skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Proud Boys started as a joke by a former Punk Singer. Punks ideology was based on anti-racist and anti-sexist beliefs, They didn't realize that there was a real audience for their satire and the group was Co-opted by actual racists.

A similar thing happened to the Tea Party which was anti-1%'res which is now controlled by their corporate donors. It's new name is the House Freedom Caucus and they want to default on US debt.
If you're talking about coverage in the usual sense (% of lines that were executed), it's pretty much useless. Here's an example of 100% test coverage in that sense:

add a b = 2
test_add = assert_equals (add 1 1) 2

A more useful definition of coverage would be the entire possible state of the program, but this is tantamount to a proof, which is a really hard problem for programs in general. Property based testing, e.g. QuickCheck[1], gets us close, but it is often hard to come up with the right properties.

[1]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/QuickCheck
Adding keyboard control to an app makes it better for blind users and power users. Adding alt text to images makes it better for blind users and SEO. Adding ARIA tags makes a page better for blind users and for testing with things like testing-library.

I haven't found a single case where improving accessibility doesn't also result in a meaningful improvement for some set of users who don't need accessible features. There is absolutely no good reason not to make things accessible. Heck, I'd make an app accessible even if I had irrefutable proof that it had no users who need it to be accessible.
Ah, I see we’ve talked past each other. I was speaking to the policy-making angle. I don’t have any good ideas about how to get the policy issues fixed while avoiding scaring the kids. I doubt that’s even possible, tbh.

But yes, let’s smash the soda vending machines as well!
I'm willing to hear your argument. I could have done without you telling me that maybe I'm just out of the loop, because there's a point to be made here. But let me entertain the notion.

What is a modal?
> You'd be surprised how many of your C-suite sit on boards of REITs or have invested huge amounts of company "cash" into them.

Do you have stats? Or do you even have one good and compelling example?
I feel like I am missing your point:

* If the lower courts agree and SCOTUS leaves them to it, they are defacto supporting what the lower courts agreed on no? "We agree because we agree" and "We agree because we don't know but accept whatever you decided" are the same thing...

* If the lower courts do NOT agree (like this case), then by declining the case SCOTUS is... agreeing that the same law means different things in different places with their jurisdiction. Which seems even bad for a whole other set of additional reasons.

Still, here we are I guess. There are plenty of other issues that other parts of government refuse to address (and I would argue that there accept the default state of) so why not SCOTUS too...
this is really interesting. i would have assumed poison would be a major factor in control, but at least on the government website that is not suggested to be the case.
Sudo and signal propagation
Maybe at the $10MM scale I'd agree but even CEOs of Fortune 500 companies rarely make that much unless they are founders or hit all their targets over many years in a row.
I average around 3 robocalls each weekday. They are annoying and it's made me set my phone to not ring when I'm at work.

Do you do anything other than hang up when you get a robocall?

Sometimes when I do answer a robocall I just ask them to hold on for a second while I get a pen and something to write on then I set the phone down and go back to work. They rarely stay on the line for more than 10 seconds and one Medicaid scammer calls often enough that he recognizes my voice and will tell me to fuck off and then hangs up immediately.
Hope the list of blocked sites is made available somewhere so we can know which websites we should never visit :)
Programming languages don't entirely remove ambiguity: they isolate themselves from it.

Everything in a program is unambiguous, but no useful program stays entirely within its own black box.

Ambiguity still exists between programs. This ambiguity is the source of incompatibility.
I'm quite sure that if you carried the same in luggage or on your body (as opposed to _in_ your body), it would get confiscated.
Yes. HN has a monopoly over tech news in Silicon Valley?
Techies (at least at meta) are owners in the sense that a large % of their comp is in the form of equity, so it is in their interest for the company to maximize stock price.
> a lot of interaction designers and front-end developers are now developing the modals in a way they would close if you press the back button of your browser. No confusion there in my opinion.

I'm not sure how this justifies your opinion. The fact that "a lot" of people are following a new design paradigm indicates, to me at least, that the pattern is inherently confusing. As a user, do I know what paradigm was used by the design and engineering team? If not, I'm going to be unsure about the effect of clicking "back"
that's automotive engineering for you lol. aviation is similar
Eating/drinking in public isn't a taboo, it's moreso that actively walking while eating or drinking or creating a mess in public is frowned on. Nobody really cares if you're having a drink or snack while stationary standing somewhere that doesn't impede pedestrian right-of-way if you're being tidy.
> Privatized profits, but socialized losses.

100% agree when it comes to the 2008 crisis, and the bailouts, and the zero percent interest rates for 20 years.

But what has this got to do with layoffs at meta? Did they get a government bailout?
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Flock safety might be the most ethically questionable Y Combinator start up.
Hey Billy, very small nitpick on your site: The "Mission Sets" nav button is broken on the Viceroy page, and it looks like it's just down to the href missing the correct target (# instead of #mission-sets).

Tiny bug aside, I hope you find success in this venture. I'm sure there'll be a lot of naysayers, but I find it inspiring that someone is actually trying to do something in the sustainable air travel space with technology we have today rather than putting all of their eggs in the basket of yet to be seen technology.
Yes, great point

So many of the people who opine about AI, its trajectory, and its possible effects on society, have latched on to one or two possible effects - like it overtaking jobs, or massively increasing misinformation. These are both very valid concerns, but they're only a tiny part of the big picture

The thinker who I perceive as having the best holistic (in the non-wooey sense of the word) understanding of how the rapid development of AI will affect this and a number of other social and existential risks is Daniel Schmachtenberger. He lays it out well in this episode of the Theories of Everything Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7WtcTATa2U&t=2373s

Highly recommend watching it, even if it's long. Some main points though:
- AI will increase the rate of development of every other technology it is applied to
- In fields like biotech, this can lead to cancer cures, but also to increasingly dangerous bioweapons
- Our current economic system is based on exponential economic growth in a limited resource world. AI applied in the service of profit will amplify this, leading us increasingly fast towards a number of tipping points. Of course, AI can also help steer us away from that path, but that is not the natural attractor
- Game theoretic multipolar traps (aka Moloch) incentivise arms races and races to the bottom just like we see now. Those who are willing to move fast and break things have an advantage in these dynamics vs. those who prefer to move slowly and carefully
- Cheaper and more efficient AI models will lead to increasing decentralisation of the technology, making it very hard to control - unlike current weapons of mass destruction

List goes on, but Daniel makes a much better case. Again, I would love to hear a good critique of his thinking, but haven't come across one yet
It's not "gender confusion". They know very well who they are. You are confused about the topic.
> Isn't the typical developer at Meta making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year making systems that are destructive to the social fabric and cohesion of society?

Tons of farmers supplied the compost that Haber-Bosch used to perfect their way of making amonia, later used to make hydrogen cyanide (a pesticide later used in late 30s germany for non farming purposes)

You can be a serf and be a necesary cog in a machine for destructive purposes.

The hundreds of thousands of dollars a year still keeps those devs much closer to a homeless person than to any single Billionaire. A rich serf, is still a serf.
> Privatized profits, but socialized losses

Can we stop saying this? Many taxes are paid before profits exist. Taxes are the sure thing; profits might happen, or you might go bust and investors lose all the money. That's not socialised losses. That's privatised risk, losses, then socialised taxes, then whatever's left is "privatised profits" - i.e. people actually getting a return on a risky investment.
This silliness is lobbyist driven.
This was thought to be the solution in the 90's en early 00's, offshore everything (basically wfh but wf-lower-income-country). Turns out it works sometimes but is hardly a panacea.
GPT explanation of Mel's trick:

>The author, who was asked to find a bug in Mel's code, encountered a peculiar loop (a section of code that repeats itself). This loop didn't seem to have a condition that would stop it, which is unusual because without such a condition, a loop would run indefinitely, making the program stuck.

>Now, a feature of the RPC-4000 computer they were using was something called an index register. In layman's terms, it's like a helper that allows you to easily go through a series of data one piece at a time. But Mel never used it. Instead, he had a complicated way of going through the data himself.

>The author noticed something strange about how Mel was handling the data: he was putting it near the "top" of the computer's memory. When he was done with the last piece of data, he would increment the address, but because it was already at the top, it couldn't go higher. This caused something called an overflow, which is a bit like trying to put more water into a full glass, causing it to spill over.

>This overflow didn't cause an error, though. Instead, it added one to the operation code of the instruction, effectively changing it to a "jump" instruction. A "jump" instruction in programming is like a command to skip to another place in the code. In this case, it made the program skip to the beginning of the code, letting it escape the loop and continue running smoothly.

>In short, Mel created a loop that appeared endless, but he ingeniously designed it to escape itself by using a memory overflow. This trick was hidden deep in the machine code, making it hard for others to understand, but effectively doing what Mel wanted.
Virtually all of the underpaid executive bureaucrats in the US are already rich or will be once they cycle out. They are underpaid for a few years and then are made whole. It would be better to just pay them properly in the first place.
Have you seen the ending to the movie office space? If not - I highly suggest watching this lovely movie before making this move.

But yes, your future job could give you a more happy life balance. Or it could be worse. Or the same.
For workers, WFH gives immense flexibility and opportunity. You are no longer tethered to work in the same vicinity where you live. This gives you both personal (e.g. be close to family, be close to a beach, etc.) and professional (e.g. work for company in another city, on the other side of the country, etc.) opportunity.
The US position on copyright makes a self-serving sort of sense to me: Hollywood etc are big exporters, the US wants to protect it's assets, jobs, trade balance etc. But I've never really understood why the EU takes it so seriously. Not from a self-interest point of view of it's members at least.
i would love something like that for the newest Piaggio MP3 unit... it's really bad
Hype aside - if you are a real startup, with a real Marketing Budget & Plan, then a Launch HN post isn't any big thing.

BTW - any cite for that monopoly claim, or is that a "feels like it, in my bubble"?
You know, I was dumb enough at the time, it's possible I signed a non-disclosure or non-compete before even having the meeting with this "founder". I genuinely don't remember, but it's possible, in which case if I had tried doing that I might have been sued. I don't know how successful they would have been.
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Sure, glasses, hearing aids, that's all fine.

If your product needs to be surgically installed in a patient, if you can't afford to support it for the lifetime of the patient the product isn't viable and shouldn't be brought to market.
The "capital class" in US is mostly people who invest in their 401k and just get pensions from pension funds, whereas the "serfs" in context of meta are engineers who earn what, $400k per year?

How come serfs are richer than the capital class?
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What I'm saying is that people who have something to hide will find a way.

You can't ban math.

Google and Microsoft made a solution that scans user files for illegal stuff, but it can be easily defeated by simply uploading a password protected archive.
Angela Collier's youtube channel had a Video exactly about this topic:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6HlCfwEduqA

Her Videos are amazing and I love her ability to tell interesting stories with a lot of context and insight. I hope more people will enjoy watching her channel, give it a try.

Her video is a month old and seeing this article immediately made me think the author saw it too and did a write-up.

It is about the paedagogy of E0 = mc² and how telling people there are two masses etc. leads to a lot of misconceptions with people not going on to get a Phd in physics. (She has one)
It becomes more painful when the closure is actually closing over something (especially if that thing is mutable), since the borrow checker gets involved.
There's also a third interpretation.
"from not working out regularly... to working out 4x a week"

I understand where you are from, and there is definitely a segment of people whose access to gym is hindered by other factors (convenience, time spent on transportation etc) and Peloton is a better solution for them, but I doubt that is representative of the general Peloton users. And even for that segment, there are alternatives that work well enough -- just get a bike trainer, and there are so many options to choose from. (I don't see myself ever getting a Peloton when I already have a bike)

Not to mention that Peloton does not replace gym. For working out/losing weight etc sure, but you get a lot more different equipment and programs from a "real" gym.
I lately read this wise sentence:

> “As an example, we knew that the General Ledger capability would most likely not be modernized for a very long time as changes are slow and the module is very stable,” explains Uli Homann, Corporate Vice President in the Cloud + AI Group at Microsoft. “If you were to transpose this situation to modernizing a mainframe application landscape, for applications or functionality that’s unlikely to change, it might mean that you would opt to rehost your existing COBOL, PL/I, or mainframe assembler code using capabilities from partners such as Raincode—and then eventually rewrite those applications piecemeal as COBOL or PL/I programming skills continue to get more scarce and expensive. In the meantime, though, rehosting existing code buys you time and frees-up cashflow to focus on more pressing or important modernization projects.”

https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1636062794805219...
All of those would be considered an invasion of your privacy. The general rule of thumb is that you have no expectation of privacy for anything that is done on your yard but outside your house, but within the walls, you do have an expectation of privacy. Technology that allows people to peep on you from outside your house doesn't change that, anymore than the introduction of windows to a house didn't change the expectation of privacy.
In the great tradition of correcting someone only to be corrected ;-)

> ... strictly monotonic growth ...

Their growth is hardly "strictly monotonic" since their growth can fluctuate up and down, as can their subscriber count.
> brain is clearly has vastly more capacity

I would not be so sure about "clearly" bit. Brain has 100B neurons x 1000 connections. GPT3 has 175B connections, but to implement operations used in those connections Nvidia H100 uses about 5M transistors, which in human brain would have to be copied to each connection because nature didn't invent software. (assumes one needs one full CUDA core to implement necessary ops, and that H100's 80B transistors are evenly divided between its 16k cores)
When is our industry going to finally come to the realization the people running these companies don't actually seem to know what they're doing?

Ugh...I hate sounding like a Meta/Zuck apologist but Meta is worth hundreds of billions of $$ and makes billions of $$ in profit every year...surely they know something about what they're doing..
"A modal" is a specific term of art referring to set of UI elements that floats over other content, compels focus, and disallows interaction with UI elements behind it.

That's it. That's what it is. You're arguing with accepted terminology. "Well actually, do ships really have beams, isn't that a light thing?" doesn't really get far either.
I often don’t answer but when I do I set them on silent. Most times it’s immediate hang up but occasionally (less often nowadays) I’d get one that would just sit there indefinitely. My hunch is this the scanner that finds numbers that answer.
From the surface? It’s unlikely that anything would every launch from the surface of Venus.
its an exaggeration but most tech people get a lot of their news here.
With the car warranty people I would let them say their script and ask random (somewhat stupid) questions - I had a fake car/vin/address/name that I'd read to get through any of those questions.

Haven't gotten one in months though...
It does stop me from trying to treat a float as an int. It could have trivially also stopped me from many other mistakes.
Does this, like so many other climate related laws, have a private jet exemption?
On whether they’ve been instrumental on advancing machine learning, or on whether that’s a good thing?
If the utility company gave you explicit permission to put it there you'd be fine though. Which is almost certainly what happened here yeah?
In the past quarter, TSA intercepted an average of 16.8 firearms per day, 93% of which were loaded. I'm quite happy with that many less guns on my flights (imagine what it would be like if there was no check - this is just from people who forgot that carrying onboard is not allowed).
Genuinely recommend seeing it if you haven't already. Such a great show!
My cousin worked in finance but then due to a health issues he was not able to look at screens (or artificial light in general) for extended periods of time.

He was forced to switch to another profession which had to be outdoor based to avoid artificial light and doesn't use any screens.

He decided to train dogs. Initially it was a bit rough (working long hours a day Monday to Saturday) but fast forward 2 years later he is now considered to be one of the best dog trainers in his area. This allowed him to triple his prices and reduce his working hours. He now earns more than he did in his finance job working shorter hours.

If you find your niche and become an expert in that area, I think you can earn a good living no matter what that niche is. But some niches make it easier than others as the base earnings are higher.
> Since 2017, our technology has played a critical role in making communities safer. >70% reported reduction in crime

I’m sorry, but this has to be pure fabrication. There is just no way it’s even remotely plausible that this privacy invading startup affected crime to such a degree.
Most of them will be fine, but probably a couple will consolidate or collapse. They'll start to delay or cancel new ships because who knows how long this will last, and we'll probably end up in an other crisis eventually if they all cut back too much.
No disagreement. In my experience though, modals are used in far too many places. I think if your criteria were applied diligently to every design, this site (and the motivation behind it) wouldn't exist
Redmage is a component based library for building Htmx powered web applications
I'm banned from github. These Reddit Sync features are also great if someone want to add them:

- Mark as read on scroll

- Title customization I don't like the font weight

- On thread view an option to hold a comment to hide its child comments. I think sync moved to single tap for the other actions

- E-ink friendly options like pagination instead of scrolling

Great app thanks for open sourcing it
I think you're onto something. It seems like thinking about 'meta-relationships' tends to depersonalize the individual interactions and devalue the individuals involved. It's as though successful relationships are a fitting problem, and looking at the macro environment strips out the individual quirks which optimize for one's own fit.

If that kind of thinking were helpful, I think we'd have evolved to have a very accurate guess as to what the majority of our preferred demographic finds attractive - but apart from psychopaths, most of us don't. the optimal mating strategy doesn't actually seem to be to work to approach some generic ideal, but to be most authentically and extremely oneself, then filter out everyone who doesn't like that. It's intuitive why looking too seriously at averages distracts from that project.
I remember seeing some street interviews of fresh hired devs who were a cohort of 'just grind leetcode for 2 months and get a $200k+ job'. Were these people valuable contributors to building product?
You have eloquently summarized what I have been trying to say about the "return to the office" battle that is currently underway.

The "executive class" stand to lose a lot more than the "laptop class" if staff don't return to the office.
There should be maximum consequences for those pushing to:

- ruin the educational opportunities for an entire generation of children

- coercing adults into a medical procedure (crimes against humanity can be tried ex post facto)

- forcing businesses to close for completely arbitrary reasons while big box stores remained open

I understand people were terrified, but you don't get to push people down and trample over them just because the fire alarm went off.

I look forward to seeing these animals at the gallows.
I have never gotten a robocall. Are they an US phenomenon?
Sustainable mushroom coffin a last best wish for some
Modal sometimes also works as a peek view of a resource. As when there are many resource in a list, you don't want to open every one in a new tab.

In fact, you can make a link open modal with left click but open in new tab with middle click. I think it is the most balanced way in my opinion.

Modal and tab can co-exist. They are not really mutually exclusive.

BTW, social media websites generally implements this in their feed view. A image behaves different when you click it with middle or left click.
Why is it okay to spy on and send malware to regular citizens but not journalists? That makes zero sense to me.
Hah, ye. I think the "it is not here and will not move" interpretation is the most valid one.