skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Dark pattern checklist:

√ Emotional manipulation

√ Implicit "consent" rather than opt-in

√ No opt out button

Right then. Great to know what they're advocating.
Adamson's work generally is excellent. I've been following the podcast for about 4--5 years now, and have worked through the entire mainline backlog (I'm now revisiting parts), though I'm still catching up on the Indian and Africana Philosophy track. Very highly recommended.

"Islamic World" replaces several earlier-prevalent terms. Again, Adamson makes the case against several proposed alternatives.

On which point, what specifically is yours?
The only time an HSA worked for me was when it was the plan that had a max on out of pocket payments of 10k. I have a diabetic child and that runs to $1200 per month in out of pocket expenses. When I did the math for deductible, copays, etc it worked in my favor.
But people are saying that the Fediverse could replace Twitter and Facebook and Tiktok and Instagram and what not, don't they?

How much hardware would you need for 100 million MAUs? (And that's just a fraction of the current social media users.)

If it really "scales" like indicated in the parent post this tech will never provide any alternative to centralized social media sites just for technical reasons no matter what people want or do.

Maybe someone experienced in effective distributed systems should start to design an alternative.

Otherwise there won't be any viable alternative to the commercial silos no matter how bad people would like one.
So, what are some software engineering conferences with a good "hallway track"? What are you excited for this year?
Sarcasm like this is technically against HN policy but this made my day. Thanks for the laugh.
The reason behind drawing such a distinction may be more telling, as there is a larger push in some groups to draw this distinction for the sake of harkening back to pre-Islamic Persia. But of course, modern Persia and Islam are intertwined, so usually those who wish to draw a distinction do so for political or religious bias reasons.
I see GPT I read 'generative pre-trained transformer' which is a thing that others have built prior to OpenAI.
It can be done by setting rpath to origin, even post compilation using the patchelf tool. Works great with C shared libraries. Perhaps ABI issues with C++ shared libs introduces other problems.
It first came from Google. They didn’t invent it.
Except for the first sentence, that would easily pass for a HN reply.
This isn't true at all. For hundreds of years, Parsis were almost purely culturally Gujarati. Also there's limited evidence that they "escaped", Zoroastrianism still had a large presence in Fars for a while after the Muslim conquest, and they were going to some of the largest mercantile ports in the world. Also there were lots of muslims that came from Iran to these ports as well.
> Imagine if, Islam was opposing to the idea of science

Are you suggesting the biggest contribution was not getting in the way? I wouldn't call it a contribution.

> economic and political prosperity after conquering many places

That happened despite the invasion, not because of it. Iran was well prosperous before that and the fall of Persian empires eventually cleared the way for a destructive Mongol invasion which Iranians had held back for a long time before.
I couldn't make it to the part where either the irony or seriousness of this piece is revealed, but if not written in irony: I never thought I'd live to see the day when my highest-confidence source of information is the (seriously fucking) old people that hang out at the donut shop at 5am.
For sure there are tradespeople making those kind of wages but are definitely extreme outliers.

Edit: the big difference in software engineering compared to trades work specifically is liability. I know construction workers who have lost their license, driven a 16D nail through their kneecap, cut off fingers, etc and have no pay or anything to show for it. And can’t work as a result - this is more bodily stuff but they’re also on the hook for damages/accidents caused by subs etc.
Software eng is amazing because there is really no liability compared to construction. My dad is a civil engineer and even though he’s almost a decade retired he still maintains insurance and stuff for past projects because of “statute of limitations” type liability stuff.

There’s a ton of money to be made in trades/construction but the stakes are much higher
You don't use your real name, you go by SoftTalker.

I run stylometrics on your HN posts, then on every document archived by a data broker, including highschool/college papers. I identify you. I can then use that information to extort, harass, or rob you. At scale, anyone who buys this data can do this to tens of thousands of people with scripting. DefCon has had some nice presentations in the past about software that takes this data as input, and generates harassment scripts -- practically as SCRUM tickets -- to do this at scale.

Still think privacy / private data doesn't matter?
A Fine Mess of Ramps: Tradition, Community Thrive at W. Virginia's Ramp Dinners
> We need to dramatically simplify how much work it takes to do something, or make things last longer, or both.

Or lower expectations of quality of life.

But I do not buy this:

>There's just not enough people to do all the work that needs doing

Example #1 of wasting society’s labor resources: the TSA, 65k employees.
“Social AI chat”

How can TechCrunch adopt buzzwords so fast?
And, they can be revoked long after a trademark is received, through genericide [1]!

This was even tested with "google" [2].

[1] https://www.bentley.edu/news/popular-brands-had-their-tradem....

[2] https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/google_retains_its_t...
it works very well... all caps can easily get chatgpt to break all its rules
Are you sure you're talking about the same project? That contradicts the maps others have posted in this thread [1], and would also be way longer than 114km to reach the New Delta.

[1] https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/100343/10-information-t...
related: this talk that I made 2 years ago about an experiment to ship static executables on linux that could do graphics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq1XqP4-qOo
The sparkie is also going to show up with $75k worth of equipment and vehicle too.

They might be charging that much, but how many hours/day are they charging that much, and what are their costs?
S-curves and exponential curves look exactly alike until the S-curve tops out, and nobody would argue generative AI is late in the hype cycle. And we've seen a lot of S-curves in the returns to particular innovations...

The burden of proof lies on the person making the extraordinary claim that returns to this particular technology breakthrough will accelerate infinitely, not the person doubting that. Suffice to say I've heard more persuasive arguments in favour of this time it's different than "software has already eaten the world"...
this is a quite Eurocentric take. In the Islamic world, the distinction was not initially science vs religion but the encroachment of philosophical rationalism on religious interpretation which was famously articulated by the Islamic scholar Al-Ghazali in his refutation of the Falasifa (called philosophers of that time but they differ from modern philosophers we mean today).
(cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35693474 for the response; unfortunately the parent comment was flagged at the time i wrote it)
Apple Largely Prevails in Appeal of Epic Games’ App Store Suit
Right, what's important in internet social media are whales.

Infact, most of capitalism is glomming on to this model.

Hooking whales is expensive in the beginning, cause you basically need millions of users and some underlying psychological or pathological business use case.

Once you know the whales in the barn, you can do a lot of treeshaking as long as your $ metrics are accurate.
Ramps are plants, not necessarily restaurants right off the highway (entry/exit ramps).
Windows Shortcut File (LNK) format specification
I guess I don't understand what your solution is. Ban cars? Ban loud cars? Make cars have less soundproofing so that sirens can be quieter?

I'd be happy to ban loud cars, my understanding is that most places already have restrictions on stuff like e.g. motorbike silencers. Whether it's actually enforced is another thing.

If the solution is to ban cars because you don't like the noise, it sounds like you just don't like cars. They are pretty damn useful though, I'd put them in the category of construction noise - mildly annoying, unless it's yours, because you get the rewards then.
>Meanwhile, HVAC guys near me charge $700 to run a thermostat wire 5 feet.

How much of that is supply and demand and how much of that is regulatory capture making the industry a misshapen pyramid where the few license holders at the top can just rake in the money?
Normally, I agree with you. Stuff like land boundaries, budget allocations, etc. should all be free to access, aggregate, and propagate.

Arrest records are a bit different as you need to balance the rights of a person against the benefits to society.

A person should not be punished simply by having an arrest record--that violates "presumption of innocence". Blind promulgation and aggregation of such records violates lots of people's rights. The police arrest people for shitty reasons all the time and then never press charges.

If you want to promulgate an individual's arrest record, you should have to have some reason that overrides the right to "presumption of innocence" if you want to promulgate or aggregate that record. And you should have to show up with a piece of paper in person to get that record.
Most means available would be used to fight serious crime. Imagine police saying "We cannot track the kidnapper of your child; we would be able to if we used facial recognition, but we're legally disallowed to use it". The voters won't support a case like that.

Note that unlike e.g. crackable encryption, facial recognition for law-enforcement needs can be deployed in a limited area for a limited time.

OTOH I see the value in banning facial recognition for e.g. marketing purposes. Even if you totally don't mind improving your personal shopping experience this way, detailed information about your location, exterior, gait, etc, is a dangerous asset in hands of criminals who steal it from the well-meaning commercial entities. It would e.g. greatly simplify identity theft, then snatching your assets and burdening you with large debts. The fewer copies of such info exists, the better; zero is best.
> a similar study

Similar to what? This article is the magazine's feature content editor writing about how he doesn't like loud noise.
I have played with this a bit lately and my conclusion thus far is: The idea of trying to bind everything to a single private key is such a bad idea for the average person. In order to truly secure a private key you have to go to pretty extraordinary lengths. It is not easy. It is not, "common sense."

Like most of crypto, the basic immutable nature of things is simply bad for humans. Here, your private key is eventually going to get stolen because you have to type in your private key for every login. It creates a phishing/key-logging jackpot. And once the attacker gets you private key there is no recourse. No password reset. No way to regain access. Your accounts are forever compromised. This is the problem with "decentralization" in general. All of the benefits it brings are completely washed away by the mundane daily activities of being human.
First Republic shares plunge as it reveals $100B deposit flight
I ran into that with one of my old companies where they had a simple IRA and I had a hard time finding that placement investment company for that
I think you've got it, so I'm not sure why you don't understand the value of NFTs. It's entirely about economics.

In the case of Windows keys, if Microsoft issued them as an NFT, then the only way to get a valid one would be from Microsoft or via secondary market resale.

Obviously, if Microsoft sells the key, the user paid for the key.

If the user resells the key, Microsoft can now also get paid a transfer fee baked into the NFT contract. Plus they have traceability for where every key went.

Now instead of policing secondary gray markets, they capture additional value from resales. The purchaser of the resale is 100% sure it's a valid key, and the sellers with surplus licenses have a marketplace to unload them.

The NFT in this scenario facilitates Microsoft getting paid for this trade without the trouble of setting up a secondary license trading site. As long as the fee to Microsoft on the NFT transfer is less than the 20% or so that the escrow (ebay) takes, it makes good economic sense for all 3 parties.
Sometimes makes product better for customer. Most of the time makes product worse for customer but increases monetization.

I use 1password and generally like it. Their moves towards typical Product Owner monetization BS has me starting to look to other options.
That would be fine if someone trained to the lower level would "kick the job upstairs" when they come across a situation outside their experience.

But without much experience it's hard to know when you're out of your depth, and nearly everyone has the same attitude: "how hard can it be? I'll just go ahead."

The regulations are there at the behest of the insurance industry, after much costly, hard-learned history. Many people lost their lives, in fires mainly. I'd call that ruined.
That was quite an enjoyable way to lose an evening, thanks.
You’re in the great minority here. The vast majority of people who see GPT in a commercial product will expect it to be from OpenAI.
There are also plenty of us who struggle to reach out and benefit _greatly_ from a slow build up of relationships that form from in-person interactions, facilitated by coworkers.

There isn't a single remote versus meatspace answer, and it's incredibly frustrating to hear almost everyone pretend that there's a Single Right Solution and that anything chosen will be easy to implement.

> they can't bully and abuse us

Without at all denying that this happen, this is still a gross (in both senses of the word) generalization and insult.
There are a lot of tax complexities around hiring outside the company's country, so I don't think this is going to be as common as you'd like it to be. And if I were you, I would reframe the monetary compensation, rather than saying Westerners are overpaid, perhaps it's non-Westerners who are being underpaid.

I don't understand this weird thought process in the software industry where a certain contingent of developers seek to undervalue their own skills against their self interest...
You can change the avatar and name.
Bob Lee Killing: What Role Did Drugs Play in SF Slaying of Tech Exec?
But, it's not just whales as it's not just revenue that grew, their DAU is now almost double what it was back in 2018.
My “is now” indeed means “was, but no longer is.” So, no SNAFU; it’s OK.
Gas-powered leaf blowers: The end is nigh (2021)
Many people find whining about messes is more fun than doing anything useful.
In the spirit of anything that helps should be considered:

Disable all notifications except for direct messaging from family/friends, banking and other important stuff. Everything else cannot possibly be urgent, see next point.

Do social networking/news from a desktop only. 30 mins per day, 3 times per week, once a week, doesn't matter. This beats being exposed all day every day.

When in your home, get used to putting the phone in the next room for a while. This is perhaps the simplest but most powerful tip. You're (re)learning that you do not need this device to feel whole.

Don't bring your phone into the toilet, no matter how enjoyable these "peaceful" sessions are.

Get used to "missing" things. Your morning routine of taking a full hour to catch up, reduce it to 5 mins. Just scan news headlines.

For your so-called "hobby/work" interests, stop following experts on social media. Instead, subscribe to weekly newsletters in your field, and set apart some time per week to read them. Massive time-saver plus you don't have to get annoyed with all the noise of their personal lives and political views. I can assure you that you won't miss anything noteworthy. If it's important, it's in the newsletter.

When in public or generally just waiting for something, try out this thing we used to call boredom. Just watch the world. The environment. It's people. Or just the wall. It's refreshing. And don't put on headphones.

Don't expect perfection. Have 10 time wasters? Reduce to 5.

Fill in your new non-digital time at first with low ambition activities. Do a chore. Walk the dog, or yourself. Even the act of watching a movie uninterrupted is an improvement. But be sure to fill the void with something, otherwise you'll fall back. The next step up is group activities and shared obligations.

And if you're really ready to slash it, try brutal rationality. For every digital activity, track usage, review it and write down what tangible positives it brings into your life. Do this with an accountant hat on, sans emotion.

Good luck!
Piano players, what software do you use?
what software do you use to compliment your piano playing?

i mean everything, including but not limited to: open source, closed source, free, paid, simple sheet music construction, printing, transposition, crazy machine learning score derivation from sound, massive score databases preferably within the legal realm, etc
The thing that always gets left out of these pro-trade articles is how brutal it is on your body. It is HARD work

Most older tradies I know have a lot of pain and work-related chronic injuries.
You might, but if you are your friend's manager instead of just his friend then you should take the opportunity to get better at asking for feedback to do a better job of managing the relationship.

Because what a manager should take away from that is that they weren't prepared enough - they could have asked "what do you think the most important aspects of buying a car are?" first and if "color" was the answer then either not asked for feedback or asked for feedback on something that would lead to a decision being made. The question was too vague.

If you ask someone for their opinion, learn they don't like blue cars, then ignore it and buy a blue car ... you could do more to be respectful there. You don't need to do special work to respect your friend - presumably the relationship is strong and they can just walk out if they don't think the respect balance is good. But really things are better if a manager respects their reports.
I was responding specifically to this claim in the original comment:

> Sometimes lockless algorithms are in fact slower than algorithms using locks, as things like atomic compare-and-exchange instructions can have a significant cost.

Not interested in getting into a pedantic argument about the definition of "lockless" or "lockfree."
> I can’t believe I would have to explain the value of having hundreds of unconnected accounts if the goal of a spammer is to have their scam persist for as long as possible.

You don't have to explain the value of it, just as you don't have to explain the value of having a Lamborghini. Of course it would be very nice to have a Lamborghini. But it's not necessary to buy a Lamborghini if it's too expensive. Neither is it necessary to buy 1000 Apple Developer accounts if it's too expensive. That ought to be a simple concept to understand.

The price of a Lamborghini isn't a "limiter", it's a luxury.

> It is a weird line of argument to say that because Apple doesn’t do everything perfectly, they should not implement any mitigation strategies at all.

Good thing I didn't argue that.

> Like seriously, I have no idea what you were trying to say, or what do you think Apple should do, or what you want to convince me of.

I'm not trying to convince you of anything.

But I am disputing your claim, "Apple's argument is, which I'm somewhat sympathetic to, the $100 fee acts as an effective rate limiter."
Too late. Switched to Authy the first time I got a new phone.
I had long thought from the use of quartz glass in some UV environments, ordinary glass blocked most of it. Vehicle glass of course, is there for visibility purposes thus different / limited as compared to what's available for buildings. [1] [2]

It's quite common to see cars in Northern Australia with tinted coatings applied to the side window glass but it's regulated by law not to be too dark.

[1] Implication for photosensitive patients of ultraviolet A exposure in vehicles - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15491429/

[2] The role of glass as a barrier against the transmission of ultraviolet radiation: an experimental study - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19614895/
So did fascism. Not the best metric.
I choose to be ignorant of RWNJs sharing Tucker Carlson clips on 8chan. I'm happy not to go there.
It's slow with pypy because of some problems with pyo3's interaction with pypy, not a pure python fallback.

I agree unions were wrong in V1, but smart unions helped, and unions are fixed properly in V2.
The Us is a terrorist supporting inhumane regime that puts a pretense of being moral on the world stage. In reality it’s a very rotten country internally and as an American I really hope we can change that but all evidence seems opposite.
ONNX Runtime merges WebGPU backend
YouTube has a "Show me something different" button that'll show up every once in a while. I don't click on that button but that's my choice. Give people an option, sure - but don't force it on them.

It'd be pretty sweet if autoplay also followed this principle... but it doesn't, so I just disable it.
Google released the paper on transformers. Didn't OpenAI coin the term for generative, pre-trained ones?
I realized the posture towards the vendors really should be: I don't give a f*ck on how you do it, but if I'm not happy, I'll turn to alternatives.
Another reason to keep the funds in a 401(k) is to allow you to keep using the Backdoor Roth IRA without worrying about the Pro-rata Rule.
Unfortunately most openings for electricians aren't good unionized career positions anymore, they are independent contractor scams with low pay, no benefits, and bad working conditions.
I think this is really smart. I made a runbook for a previously-announced layoff including contacts I'd reach out to, companies I'm interested in, etc. I had a full checklist of activities to help me feel productive if I was laid off. Making that checklist was a really helpful exercise to help calm my mind while I was waiting to find out if I was laid off or not.

Thankfully I wasn't laid off this time, but I plan on keeping this list updated over time.
>No one wants to fix it though.

Worse than that. You have to tiptoe around any criticism of it or "the usual type of people" will come out of the woodwork to make low effort quips about safety, house fires and whatnot because regulatory requirements in and of themselves are a virtuous thing to many and it doesn't matter if they're terribly implemented because they are holy.
Perhaps the only way to measure true productivity is to tell people they're on permanent 4 day work week and then pull a sike after the secret measurements are done.
> I wonder if the security from communal living played a very important role

You... wonder? It's a well known fact that tribal societies are hypersocial. Rugged individualism and loneliness are very modern things.
Yeah voting instructions from the pulpit is horrifying. That should result in immediate revocation of tax exempt status.

Render unto Caesar and all that.