skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's fine if you're writing a 20 page graduate dissertation, but for a daily article on npr.org or whatever that's just overkill.

If the publisher is taking on a complicated topic, then it does need all of that information, at least via a link. Otherwise, we have the never ending clickbait of bullshit “articles” with one nebulous average intending to lead people to think something notable has happened, when it really has not.

There is so much propaganda floating around because people accept massaged averages as truth, I cannot imagine it is a benefit to society. Also, in this context, we happen to have wonderful machines and networking that allow us to share data at basically zero marginal cost.

> Not to mention, in many cases the reason why it's being omitted from news stories isn't because of some nefarious motives by the author, it's because the source material only mentions medians.

Yes, it goes without saying that the blame them moves up to the entity that has the data, but chooses not to release it.
From my point of view, I'm not actively making it harder, I just don't make it as simple.

My development process usually starts in the terminal, as I am a terminal user and do iterative development there as well as tinkering with system interfaces.

A CLI is the natural first product of my development. Building a web interface is additional work. Also, it's been a decade since I have written any reasonable web frontend.

Granted, it's not a real TUI with curses and stuff, but I like to do some eye-candy with escape sequences. Because I am the most frequent user of my tools and I always like seeing something I deliberately made look good. :)
Profanity is (and importantly, always has been) an extra punctuation mark. It's an embellishment that draws people's attention; that makes something all the more memorable.

Is it required? No. Is it unreasonably effective for the character count? Yes.

And - as with most everything - folks will live a happier life ignoring profanity than trying to get the world to to stop swearing. Especially since swearing is so fucking fun.
According to Google, it's straightforward to militarize an AR-15 into a semi-automatic (possibly more, didn't chase links). No need to hunt with a semi unless you're interested in hamburger.

Per comments - brain-fart. Militarize into full auto. I don't hunt, sorry, merely worked with hunters back in the early 80's.
I wish there would be a health tracker without a display that I could wear in combination with my g-shock.
Losing the war and Ukraine is unavoidable, the new generation is a hope we have for the Russians. Before this war I was stupidly thinking that most young Russians are more similar with us Easter Europeans then Americans, I was wrong, we have a shared experience of the terrible communist era but for some reason Russians what the URSS back (but they think this time it will be better)
> Each view of a Stranger Things episode generates exactly zero dollars.

I stopped watching shows on Netflix and subsequently cancelled my subscription. The value isn't in Netflix having content. Rather, the value is in viewers' consuming of content. Surely each view of an episode contributes to the revenue generated by the viewers' subscription fees.
I keep this article in my bookmarks re: how to write a proper complaint letter. It talks specifically about credit reporting agencies, but a lot of what he says can be applied anywhere else: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...
OpenTelemetry is going to be an existential threat to DataDog and other companies that effectively rely on vendor lock-in to exploit customers. Not sure how companies rationalize these types of services at scale when there are so many open source options to run for a fraction of the cost. You could hire 100+ engineers and still save money compared to a 65M bill

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34540419
Public Preview of BigQuery differential privacy
They also do client side monitoring, log aggregation, and provide metrics for your overall operations (not just when there are performance issues).

They also have quite an unethical sales operation:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35837965
Does this mean it will not be implemented?
I'm almost glad they're doing this on self-checkout now, since it clearly demonstrates that they will ask for tips even when there is no actual reason whatsoever.

Before this, you always had to wonder if perhaps you were being unreasonable in not tipping someone who merely rang up a purchase for you. After all, if the machine is prompting for a tip, then perhaps a tip is appropriate in this circumstance? But now it's clear that they will ask for tips even when it's absolutely unwarranted. So you can now decide for yourself where the 'line' is on tipping, since "did the machine suggest a tip?" is no longer an accurate heuristic.
Writers don’t go to production any more. It’s all mini rooms these days.
As nikhilsimha says, you can vote.

Nothing you do yourself matters. It's not about what you do as an individual, because your choices are constrained by the large scale infrastructure.

Giving up your car means little, but voting for a vast upgrade to public transportation means a lot. So does voting to redesign the way we build cities and suburbs, because our current streets and zoning are laid out for the assumption of cars.

Reducing your meat consumption means little, but changing the agriculture subsidies makes a difference. Your own habits are a microscopic signal; to shift the economics of it requires a collective reconsideration of who we are -- away from "we are the nation of people who don't eat meatless meals".

Right now those things aren't even on the ballot, because they're hard, and even people who accept climate change are afraid of getting massacred for even suggesting that something hard might be in order. Which is why the #1 thing you can do is send the message: "I will not vote for you if you deny climate change. Belief in science is my top priority and I'm not going to accept your conspiracy theories."
Gemini:// is a protocol that currently feels a lot like the geocities-era web. It is not yet September there. You’ll find how to get in if you try hard enough.
It seems, though, that those fees are really an American problem.

I've never encountered crap like this in Europe or Asia.

The worst I encountered, in Penang, was that VAT was not included and charged extra.

City tax may also be charged seperately, but we're talking 2-5 Euro per person / night.
Shit, like charging an additional 50$ per night for nothing, just because they can just doesn't happen.
Vietnam records highest ever temperature of 44.1C
Sounds like what someone who thinks it's still possible to save enough money for college by stashing part of their allowance and working part-time jobs in high school would say.
It can be. But is it? Will it be any time soon? Isn't the Tesla Semi the only EV truck on the market and isn't being produced in any major quantities yet? It'll probably be decades before any of those reach your average concrete production site where they're still using trucks from the 90s.
Good point, I should be thinking of this positively: it's an excellent screener for articles that won't interest me, saving me time up front.
When they’re in use as weapons by the thing that possesses spines, teeth and claws: yes. I use my teeth to chew my food, my cats use their claws to manipulate their environment and grab things, but if we turned them against you, then they’re also weapons. The venomous pointy things et al. are emergent properties of a multi-stream evolutionary chain that makes every extant species on the planet pretty much a badass, even pandas, and we’re all pretty dependent on whatever properties we currently have allowing us to continue to exist, else it’ll be down to pure luck of the mutate.

The ecosystems all those species thrive or at least survive in though? Those don’t do intention. Ecosystems are a collection of species and are about as harmonious as a poison jar over time, but the jar itself has no intentions, it’s just a jar.
Features-wise:

-game inventories system.

--extreme slowness and shittiness of this feature (pages not loading, low rate limits for looking at inventory pages)

-player item trading.

--trading experience sucks it also runs into the rate limit and inventories not loading.

-steam market.

--half-baked, can't sell quickly. If you get 5 items it takes like 2 minutes to list each individual item. This is ALSO affected by the slow pages. Using a bot is against the TOS but is also the only decent experience.

-social hub for each game, maybe this is too opinionated but now every game is also a social media page. Bad/abandoned games even get used as an image hosting service for unrelated profile adornments.

-streaming, intrusive streams in store pages.

-Popularized if not invented loot crates which have now infected everything.

-Popularized cosmetics micro transactions, which turned into far more expensive transactions.

-created new types of FOMO for sales and incentivizing spending money via limited time trinkets (badges, stickers, profile customization), steam points.

Opinions ofc but these range from being somewhat on target to wildly out there and speculative and on top of that many of their projects get quietly dropped and are left without support after initial release like the inventory ui and the market.
Yeah. Take the subscription revenue, divide it up by program based on watch count (or number of minutes viewed, or whatever).

This gives you a rough approximation of revenue that can be attributed to each program. From this some proportion could sensible be allowed to the writers of the programming. This might be a percentage of the revenue after certain overheads have been first subtracted, or whatever. There are plenty of possible details to work out, but the basic concept seems sound.

Obviously this applies to subscription streaming without ads. Non-subscription streaming with ads seems perfectly amenable to traditional residuals, although if such ads pay less than TV ones (which i suspect is true), a smaller residual may make sense.

Subscription streaming with ads could sensibly be be either pure residual, of a hybrid of both approaches. The hybrid makes more sense for services that offer no ads if consumers pay more.
> Why? His lawyers could provide the same justification: Convincing deepfakes are easily produced at low cost by adversarial plaintiffs and internet trolls.

Cool. Video evidence, written evidence, witness testimony, and essentially everything else is now off the table. Congratulations; you've gotten rid of the entire trial court system.

> Testifying at all subjects you to cross-examination, which is time consuming and subjects you to lawyer tricks by the other party. Not wanting to do it is the default.

Yes. If you aren't willing to argue against a piece of evidence in a convincing fashion, you have to live with that decision. The jury gets to draw inference from "huh, they didn't say anything in response to that..."

> Demanding that the introducing party authenticate it should be table stakes at this point.

They'll introduce it with someone describing it something like this:

"This is a seven year old video hosted publicly on YouTube, on the channel of a long-standing reputable organization, of a live event hosted by well-known reporters, which received contemporary news coverage. The claims in the video made by Musk are of a similar nature to others he has demonstrably made."

That's sufficient. Musk's lawyers are free to object, if they've got a good argument against all of that. They're also welcome to try and convince the jury that Musk never made the claims. I suspect the plaintiffs will be able to find plenty of corroborating evidence should it come to that.
> I feel for my friends in the industry but AI is going to wreck workers in entertainment.

I seriously doubt that, but I imagine this is exactly the point where one needs to renegotiate to make sure terms are fair.

Strikes are common when labour is at a relative disadvantage, because that's when they tend to be exploited the most.
I think you're starting from the conclusion you want CEO is bad and reverse engineering a justification along with making up supporting facts.

I hire consultants and outsource activities all the time. It isn't all I do but a key part of it. There's no chance you'd find someone to do my job for 10K a year. There is no chance I would want to hire dozens of employees each time I have a rare off question.

Your example and position make no sense: hiring an outside group is always wrong and hiring inside team is always right. I don't learn anything different either way. You call it a basic function, but what if I wont want to indefinitely keep a team on staff to answer seed questions?
Interspecies violence is one of a ton of proposed theories, and not a lot of evidence exists to suggest favoring one over the other.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_extinction for some of the other theories.
Yeah fine, I get it. But why is it always “drinking alcohol” as if it’s a matter of consuming the substance pure, straight into the vein.

There’s plenty of different beverages of varying tastes, intoxication — if any — curves, complementary sugars and carbs.

Just observing how this language is strongly biased.
Anyone that tells me they don't have the money for something, I always say "open the books." People are terrible at managing their money. I can't tell you how many high income earners are living pay check to pay check.

And there's a solution for folks who are drowning in debt, declare bankruptcy. But this is where student loans are insidious - you cannot bankrupt them. That's the one big change that folks should make wrt to the student debt crisis. Make the loan eligible for bankruptcy (like any other loan) and then keep demographic statistics on who defaulted on their students loans and use that to reduce credit to high risk majors/universities/etc.
Has some overlap with the article, but for me it really boils down to
1. Count calories + measure weight
2. Move a lot
3. Be consistent with (1), (2)

This generally forces me into a good/clean diet (lets me maximize my fullness). It's not restrictive though, so I can eat cake/have a beer at a ballgame/pizza on Friday, I just have to be aware that might mean a smaller lunch or needing to be more locked in that day. Consistency helps too- if I eat like garbage, it's better to still track that and recover pretty easily. I also find if I am ordering pizza anyways, I'm pretty happy to just order 2 slices instead of 3 if it keeps me under my threshold/goal

When counting calories, I focus more on doing the counting than getting it exactly. I can estimate what 4oz of meat looks like and what the general caloric count is which makes it easy to track pretty seamlessly. That means when I eat out, I can still stay on track. Because I measure weight daily, I can see if I need to eat more or less, which means I can be less accurate with my calorie counting.
The odd thing is, HN is also obsessed with early retirement. You’d think people would’ve learned the lesson of One Foot in the Grave.
I think others have pretty much summarised it already:

Searching for non-documented or badly documented API, find implementation of an algorithm or specific pattern, find how people are using a niche tool, etc.

I have even used it to find my own API in the wild to look for potential breaking changes and improvements to do.
Oh, okay. I just see LaTeX as a math academics thing, about as useful and difficult as writing HTML by hand. Now, if someone had leveraged LaTeX in a real system or automation, I'd find that interesting.
Seems like grep-aaS? Or am I missing something. It could not e.g. get the definition of a C++ function for me. Really useful still, but should have been there years ago.
Big productions might pay household-name writers at that level plus points, but most writers are nowhere near that level and are grinding away at various smaller jobs while pitching shows and treatments where pay is delayed, divided, and contingent. I thought this was an enlightening little thread:

https://twitter.com/coreydeshon/status/1655319912104218624
LLMs: Build vs. Buy?
I always lose weight in between jobs.

I guess moving around all day instead of sitting at a desk is good for weight loss. Imagine that.
I've managed to keep off a lot of weight I lost, I used to be morbidly obese.

I also ate 3 boxes of mac n cheese today, and I went out a couple days ago and got pretty drunk.

Its not about living by rules or anything. If you're too hard on yourself, you'll break eventually and eat like shit, so you have to eat poorly, get drunk, and have fun when you can, but never to excess, never too much. Also, exercise! Weightlifting and cardio don't actually help you lose weight, they only make you hungrier, but you feel good and any weight you do gain is going to building muscle so you don't feel so bad about it.

Anyway, at the end of the day some people are just luckier than others. I wouldn't stress about it, not a whole lot you can do if you're predisposed to diabetes and heart disease, one should just try to stay relatively healthy regardless. And the healthiest thing to be is happy, and one should always prioritize living a full, joyful life over everything else.
Exactly. We’re talking about software architecture for startups here. Best to keep it simple.
HN isn’t letting me edit my comment so here’s some additional stream of consciousness from me.

There’s definitely trade offs to sharing types, especially if the API and clients are in different languages. If your team is small enough and has enough context on API changes it’s probably easier to maintain different types. But if it’s large or spanning multiple teams it might be better to rely on tooling to share or generate types. It’s always about trade offs.
toxik was responding to the apparent position that it's OK for the material to be presented in a confusing way, because the research has been provided freely rather than locked behind a paywall. It's apropos to point out that this isn't a great excuse.
The main reason that exercise works is that it's better to be in shape in order to exercise.

Excepting something like strongman athletes, you won't let yourself get fat if you're training regularly because it would just cock everything up.

Just like with mental aptitude. You don't remain sharp by just sitting watching TV all day.

People spend 8 hours a day at work - if you're on here, probably 8 (okay, more like 4 :P) of mental work. If you do even 1 hour of physical exercise, not even particularly hard exercise, forever, you'll be doing great.
Second probably.
I think pretty much every software company fails to understand that step 4 means you win. You're done. Close the code editor. You don't need to prove anything anymore. Put the software into maintenance mode, fix bugs, polish it off, make it faster if you can, but stop cramming features.

As a user, I've never in my life said "You know, software XYZ does everything I want it to, but since they don't randomly change the UI and update it with unwanted features every few months, it's 'stale' and I won't use it anymore!"

I feel like everything past step 4 is "Developers gotta develop and designers gotta design" and making changes for change's sake rather than the user's sake.
> 2 eetlepels olijfolie

That's the first ingredient for the "Honey Graham Crusted Pork Chops with Raspberry Cola Glaze"
Yes, you can decline them. I do this every single time at check-in if I'm not on a business trip. If you decline them, then you won't be able to use WiFi since you have to connect with your last name and room number through the captive portal at most properties. This may be property specific, I usually stay at MGM properties. If I'm on a business trip I don't care because it's not coming out of my pocket, and I usually can't choose the hotel I am staying at unilaterally.

The resort fee basically covers access to specific amenities (theoretically), if you decline it you will be giving up access to those amenities, that are otherwise not "free". YMMV.
Having recently dealt with a surprise runaway DataDog bill and personally completed lots of work to reduce our spend internally all I have to say is that their pricing is outrageously high and there is almost no way to put controls in place to prevent overspend.

If you're considering using them keep that in mind and tbh I would strongly recommend considering if CloudWatch or some other cheaper alternative is suitable for your needs.
The termination shock was speculated and unknown, the people who wanted to turn it off were the ones who suspected were getting the short end of the stick because the monsoon being weaker or non-existent was one of the possible outcomes of that method of geoengineering.
Do you take your laptop with you when going to a Starbucks restroom?
I got an Amazfit Neo for $30 or so, it's been amazing. Lasts for a month on a charge and has fitness bits.
How is 3-phase better for rectifying? Is it because it's easier with them 120 degrees out of phase rather than 180?
For those wanting to know more about concrete and cement, Veratasium has a newish video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWVAzS5duAs
That’s literally the definition of survivorship bias.
Kinda reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsbe1pD8ocE
Except not a single other one of those package managers cooperates very nicely with other package managers either so I'm not sure why you'd believe my point doesn't hold together.
chatGPT "of the gaps", it is chatGPT only when it is not useful
GhostScript!

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf
There’s great precedent for low reliability products becoming popular. ChatGPT and Twitter both became widely adopted despite frequent downtime.

This extends well beyond software. The Ford Model T other early motor vehicles weren’t exactly safe and reliable but still solved a real problem for millions of customers.
Nice! I never 'had' much with NeXT but l love retro projects.

For me the real retro thing is HP-UX 10 with VUE (not CDE!) as I used that in college.
The internet is mostly machines talking other machines or monitoring what other machines are monitoring. But then you can also pay for machines to watch the machines that watch the machines.
Yes, but that's not his point. Obviously Galactus has some internal user data structure that is private to it.

But there's also something going over the wire, as a response from Galactus' API, and consumed by one of more other services.

His question was, shouldn't the knowledge of the structure of that be in some type of shared code?
I'm glad they picked tumblr versus netflix.
>It is nonsensical that gun control advocates hold it up as some kind of absurdly powerful super bullet and a clear indicator that they have no idea what they are talking about.

Nonsensical or not, the damage the weapon does to humans is clear. Otherwise, this wouldn't be an issue. Semantics aside, there's a reason you don't see gun control advocates arguing for banning single-shot hunting rifles or basic handguns.

There's self-defense of one's person and homestead, and then there's "self-defense" as defined by a lobbying group backed by gun manufacturers, "patriots", and Russian psy-ops.
Why would someone take issue with another person's decision, as if it's a personal attack? I often see discussions around alcohol painted in this light.
From the linked explainer at https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

> As new browsers are introduced, they would need to demonstrate to attesters (a relatively small group) that they pass the bar,

Good luck with that.

> Stakeholder feedback / opposition

> [Implementers and other stakeholders may already have publicly stated positions on this work. We will list them here with links to evidence as appropriate.]

> [Implementor A] : Positive

> [Stakeholder B] : No signals

> [Implementor C] : Negative

Google, W3C, Apple|Mozilla?