skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are choosing to use an ad based service. No one is forcing you to view reddit. Your attention belongs to you and you can choose to direct it where you want. You knew reddit included ads, you consented to use reddit which includes ads. Just because you don’t like ads doesn’t make it “mind rape”. If you don’t like penises, but consent to have sex with a cis man, it isn’t rape because he has a penis that you don’t like but knew he had. It isn’t rape because you want to have sex with anyone and everyone and want none of them to have a penis. The answer is not that no one is allowed to have a penis, the answer is for you to stop having sex with people with penises. It isn’t the world’s responsibility to only be populated with people you want to have sex with, it is your responsibility to only consent to have sex with people you actually want to have sex with.
We’re talking about a hypothetical scenario in which pi is normal, though.
Nighttime lighting is harmful to human health
this is dope with a quadro watercooled and high performance watercooling
Sure but the insights the author has had are that kids like fun and that cs education platforms have bugs. I don't see any original insights here tbh they are just insights that should be obvious to anyone who has ever stepped foot in a class room or used an interactive course.

There is also the fact that your examples and indeed the likes of khan academy filled a market gap or had a niche offering. The education platform market is saturated and if your entire product is to create and deliver educational courses for high school kids I'd wager teaching experience, and more of it, is key.
> Even when you are clearly not at your peak, there is always plenty to do that doesn’t require your best, and it would actually be a waste to spend your best time on it.

Wow, that's a great quote.
It's just that displays have been omitting vga inputs for a while now.
Yeah, it was essentially the first subreddit.

> Hence post two predicting the sub would not join the protest.

Sorry I don't understand. "post two"?
>According to research by high street bank TSB, 80% of purchase fraud cases reported to the bank come from platforms owned by Meta, which includes Instagram, as well as Facebook and WhatsApp.

Well obviously since those are the most used platforms. Interesting that a bank, which should be full of clever people, doesn't know to take MAUs into consideration when seeing which platforms produce more fraud.
Average or median?

And it seems inflation was higher so it actually wage shrinking

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351276/wage-growth-vs-i...
So in massechutses my car doesn't send any telemetry to the manufactorer or random dealerships, and can't receive remote signals to start, stop brake or turn on its own? Sounds like a pretty good win. Also rich hearing about security concerns coming from Kia at the moment.
They used p<0.001. It is not social sciences, there anti-noise filters are stricter.
Siffworkflow 2.0.0
Pleased to announce that version 2.0.0 of the SpiffWorkflow Library is officially released. SpiffWorkflow is a Visual Workflow Engine - draw it and run it. Version 2.0 is in preparation for a very soon to be released wrapper that turns SpiffWorkflow into a turnkey workflow engine that anyone can use to build, test, and execute flow-chart like diagrams that can handle things like manual approval processes, system integration, data pipelines, hell, you can get this thing to write a poem to your mom every year on mothers day, and follow it up with discord message reminding you to call her.
That's kind of funny, because "Hello World" gives a strong indication of your profession and interests. Not enough on its own to be PII, but a useful data point.
I said nothing of money?

Although, of course, what you say about money is true. In fact, I can see from my not deleted HN history that I wrote that money is just an IOU only three days ago. I guess there is some value in being able to look back on my work! But is it value enough?

Human nature is to be transactional. If I offer you my time to write a comment for you, I am going to expect something in return. That in return could be nothing more than the smile you give me when you read it. It doesn't have to be some elaborate, grandiose thing, but there has to be some kind of payment or one will quickly sour to the ordeal.

If I were to write for you now, what would you give me in return? I suspect nothing because there is nothing of value I could offer you with my writing. Conversely, I offer you nothing. Will you write something for me? I expect not. Why would you?
Looks like the UAE has beat them to the chase. Never thought I'd be thanking the Emirate for anything, but they did it.
Well, yes, it often is.
I'm not following follow you?
I'm not saying we shouldn't have teams of people filtering this kind of comment. We already do. The issue I have is with the marriage of one specific moderator team to the board/subreddit in question. Comments like yours are the easy ones, automated tools will usually catch it (and it looks like they already did!)

When it comes to tricker cases, like with political content, some people have different preferences and those preferences are just that: a preference. If I want to view into a subreddit downstream of a politically-minded set of moderators, I should be able to do that without locking other people into the same view. Right? It doesn't mean that teams aren't all going to universally remove spam.
... and by some definition you'd be a data scientist yourself.
(Regardless of your job title)
Another similar one I saw recently was Postmill [1a][1b] but I have not tried it.

[1a] - https://postmill.xyz/

[1b] - https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill
> This particular article does touch on a goal that isn’t usually explicitly stated: it would make the world “less unequal” if everyone was prevented from working longer hours. Yes, it would, but I am deeply appalled at the thought of trading away individual freedom of action and additional value in the world for that goal.

The conclusion that an article discussing productivity research is secret conspiracy against people who want to work a lot of hours, is a bit mind boggling.

He never suggests he's tried working fewer hours. Have to wonder if the guy is just one of those people incapable of taking a break.
Reminds me of the cats for prisoners thing.

Strikes me as an exceptionally good use of taxpayer money. Prisons suck at rehabilitating people and thus just make things worse in the long run when you release the people. Anything you can do to blunt that negative effect is a win.

edit: edited for a rough typo
CELEBe and FanC to Participate in Seoul Meta Week 2023
Seoul, June 29-30 – CELEBe, the prominent short-form platform, is delighted to announce its collaboration with fanC, the reward-based blockchain project, at the upcoming Seoul Meta Week 2023.
Please don't cross into personal attack on HN and please don't post unsubstantive/flamebait comments. You can make your substantive points without any of that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Just gave it a shot and this seems really interesting!
Here's the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LyaWzOesXk
I saw this quote on some other thread recently on HN that is relevant:

General Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord, the present chief of the German Army, has a method of selecting officers...: “I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities.

Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous.”

Carmack clearly falls into the clever and industrious bracket and his perspective is skewed by his own disposition.
That's why I'm curious just how good the resolution can be on the Vision Pro. If it takes a 5k monitor at, say, 2ft away which covers maybe 30 degrees of your field of view vertically to be truly "retina", then surely a 4k display 3 inches away from your eye that covers ~120 degrees of your field of view is not quite there.

But you also have lenses that are stretching out the screen to cover your periphery where it can be much less sharp so it's not exactly comparable.
Presumably you could have some combo of A and B.
No, it won't be Reactive Native or any other. There are no cross-platform UI wars any more. There are efforts at this, all with huge compromises, but working with a native UI toolkit on any platform will always offer a superior developer experience and a superior user experience; that's just the way it has always been, still is, and I'd predict always will be.
Cool. The manufacturers will figure out a way to make nice phones with a longer lifetime.

Because the EU forces them to.
Before that point in time there were feeds to other sites that let mods and devs catch that sort of spam, using tools developed by 3rd parties. Reddit cut the feeds off. Go figure.
An upside of linear threads is synchrony, you've pointed out. But the linear thread format isn't incompatible with nesting necessarily, with quoting you're effectively having soft-nested conversations. What's lacking is UX that emphasizes this mixed threading style, and thus benefits from the best of both.

It might surprise you that, I think 4chan explores mixed threading like no other website does. Threads are linear, but quoting results in backlinks meaning isolated conversations are easily navigable, filtering out the "firehose". There's also a button that looks like [-] that can hide a post and all its nested replies, this can hide a specific reply chain from the linear view of the thread. I gave the system a bigger eulogy over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33567593
I didn't say anything to the contrary, the quotation is losing all the context.

but if you want to verify hipotesis and control for confounding factor, the ab test needs to be part of a baesyan analysis, if you're doing that, why also pay for the priori research?

by going down the path of user research > production quality release > validation of the hypotesis you are basically paying research twice and paying development once regardless of wether the testing is succesful or not.

it's more efficient to either use bayesian hypotesis + ab testing for research (so pay development once per hypotesis, collect evidence and steer into the direction the evidence points to) or use user research over a set of POCs (pay research once per hypotesis, develop in the direction that research points to)

if your research need validation, you paid for a research you might not need. if you start research knowing the priory (the user doens't see the button) you're not actually doing research, you're just gold plating a hunch, then why pay for research, just skip to the testing phase. if you want to research from the users, you do ab testing, but again, not against a hunch, but against a set of hypotesis, so you can eliminate confounding factors and narrow down the confidence interval.
A teacher should know the difference between disinterested and uninterested.
> Whatever the grand strategy for success is, it gets broken down into lots of smaller tasks. When you hit a wall on one task, you could say “that’s it, I’m done for the day” and head home, or you could switch over to something else that has a different rhythm and get more accomplished. Even when you are clearly not at your peak, there is always plenty to do that doesn’t require your best, and it would actually be a waste to spend your best time on it. You can also “go to the gym” for your work by studying, exploring, and experimenting, spending more hours in service to the goal.

Absolutely true.

> I think most people excited by these articles are confusing not being aligned with their job’s goals with questions of effectiveness. If you don’t want to work, and don’t really care about your work, less hours for the same pay sounds great! If you personally care about what you are doing, you don’t stop at 40 hours a week because you think it is optimal for the work, but rather because you are balancing it against something else that you find equally important. Which is fine.

And this is really the key to the whole shorter work week argument. I agree with John; if you are running your own company or initiative in an area you are passionate about, the 40 hour week question probably doesn't even dawn on you. Why would you want to work less to achieve a goal you are ambitious to reach? If anything you are working more because you enjoy it and want to see more progress more quickly.

But most people working a typical job (even in tech) are not in a position to care deeply about their work and its outcomes - why that's the case is a separate discussion and probably differs person-to-person. A good amount of those people might even be working on things during those 40 hours that are a poor use of their individual time due to bad management, bureaucracy, inability to work on things they want to, etc. These people are not able to work 40+ hours things that feel or are as important as other things in their life such as side projects, family, exercise, etc. And so the 5 day, 40 hour workweek feels incompatible with their life.
Yes, the no.2 post in the link.
Yeah I found something similar as well. It's all logic.
I see that MVCC is still your preferred way of doing CC, and what academic research is mostly focused. I am wondering whether that’s an advantage for in-memory databases specifically.

I was once discussing MVCC vs 2PL with an experienced Sybase and SQL Server guy, and he claimed that, when transactions are implemented properly and the database is well-designed (no surrogate keys, in particular), 2PL leads to better performance and no deadlocks, while “readers do not block writers” leads to lots of aborted transactions in a heavy OLTP workload. I verified that (I should still have the code around): lots of conflicts in PostgreSQL vs smooth concurrent execution with no retries in Sybase and SQL Server.

I have since heard similar opinions from other SQL Server practitioners: they disable MVCC and rely only on good ol’ 2PL.
The xkcd comic seems more about the multiple comparisons problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_comparisons_problem), which could arise in both an observational or controlled setting.
At least people are getting outside and doing things together.

It’s the same in Ontario Canada, which can be frustrating.

But I am curious what activities are now missing all those people.
I can also thank phpBB for kicking off my career. In the mid-2000s I spent a lot of time on a few specialist gaming forums, but also a webdev forum where I was sharing what I learned about XHTML and the new CSS with other newbies.

JavaScript back then was a total obscurity - I didn't actually learn it until maybe 6 years later because, before then, everything was rendered by the server and you'd just copy DHTML snippets for silly things.

Someone approached me to help modify their phpBB forum and while I did that as a hobby for a short while, they were also the first people to pay me for it. Basically validated my work and put me on the career path I have now.
2023 Aaron Winborn Award Winner: Randy Fay
That's really flawed thinking. They will get free data from you and you will be paying for the internet connection as well? Is this a joke?

Why would anyone voluntarily pay for internet connection in their car, when they likely already have it in their phone?

At least internet advertisers has the decency to give you something for free in return. This is level of "paying for Facebook".
Twitter is alive and well, thank you.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36358672
With distributed ray detectors and suitable modeling of inner earth processes, assuming that the premise is correct - seems it may have potential to work?

Ie, maybe able to generate the level of specificity required.

EDIT: Also there aren't that many places on earth at high risk of earthquake that also have poor construction, etc. Meaning any advance warning, that a significant quake may hit somewhere, can trigger "battening down the hatches".
I see your point, the problem with social media is the exposure and scale. Kids these days can't fool around like we did, someone is always recording and you can go viral. I read not long ago about kids with severe anxiety in school due to the constant fear of the wrong photo or video going on social media.

And the abundant information, is that really a good thing? How much of it is good? Remember the Trump election, the amount of outright lies thrown around and the level of polarization, with even family members unable to speak to each other.

I'm not saying there's nothing good at all between the mud, but on the whole I think it's been a disaster.
Errrr...

1. He doesn't invalidate any of his points in the way you think he does

2. In the most generous interpretation of your reading of him, he frames that amounts over the average 40 hours as sometimes being "underwork", which is absolutely something the some of the "overwork" camp denies

He might have good points, or he might have bad points, but either way it's not because of your additions to the discussion just now. (i.e. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.)
Hype existed before iPhone. In the 90s and 2000s it was "here's what a hip web dev's desk looks like" and the transition to AJAX web apps. Before that, the switch to Java and XML and delivery via applets. Before that the switch from minicomputers to desktops and access to the internet in your home. Before that switch from slide rulers and doing the math in your head :) They all came with style section articles and a feature on the cover of Newsweek.
> other test results

What other tests? If those tests are better, why not use them?

> and grades

Grades are quite unreliable, as they are too easily manipulated (like grade inflation). For example, my high school physics teacher proclaimed that everyone in his classes should get As. He did that a little too loudly, and the administration had to ask him not to do that. Instead, during tests, he'd offer to help anyone answer the questions if they had any difficulty. He was a nice fellow, I liked him, but the grades he handed out weren't worth spit.
> Even paying me $120k to prop up the OSS solution (Moodle) + build out migration software is profitable within a year.

My 2 cents: Keep the IP for the migration software.
>>Don't buy anything advertised there either.

YUP

Farcebook trying to convince everyone that Craigslist is unsafe (as if FB was safe) was one of the biggest scams ever.

Yes, it undermined CL stealing a bunch of the adverts, but it sure as hell made nobody more safe.
You become keenly aware of this if you run a small business and run the IT. Once something is provisioned and in production you maintain it as long as physically possible. Buying a new one is not expensive. The time to get it set up can be 10x the cost of the item in terms of hours.
Yep. The only real option is that each platform agrees to abide by a common protocol for describing GUIs. I don't see that happening.
In what sense has he "gone off the deep end"? Why was he once a hero of yours but no longer?
Google Comes Out Against a 'Department of A.I
He's also a high level grappler. There are a lot of software people at my BJJ gym. I find it uses many of the same skills as programming.

I know it's not a popular sentiment, but I've always just merged work and non-work. Found jobs I enjoyed and eventually became part owner in a company. In 20 some odds years of working, I've never hated a job like I read people here seem to, so maybe I did something right.
Ultra-low-cost mechanical smartphone attachment for blood pressure measurement
Well, according to their TOS, they do. It's really no different than any other site being able to use what you post on there.
Just out of curiosity (as I haven't needed to use a hex viewer/editor in web dev) - what use-cases are you using this for?
> The main idea here is the observation that eddy currents in the liquid core of our planet are responsible for generating the Earth's magnetic field. This field deflects the paths of charged particles of primary cosmic radiation. Thus, if large earthquakes were associated with disturbances in the flows of matter that drive the Earth's dynamo, these disturbances would alter the magnetic field, which in turn would affect the tracks of the particles of primary cosmic radiation in a manner that depends on the dynamics of the disturbances inside our planet. As a result, ground-based detectors should see some changes in the numbers of secondary cosmic ray particles detected.
Don't believe me? OpenAI themselves use a special-purpose model and not an LLM for moderation. https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.03274

If they don't think this is a situation for an LLM, you can probably safely assume it's not.
She went from cognitive science to software engineering
I had a wonderful chat with Hannah, a software engineer at Amazon who switched from cognitive science to software engineering.

She talked to me about her motivations for making the jump and the challenges she faced along the way.

This is such a good read for anyone from an unconventional background trying to make it into tech.
It doesn’t have to break into many little pieces. Just get some food under the keys. Productivity denied!
The instruct trained variation, you mean.
Pippa must be rolling in her grave ٩(╬ʘ益ʘ╬)۶
> I discovered that often the offset into pi is much larger than the data you are sending.

Shouldn't the offset be roughly the same size? If you look for a 1000 digit sequence, you need to try about 10^1000 starting points, which makes your offset about 1000 digits.
I disagree. Making edit history public would turn the discussion into a total shitshow. Reddit would drown in stuff like: "I see from your second edit you said ... so clearly you're a ignoramus and a bigot."
> Physically plugging into a vehicle's CANBUS is not different from physically plugging into a computer's USB ports.

That's a bad example. If a computer can be taken over by a USB device, we would say there is a security vulnerability in its USB stack. Firewire is widely criticized for having a protocol based around DMA that naive implementations of are vulnerable in this way.
Honestly, this is really wonderful news from Meta. I'm sufficiently impressed.
I wish there were better approaches to solving the problems around replacing batteries. This solution has downsides in terms of size (extra material required to surround the battery) and waterproofness.

I like the features that will have to trade off against replaceable batteries. I wish there were more opportunities for creative solutions to ewaste rather than the specific outcome being regulated.
(This comment is just a stub so I can bundle a bunch of obsolete subthreads about a former typo in the URL)
I think a lot of this is because a large amount of our society grew up without the Internet. To them, everything that looks professional is professional. They are easy targets for scammers.

Millennials and Gen-Z were raised on the Internet and therefore have an innate understanding of what is real and most importantly, what can be faked. Its a lot harder to scam. them.

If I told my parents about a Nigerian oil executive who needs to move $20 million out of a bank account, they would scratch their head. If I told my 28 year old co-worker, he'd laugh and understand the joke.

So, maybe in 20+ years, nobody will fall for these scams anymore.