skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not open source.

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These rationalizations don't justify it. The animation still has ugly pop-in and jerkiness despite being so slow and despite the fact that most apps can relayout and redraw their window in a tiny fraction of the time that animation takes. And screen sharing shouldn't make things slow when you're not using it.

Anyway, I'd trade a bit of pop-in for a faster computer if that was necessary. There's no excuse to not offer that choice even as a power user "defaults write" option.
The thing is if you look at the results and assume at least 20% of people do this then theyre still bad.

Moreover, I think most people have a better idea of how bullshit their job is than an outside observer. Theyre doing it.
Keynes proposed to let people dig holes and let these be filled by again by people.

Basically, the ultimate description of a bullshit job. Keynes proposed this as a counter measure against a depression. I'm absolutely certain that he understood that it does not make society any richer.

So for an economist, bullshit jobs are especially bad because they think about what people could be doing instead.

Basically, bullshit jobs come at an opportunity cost. Governments should be fighting this phenomenon. Just thinking about creating jobs is a bit shortsighted.
There's no need to even make such a complicated task.

Recently I found that GPT4 can't even reliably create a list of german nouns with a given article (der / die / das).

It will mess up a simple list - if you ask it to analyse it, it'll be able to tell you that it's wrong.

Then you get it to correct the list and it may still be wrong.

It can take several iterations to make the list correct. I would have thought this would be a super easy task for it, but apparently not.
Was it clear that DNA samples are stored indefinitely and paid access is allowed to outsiders? There is an article that is a few years old, but is very eye opening.

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-biobank-dna-babies-w...
They have to put something similar to pigeon spikes on all furniture which would kind of defeat the purpose of having floor samples.

The only way this could work is if they charged people a refundable entrance fee of like $1000 or something. Otherwise I could see it turning into a squatted living space with druggies hanging out getting in the way of potential customers. Or posing health risks to customers (needles in cushions, unsanitary personal hygiene, etc.)
I feel weird without it and I always carry my ID in the US, even when just going for a walk around the neighborhood.

Not hard for me since it’s in my wallet and I use one of those slim wallets and don’t carry many other cards and don’t stash receipts in the bill area like some people do.
One of the big arguments in favor of the blackout is that it is supposedly a democratic expression of the will of the communities.

But most of the more than 2000 comments on this thread are not only against the blackout, they go further and express derision and hatred toward the mods.

I am not in the least bit surprised. Knowing how Reddit mods on big subs usually function, I did not ever think that this was a bottom-up revolt. The typical big sub Reddit mod is not a benevolent democrat, he is a mentally disturbed petty authoritarian.
A sizeable tech sector in Letterkenny? Nope.
25% of America's roughly 1,000 malls have closed over the last ten years. The pandemic accelerated a demise that was already underway.

But it's fun to take a larger trend that's been happening for many years in many cities, and pretend it's a uniquely SF disease.
I remember the days of bnetd, and that didn't end well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_...
You're neither in control nor responsible for their failures
But the industry regulation may be what is bullshit.

The job can be still bullshit, even though it serves a purpose for a specific company in a specific environment.

Corporate lawyer is the archetypal graeberian bullshit job.
I didn't even know it existed until the other day when I found out I was already using it.

I can't imagine giving better praise for a piece of software.
That seems insane, it’s not a dangerous neighborhood?? Unhoused people are (sometimes) mentally ill, not murderers. And why would they attack a news crew?? Baseless fear mongering
I'd considered it, but so many videos are just filler to drive ad impressions that I can't justify it because the content quality is still lacking for what I want.
Market Street is really bad. Tons of other areas of SF feel totally fine most of the time.
Remembering Paul Fillinich and Licensing C++ from AT&T
I was sad to hear that Paul Fillinich, an intellectual property lawyer for AT&T, passed away in 2020. I doubt many people are aware of his contribution to the success of C++.

Back in 1987 or so, C++ and Objective-C were neck-and-neck in the race to create a better C. I was interested in gaining a competitive edge for my C compiler (Zortech), and wondered which horse to get on. Stepstone owned Objective-C, and had some onerous licensing terms for it. But C++? I made some phone calls, and finally discovered that Paul Fillinich was in charge of IP at AT&T. I contacted him and asked:

1. can I get a license to create a C++ compiler?

2. can I call it C++?

Paul laughed. He said nobody had ever asked him a question like this in advance, they usually just went ahead and did things hoping nobody would notice. (Of course, being AT&T's IP lawyer, he did notice.)

Paul said sure, go ahead. You don't need a license from AT&T, and AT&T didn't trademark C++.

I owe him a large debt of gratitude, and so does the C++ community. Paul was one of the good guys.

This enabled a thriving ecosystem for C++, and we all know what happened to Objective-C.
Bluntly, the adults around him have done him a disservice: he should be allowed to be a child (with its concomitant mistakes and experimentation) -- even if a precocious one.[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzdVSMRu16g
Sure, not everything’s economic growth. But without some concrete examples of where things have actually improved in tangible terms over the last decade you leave yourself open to the claim that what this is _actually_ about is seeing people and institutions you dislike taking a decline in status regardless of the objective consequences.
Hamtramck, Michigan voted unanimously to ban LGBTQ flags from city properties
I'd think HN, of all places, with so many software developers would actually be a pretty good audience for pedantry.
I feel I'm in an unusual position because I have a BSME degree. Which means I'm familiar enough with basics that I can do a very rough analysis. And when I do that what I see I makes me really nervous. And yet I know I simply can't do anything more than that because it's way to complex. Any time that happens I fall back in what technical people in the field say. And those people are terrified. The flip side is anyone not a technical practitioner I discount what they say out of hand because I know they have no ability to discern anything.
Treating ij as a single letter in Dutch makes no sense, unless one also treats au, ei*, eu, ou, and ui as single letters. And possibly sch as well.

* especially ei as it's the same sound: eis (demand) and ijs (ice) are homonyms.
> The fact that false memories can be induced does not mean that all memories are false.

How is this even slightly relevant?

If some memories are false, and other memories are true, and none of us can tell which is which, then according to our principles of justice we must act as if all memories are potentially false.

"Memory as evidence" crumbles at that point.
rpi4 is massively memory bandwidth starved. It can't even keep up with drawing the screen in general, much less run games.

VisionFive2's GPU (from Imatech) is supposedly at least 4x as fast.
Is this why people complain about performance issues with browsers?

I have some perpetual habit to "clean" my desktop - I get annoyed if I have >15 tabs across 2 windows which easily happens.

> >5000 tabs among all of them

Not to be antagonistic but ... just why? There is no chance you are actively managing and keeping track of these? Is this because it doesnt matter if they are open or not? I am genuinely baffled and confused.
Raging for the Machine
> to try to quickly replace two of the lost legions

Yes, it seems like this was part of the extraordinary measures taken after the defeat at Cannae. From the same wikipedia article you’re talking about:

> As news of this defeat reached Rome, the city was gripped in panic. Authorities resorted to extraordinary measures, which included consulting the Sibylline Books, dispatching a delegation led by Quintus Fabius Pictor to consult the Delphic oracle in Greece, and burying four people alive as a sacrifice to their gods. To raise two new legions, the authorities lowered the draft age and enlisted criminals, debtors and even slaves. Despite the extreme loss of men and equipment, and a second massive defeat later that same year at Silva Litana, the Romans refused to surrender to Hannibal. His offer to ransom survivors was brusquely refused. The Romans fought for 14 more years until they achieved victory at the Battle of Zama.

The person you’re replying to was talking about the norm, while this would have been the exception (until the later reforms of Marius)
After a decade of programming 50+ hours a week in many languages (typescript, javascript, python, scala, java, lua, bash, c++, etc), I have come to the conclusion that Java is simply the best. The tooling, libraries, stability, verbose rigidity. It forces a style of programming that simply scales to more engineers better
All subreddits that are still private or restricted: https://reddark.untone.uk/
You called 911 a dozen times? Why?

Also “more cars than you could count” actively had broken windows?

Not saying you’re lying, buttttt… that would be highly unusual. This comment reads like you googled SF from 2000mi away and brought up the hot topics
But now you have to work in...shudder...JSON.

It's nice being able to use datetimes, 64 bit ints, binary, etc
The Viking disease can be due to gene variants inherited from Neanderthals
Probably because you never tried it... Personally I like it when it can snap to 1/4 or 1/2 of the screen... On a 30in monitor
I believe you are right in that " Ad monetization is the reason for recipes being at the end" - and maybe partially, maybe it's the only reason from the publisher's viewpoint - sure, maybe..

but ".. you're wrong here" - not necessarily - both things can be true..

and consider this:
Google is choosing to put a bunch of web sites in the top results that instead of giving you the answer you seek (the recipe) - the sites contain the recipe but make you scroll past a bunch of other info - and ads - before you get what you want.

I've seen interesting debates about 'this increases engagement on-page time which the google algo likes ' - and things from googlers that say that's not the thing.. I've seen other guesses as to why..

regardless of the why - google is choosing to reward these sites with top position - they are long winded and include lots of ads.. so both things are true.

and the cynic in me leans toward people's paychecks and stock values are based on a thing.. and the search engine providing sites at the top that increase ad views, and they make money as an ad company.. and the old adage of do the best for the user is not at the forefront.

I've seen it in many other search phrases - things mysteriously happen that include censoring, that also increase the ad spend needed to reach customers.

One can blame in on this or that or point to whatever - but the truth of the outcome is the truth of the outcome - must of what people are searching for is buried and there has been in increase in ad visibility -

maybe that's not a bad thing for some, but it is what it is, and it's also an opportunity ripe for disruption with the likes of chatgpt type things - which is good and bad imho.

Also an opportunity for a more fun search engine - let google be the wanna be high brow prude censor machine it has become, and I think it will be the solid choice as a replacement for the yellow pages for quite some time.. but the best way to search and find many things connected to web, it is not.

Google, it's the new yellow pages. Both useful tools for the masses, and both an expensive must have for many local brick and mortar businesses.
Is quantum computing useful before fault tolerance?
https://www.partizion.io/ is a great bookmark manager / session manager. Privacy focused, auto-saved sessions, and can add new links with the chrome extension.
I saw someone run out of a major hardware store with a large compressor. I saw him throw it into the back of a early 2000s White Nissan Xterra.

I asked the the store clerk if he wants that info for calling it in, I know that car well because I used to own one.

He told me they don't call in crimes at all the the police because it doesn't do anything.

So your town city hall and police might not even KNOW how bad crime is.
Not to split hairs, but the murder of a pregnant (Asian) woman in Seattle’s Belltown by a mentally ill unhoused person indicates that they can be murderers as well. We are pretty shocked as a community, there is a protest going on right now actually.
The history of human civilization proves otherwise.
for the record, nothing in the paper makes me feel better about the issue I raised.
Taiwanese and Chinese people are culturally very different these days. They still have a lot of the same "historical" cultural underpinnings, but day to day life and attitudes among the people are sharply different.
It's the institutions like the NHS which everybody agrees are the most necessary which have been gutted the most - usually as stage 2 in the privatization playbook.
So, for example, I grew up in a place that would never have gotten rid of Nazism had it not been for the Soviet Union. Sure we had a dictatorship afterwards and life was hard in a lot of ways, but it was nothing like what you were probably told and definitely an improvement on what was there before that system came
“Apple” is too broad. Likely some mid-level manager made the decision to do nothing and never revisited.

I remember a bug I wrote 15? years ago for gtk/gnome file manager. The left pane tree widget doesn’t support the arrow keys we used extensively in WinXP. Also doesn’t support the full context menu. Why? No reason, some mid-level person decided the left pane should be gimped.
Exactly what I was after, thank you. Your other comment[0] with a link to game engine recreations is also super useful.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36374297
I think Reddit, like most U.S. web based companies aren't overly concerned with GDPR in many situations, and they are focused on what looks best for their IPO.
I simply was working far less than I actually wanted to. Being good at my craft and producing good work is important and enriching to me. For people with my priorities, it's not good to always be told that we _shouldn't_ work that much. It's not good that John Carmack gets derided for talking about the benefits of working more. "Work less" is such an easy and convenient position to adopt, and it's thrown around in a way that I feel is careless.

I'm not even speaking from the position of someone who wants to work 80 hours a week to the detriment of family and enriching hobbies: I value those things as well. I can work an above average amount if I take time away from social media and watching YouTube videos and Twitch streams, which are things I feel like I've done in excess.
you can step directly into System.* source as well...
Weird. From time to time, I stomp around that part of the neighborhood late at night and also early in the morning and I disagree with this assessment.

Whenever I hear shit like this that doesn't mesh with my on-the-ground assessment, I have to wonder if there's an ulterior motive, and what that might be.

Is someone trying to get Federal funding for policing in the city? Is a group of someones trying to trigger some "I don't have to pay to break my lease because conditions around my business are 'obviously too terrible'" clause so that leaving the city is much, much cheaper? Is someone trying to prevent folks from airing yet more footage of folks sleeping on and doing drugs on the street? Something else?

Dunno.
FreePascal is a compiler, C and C++ are languages.

When using polyglot compiler toolchains there is hardly a big difference.

For example, nowadays Delphi uses LLVM as well. The code generated by it and C++ Builder are quite similar.
This was actually before the 3rd edition take on tieflings with the horns, although we agree it isn't an uncommon motif, except almost no one knew much about Planescape in 1996 - the events were really sparse because it was considered a really "weird" setting by the core attendees of Gencon. It was literally the three of us, one or two other people, and most of the Planescape devs. Which was fun hanging out with them, including Tony D, Monte Cook, Colin and several others. The next year, in 1997, the three of us went again, and there was a trivia contest for Planescape lore. They had to stop letting us answer questions because we were ringers :)
As far as I can tell hardware gains are enabling an entire generation of programmers to ignore the idea of taking optimization/performance into consideration entirely, outside of niche areas.

The sluggishness, absurd loading times, and RAM usage for even the simplest applications on blisteringly fast hardware is astonishing.
Just create one and wait for nobody to come
I personally can't really trust this. Their description of how they got the numbers leaves a lot of room for speculation
You might be interested in PostGraphile. [1]

[1] https://www.graphile.org/postgraphile/
I've been using Vim (well, neovim now) for a long time, it's my primary editor, and I think I'm reasonably good with it, but I really don't think I'm appreciably more productive than the average VS Code user.
Anyone can be a murderer, so yeah, I'd (respectfully) say that your rebuttal is splitting hairs.
There is no moral high ground for Reddit as it seeks to capitalise on user data
Samsung DeX (Android desktop environment) has window snapping via click and drag as well
What are the reasons these so-called "tech" companies do what they do. For example, why does Reddit choose to ban free API access and encourage the use of a closed source app. Is it for the benefit of users. Really. Improved "user experience" or whatever. Maybe there other reasons that the companies are reluctant to share..

For instance, I asked someone I trust this question of why. His answer: "It's greed."

If someone asked me the question, I might answer, "Because they can."

Interesting to see Reddit moderators defend the company when faced with issue of Section 230 libility^1 now opposing the company when faced with issue of increasing company profits.

1. See Gonzalez v Google amicus brief.
That's based on the assumption that this VC/fund has money, and that's what's throwing me off here. The VC/fund I'm referring to doesn't have money.

What other possible reasons for someone to do this?
Get hired by another legitimate VC, and work as a spy for them?
Did you ever hear about a VC, who would stoop so low to hire these folks?
We had referendum in April 1993 when people of Russia voted for new parliament elections and supported Eltsin. Parliament was elected in 1990 in USSR, not in new Russia and was very much disconnected from reality.

It wasn't a coup because we had new elections in December and people also voted during those elections in favor of new constitution. So you think that US had to be against people's vote?! Elections were real, not like in modern Russia.

And your idea that 1993 events had something in common with Maidan is really delusive - rural Russia just watched CNN live reports from Moscow and did nothing. No one was going to support "nazis" in Moscow. In couple of days everyone returned to their private lives and almost no one was prosecuted.

And during referendum in December people decided their own fate, US had nothing to do with it.
Or you are trying to tell me that my parents voted in 1993 twice because someone from US told them how to vote? This is just some silly foreigner's view which is real nonsense.
Pareto principle. 80% of the time all you’re doing is git add, git commit and git push.
Reddit mods have concerns against users voting them out
What does that have to do with the actions of the current government over the past decade? You were talking about things that have allegedly already improved, not possible future improvements.

By the way, I live in London and am reasonably familiar with its history. Asking people to 'read up' on things that haven't previously been a topic of the discussion is a bit presumptuous. I might know more about it than you!
7 billion people don’t have web access.
This is a tedious post that isn't worth dealing with in-depth because I am skeptical that you even fully understand the issues in question. I'll bullet a response to you so you have the potential to possibly open your thinking.

1. Just because blue and purple are proximal on the color wheel, does not mean that blue and purple do not exist. i.e. The notion that a gradient exists does not invalidate the difference between proximal colors.

2. Even granted, there is a large geographic component to genetic distance clustering determined via SNP variation.

3. There have been specific studies that assess the American definition of race as comporting to genetic admixture. Individuals identified as black or white had perfect correlation to European or African ancestry.

4. The motivation to deconstruct race clearly pollutes this discussion. Everything can be deconstructed similarly. In fact, there is no real reason to have a sense of self at all given that your notion of being a distinct entity is a social construct.

5. The idea that races would have obvious phenotypic differences and similarities but could not possibly have other cognitive differences is inconsistent with basic reason and very metaphysical in thinking. There is absolutely no reason to think that evolution has no effect on the brain.
There used to be almost no reddit posts on HN before the blackout... Is spez trying to get some traffic?
Bandwidth and memory are probably both worse, JSON adds overhead. Round trip latency only happens if you wait for the results of one query to send the other.
Obviously, it's a scam. I'm trying to understand what will they gain from scamming founders.
Then we failed, given how common it happens to be.
"As an AI language model..."
Well yeah. If you're trying to make a career as an economist, you have to uphold the status quo. Pepsi or the Wall Street Journal aren't interested in what a Marxist economist thinks of the economy.

There are other forms of economic thought, but, IMO, they all start from different fundamentals. If the goal is profit and productivity, there's various ways to organize an economy to pursue that goal. If the goal is human flourishing, then alternative economic models are needed.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36351529
You can't compare this to COVID loan fraud. Those are apples and oranges. COVID relief loans had requirements but the watchdog that was meant to oversee it was rendered toothless. In this situation the only chance of you fraud is someone applying as someone else and you handle that the same way you handle all identity fraud.
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Engagement bait doesn't serve any purpose on HN. On other social media it's necessary to send a relevance signal to the algorithm. You don't win any prizes for posting a lot on HN.