skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why are people so confident in making generalizations about users?

I've seen my aging father change settings on a new computer to turn on showing file extensions on Windows, because he and a lot of older users were on the cutting edge of computing back when knowing the file extension was useful for choosing how to open it.

Sure, I'm acutely aware that there are stupid users out there; I've worked I.T. But there is also a whole spectrum of computer users with varying levels of computer proficiency out there, who us "computer people" don't see because they're not the ones who necessarily need help or cause problems. You can't necessarily extrapolate a visible minority of incompetent computer users to make statements about the entire population.

I don't necessarily have an opinion on whether that's enough justification to get rid of the .zip TLD. I'm just tired of the anti-user sentiment I'm hearing here.
it's still very rare especially for young people. as someone with a degree of health anxiety, I sympathize, though.
I removed the DCM from my RAV4. The annoying part is that it disables the front-right speaker.
Google’s Find My Device will soon use other Android devices to find your stuff
They allow self publishing so they are already flooded with junk. I don’t see the problem though since it’s not like you have to actually dig through a pile of books when you have a search engine and can get recommendations from other sources
well yeah, if it seems too good to be true...
Fame is never fair and balanced, it seems. I would think there are lots of other engineers, who don't even have a wikipedia article, who made important contributions as well.
I thought winning large numbers was the reason you went to the casino
People say it's a terrible time to be a creator, but I just started again to blog 2 months ago after a decade of pause because I believe it's just the opposite.

With the abysmal noise/signal ratio plaguing the web, there is tremendous value in having a source of information manually crafted by someone you trust.
Chronological feed was always a thing, I've used it for years. In fact, one of the first noticeable changes was that this config stopped being persistent. I had to manually switch to chronological for months and still get "For You" as the default. Community notes precedes Musk too. View count is not only unreliable (because counting things is hard) but of dubious value. What do you get from it? Longform text is literally what twitter is not about, and a major turn-off for so many people.

Twitter as of 2020 was fantastic, and these features added essentially no value to it. On the other hand, the public API is now a mess, twitter circle tweets are being shown to people who were not supposed to see them, I get logged out of all my accounts at least once a week and most notifications have serious delays.
I've been using twitter since the whale days back in 2010, and it feels like we lost a decade of SRE progress.
Tell HN: AI Test Kitchen – won't all signups with their own Gsuite accounts
too ironic
Meetings - yes, but still a good idea to write down minutes (seriously). It’s important documentation if you want the legal shield.

Otherwise, it’s easier to pierce the veil.

I once worked for a small Corp that the office manager was the board secretary and literally had a meeting with just herself for such a purpose.
> This isn't a fucking game. These are human lives.

Welcome to Capitalism...
Ha, I knew I recognized that name in the domain. Pavel Grinfeld has some great lectures on YouTube, and last I looked, was working on a very useful interactive site for learning mathematics.
netflix is just trash, half the shows or more push the woke agenda, whenever two males get near each other i just know they'll some how magically both be gay. there is nothing creative and are falling into the disney problem.

now i think netflix shines with the foreign films, i've been enjoying those more then the american films, but that doesnt justify paying the monthly fee.
EU DPA's may have something to say about this if EU data subjects data was leaked.
Dunno about the parent poster, but I would settle for caning.
It’s private now, they don’t need to disclose anything.
I picked up his linear algebra book and watched his lectures last year as part of my journey into machine learning. He made me fall in love with math in a way that I never had before, not even during my physics degree. Truly an inspiring teacher and amazing person.
It seems pretty remarkable to me that despite how relevant and ubiquitous AI is becoming (e.g. generative search is coming to Google soon, and from their latest I/O conf it's clearly a big part of nearly all other G products), Hacker News discussions on the topic are of such low quality that it's desirable to block them out entirely. Any sufficiently advanced technology discussion is indistinguishable from tragic.
I don't think you really understood my comment.

unsafe fn create_null_pointer() -> *const u32 {
std::ptr::null()
}

fn main() {
let ptr = unsafe { create_null_pointer() };

// Dereferencing the null pointer outside of unsafe code
let value = unsafe { *ptr };

println!("Value: {}", value);
}

This will segfault, and the compiler won't warn you about it, even though an error didn't actually happen until you printed the value in "safe" code

What this article is getting at is that the unsafe keyword highlights pieces of code that Google scrutinizes, not that it has functionality that "magically" encapsulates memory bugs. And yes, it's a lot better than C++. But you still need to be aware this can happen and not assume you're safe

All unsafe does is shut off the compiler for sections of the code. You can write code in an unsafe block that bubbles outside of the scope of "unsafe."*
People are too disinterested in politics to elect good representatives. They buy into fear-mongering and propaganda with no effort.

Just because the representatives suck doesn't mean the system does. A direct democracy would be a catastrophy, as most people who vote are not even paying attention. I think it'd be better to restrict voting to taxpayers federally, and land owners locally.
Locking up violent people and thieves is very popular among those outside the US!

You're right about the comparatively huge US prison population, but the difference is NOT because other countries let violent people and thieves roam free!
> Or, radical new idea here, how about conduct yourself in a reasonable way where if everyone in the world read your text messages you wouldn't be fired or go to jail?

Who's to say whether or not what is today a perfectly innocent message might be socially ostracizing or even criminal hate speech in 5 years?
The strangest thing about brexit is that all it took was one single 50% vote to exit.

After untold time, money, effort and history put into joining Europe, you’d have thought that tearing the whole thing down would have required best of three votes to exit, or a supermajority, or a 12 month cooldown followed by a deciding second vote, or an “time apart” period before ending the relationship.

Instead all it took was some politicking and a vote and it’s over. Seems a huge flaw in the planning of joining Europe in the first place. I suppose they didn't anticipate brexit as a real possibility.
> I should point out to those not from the US that this is how Americans view the US. There is a lot of crime, the government and NGOs are on the side of the criminals etc. It is up voted to the top as well, with agreement in the replies, this is how Americans view the US.

What? No. This is not remotely a universal American viewpoint -- especially the government being "on the side of the criminals etc." What would that even mean?
...whether you like it or not.

Google of course insists "privacy is at the top" of its many other priorities.
>Musk is not a engineer and has never been good at making things

There is ample proof that this is a patently false statement.

Link with sources:
https://old.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...

My favorite from John Carmack:
John Carmack (Twitter, Wikipedia) is a programmer, video game developer and engineer. He's the founder of Armadillo Aerospace and current CTO of Oculus VR.
"Elon is definitely an engineer. He is deeply involved with technical decisions at spacex and Tesla. He doesn’t write code or do CAD today, but he is perfectly capable of doing so."

There are tons of pictures of Elon in the early days of SpaceX literally using CAD software to design rockets: https://i.insider.com/63a0c11eb5600000185b5e8d?width=1300&fo...

https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-history-biggest-momen...

His title at the company is Founder and Chief Engineer, and there are tons of anecdotes from employees, as well as statements directly from Musk that major engineering decisions go directly through him.
A RP2040 Powered MIDI-Controlled Synth in CircuitPython
I have, but I don't then proceed to fill multiple sentences with how much I still baselessly hate said person while also trying to make myself look like a saint for thinking something that should have been obvious to anyone beyond toddler years and well before having witnessed it first-hand. I also don't then proceed to host a TV show pushing to get that exact response out of the audience.
This was obvious hyperbole meant to express a deep frustration at having suffered at the hands of criminals in a city I care deeply about. People I love have been terrorized
It wasn't enough data to be interesting to anyone.

An entire apple got me up over 180 as did half a bag of In N Out fries with no ketchup, and I'm not diabetic. Glucose response is very personalized. One monitor for two weeks was enough to convince me I should follow a low carb/keto diet. The instant feedback of the CGM was very motivating.

Low carb has been amazing for me. I have much better energy and strangely enough my vision has improved. I know because I can read small type on my phone when I wake up without reading glasses. I almost never need my reading glasses since I started low carb/keto, and was using them daily prior to that.
I must be the only one here that loves Netflix. I probably have a 100+ TV shows and Movies in my to watch list. Anyways, $300million is a drop in the bucket compared to their yearly expense. Why is this news again?
No my friend, he aspires to be the one wearing the boots.
"...even more than China. We should instead try approaches that, in Europe, have empirically lead to less violent crime."

"Why do you love criminals and want innocent families to be terrorized and executed by criminals?"
There is only one correct solution to this. It's to completely remove any and all of these egregious filename extension TLDs with no questions asked, and punish the people who pushed for this.

I’m really curious to know what this person has in mind.
From the gist that install doesn't work headless.

Seems like this:

https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/issues/9729#issuecomm...
There is a great sounding demo at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-PbbWWDE6k
Yahoo Pipes

Wait what year is it
I made a website for sharing honest apartment reviews for Bangalore
I posted this on r/bangalore. It got removed once it started getting popular.

https://honest-society-reviews.super.site

I made this website to share honest society reviews for bangalore.
I was fed up with people asking 70k rent for shitty apartments with noise issues and privacy issues.
People will accept the rent without knowing these and will get stuck there. This also pushes the rent high for other people.

Please fill the form below if you have encountered any such apartments.
https://forms.gle/yccNkgkY3819G6AD7

See here for how brokers are an oligopoly and how they are manipulating the market:
https://honest-society-reviews.super.site/how-brokers-inflat...

Please share for reach.

FAQ:

Q: How will you identify fake reviews provided by RWA?
A: This is more of a complaints site than a positive review site.
You'll get the postive reviews from everywhere. Google Maps, the brokers, the owners.
I'm rejecting reviews listing just the positives.
People don't have a dedicated, easy to search outlet for the complaints. That's what I'm curating here.

Q: Can you also add fields for rent?
A: I'm deliberately not adding it at the moment because they are greatly inflated by the brokers.
See: https://honest-society-reviews.super.site/how-brokers-inflat...

Q: Most people wont review, the only ones who would are those with a vested interest. Reviews are great in theory but flawed in application.
A: Yes. It's a tug of war of vested interests. Currently there's no one to pull from the renters side.
The brokers and the landlords provide all the information. I'm trying to fix that a little bit.
This is not perfect. And I'm just a single person doing this in my free time, manually curating google form responses.
There will be mistakes for sure. But atleast it's something.

Q: There will be no places to live like this. Every society in bangalore has issues.
A: Yes and that's okay. It's just that there's no way to easily find out about them so renters don't have an accurate view of the market.
No place is perfect. You pick the place that's perfect for you.
Noise issues during day time but not night and you go to office every day? No problem you can work with that one.

I'm open to collaboration if you have any ideas pls DM.
totally vibe with this. feels like a community of incels, elon fanboys and jan6 type individuals now.
It’s a weird tld given that zip files are a key malware and hacking vector.
Carmack is widely considered one of the greatest software engineers ever, and knows Musk well. Either he's outright lying to make his friend look good, or I'll take his opinion over basically anyone. He certainly isn't Musk's "subordinate" in any meaningful sense.

Even when Carmack was Zuckerberg's "subordinate" he was independently wealthy and could do whatever the fuck he wanted, and has been for a long time. You didn't see him going around, even then, talking up Zuckerberg's engineering chops. Despite the fact that we know Zuck did in fact write a lot of the early code for FB.

Carmack is also not a "different kind of engineer". Guy is primarily famous for his software, but he had a rocket company of his own, ran Meta's VR labs which involved quite a bit of hardware, etc.
I must be using a different site from you. Letting people pay to get boosted has turned the top of every thread into a hive of emoji-pasting, cruel, low-effort cretins.
From the rumor mill, Oracle sales teams are amazingly amoral, even by enterprise standards. But very pleasant to be around if you have money.
I’ve just spent 5 mins on your page and also took a look at rentr, here are some comments from a total internet stranger who may or may not know about what they’re talking about:

* Three pieces of (mundane, well-known) advice: build stuff, write, and network. These support each other.

* Your profile is very interesting: philosophy & CS, languages, etc. Write about these things, what can the CS crowd learn from a philosopher and vice versa? Write a blog post with your thoughts on each of the ethics challenges (there are 100) in The Ping That Wants to Be Eaten (https://www.amazon.com/Pig-That-Wants-Eaten-Experiments/dp/0...)

* Do weird stuff! Randomly pick two departments in your university’s directory and think about an idea that combines them, eg Classics and Biology or Entomology and Math. This is where really interesting stuff comes from. Or you’ll end up with ridiculous ideas, great for a blog post.

* Fire up Eventbrite (or some similar) and go to local events if interest. Better yet, reach out to organizers to speak at events, they’re always looking for people. You never know who you’re going to meet.

* Allocate some alone time in nature

* Obvious, but: Create value for people and give away for free. This can range from a 2 sentence summary of an interesting concept and a quote (who were the Cynics) posted on LinkedIn to a small tool (my current needs: a Mac native tool that takes detects slide changes on Zoom/Teams meeting, takes screenshots and creates a lot out of them; a super simple web tool to edit images to put on tshirts).

* Cold emails are hard.

* rentr homepage is underwhelming there are a few typos, you should comments from people who use it (probably no one at the moment), these sort of N^2 ideas almost always run into bootstrapping problems, unless you can have a community, eg a large building, use it.

Hope that helps.
Yeah

When I was 14!

Not when I'm a well educated, rather privileged adult who spends his day job telling people that trans people are targeting them and that they are at ideological ("culture") war, and actively talking about how the guy I'm publicly pushing is someone I personally think is despicable.

You know what I do when I say something that hurts someone now that I'm an adult? I apologize.
Thanks, I'll fix the contrast
Please provide a citation for the insane claim that career criminals are a major voting block sufficient to consistently swing elections.
I've done the same.

Google did 100% the correct thing, but it goes to show that this is just an inherently tricky thing not limited to whether you are writing code.
Apologies if the term 'pedantic' felt like an insult. It was not intended as one.
To avoid a No True Scotsman impasse, who exactly are we talking about that doesn’t know what a zip file is? Someone who doesn’t use a laptop for their day job?
tl;dr: The iPad's attempts at providing a multitasking, multi-window OS with which one can do all the kinds of work that one can do on a desktop/laptop computer are still not there yet.

Personally I feel much the same; this is why I'm at my desk in front of a screen connected to an Air, waiting for Illustrator to complete a complex operation involving some third-party plugins and flipping over to various Internet distractions instead of trying to do this on an iPad. I dunno why this guy's still beating his head on PadOS instead of doing the same.
What's boring precisely? This is non-stop circus. I constantly run out of popcorn.
I agree that the work day (10, 9, or even 8 hours) is too long but that's the reality we have. Nobody in the US will fight for labor protections again. Not for many years. What you folks do will have to be on your own. We have no solidarity within the US unless it's against folks with darker skin than Casper.

We honestly should be down to a two- or three-day work week at about 5 hours per day. That's all we really need to work to get our jobs done. But instead we do more work for diminishing returns so we can make the wealthy even wealthier.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines and for using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's not allowed here, regardless of what you're for or against.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I tried to explain that the optimized version of Common Lisp is less dynamic than the non-optimized version. The speed advantage often comes because the compile code is less or not dynamic. Late binding for example makes code slower because of another indirection. An optimizing compiler can remove late binding. The code will be faster, but there might no longer be a runtime lookup of the function anymore.

> When using SBCL for example, none of CLs dynamic features are restricted from the programmer in any way.

Sure, but it will be slower in benchmarks. The excellent benchmark numbers of SBCL is in part a result of being able to cleverly remove dynamic features.
I would also argue that this niche topic would be one of the first to be generated by AI, as someone technical enough to utilize the API for OpenAI/Claude/etc would likely be familiar with CI/CD topics in the first place.
Humans can make mistakes and lie, and we've been able to deal with it by checking their work, giving feedback to help them improve, placing less trust in those who habitually lie, etc..

LLMs making mistakes and "hallucinating" can be dealt with in similar ways, and as this is an open area of research with lots of proposed solutions and probably many more in the years to come, we do/will have plenty of other ways to deal with it too.
sexy music with orgasmic moan - Oops, can't generate music for that

sexy sax - Oops, can't generate music for that

drill rap with gunshot - Oops, can't generate music for that

song with farts - worked but it contained no farts sadly, just some bad techo

sad song with crying - worked but contained no crying, just screechy violin folk music
Strang's bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Strang

He's been a professor at MIT since 1962!
Clearly you’ve never heard of Chuck Tingle.
Peer-to-Peer Ordered Search Indexes (2020)
I'm more curious about how it compares to other Western nations. There's only a sentence or two about that, and neither gives specifics.

A lot of the issues listed - high inflation, product shortages, worker shortages, strikes, etc. all happened here in the US and worldwide as far as I'm aware.
Deopt Explorer
"They are designed to produce book reports, not books." that's a good line.

"AI’s primary professional role in the near term will be speaking to other AIs; the future of customer service is two AIs endlessly emailing each other back and forth, alternately demanding and refusing refunds."
How the bangalore rent market is inflated by brokers
I find it puzzling that every suggestion of how to recover relative prosperity for a western society reads like it was written by stage coach drivers or their reluctant employers.

UK unemployment is somehow¹ only like 3.5%. To win relative to other countries you need to automate away domestic service and maintenance jobs and put those people in higher paid jobs, jobs related to exports, etc.

I'm going to guess Slovenia isn't passing the UK by making impossibly complex privatization scams that need more people to get other people, their communications or their goods from point A to B, domestically or convince them to pay more for that..

¹ Of course a plan like that excludes the people not seeking work so there are other options.. But the plans you hear from politicians are basically how to make a profit gouging your people for their savings and somehow indefinitely maintain a higher GDP as a result of those internal redistributions of money.
Apple Is Breaking Its Own Rules with a New Headset
> What would that even mean?

It would look, and maybe this is sheer coincidence, very much like our present situation
Python as efficient as C is not the goal, the goal is to make python faster.
Because they haven't bought ARIN and ICANN yet? Sorry, that's a bit too cynical perhaps but it's the same reason Google spends perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars on Chromium that they give away: vertical integration. They want to own every component required for your online experience, from hardware, os, browser, and hidden infrastructure like DNS. It's a slow-moving battle with Microsoft and Apple, who have similar goals. (Not really sure what FB is doing - trying to do an end-run with Meta and Oculus I suppose. Which takes guts, but will probably fail.)

It's eye-opening to read about, for example, the stated geopolitical goals of the United States, who like every nation-state seeks total invulnerability, which in turn requires total dominance. Individuals aren't used to thinking in these terms - its extremely unsentimental and matter-of-fact game theory stuff that will curdle milk.

TBH I'm guessing. I don't really see how expansion of tlds helps Google with this goal - maybe they just want more namespace to control as a registar? That doesn't make sense. Hopefully I've nerd-sniped someone who knows more.