skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend coined a useful sibling acronym for when NIMBY doesn’t quite fit - NOME, Not On My Earth. I quite like how it highlights the claim being laid to the whole planet (one can of course view climate change as a justification for this claim).
"Chicago" and "false confession" turns up way more hits than it should. I couldn't find a story that matched those particular details. I've found others, like one where a kid was put in prison for confessing to fatally stabbing a woman. A woman, who was choked and beaten to death, not stabbed. Not even once.

And the same cold reading techniques that allow psychics to know intimate details of your life can be done in reverse to get people to admit to details they shouldn't know. If the victim wore a red shirt. You don't ask what color shirt they were wearing, you ask if they were wearing a red shirt. If they say "I don't know", you tell them that's not good enough. They need to answer "yes" or "no". You got a 50/50 chance for them to admit it was red. And if it was pink, when they say, "I don't know", you can then say, "Would you say it was more of a pink than a red?".

Regardless, you badger, intimidate, and coerce into getting them to come to the same conclusion you did before you walked into the room. That they did it.
In my experience having pitched to VC's it's not that there is a perfect deck but many really bad ones.

I.e. there is diminishing returns on a "perfect" pitch deck. You just want to be in the category of not sucking and the decks level of perfection is no longer important.

Today I would even go as long as to say the pitch deck is much less important than a demo.

You can in theory pitch in an email, the rest is just to make everyone feel good about giving and receiving the money.
How can he make friends with other kids? Partying, dancing, playing baseball, going to date night, etc.?

It's clear that he's not interested in those, and forcing him to do so only causes him to withdraw further to his bubble. At least a job gets him to hang out with people closer to his ability.
I think this is actually a good thing.

It seems there are a lot of people who have no talent but being able to hype up ideas. Often they have overshadowed the actual people who come up with and implement ideas.

GPT-4 and LLMs in general democratizing generating BS may actually shift the advantage more to the actual doers.

For example, There are probably on HN brilliant developers who have written at the core of really groundbreaking services and applications but will never be able to get consideration because they just don’t have the talent for making slick decks. Them being able to use GPT-4 to generate pitch decks would allow them to get their ideas in front of a lot more people.
> around when I started working remote) I started quitting at 1pm every day. And then I started never working Fridays and even some Thursdays

...and people say that CEOs demanding return-to-office are being unreasonable.
Remote work and starlink makes me wonder if more of these remote island locations will become popular.
Windows users who just maximize everything all the time and get giant empty white bars on the sides of their browser shock me. What an insane waste of space. You see windows users with Ultrawides and a maximized browser where the site is centered and 90% of the width of the screen is serving nothing but site border and it just makes me scream.

macOS replacing the “Zoom” stoplight buttons with “Full Screen” as the default behavior still irks me. Why would I ever want something full screen other than a video or game?
Makes me think of...

In my experience, there are primarily two kinds of graphical designers. (I don't have direct experience working with font designers, but I imagine they are kind of similar.)

1. Those who are great at it. They also tend to be humble and understand that often excruciating and boring iteration is critical in producing something great. When you find someone like this, hold on to them, whatever the cost.

2. Those who really want to be great at it but kinda aren't. They tend to develop a smug asshole attitude, perhaps as a defense mechanism. They often think their first iteration is a masterpiece that cannot be improved upon.

And there's a much larger superset/variant of the last kind that essentially consists of smug assholes who define themselves as being able to appreciate "good design", which invariably is defined as Apple's style of design.
Show HN: Self hosted x86-64 assembler
So you think that if e.g. Stack exchange is storing code examples in their database, they shouldn't transform the special characters into e.g. url-encoding or some other escaped format?

How are you going to validate it doesn't do something harmful?

And also, you keep mentioning sanitization as though it's not inherently a transform. Stripping out whitespace? That's a transform. Just because it's a one-directional transform doesn't make it not one.
Reminds me of a silly skit one of my old coworkers did a while back (one of many):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH_ynnZzJjg
I think it is all about what you can afford close to your work. If you are early on in your career in the bay area you are very likely living in an apartment building. Maybe you get a few friends together and rent a house.

I've lived in both poorly built apartments and very nice new concrete walled ones where you can't hear your neighbors at all.

To your point, under engineered buildings are a serious concern. Ex: I lived in library gardens in Berkeley before they had the balcony collapse in 2015 which killed 6 students.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_balcony_collapse
Back when I was starting out, it was nice that Backbone had such clean, well-commented code: https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/blob/master/backbone.j...
First season was mostly ok, there were some "representation" changes but not too bad. 2nd season they changed everything to the point that it's easier to list what didn't changed. And they changed it for worse... Third season is supposedly so far off that the main actor Henry Caville who is a big fan of the books resigned.

Imagine Peter Jackson made Sam betray Frodo and sell him to Saruman, Gandalf was actually trying to turn Frodo into an orc, elves were actually going to the middle earth not escaping it, and the big bad wasn't Sauron but some new character invented by Jackson that makes no sense but sounds vaguely Icelandish because we want to keep the Nordic theme. Oh and half the party gets killed in Rivendale by the new villain mindfucking Frodo.

And magic stops being unexplained and mythical. You just gather shiny rocks and you can cast spells.

This is roughly equivalent to what has been changed in season 2. Characters and motivations are unrecognizable, the world is a mess.

Season 3 is widely boycotted by fans.
Because it sounds more alien that way
I'm actually enforcing encrypted DNS and blocking destination port 53 outbound on my firewall at home, that's why I couldn't re-run the script I was using to test the current availability and response times on all these.

(It wouldn't be a lot of work to run the tests from one of my cloud servers or disable the firewall rule temporarily, but I figured someone on HN might tell me which ones stopped working and spare me the effort.)
No clue but I'd speculate it's just meant to be something quirk and different/fun.
I have a huge screen and a mouse and keyboard. Full screen apps make absolutely no sense for me, and there's no way for me to "4 finger swipe".
Can’t just claim you’re a citizen of the EU. Need to prove it.
2-Phase Immersion Cooling Halted over Multi-Billion Health Hazard Lawsuits
‘A sense of betrayal’: liberal dismay as Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags
I don't think you're asking an unfair question. Its now been answered, by many people, to the effect of "this study isn't convincing, but we don't see a simple way to design a convincing one".
(1) If I can spend 20 hours learning something boring or 20 minutes learning something else boring but they do the same thing I would prefer 20 minutes.

(2) There are more tools to learn. That 20 hours/minutes is being multiplied by an ever growing number.
So an expired patent which was previously owned by IBM is why Apple cannot have windows tiling but Windows and Linux have had for decades?
I've used git for the last 7 years and I've had no problems with it. If a developer is not willing to invest their time into learning simple basic git commands and concepts then I think they're in the wrong business.
> "democratizing generating BS"

I feel like this meaning of 'democratizing' is jumping the shark. Did that word always mean this? Is it going to keep meaning it?
Intel Announce 'Tunnel Falls' Quantum Research Chip
That’s probably why they also have the highest amount of debt.
Absolutely. The gun culture in the US is barbaric. The lack of a social safety net is downright evil, to say nothing about the healthcare costs.

-signed, a European
Indeed! jQuery as well, before the breakup into modules.
I'm just going to say it, the ai revolution is amazing, and Bing AI is crazy good when it comes to doing technical searches.

Also for natural language questions "does this sound weird in X language?"

Encryption and that we have zero knowledge day to day, wouldn't be ever possible without tech and precisely Whatsapp who made E2EE mainstream.

(There are huge caveats though, like unencrypted backups and so forth)

But i agree, the way the venture capitalists work in the U.S. is just ridiculous.

If reddit didn't exist, forums would still out there, but by giving infinite money to one company, it can centralize everything, then kill the entire community trying to seek profit at any cost.

Going back to the old times isn't easy, especially when users are used to these endless free centralized platforms, which no body can actually compete with, because they have Infinite money.
Is it indeed routine to ask prospective jurors if they are aware of the term?

Anecdata: I can see how it might be possible, based on my own jury duty callup last month. Hundreds in the waiting room, when individual trials did "go to jury", a secondary lottery chose from the hundreds a batch of more than 60 to go for interview. So, the lawyers would be further weeding out some 80%.
> We've had a pipeline churning out devs for many years now. The ones that are great at leetcode and playing the game go to FAANG, the ones that aren't go to startups.

What about companies with a technology department that aren’t FAANG or a startup? Isn’t that where most devs go?
Kinda, in Québec, there are many more consumer oriented protections like the "legal warranty" that allows someone to request repair outside of the 1yr/2yr warranty usually provided by the manufacturer.

The duration of the "legal warranty" is related to the price and the usual life expectancy of an appliance. (7 yrs for a std washing machine).

It's also illegal to make a loan with too high interest rate (above 30%).
Great resource .highly recommend it.
Google’s search results page is a mess now. It is now an endless feed mimicking social apps cluttered by obtrusive images and suggested content that is never really what you want
Who is going to moderate the clone? If the clone isn't moderated, we've got a clone of voat rather than reddit. If the clone is moderated... part of this was because people are saying that Reddit is profiting off of unpaid moderator work, right?

How is the clone going to be financed? Are you going to sell ads on it? If so, who is handling that? ... and making sure that the advertisements don't show up where the advertisers don't want them to.

Who is going to handle the inevitable legal takedowns for copyrighted works, trademark infringements, or things that may be illegal in some country? Is it going to serve porn in the Apple App Store?

Standing up a clone is easy. Keeping it up with a healthy community there (even if you are able to grab all of the existing users of an app) and being able to afford to keep it running - that's the hard part.
For all you know, I agree with your points. It’s the pointless pot-and-kettle that I’m noting. It wins you nothing.
There is a Technical Incerto reading group (this book) that you may find useful.

https://www.techincertoreadingclub.com/
Show HN: I built an open-source notification inbox widget for Hacker News
Hey all, I built a Chrome extension (open source) that adds a notification inbox widget (and optional email notifications) inside HackerNews.

* This inbox feed shows an unread bubble (Like in Reddit) whenever someone replies directly to your thread or comment.

* Optionally, you can enable email notifications for the same. (With batching support)

* Makes it easy to navigate to new replies.

== URLs ==

Github Repository : https://github.com/anandrmedia/hn-notifier

== How it works? ==

* This extension uses Engagespot to embed an In-App notification inbox.

* It just makes use of your public HackerNews username and nothing else! No cookies, nothing!

* This extension works by polling HN API every minute from the backend server to check for new updates. (No matter how many people use this extension, the server calls HN API only once every minute)

== Why? ==

Isn't it much better when there is a way to know that I have an unseen comment? Otherwise, I have to keep refreshing HN to know if someone replied.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.

How do you currently check for new replies to your comments?
> Why is it fine when Washington did it?

People generally lack critical thinking, show me public school where this is properly taught (maybe France along with mandatory philosophy?). Thats where proper education for most stops.

Tons of folks want simple reality, black and white, and obviously to be on the good moral side. Any mental gymnastics or complexity is frowned upon.

You can see it in politics everywhere, politicians ie blaming immigrants for many if not all bad stuff happening. In US Trump winning almost twice. In Russia people being spoonfed outright lies but they feel good because they make russians look better and evidently thats all that counts. I can keep naming countries with sinilar issues, the number would be very close to number of existing countries, and probably equal.
> While you have the right to remain silent, I remember reading somewhere that you have to actively invoke that right (by stating something like "I invoke my 5th amendment right to remain silent") for your silence to be considered an invocation of that right, and not merely suspicious behavior, an implicit admission of guilt, or obstruction of justice.

This is, as I ubderstand it, incorrect on multiple levels. First, all you need to do is shut up to exercise the right. Second, no matter how you frame exercising the right, police can and will treat it as suspicious.

You may be confusing the right to remain silent with the right to have counsel present during questioning, which must be explicilty invoked for questioning without counsel present and its fruits to be excluded. They are separate, but related (as invoking the right to counsel also narrows the ways police can pressure you to waive the rightbto remain silent without legally tainting anything they get out of it.)
Did you transform the text to Esperanto orthography? Nice.
Democratize ripping off clueless angels.
good to question this out loud -- two things though.. As new territory, large new territory, the authority of a "Federal" government was not at all clear to everyone.. lots of pirates and French and slavers and others had their own agendas at that time, right? 2) taxation itself was central to the emergence of an independence movement. Taxation is certainly not popular.. so a popular figure in a new government, is shown enforcing the rights to declare taxation.. it is a problematic situation .. even the "right" moves may be publicized in a bad light.. rumor played an important role in distant times.

lastly, some people were not in favor of legal liquor at all.. the ruin of lives by liquor was well-known. It is difficult to think of all these things, and the plurality of the actors at the time.
AWS SimpleDB has been effectively deprecated for 10+ years and is still available.
I mean it worked for twitter, mastodon didn't do anything to twitters reign, it just lost its users goodwill.

Maybe the new Meta clone is the one to actually compete with Twitter.
I think the Jewish community took the best method for knowing if a product is kosher: set up their own agencies that permit identifying marks on packaging if standards are met.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher_certification_agency

The Catholic Church would do well with this, considering member churches often follow centralized decisions. A certifying agency in each diocese should work well.
Here's a good article about it. Scalia's claim was in the dissent, so this isn't established legal doctrine in the US, and the Supreme Court has in fact ruled in favor of the convicted on more than one occasion, but as the article shows it has actually happened as practiced legal doctrine in at least one case.

https://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/justice-antonin-scalias-rebuke-of-...
>some introductory logic class

like forall x from openlogicproject?
n=1 data point -- as a practicing Catholic who cares about the discipline of sacraments, this is the first time I hear about concerns regarding sacramental wine. At the same time, the story of using invalid baptismal formula ("we baptize" instead of "I baptize"; discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30348624) definitely made rounds in my circles (attending Ordinary Form Mass but also leaning traditional).

In general, what I see gives me a lot of hope: people care (and that they care about the right stuff; worrying about sulfites is likely misguided). Overall, it can't be that a confession line is always empty but line to receive the Eucharist is 100% of parishioners.

(Shoutout to Boston HNers - check out OMV churches like St. Clements or St. Francis; historically, St. Clements was the first church in the Boston area to offer public Masses and sacrament of penance during the early days of COVID, including special-made arrangements like https://www.facebook.com/StClementShrine/posts/pfbid0zmWzyKa... They also have ample Eucharistic Adoration. IYKYK.)
Really miss Divvy (RIP). At the risk of causing a good thread on Apple's weird inability to lauch a really valuable OS feature devolve into a list of workarounds, Hammerspoon (a generic automation tool) plus this script (https://gist.github.com/artburkart/15b62f1a741eef0f74492860a...) offer a really good equivalent, with the added ability to change hotkeys, extend behaviour, modify behaviour, etc. since it's just a script. I was devastated for a brief while when Divvy (and then ShiftIt) stopped working, but haven't looked back for a while.
When people search through alphabetical listings, they usually don't use plain old binary search, but instead use something like interpolation search. For example, if you want to find the word "xylostroma” in the dictionary, you aren't going to start in the middle. Instead, you'll start about 90% of the way through, and then make adjustments based on how far off you were.
I think that difference is that now every mainstream programming language is so good that there is not that much difference outside very specific niches. That was not case in 2003.
And git add —p
I really liked reading the source for underscore as well.
The key question here isn’t so much whether GPT-4 beats the actual human decks as much as what it had to fabricate to do so. The humans are probably constrained by things like “reality” and “what their business has done in it” while GPT-4 could make up anything it wanted. A fair comparison would be to humans given the same prompt and told to invent whatever facts they wanted.
To mean this song, I presume: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSZBIs0gs0E
There is nothing new here. CNET was selling our emails to spammers in the 1990's. I know because ai used tagged emails and cnet@mydomain got a lot of spam.
Unsolved: intolerance and hate arising from inclusiveness
A comment by Steve Huffman on my blog[1], from back when they switched away to Python:

I didn't say the are *no* shoulders to stand on. There are
just fewer.

Without a doubt, Edi Weitz single-handedly made reddit
possible. He's an army-of-one producing good Lisp
libraries. The issues that made it really hard to stick
with Lisp weren't particularily Lispy.

The biggest trouble that plagued us was that we could never
quite get Lisp reddit stable enough to sleep at night.
There were weird threading issues that would bring the site
to its knees a couple times a day and required constant
monitoring.

Another comment, from Paul Graham:

> One can argue that they betrayed the worth of a
> philosophy merely for cheap money.

Ye gods, enough with the conspiracy theories already. Y
Combinator didn't know Reddit was going to use Lisp when
we funded them. And the reason they switched (or at least,
the last straw) was all too mundane: some thread bug in
CMUCL that made the site keep crashing.

1. http://lemonodor.com/archives/001301.html
I mean, if you're creating a pitch deck and not asking ChatGPT what it thinks about the messaging, you're being negligent. Of course you don't need to listen to its advice, but it takes five seconds to paste some text into ChatGPT and get additional suggestions that you might not have otherwise considered.
I feel the same way. I would much prefer no animation at all, and an instant transition between spaces.

Apparently this is possible with yabai (https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai), but it requires disabling system integrity protection which I am personally uncomfortable with.
I'm not even sure what they mean by:

> MnO: 2.109 (Mn: 0.6355)

I mean, given that they were listing relative-abundances (by mass, count, or what?), it'd seem like they were giving the abundance of Mn alone, as a subset of the abundance of MnO. But since the numbers don't look right, not sure what they were trying to say.

This isn't the sort of writing that I'd expect from someone with a scientific background.

---

PS: If the relative-abundance (by mass) of MnO were 2.109, then the relative-abundance of Mn alone would be about

(MolecularMass(Mn) / MolecularMass(MnO)) * 2.109
(54.938 / 70.9374) * 2.109
1.633330824

.. which I guess is actually kinda close to the claimed "0.6355", if we assume that the leading "0" was meant as a "1"?

This is, maybe they meant to type:

> MnO: 2.109 (Mn: 1.6355)

?
On which, compared to a gas range, cooking sucks total ass.
I can't think of a better example of "a few dollar problem" that adds up remarkably over time, though.
Section 2.13 (page 32) has the matrix used on tram stops: https://content.tfl.gov.uk/tramlink-stop-signs-standard.pdf

P56 has what looks like the same font for London Overground: https://content.tfl.gov.uk/overground-signs-standard.pdf

And P47 for the DLR: https://content.tfl.gov.uk/dlr-signs-standard.pdf
How is that true? I've submitted some lost property reports on a local police box, and at least once they've found it. Clearly a positive outcome.
Do you know the URL you used? Thanks for replying!
Im no Google shill, but the results DDG returns are terrible. I suspect for search to work well, the engine needs to know a bit about the user - especially if localising the results is important to you.
What makes it easy to read and understand though? I am seriously having a hard time figuring this out. People tout Go for this all the time, but I don't know of a single codebase in it that I think fits that description. When I look through them they look convoluted and just sort of messed up. Things like awkward error handling, dealing with null, capitalization for public/private, magic functions, and imports, and much, much more all add up and make me abhor the language. I don't think it's good or easy to use at all, but people rave about it.