software Developer salaries to be amortized over 5 years, instead of all being booked in the year you pay them.

Edit: oops, the R&D portion of SWE salaries.

Edit2: Related to ensuring competition, this means that if your competitors slow down then you can too. If your competitors lay off, then you probably can to.
Did Twitter need to be more than keep the lights on?

I thought HN's refrain 2 years ago was how ridiculous it was that a simple product that didn't need to add features had a large headcount + how many businesses would be better off running stable instead of for growth.

Well, here we go.
Whether "the left" means your left, the ship's left or yet another left (the harbour's?) is highly ambiguous. You can't assume that everyone will instantly understand this correctly.

I think starboard and port make more sense here because they only describe parts of the ship, so the meaning of the terms is completely unambiguous.
"Left" vs "the left" is not good enough. That could still mean either concept semantically, and you can't be sure the person speaking to you didn't mess up the convention when the two are that close.

A crew (any kind of crew) requires exceedingly clear communication. "Ship left" and "ship right" could work, but what if the environment is noisy and you're not sure if the first word was "ship" or something else? Domain-specific, unique terms are fantastic tools for crews.
>there were clear estimates of the degree of heritability of various psychological disorders - especially disorders with strong organic elements like schizophrenia

How can this be stated with any certainty when we don’t even have a medical definition of what schizophrenia actually is, just a description of some symptoms. What are these genetic components, and how can we be at all sure it isn’t a behavioral transmission?
This might be very useful for autopsy, but it will never be useful in human beings for several reasons, most notably

> a special set of gradient coils that are 100 times stronger than those in a clinical MRI

In human beings this goes far beyond the level of what is legal and is close to the level where it would directly interact with cardiac muscle

https://mriquestions.com/nerve-stimulation.html
Is it bad to be jealous of people that are much better than you are?

I mean, for your own sake, ideally you are not, but I think it’s reasonable.
I totally agree. I think that this is an element of the larger problem, which is trying to be solved by Interop and just general compatibility issues with Safari throughout the years. One of the biggest pain points in my web dev journey has been supporting Safari and for that I support Chromium and the accompanying devtools completely. This article is purely based on my usage experience, though, nothing other than that.
This is a great question imo but I struggled to find anything very good. I found a forum post, https://www.sailnet.com/threads/double-ended-ferries-which-e... and between the trolling it seems that fore/aft and port/starboard switch when the direction reverses, including eg navigation lights (red for port, green for starboard). And they tend to also have a one end and a two end or an A/B end, and those labels don’t change.
I’ve always remembered it by “port and left both have 4 letters”. It has always worked for me.
I don't get what facebook is doing with all that headcount in relation to their product and in comparison to other companies... even 20k feels too high, much too high still?!
They are not distracting. There are many intense situations on a boat, and a crew is required to cooperate in order to survive. This means you must have extremely precise wording to quickly explain what needs to be done. This vocabulary is important for this reason, and is able to sharpen focus, rather than distract.

It requires a process of learning, and that is intentional.
Of course what follows then is the implication the individual is not misguided in selecting for desirable traits.

You're basically arguing perhaps for something like decentralized eugenics rather than authoritarian eugenics.
Same reason we have North/South/East/West, basically
This isn't accurate, either. Most of us are decidedly not facing the direction of travel. Specifically, we are evenly split in large parts of the boat, as they have bench chairs that face each other. Or you are on the side of the boat facing out.

The ferry is actually a very odd boat in this, btw. As I am not clear that starboard/port are fixed. The boat literally goes in both directions, such that I'm assuming I don't have to know which is the "front" of it irrespective of the direction it is currently traveling.

I get your point, that things can be difficult. And I appreciate having jargon that is specific for an attempt to make things clearer. I just find this as the sole explanation kind of unsatisfactory. Seeing the history of the terms makes a lot more sense.
And yet plenty of people are still there on twitter. There have been plenty of reasons to leave and some have (Mastodon is now up over 11M users) I count myself as one of those leavers. But so far there hasn't been a mass exodus, there have been several small exoduses. When you boil the frog slowly it tends to stay in the pot: that seems like what we're observing at twitter. The degradation has been slow enough that most users are ok with it, at least so far.
considering Elon has cut 80% and still can’t turn profit there isn’t much counting going on.
LLM usefulness is rapidly reaching a plateau and I suspect the hype (and anxiety) will die down soon. Also as someone who uses LLMs daily they are far from being a silver bullet to everything and it doesn’t appear to be changing in the near future. Go study CS and enjoy your education, you will be needed!
In the newspaper industry, the 'Customer' refers to the advertisers who pay for the ads, advertorials, sponsored content, etc that actually make the publication a viable business model.

The individual who buys and reads the newspapaper is referred to as the 'Consumer'.