skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't call it condescending but yes, I dispute the fact that "well it's how it is. Nothing parents can do." I have no problem expressing judgment or opinion on how others raise their kids.

My 8 year old has never used a tablet. He thinks phones are just to call people. He just knows that people use them for dumb things just because they can't bare to be alone with their thoughts for 2min.

Yes it is a "battle" and it requires time and effort. It's not impossible. Uphill battle for sure, one that I will probably lose, but still worth fighting.
I was learning some new framework, knew what I wanted to achieve, but had no idea how. It was easier to have conversation with GPT than to go through documentation. Although it sometimes gave examples from older version :)
Population #s and GDP mean very little, and thinking we can move the needle on our favorite issues by looking at these needles is the source of a lot of problems. People think you can just spend more and more money on problems and fix them. There are things money cannot buy. And often, the processes behind the accumulation of the money are what contributed to the problem in the first place.

As an example of just one contributing factor, population churn has an extremely negative impact across nearly the whole spectrum of social issues. What is the population churn in SF vs Finland?
This research is really just done with only 3 species and jumped to conclusions at once?
Why would services take longer to build? You mean, compared to going all in on every aws service?
Stalins reign was one of the largest genocides in human history. Torture, starvation, slave labour, execution, was the fate for millions upon millions of innocent people. The horrors of Stalins regime is beyond any imagination and you can easily look it up if you wish.

Think about what kind of spiritual dammage you are doing upon yourself with the lies you are trying to convince yourself and others of. That damage can be irrevocable.
I don’t view it as adversarial. I’ve had productive conversations on HN including some which gave me NLP approaches I hadn’t considered.

Engineers (including myself when I had a health-tech startup before my MD) tend to misunderstand the problem space (simply put they consider radiology a classification task and assume ground truth labels exist/are even possible like for object recognition) so it seems easy to them, but I don’t believe the intent is nefarious.

Perhaps it’s my naivety but I think most smart people at least partly care at improving society on some level (even if they want to make a lot of money doing it) and the physician-services budget is a large line-item that seems like an easy target rather than the ??? to improve inefficiencies and outcomes.

Without a doubt the AI-enabled radiologist will render the non-AI rad obsolete but it won’t replace our profession. I don’t believe anyone with the skillset and experience in the relevant AI tech believes that it will eliminate radiologists (other than maybe Hinton), certainly isn’t the attitude of the pure CS supervisors I’ve had in my training (or the folks I collaborate with now).
There was ample evidence it happened and many witnesses. It's hard to find things under a 30 year pile of trash.
> For certain things in signal you need to trust the server hardware and suspicious technologies like SGX. SGX is a prime target for a NSA backdoor. That some upper-layer software there is open source (with lots of caveats, e.g. you cannot verify which server version is really running and signal has a history of lagging behind on publishing their "open source" version of the server code) is a distraction at best.

Before you worry about super expensive hard to remove hardware bugs, you should worry far more about the software running on that hardware. It is much more likely that theres bugs in the software than the hardware.
Everyone says GPT 4 is getting much worse. OpenAI says nothing changed. OpenAI, seems we have a problem.
At least 261 dead in India's worst train accident in over two decades
Chrome presumably isn't going to implement a setup dialog for an option that any one who wants to change it can do so either at the Windows level or in Chrome's settings.

This dialog would require the user to make a choice in a dialog when the browser first starts up. Chrome doesn't do anything on first start like that. The browser just opens and puts the user right into a working setup.

Chrome uses SHGetKnownFolderPath(FOLDERID_Downloads) to get the location of the Downloads folder on Windows. The default result of this call is %USERPROFILE%\Downloads but the path returned can be configured to be something different by changing the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\{374DE290-123F-4565-9164-39C4925E467B} key to something else other than %USERPROFILE%\Downloads

If you do this and before starting Chrome for the first time, it will default to whatever path you have set in the registry key.
By "democratic", do you mean "make it possible for someone else to force you or pay you to vote a certain way"? That wouldn't even be "allowing more people to vote", but rather fewer people, each of whom effectively gets more than one vote.
Your comment is a good example of a lack of psychological safety - you shoot the concept down with an intellectually dishonest argument, effectively ridiculing the idea.

The problem you describe is the part that is directly addressed by psychological safety. If you can provide a wrong answer and have people critique it but without ridicule, then you have a “safe” environment where people are comfortable to provide solutions without certainty on their optimality.
Please explain why. Otherwise its just the internet dude saying.

We can go through the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

"Variants of communism have been developed throughout history, including anarcho-communism, Marxist schools of thought, and religious communism, among others. Communism includes a variety of schools of thought, which broadly include Marxism, Leninism, and libertarian communism, as well as the political ideologies grouped around those."

So I'm confident the South America Communism/Socialism is as Communism as your Life-style left, where you support 300 genders and drug abuse. They are all communism, which as wikipedia describes: "Communism (from Latin communis, 'common, universal')[1][2] is a left-wing to far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement"
The range of IPV4 address's is small enough that a single server can scan it, in a single day.

So I guess the problem isn't going away.
After playing Thimbleweed park, it became clear to me that Ron's a huge fan of David Lynch, whose films often explore Buddhist or Hindu themes of reality as a dream we create inside our heads. I think that this theme appears in most of his games, and the endings of MI2 and Return are no different. When I finished MI2 as a teenager, I felt cheated too, but now as an adult that has spent a lot of time meditating and exploring eastern philosophy, I think there's a lot more to it than I could appreciate at that age.
Or there's a better way, just let me select the Downloads folder when installing the first time ?
All news is toxic. I don't read it.
You are still making things up about the API. If you're actually interested, look at the VectorShuffle class, its docs will tell you all about how illegal indices are handled and how to legalize them. But I doubt that you're actually interested.

It's a pity because you clearly have a lot of knowledge that you could put to use to provide very helpful feedback to implementors of the Vector API. (I'm doing this for the GraalVM compiler.)
My naive expectation would be that you could create a us-int2 layout. Is that not the case?
That would probably be a machine vision problem, but I'm also curious to know how you turn the pixels of a photo into a series of bits.
That is why you are not supposed to marry after first date ;)
LibreOffice is a noble yet doomed project that tries to fix the unfixable: the incredibly slow, highly complicated and unaesthetic StarOffice originally developed by Sun, that later reincarnated in OpenOffice. Fixing that suite is so monumentally effort intensive that you would be better off rewriting it from scratch or porting features to a simpler suite like Abiword/Gnumeric, etc.

FreeOffice is the free version of SoftMaker Office. A performant, visually pleasing office suite that is closer to the state of the art in office suites. Running it does not transform your computer into a heating system.

Unlike WPS Office, another popular and free office suite (developed in China by KingSoft), SoftMaker is developed in the west by someone I can actually sue in a non kangaroo court in the EU if something goes wrong.
It's just slow and full of jank like what you listed. Disabling SIP is mandatory if you don't want to feel like you need to blow your brains out. (Another issue is that many windows can't be resized at all on macOS, yet yabai allocates the full space for them and puts them in the top-left corner.)

Don't get me wrong, none of this is an issue with yabai, just with macOS. If I were forced to use macOS for work I'd use yabai too. But I've arranged my life so I never have to touch macOS professionally.
It's always some nonsense like:

"He used his left foot to enter the room. A good candidate will use his right as they will put their best foot forward."
How many jobs can you walk into in Nebraska and start working with no id. The nature of work has changed. Travel options are much more plentiful but those low skilled jobs aside from farming have been outsourced
If only Settlers of Catan had been around for longer, maybe our property planners wouldn't be in this mess.
How do you customers develop these 24/7 web applications they have? Are these development resources needed 24/7?
Is there any hardware tamper resistant features that can prevent third-party from getting the secrets? Like things mentioned here: https://www.design-reuse.com/articles/51750/why-hardware-roo...
I'm Abandoning Coinbase
Yes, of course you are right. My comment was meant more along the lines of "even if the software were ultimately trustworthy because of open source, thousand eyes, careful development and fairy dust, those hardware problems would still be a way in".
*mushoom
Serious amateur magician here (magician member of the Magic Castle). Note that the trick done for the monkeys is not done the way that a real magician would do the trick to fool a human. The French Drop actually can have surprisingly deep subtleties. To fool a human, you would hold the coin between your thumb and forefinger so that there is a visible gap between the bottom of the coin and the palm of the hand holding it into which it will be dropped. Then the hand that grabs the coin is moved into place in a smooth continuous motion, covering this gap very briefly, during which time the coin is dropped. The key is that the gap is visible during most of this motion, after which the grasping hand pauses briefly before closing the thumb and forefingers to "grasp" the (now missing) coin. The key to making it convincing is that the trick actually happens before the dramatic pause before grasping the coin, but the pause focuses the spectator's attention on the fact that during the pause the gap is visible, making it "impossible" for the coin to be dropped without being seen. It's considered one of the most elementary of tricks, but it's actually quite challenging to do properly. In the hands of a skilled magician it can be very convincing even when you know how it's done.

Magic is an art with vastly more subtlety and attention to detail than it generally appreciated by muggles.
I just run a locally containerised rss feed aggregator and have my own news feed.
It wasn’t the old days. At the time the book was written and at the time I took the class mechanical timers in dryers were ubiquitous. Digital was new, expensive, and didn’t offer any advantages for that application.

Eventually digital became cheap, and enabled new features like dryers that had various sensors that could be used to optimize drying, but that was several years down the road.
Discussion from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22297963 (343 comments)
Thats why he is a billionaire. I would bet most of them are egomaniacs.
When it takes 3-6 months to unfuck someone’s caffeine-fueled, no-sleep weekend bender that got squeezed in under the radar, the value that person is adding to the team and the company is quite questionable.

And no, I am not exaggerating
the time needed to fix. The weekend bender, maybe. Average case is started on a weekend and in production two weeks later. The code did not improve over those two weeks.

I’ve dealt with this half a dozen times (maybe more) in my career. Enough that I want to struggle the next “rockstar” that shows up in Slack. They generate problems and support issues faster than a room full of monkeys on typewriters.

I get even more cranky when they decide to use the opportunity to learn Go or Haskell, a programming language no one else on the team knows. And of course they fuck it up because they haven’t used a statically-compiled, strongly-typed (or functional) language before.

I’m generally a careful programmer, but I can definitely write fast and cut corners if necessary. The difference is I know what corners to cut and how to document them.

It might take me 3 weeks instead of 2, but the reduced support cost is far worth the extra week of development.
Twitter, emails, text messages
I am not from the states but my IT career involved working on teams with US clients and also working in the US for a few years.

I find it very hard to say "I did X" for anything except for personal projects that I did myself from start to finish.

In typical work projects even the best of ideas always need to be bought by rest of the team and also executed collaboratively by the team. I would be dishonest if I were to say "I delivered this project on time/under budget" even if I did play significant part in keeping the project healthy and on track.
Computers aren't really new. Addition and writing have been around for a long time. There's nothing that a computer can do that can't theoretically be accomplished by a team of people with abaci and carrier pigeons.

The entire value proposition of modern computation is about scale and cost. It's the same things, but with much higher quantity and intensity. Something that can be tolerably safe at 1 unit/day may be very dangerous at 1000 units/day. I would be surprised if pre-teen porn consumption has only risen by 1000x in the past 30 years.
Another Stanford design that looks interesting are these flying drones with winches, that can attach small cables to objects, then clamp themselves to structures and haul away:

"Stanford researchers modify small flying robots to haul heavy loads"

https://youtu.be/GEJhb93rKlUO
That sounds rather similar to the prevailing attitudes here and it seems fairly understandable.
Seems like maybe we should create a convention by which output from a library or program can be ignore by critical processes, so that comments and notes could be inserted, like // or # notation in code? //this depreciation notice may be given to the terminal but it will be ignored by any process that digests this output// or something like that?

Or just use stderr?
I enjoyed this, we definitely made some of these pitfalls in my past startup. The example about needing to check the audience before requesting resources is a good one.
To my knowledge, the reason why free speech is held in such high regard is the idea that only citizens who are well-informed and have equal access to all arguments can make reasonable decisions - which is what a democracy rests on.

If that is the reason though, I'd doubt that speech that deliberately attempts to subvert rational thought and manipulate the audience would fall under that protection.
What's disappointing is that these are 2 individuals who are in peak physical form, with the help of the best nutritionists and trainers in the world and could be playing until they are 45 at very high levels, however they simply refuse to run, both in their clubs and National Teams.

It's not that they physically can't, the problem is that they don't want to do it anymore, I honestly believe it's psychological not physical and also they see it as a matter of respect . In football the players who run the least gets to have the most fun and they are also the most respected in the team, essentially the other 9 do the dirty work for him.

Argentina won the World Cup in Qatar with Messi basically running 5-6km per game which is nothing compared to the wings which can wind up with 13-14km run each game. Even in the Extra Time with 5mins left when France was attacking to equalize he'd basically walk instead of tracing back to protect the lead.

Sad that they'd both end up in Saudi Arabia still relatively young while they could have stayed in Europe for 5-10 years more, but the mental tank emptied much earlier than the physical one.
I really don't think protecting IP produced at company expense is "evil." That's their prerogative, and people knowingly violating agreements/ToS are playing with fire.
1. Download windows portable

2. Unzip & run

3. Install java 19 doc

4. Search for "List" on top-left search box

5. Wait 1 second

6. Zeal crashes

7. Try navigating, it crashes

I haven't had such a bad first experience in years.
I look back at myself and the kind of cringe responses (and questions!) I had earlier in my career and for the most part the interviewers were right to reject me but not necessarily on the basis of technical merit (or lack thereof). On a lot of teams being able to communicate effectively and develop a strong rapport quickly is a bigger factor for an individual's effectiveness than how much quality code and designs can be produced. Ironically, this is an even bigger requirement for smaller organizations. For example, see a pathological case a start-up of two people where they must both be _very_ good at working together or the entire company will fall apart quite quickly. Also in a lot of interviews I was unable to demonstrate that I'm competent partly because I had already burned way out from months of being on-call and losing a great deal of sleep, so I was walking into interviews at basically my worst possible performance. It took me quitting for a while, working on my own terms, and recovering slowly to be able to demonstrate what everyone saw when I was actually operating at my general level of competence in various dimensions. Additionally, got some professional help and with some clinical diagnoses under my belt with solid medications everything got substantially better after that. Going through basically an entire career with severe handicaps has made everything seem much, much easier to handle.

It's ironic that the dynamics of targeting higher quality candidates are not that different from personal dating. While for larger organizations they seem to stress how much more damage a bad hire can be they have the capacity to absorb losses better than substantially smaller organizations on a purely mathematical basis. Likewise, individuals that have higher resources, emotional intelligence, capacity for grace, etc. can much better tolerate "bad" relationships yet are among the most stringent at avoiding "bad" relationships in the first place.
> I've learned to distrust my 'instant answer'

In "Thinking Fast and Slow", Daniel Kahnemann describes the "instant" answer as being given by "System 1", which the far slower (and more rational) "System 2" might distrust.
Author also wrote a post on the design process, very interesting I think: https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/designing-my-...
I used to be from the romhacking community back in the 2000s and due to usage of Windows, open source/foss wasn't even known to most people. The culture of Windows programmers is way more focused on freeware/binaries.

Still waiting to this day for FuSoYa to release the source code of Lunar Magic.

About a central database of binary parsers, I've been wanting this for ages too. The closest I ever found was augeas, but that's for configuration files.
I'm just speculating, I do not 'know'. I look up to them as well. But reading about them, things that seems to stand out is that they are/were:

1) very prolific in the engineering sense. writing lots of code or producing lots of hardware designs (in the case of wozniak). When you do that a lot on hard problems you quickly learn from mistakes and get good.

2) very persistent, bordering to stubborn (at least in the case of torvalds and wozniak). keeping at it even to unreasonable levels.

So maybe it's just about having a strong drive and sustaining it, and also a bit of luck by having the correct tools, knowledge and community available to you
The Many Errors of an Inconvenient Truth [video]
Submission Comment:

In this midlength video (23ish minutes), Dr Simon Clark goes over the issues High Court Judge Michael Burton identified with the docu-movie "The inconvenient truth" by Al Gore. With the benefit of time, Dr Clark, identifies which errors were in-fact not errors, verifies which errors were indeed correctly identified by Judge Burton.

In addition, Dr Clark mentions a grave error in the movie, namely the politicization of climate change, and the consequences of above actions with respect to talking about, and dealing with the problem.

Disclaimer: not affiliated with Dr Clark.
Wow, I never knew HN layout was using tables. That was surprising, all this years and I never checked.
Yep. Fun, weather protection, and small - just too pricey at the moment.
Assuming that the schools are correct and social media companies are harming the mental health of children, then it should be the health authorities doing the suing. The schools are to a large extend the organisations having to deal with the mental health issues, so it is affecting their budgets and ability to do their job, that could constitute them suing for being imposed an unreasonable burden by a private companys business practices. Maybe... I'm not a lawyer, it might also be as simple as "It needs to be done and no one else seems to care".
I wasn't expecting this to cost less than 3$
I think this is the same problem. How would you measure when a human is taught love? How would you differentiate that from measuring when one of these programs is taught love?

It feels like it always boils down to: 1) you can’t. Or 2) “trust me, it’s different.”
TLS isn't worth much if someone hijacks your zone and obtains X.509 certificates for your services. A smart attacker with enough resources could even re-encrypt the intercepted traffic and control enough addresses to avoid running into per prefix resource limits or other obvious failure modes.
Which one? It's something I've considered trying out for some time.
This is highly regional, both within the US and throughout the rest of the world. In some cultures, you always downplay your own contributions, and listeners inflate them; in others, you always talk yourself up, and listeners adjust accordingly.

When you work in a large, heterogenous organization, it is important to pay attention to these differences, or else you end up either assuming someone did nothing or is a useless braggart because their culture doesn't match your own.
You can fail to get a high school diploma because of lack of athletic performance? What school is this?

I completely failed an English course and still graduated. Even went on to fail classes in college. Had to retake a class but still got a degree.