skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The tragedy is that what was once a centerpiece of community has dwindled, and I think we are seeing the effects across society. Lack of community promotes addiction.

The Skinner boxes that are engineered into social media is a huge part of addiction. Social media is filled with digital versions of the psychological traps found in casinos. Social media weaponized dopamine.
Nominative reference to OpenAI's GPT would not be restricted, however, if you'd want to assert that the thing you made in your experiment is GPT or GPT-like, that might be iffy.
I’d say construction work is a close second offender in any major city with high population density.
I don't know that I would call a community disagreeing with you -- however loosely defined 'community' is on a semi-anonymous site -- victimizing. Downvoting is not shouting fire in a crowded theater; it's an expression of speech on the part of the voter. Not one that can be responded to directly, sure, but presumably at least some downvotes are an expression of disagreement that don't rise to the threshold of response on the part of the voter.

Brigading is another matter and limit my comment to 'normal' up/down vote patterns.
"... With only 7 colors and a refresh time of about a minute ..."

Ouch, even worse than expected. The project is interesting, but I'm totally unimpressed by these numbers; I wouldn't pay a premium for a sub par display that is slow as a dead sloth. A traditional LED screen plus some tricks to save power would make a much better picture frame IMO. I would for example use a PIR/microwave sensor (they're cheap!) to detect when someone is approaching or stationing near the picture frame to bring the CPU back from sleep and turn on the display and backlight. It would never reach the same almost zero current draw of a epaper screen, but the quality gain paired with the lower cost would probably make it a viable alternative.
ChatGPT: Guess a Number
Yep, way too late to keep me on it. I don't trust them anymore. You cannot just burn your users over and over and expect them to stay forever.
One would think that tracking companies are experts in that specific field.
No one can answer the op with out examples. Otherwise we're responding to made up scenarios in our head.

Two off the top of my head, he wants to say things perceived as hurtful on hot topics (trans rights for example)

Or he's bringing up controversial opinions at times where it seemed forced. I know personally this happened with a gun comment here

Edit for a third, he could be a "hard truth" guy and just saying things that come off insulting
They applied for GPT-3 back at december 2020; however, the trademark application for "GPT" (without the numbers) is a relatively new one, from december 2022.
> Why fight the stream if there's no good reason for it?

Why jump tool chains when you already have more than enough on your plate to keep up with?

I watched a conference presentation last week from a front-end person who talked about FE design. He pulled up a slide on bootstrap and said "if you use bootstrap, everything will end up looking like twitter. your login page won't be able to be creative, you'll just look like every other login page".

I had to push back at the end of the presentation with some BS support. I don't use it much any more, but the obvious misinformation about bootstrap continues in 2023, and it's bothersome. FWIW, the presenter said "oh yeah, you're right, and it can be used well, but some people just use the defaults".

Separately, my experiences with tailwind have been less than exciting. Perhaps if I spent the $300+ on 'premium tailwind components' I'd be more on board?

> easily interoperable between stacks so not really hard to pick up and useful if your project already uses it.

And if I don't use it? I get a fair amount of pushback from colleagues sometimes for not jumping on the 'newest' things. Spoiler: I don't deploy many projects with docker either. Is that 'fighting' it? Or just using other established/tested/documented tools and proceses to get a job done?
I find it fascinating. Jet engine combustion isn’t what you’re mostly hearing near an airport, when it’s really annoying.

It’s mostly the aerodynamic pressures coming from the flaps, the landing gear, and the angle into the airflow of the craft. Most planes are pretty quiet in cruise, in relative terms.

(Except for high-performance military-power engines that just don’t care. They have to defy gravity with much less stable glide lift. They also get to.)
Indigenous creatives are blazing trails in the gaming industry
Having children play outside did not used to be a "very narrow use case". Hopefully that is not our future.
That is obviously not true. Try driving through central London or central New York during rush hour. Subway will be much faster. Jogging will be faster for a moderately fit person.

Siena bans traffic out of necessity, not just on a whim. There simply isn't space for cars.
I believe the noisy shop thing is intentionally to discourage you from chatting. Chatty customers buy less. I think I read this in Trolley Wars.
To be honest, this sounds indeed quite like the mess that email is.

If the server isn't just a "dumb 'BLOB' storage" it will need to handle application logic (sooner or later, as this is actually what servers are for)…

But given that the application logic seems to be mostly unspecified, kind of wild west, where every client application can do whatever it thinks it's users like, this will unavoidably end in all the problems you have with email, where the server needs to know about all the specific details, quirks, and idiosyncrasies of every client ever built.

The whole concept reads like an implementation of "'Postel's Law' fallacy".
Yep! I play on the FA and Team Muppet servers, and at peak times during the day the server will be almost full (60 players).

But, that's kinda it, I doubt there are ever more than 1k people online at a time. But those same people have millions of XP (I actually have a PR open on the client ATM to abbreviate the XP in the scoreboard, which I think we finally need after 20 years lol)

If you play, make sure you use the etlegacy client, it is backwards compatible with many fixes/improvements.
anymore, you mean. Knowing history is good and so are mnemonics.
If you don't know the acronym SRI, then you probably aren't likely their target customer :)

The S used to stand for Stanford.

Just like RAND or Battelle or a half dozen others, it's nominally a non-profit organization that manages huge R&D projects, employs thousands of scientists and engineers, and manages government research facilities.
Downvotes aren't "suppression of dissenting views", they most often come from snarky and hostile comments or clearly incorrect information stated as fact. I've been on this site for more than a decade across different accounts and from my perspective things are mostly the same. A thoughtfully articulated comment or one that strikes a cadence of open discussion and humility is pretty much never downvoted.
I really appreciate the better signal-to-noise ratio here, but feel the moderation needs a "lighten up, Francis" in some places.
I would say it is B. With enough people in the mix, and given how the internet has only just bolstered what would have otherwise been fringe ideas, public forums will eventually shift into a state where there are enough users of subculture X with an axe to grid that will see your comment and downvote it religiously.
Who are the people in charge? How do they make money off this? Which industry has captured the regulators?
Ordering the Best Thing on the Menu
This is my stance as well. I have not chosen a successor yet, but I’ll have a look at Bitwarden, Keepass and the recently released Proton Pass.

Trusting Dropbox for sync (which I did) meant trusting a cloud service, too, but IMO it is a less lucrative target for hacks than a server that stores _nothing but_ credentials. Also, using DB made me less dependent on connectivity (LAN sync) and would let me switch providers quite easily.
These companies know that AI agents are coming at them hard and fast. I think this and other layoffs are happening now so they can cut down the numbers before the question becomes "Are you replacing them with AI?".

Which tracks with it not impacting "hourly frontline workers employed at the parks and resorts".
Fun story: jonh's package for doing embroidery for inkscape was forked years later to become the excellent and much more comprehensive InkStitch extension (https://inkstitch.org/)!
The Morningstar article had a few more details that I couldn't find anywhere else:

"As part of the donation, Xerox will enter into a preferred research agreement, called the Technology Exploration and Innovation Program, in which SRI will provide contracted research and development services to Xerox and its clients. Through the collaborative program, Xerox and SRI will identify topic areas relevant to Xerox’s core print, digital and IT Services business, with the final goal of creating proofs-of-concept and roadmaps to implementation. Xerox will also retain a branded Innovation Hub at PARC to host meetings, demonstrations and annual conferences for its clients."

It's unclear what the size of this revenue stream is compared to SRI's current revenues.
LD_PRELOAD is too global to be useful, it's hard to scope it to one process (and not child processes). macOS is better in the sense that it clears DYLD_* variables when the dynamic linker has done its work and the process starts. (Although that can also be painful when you want to run a shell script and set DYLD_* outside)
Couldn’t disagree more. Self censorship is a huge part of a functioning society and without it, we’re much worse off.

People need to find ways to express themselves productively, and when they don’t, other people must have the freedom to express their displeasure, or we won’t reap the benefits of free speech.
Given the community works through a voting system, the downvoting of provocative and speculative opinions is the community's way of signaling that such opinions aren't welcome – or at least need to be better worded to encourage discussion.

Calling that a "cultural of suppression" instead of "the intended outcome of a feature" seems weird.
I've noticed this with a lot of professions. Comp is back-loaded. They start much lower than software, but the good ones make it up in the end by being owners and having a crew of 10-20 work for them, and earning margin on their labor. Regulation and professionalization (e.g. you need to be licensed) seem to encourage this.

Software, assuming one doesn't go into management, seem to have a more linear comp structure. You start much higher, but it doesn't ramp as dramatically as most trade/licensed professions as you go up. Probably because there's less regulation/capture so even entry-level people keep more of what they produce, vs the almost-feudal nature of many trades/professions.

Just what I've seen, anyway.
Web3 is Self-Certifying (2021)
>It seems to me that the fact people are self-censoring is a problem, regardless of what their views are

You really think there are no views that should be self-censored? There exist many views that I believe are not worthy of being aired in public
It's not in your head, people who wield downvote power on HN are ultra mid & downvote anything outside of the "current thing" or "prominent worldview".

Like all online communities, HN suffers from the "most active people online do nothing IRL" factor, and the downvotes show.
I imagine it's because they want to get https://chatgpt.com/ without paying whatever huge sum is probably being asked for.
I would like to know more about this. Do you suggest wearing plugs made for music concerts? Or they are completely different?
How we all became AI's brain donors
"The Coddling of the American Mind" is a great book that explores this subject in depth.

Very bad overview that is a poor substitute for reading the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coddling_of_the_American_M...

> The book goes on to discuss microaggressions, identity politics, "safetyism", call-out culture, and intersectionality.[1] The authors define safetyism as a culture or belief system in which safety (which includes "emotional safety") has become a sacred value, which means that people become unwilling to make trade-offs demanded by other practical and moral concerns. They argue that embracing the culture of safetyism has interfered with young people’s social, emotional, and intellectual development.[2] Continuing on to discuss contemporary partisanship or the "rising political polarization and cross party animosity", they state that the left and right are "locked into a game of mutual provocation and reciprocal outrage".[2]

> The authors call on university and college administrators to identify with freedom of inquiry by endorsing the Chicago principles on free speech,[2]: 255–257 through which university and colleges notify students in advance that they do not support the use of trigger warnings or safe spaces.[3] They suggest specific programs, such as LetGrow, Lenore Skenazy's Free Range Kids, teaching children mindfulness, and the basics of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).[2]: 241 They encourage a charitable approach to the interpretations of other peoples' statements instead of assuming they meant offense.
Have you found any notable stories where someone genetically prone to stress has meaningfully overcome it? I tend to worry and control my environment but never quite find a sweet spot between knowledge and ignorance.
Honestly? Too bad. Abstract arguments without concrete examples tend to over or under weight specific outcomes, which ruins practical discussion.

Say what you think you can’t, and be prepared for others to also say what they think of what you say. Your speech doesn’t get special treatment just because you went first.
> That's why we have things like alcohol and don't have things like heroin.

No, by your logic, alcohol would have been banned long before any other mind-altering substance. A multitude of longterm studies[1] have borne out the fact that most illegal drugs are safer than alcohol on multiple metrics[2]. Contemporary drug policy is based on culture and superstition, not science and medicine.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11660210
[2] https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61462-6
I think one taboo topic is having positive things to say about projects using the C programming language. Immediately it’ll get hit with criticisms from rust promoters even if it’s a domain that rust is quite separate from.
I'm not sure about searches, but you can view the metrics for page views: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pageview_statistics
> The religion had nothing to do with it.

I would disagree with it.

Imagine if, Islam was opposing to the idea of science, as the largest religion of that area (which not only included Iran, but many others), what would happen? Science would have been abolished, stopped immediately. Instead, Islam encouraged people to learn more science, even greek philosophers work was translated by hiring Christian people.

On the other hand, economic and political prosperity after conquering many places helped people to calm down and focus on science, helping other people, coming up with solutions for different issues.

I think Islam had direct impact to the science of that era.
In my lifetime I’ve seen the general breakdown of civil discourse. I’m not totally sure it can be proven which side “started it”, but there has been a general trend where now that fringe scientist is not invited to parties anymore, and those ideas are shunned as if they carry evil energy.

As far as forums go, people here often try to keep things civil, serious, and in good faith (shoutout to dang), but IMO there is still that stain of “academic” bullying where the words stay polite, but their coded meaning is nasty and dehumanizing.
Another example: What used to be called the Stanford Linear Accelerator is now officially just "SLAC" (as the university holds trademark for "Stanford" and didn't want to share with the US Department of Energy)
My stress levels decreased after getting a pair of AirPods Pro 2. It literally creates a cone of silence around me.

I wish there was something similar I could wear during sleep comfortably. I tried earplugs but somehow my sleep is less restful with them in. I suspect they either make my inside noises more noticeable or block airflow during night time breathing.

I guess the other more expensive solution is to move to an apartment facing a courtyard rather than the streets or to get heavy noise blocking curtains.

I know Bose used to make noise canceling sleep buds but I’m not sure how well they work. Since they’re discontinued I’m guessing not well.
Yes that's what I meant. All you have is a variable and IDEs can't figure it all if there's no type on it.

Not just that, let's say even if type is known but some of the methods are generated on runtime than IDE has no idea about it.
SpaceX Starship explosion spread particulate matter for miles
Hacker News is one of the most censored general forums on the internet. The only forums that are more censored are run directly by the organization they are about and kept free of any negative information, like /r/bitcoin or forums that claim to be about something general but are really run by people who are using it to advertise, like /r/gadgets or /r/cryptocurrency.

These examples are all from reddit but apply in a general sense as well.
I have definitely seen that behaviour on my M1 MacBook Air, though not recently.

At the time I tried to do a screen recording but it didn’t show up. I figure it’s some weird hardware acceleration thing with the cursor that gets borked after a bad wake up.
Yea I am always wondering the same thing but what I am searching for normally is instant answers to questions while I am finding she is searching is more like “how do I…?” it is all fascinating to me…

Her older friends use TikTok in lieu of YT which might be “best of both worlds” but I am not ready to let her use TikTok
> Where do you keep your passport

Honestly, losing my passport probably wouldn't be as big a deal as losing access to my Google account.
That's pretty cool! How long will the app be available for and can you use a custom domain?
One thing my remote team does that I think helps massively with this is we have a zoom room that's always open and we use it for regular meetings like standup, sprint planning, etc. When the meeting is over, you can hop (many do) but you can also stay as long as you want. Even as a write this, I'm in the zoom meeting. You can go camera off, but if you ever have even a small question it's encouraged to ask. This has helped massively with keeping an open communication channel that feels organic and synchronous. I highly recommend this, but the key is it's fully optional, it's camera optional, it's mic optional, and there's zero punishment for not being there.
What was their domain/hostname at the time?
Figures against whom at fatwa has been pronounced, e.g. Clarence Thomas, are defended at peril.
Most executives and schoolchildren didn’t know what the hell they were a year ago. Now my middle schoolers are playing with them. That’s greater access by any reasonable measure.
I've teamed with SRI before. They're well known in the defense research space.
Fairly sure Bitwarden has done all that for some time. Having had to use both at work, I can't see any killer features that 1Password has in my use case and there are various small things that slow me down when using it.
how does the zoom channel help over a team slack channel or something like that?
I made an unholy mess with wax on pans yesterday, trying to melt down old comb from a deadout bee hive in a hot water bath.

Word to the wise: go to the thrift store and pick up some old pots and spoons before attempting this.
Yes, yes it is. For all their objectively bad qualities, I really hat them because they set off my allergies like nothing else.
Enzmann Starship (Orion Principle)
Exactly. This section on the website should explain it with some more detail: https://redact.ws/how-it-works#client
If you are on the Apple ecosystem, I highly recommend OTP Auth [0]. Very friendly UI with encrypted cloud backup where you control the key.

[0] https://cooperrs.de/otpauth.html
I think Xerox has been trying to unload PARC for a while, and this just seems like a way for them to do it and get a tax write-off since it's a 'donation'. PARC has already been doing a lot of government contract work, and I've seen teams from PARC and SRI compete for certain programs, so there's definitely synergy there. But I think PARC was historically more commercially oriented than SRI, so there will be some cultural differences internally.

Over time Xerox has gone quite far from where it was when PARC was founded and I think internal support for it had weakened a lot.

The bigger problem both orgs have historically had is on compensation and retaining talent. A lot of people tend to leave or get poached by major companies and their R&D units - lots of former PARC folks at X, and lots of former SRI folks across various robotics companies.
It's difficult to separate Persian history from Islam during the Golden Age of Islam in Persia.
I don't like leafblowers and other loud noises either, but isn't this article pretty thin soup?

"Stephanie Dutchen is manager of feature content and multimedia in the HMS Office of Communications and External Relations."
So the moment I leave my door until I reach my destination's door, I have my isolated Bose headphones on. Even if I'm not listening to anything, I keep them turned on and covering my ears. The other day I took them off and was alarmed by this loud sound of a car approaching just before I started to cross the street. I look over and it's a good 200m away.

Cars are ridiculously loud and few of us really recognize how loud they are.

I started nearly permanently wearing them because I read some articles about the effect of ambient noise on hearing over long-term. But since then I've also noticed how noisy and disturbing cities are in general. It's so damn peaceful and calm when I have the headphones on and I could never do without them anymore.
> Ever notice how, say, pro-gun politicians tend to want guns to be everywhere except near them? As a class, they aren't interested in dealing with the consequences of their policies.

I’ve also noticed that anti-gun politicians tend to have armed security teams with them.

I’m not giving up my guns until they do.
> most bosses wants to look good to higher ups which means promoting skills which helps the boss look good.

…which is how you end up with stagnant cultures like Meta and Google, who just sit around and wait for their lunch to get ate by their competitors. If you instead reward delivering the goods in whatever context, you don’t run into these problems! The company should maximize for being a successful business, not stroking its managers egos.
I apprenticed as an electrician in California briefly as my father was in construction. I decided quickly that I did not like crawling in hot attics, getting bit by black widows, and (worse of all) dealing with customers who think this is a minimum wage job.
Ever heard of Siri?

It was an SRI spinout, acquired by Apple in 2010.
https://www.sri.com/hoi/siri/
It gets applied by all kinds of people of all kinds of political persuasions. Ironically the description you just gave is very NPC tier.