skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't really the case because engagement isn't the only metric people look at. If they notice the new design increases engagement, but hurts retention of new users. If your site makes money as a function of engagement and to other metrics are being hurt is it really a problem if people spend more time on your site due to a "poor" design.
I agree it’s not “entrapment”. But there’s another concept at play here that I don’t have a good name for which still makes these things mostly bullshit. There’s definitely a theme but there may be a couple different categories here. In the majority of cases it’s clear nothing would have happened without the enticement from undercover law enforcement. Some but not all/most cases are like the one posted, where it’s clear that the person prosecuted needed health services to prevent a possible attack, not prosecution.
I'm not sure it started out as a loyalty test, but it is definitely going to function as one. Spez sees this as progress, flushing out problematic (to him) moderators.
Not the answer anyone was expecting, but SharePoint Online. Wiki pages, every list you create is a SQL table with a robust API, and the power platform is one of the best no/low code solutions available. I create full react applications around this and host the SPA in a SharePoint document library.
Indeed, this question of morality and arbitrating it is not alien to the Bible itself. It's the animating point on which Job turns.
Users of cars pretty routinely replace seals that are under a lot more extreme enviroments and abuse than a phone without issue. All of the ones I've dealt with pretty much are "just a gasket and a few screws" Sure, there needs to be some design process to get there, but let's not pretend that doing this would be some unheard of technological advancement.
Unfortunately no matter how local you push the CDN: somebody with a crappy connection to their ISP, or a crappy router in their home, or on a tenuous wifi link in their back room or at a coffee shop will drown in the input lag all the same and inexperienced users (those whom this is more likely to happen to) will be the ones to fall into unstable interaction orbits with the UI such as spam clicking the button that doesn't appear to have acknowledged their press.

The real best solution for this one major drawback I am aware of would be for Liveview to be able to generate some JS handling in their front-end widgets, more like Lambdera.

That, and/or run a BEAM on the user's machine via WASM so that they don't have to dirty up their hands in even the slightest amount of javascript lol! xD
This.

Key thing: do not put in a safe deposit box at a bank. Those are sealed once the bank determines that you’re dead.
I prefer the mechanical stabilization of the Osmo Pocket. So much smoother in my opinion.
Wow isn't the FBI just the best. Thank goodness they still exist!
30:30 is not the worst case. You could have picked the only ball of a different color. i.e. 1:59.

Best case is 60:0

Worst case is 1:59
Bayes tells me … it depends. Is this on a backstreet near a tourist trap?
I mean, how close do you have to get to be _the_ _lead_ conspirator?

It's one thing to infiltrate a group and then use that information to decide to tail them or arrest them or whatever. But I think there is a line somewhere where this kind of encouragement should anull/vacate a conviction. It's not too far from handing a loaded weapon to a toddler and then being surprised they sometimes go and fire the weapon. I'm almost willing to have this practice abolished just because the system can't police itself to do the right thing.
FWIW, as I'm edging close to burnout, I've noticed that at work, I exhibit one of two modes on any given day:

- If doing some incidental bullshit or chore or otherwise work that I don't like, I struggle to keep focus and am all stressed until I clock out, after which I eventually unwind and calm down;

- If doing something I like, or when I feel I'm making good progress, I'm highly focused and productive, but half-way through start to stress about coming end of work day; in those situations I absolutely do not want to stop working - and if given a chance, I'd continue until I'm done or too tired to continue.

With that in mind, I have mixed feelings towards the idea of a shorter work day. While I'd love to have more personal time, where I can exercise my autonomy, I'd also hate it on those days that I'm making good progress and don't want to stop.
I print this all out. I don't trust a file on a computer that can be hacked.

I also have qr codes with my ssh keys.
things like this make me really appreciate the energy efficiency of a human brain. a typical human learns these kinds of tasks with less energy than it takes to boil a tea kettle
releasing the firmware primarily would affect the chip makers, phone manufacturers generally do not write this code themselves.
this reminds me somewhat of the plot of the Umberto Eco novel "Foucault's pendulum". A fantastic read.
Nice to see bigotry is alive and well
When I was young, in my late teens and even through to my late 20s, I could code for the majority of my waking hours.

Now I'm old, with teenage kids, and a more managerial (but still self-employed) kind of job... well let's just say after spending most of the day in MS Word, I bailed from the coworking space at 3pm... and fell asleep on my couch at 4.

If I find myself back in my happy place (coding) then I am still able to code for much longer hours, but I definitely notice my fatigue levels rising, and this is definitely reflected in the quality of my work.

I suspect the vast majority of working people are not doing jobs which are as fulfilling as coding is to me, and many probably wish they could go home and crash on the couch at 4pm. Shorter working hours will benefit them.

Given the rising levels of inequality, it's also an easy form of redistribution, and I was a little disappointed that Carmack didn't address that, but admittedly it wasn't really the thrust of his post.
‘No one will ever need more than 512kb of memory’

And calling something ‘a bad take’ because you have a differing opinion makes you an arrogant crass brute.
The gas piped into homes isn't 100% pure methane.
It wouldn't be the first time in history that stewards attempted a popular revolt against the real power
I believe you. I think for at least some people this might be one of those generational differences.

Wanting to do some things by hand might be increasingly a thing only people over a certain age do.
Prosecutors are not necessarily paragons of integrity. Defendants in these cases often can't afford good legal representation, and depending on the location, it can be very easy to find a jury willing to hand down a life sentence to someone on the thinnest of evidence. Don't underestimate the role of plain old sadism in the criminal justice system.
It’s actually OK and normal to be part of a smaller community.
Are the quarter's financial results looking that bad?
>Flakes [...] facilitates the maintenance of 'out-of-tree' (read: not in Nixpkgs) Nix packages.

Yes, aka a Nix package spec.

>But flakes can also be (and are) used to ship Nixlang libraries, end user configurations, IaC for clusters or fleets of servers, overlays of packages to be composed with an end user's copy of Nixpkgs, etc.

Yes, just like DEB / RPM packages.

>A flake doesn't have to contain any packages at all. And when it does contain a package, the package is always defined with reference to some other package collection that it pulls its dependencies from (almost always Nixpkgs)

Yes, what DEB / RPM call meta-packages.

>The situation the GP is describing is where a Nix package's 'recipe' lives inside the upstream repository

Yeah, and just like you convinced upstream to hold your Nix package spec, many upstreams hold Debian / RPM package specs too.
Is this really [0] the most [1] important issue [2] that the EU should be focusing [3] on?

Going by HN traffic, it appears that what the EU is for is to redesign the iPhone to get the details right that techies disagree with Applle on. We live in extreme times with some remarkable challenges - the EU is wasting bandwidth on this triviality. And it isn't a phone manufacturer, it is probably not going to make phones cheaper or, on net, better for consumers.

Please EU, behave rationally and focus on creating a peaceful and prosperous environment. Stop generating headlines about backseat driver phone redesigns.

[0] https://theconversation.com/poland-dreams-of-building-europe...

[1] https://www.iea.org/commentaries/europe-s-energy-crisis-unde...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65235579

[3] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2022/html/ecb.sp220...
> get promoted roughly every 2 years, and then take about 3 to get to Principal Engineer at the 1.1M mark

Soon, everyone will be a Principal Engineer, like everyone is a VP at a bank.
See also Trevor Horn.

He famously took six months to produce Pet Shop Boy's "Left to my own devices".
Fair, thanks for feedback
Point one seems to be an API naming issue. I would not anticipate getFeatureFlag to increment a hit counter. Seems like it should be called something like participateInFlagTest or whatever. Or maybe it should take a (key, arbitraryId) instead of just (key), use the hash of the id to determine if the flag is set, and idempotently register a hit for the id.
Honestly? The early part of this week, Reddit reminded me of what it was like 7 years ago. Around 2016. Not sure what changed. Maybe r/TheDonald or the pandemic made everyone flock there. The weight of the bigger subs seem to pollute the discourse of the smaller subs in my mind.
Not OP, but I like hexcurse[1].

https://github.com/LonnyGomes/hexcurse
the same thing goes for physical labor. Exhaling is mechanically how you lose body fat. Breathing more isn't sustainable without creating demand, but if it were sustainable you could just breath faster to lose weight.
I second that recommendation. I'd also highly recommend Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser, which discusses similar C&C issues as well as nuclear accidents, and efforts to efforts to make nukes safer and more reliable e.g. PALs and insensitive explosives, and more and it inter-cuts with the story of an "incident" at a Titan missile silo in Arkansas.
Carmack is one in a million workaholic sociopath autist, you shouldn't feel bad comparing yourself to him
Subjugation maybe? That seems to be the essence of their approach.
Tips for Building Resilient Payment Systems (2022)
I also have had much success with FFMPEG and other bash commands - I just ask it to explain what the command does step by step as I want to learn a bit as well.

That being said - it is far from perfect.
Can you recommend a good tutorial?
With contenteditable="true" you get a decent rich text editor. It is however a headache to get consistent output in different browsers.
Funny thing is GPT4's explanation mentions two times that the code is "highly" or "heavily" obfuscated. Poe's does not.

https://sharegpt.com/c/G37AW91
All of this stuff is important to have available for your loved ones, but I wouldn't recommend storing it all digitally in one place. It's just a recipe for a really, really hard to unscrew identity theft. Instead, keep a copy of each of those things in your safe deposit box at the bank, and the stuff most important immediately following your demise in a firesafe.
As a surveyor, every builder I've dealt with has been sketchy. There are similar incentives with used car salesman, etc.

Good luck.
For context, I've exclusively used macs as daily work tools for 2 decades. The reason I did so was because I got tired of trying to make BSD work, and also burned out from windows.

I've heard many people having the same take, we wanted something that "just works".

But to step back, this also means, we don't care as much about raw perfs, we care less about new paradigms, we don't need the bleeding edge, and expect our devices to be stable and useable for 10 years, basically be "classics". And I also know if my mavbook burns down today, I can go to a store, buy the latest 13" laptop and be back where I was in 1 hour at most. They're utterly replaceable.

That's basically what we want from appliances.

I you care in any way shape or form to push the envelope, macs won't be your choice. The best GPU won't be there, the best CPU isn't (Apple's ARM is good, but not as powerful as the top of the line desktop CPU at full wattage), the best form factors aren't there, the most innovative apps didn't go there.

Some companies do crazy things with macs, but they're in a extreme minority. And Apple 100% doesn't care about markets that have no scale.
Besides the different data transfer mechanisms (XMLHttpRequest vs WebSockets), isn't it similar to AJAX-enabled ASP.NET WebForms?
Yeah, it’s a tough balance for sure. I think the biggest difference is that we have options and greener pastures that have high risk and high reward. My parents were always there for me my whole life so I can’t complain. Would they trade all of that for more money? Depends how much probably. But they never even had the choice to begin with. I often reflect on that now that I’m older with kids. Is a job worth it regardless of money? What can I do so that when they are my age, I can support them to make risky decisions but have a fallback?
I know nothing about “MOVEit” but somehow I already know that they suck at the teat of government RFPs to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars, using an awe inspiring host of buzzwords, to deliver a total cesspool of close-sourced software which is somehow entrusted to the most sensitive data the government handles.

And besides, why wouldn’t an unencrypted backup of the entire DMV database for the State or Louisiana be getting tossed around using such a program?

Good grief.
Show HN: 77 Year old launches SaaS platform today. Seeks feedback
Richard Montgomery (rm@propbox.co). I believe PropBox is the first advertising platform to facilitate a home seller and buyer to directly negotiate and close real estate transactions within the platform and zero commissions entirely online. Looking for feedback to continuously improve the product.
All the public libraries I've been to in the US use a decimal classification system that I assume is Dewey Decimal. For example, programming books are under 005.* AUTHORLASTNAME.
It's terrifying that we live in a world where a legislator saw the need to regulate this while I am not disagreeing with the need for this once brought to my attention.
My experience is that ChatGPT does a very poor job writing Brainfuck programs for me, even simple programs like "add two and two" aren't correct. Maybe it would do better if I asked it to explain one instead.
Or aren't as lucky, or can't afford the switch.

Like, could I make the same money for half the time if I e.g. started my own gig? Maybe. But maybe is not good enough, and with a spouse, kids and a mortgage, I can't afford to test it - it would put my family at too big of a risk.
Have you heard of Obsidian? It's a note-taking app build on locally stored markdown files with bidirectional linking and a great ecosystem of third party plugins. One of the most popular plugins is https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview which lets you treat your notes as databases and query them to form tables. The creator has been working on its successor, Datacore https://github.com/blacksmithgu/datacore for a while - Datacore might come close to what you're looking for, its goals include WYSIWYG views and live editing inside tables.
A real problem is we’ve entered a period of society where certain actors have seen certain other actors repeatedly act awful and get away with it-because society has just accepted that behavior from those repeatedly abusive actors. So the normalization is it’s “ok to be awful so long as you’re always awful.”

Thinking of this clip https://youtu.be/CTbEH8etZU0
I'd just addressed the IPO question in another comment: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36365450>

On changing moderation criteria and conditions: I'd pointed out issues with moderation (in part at Reddit) previously. My personal subreddit's presently closed, but thank you Internet Archive:

"Content rating, moderation, and ranking systems: some non-brief thoughts" (2014)

<https://web.archive.org/web/20200629055317/https://www.reddi...>

"Reddit and Community -- what works, what raises flags" (2014)

<https://web.archive.org/web/20150709003845/https://www.reddi...>
Did you write the program without the intention of being obfuscatory, and then _later_ submit it to IOCCC? Or did somebody else submit your code?

It's right here, and your name is on it. https://www.ioccc.org/1986/bright/bright.c

It even won an award! https://www.ioccc.org/1986/bright/hint.html
Would you want to clean your whole house and throw a party if you knew you might get kicked out before the party was over?

It's basic human nature to want acknowledgement for going something good.
>Prisons suck at rehabilitating people and thus just make things worse in the long run when you release the people.

I'm not involved in the system personally, but I do remember someone bringing up this sentiment in another thread, and a person responding with some stats showing that prison rehabilitation programs are way more effective than the average person thinks. There are some great people working in the sector that genuinely prevent criminals from returning to their old ways.

I guess it's just one of topics (like homelessness or immigration) where a lot of people have strong, differing opinions but reality says one thing clearly.
> No consumer needs to use all three phases to charge their car at home overnight.

The Renault Zoe can do 22 kW AC charging. There are public AC chargers too. They are cheaper to deploy than DC chargers.

> The real test of charging hardware is on long journeys where we want to keep the charge time to a minimum, and where Tesla’a NACS 1MW capability is a huge benefit to consumers vs CCS

So.. you claim no consumer needs "all three phases" for AC charging but now you're insisting consumers need 1 megawatt DC charging on passenger cars, cheerfully ignoring the fact that there is no deployment of 1 megawatt chargers for passenger vehicles and no current passenger car can sustain 1 megawatt charging at any part of its charge curve.

Make up your mind. And while you're making it up, understand that there's nothing preventing a revision to the CCS type 2 Combo plug and cable standards to spec faster charging. The Tesla plug is just about the cable and plug. It's the least interesting part of any charger.

> If you believe the EU’s CCS mandate is a good thing, you’re not paying attention

I'd like to pay attention to your manifesto on how CCS type 2 Combo is a bad thing when the European EV market is bigger than the North American market, when all brands of charger charge all brands of EV in Europe, when CCS type 2 Combo is deployed in many countries outside of Europe, and when 400 kW CCS chargers are being deployed while Tesla's chargers still max out at 250 kW:

https://electrek.co/2023/06/08/evbox-400-kw-ev-charger/
That's economics. There's no such thing as a free lunch. If HN gives out free API access and holds the line, them I don't see a problem with it. Personally I do think you should charge some minimal amount so people don't abuse it. Development for new features could also be funded from this income.
I also hate Christmas for similar reasons. Choosing gifts that don't feel like giving unnecessary junk/clutter is very hard and stressful. It has got a bit easier as I get older and the circle shrinks a bit, plus usually we only give food/drink gifts now, often homemade which helps.
The good thing is the era of cheap money has already ended, and market forces eliminate these investors over time as they lose money.
North-South seems like an arbitrary reduction of Ontario culture.

I don't know that someone Thunder Bay/Sault Ste Marie is that culturally different from Barrie/Sarnia. Windsor to Ottawa is very different.

That 90% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the border seems minimally related to culture differences and more geographic/economic.
See also: xxd[0]

0 - https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=xxd&apropos=0&sekt...
The only solution to a bad man with a kamikaze drone is a good man with a kamikaze drone.
The Sequoia FTX puff piece will never get old. It’s deleted now but thank God for the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20221109025610/https://www.sequo...
It absolutely is. There are two sides to every story.
From the same author of "The Social Recession: By the Numbers" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33309754

"In 1939 at the New York World’s Fair, industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes presented his exhibition on the future of the American city. Named “Futurama,” this world was one of the mega-highways that cut through dense metropolises and their skyscrapers.
...
Geddes’s exhibit was a mechanical world intended for organized movement. Its 14-lane highways acted as conveyer belts for a utopia designed around the automobile. The living quarters were secondary, based on a grid system whose boundaries were set by dense motorways. Despite the diminished sociability built into its design, Futurama illustrated a narrowly efficient world that gave an impression of the cutting edge."
I love classic hypertext. I miss some of the old internet.
it did, on the desktop
What makes you think anyone works like that ? It’s crazy that agile people paint the rest of the world as if it was like that..
> You should be invested in the success of the people who you work for, financially (or whatever you value).

Bullshit. They are trying to make millions for themselves, not me.

I'm trying to make millions for myself through my SaaS that I work on nights/weekends.

If they want to give me founding ownership of their company then I'll reconsider, but otherwise I'm just going to do the work assigned. I'm not going to be enthusiastic or care if it succeeds. I'll just do the work to the best of my ability, and then save the rest of my energy for my business, not theirs.
Not while working for someone else he didn't. The vast majority of people have no choice and there's no guarantee that hard work will pay off. Hell, more often than not, it just means more will be expected of you in the future and when bonus time comes your boss will complain about constrained budgets.
Dublin Core[0]?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Core
That's an interesting point. I feel the same way, but Albini would argue that he doesn't have a "style". His whole concept is being a kind of anti-producer -- he sets up the audio equipment and lets the band play, and his goal is to capture the live sound as closely as possible, whatever that might be.
Why is the OpenAI API not adequate? Based on their documentation it does not keep / use data via the API. If that’s still not good enough, use offline models based on Vicuña or Llama. There is so much fearmongering that some will be left way behind due to over-cautiousness. I suppose if OpenAI is lying about API calls, then they are going to have a bad time. Seems like a huge risk to take on their behalf.
How would _this_ regulation raise the cost of entry? At worst they'd just have to release the source code for the firmware they wrote (putting source code on github takes maybe 5m).
The Next Global Superpower Isn't Who You Think – Ian Bremmer – Ted
>Who runs the world? Political scientist Ian Bremmer argues it's not as simple as it used to be. With some eye-opening questions about the nature of leadership, he asks us to consider the impact of the evolving global order and our choices as participants in the future of democracy.
Reddit and Community – what works, what raises flags (2014)
NB: I'm the original author. Internet Archive link used as I've taken my personal subreddit private in current protest and the origin is thus unavailable.

A closely related post, also from 2014, is "Content rating, moderation, and ranking systems: some non-brief thoughts":

<https://web.archive.org/web/20200629055317/https://www.reddi...>