skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This headline really is total bullshit that’s entirely divorced from the reality of the situation they describe.

I don’t mean to say there isn’t a story here, there absolutely is, it’s just not the one represented by the headline.

The story is actually about employers trying to do some really sketchy shit and trying to use the kinds of network analysis techniques that are typically used in a counter terrorism investigation to uncover employees trying to unionize along with the kind of morally bankrupt companies who are selling them the kind of software to help them do that.
Thank you, danke
On the other hand, "more intelligent" people's brains work less hard during reasoning.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04268-8
Oscar Toledo is awesome. I have his book Programming Boot Sector Games, and it's wonderful.
Non-invasive wearable biosensor for diabetes glucose monitoring
Here's the original source by the author: https://scribe.rip/@bobbyrsec/the-dangers-of-googles-zip-tld...

While I think that we really don't need a .zip domain, this trick falls apart when not shown as an image. Hovering over either URL should tip you off. Firefox shows the actual link in the bottom left.
> It will use IBM’s watsonx AI platform

> Data, such as tracking data for the ball, tracking data for the players and the type of shots the players make from different parts of the court, is collected from a variety of sources

I have a feeling this is going to be like those AI-generated articles about stocks. Bland, cherrypicked numbers, wrapped in generic-sounding text. Bleh.
The "less likely to jump to conclusions" is the important part. This doesn't necessarily mean they are slower at processing information.
If you don't have a preference between seeing Vermont's beautiful hilly forests, and seeing the same forests with a tacky billboard drawing your gaze, I don't really know what to tell you other than that most people feel differently. It is ultimately an aesthetic judgment and everyone can have their own taste.

We live in a democracy and it's up to a majority to decide what to do with the public commons. It is telling, to me, that no state that has banned billboards (Alaska, Hawaii, Vermont, Maine) has any serious political movement from any part of the spectrum to reverse the bans.
Its pretty clearly a vicious cycle. Racism is right in the loop too, because its a lot easier for people to adopt racist attitudes when communities that break along racial lines are undeniably having struggles with addiction.
Bank of England hikes interest rates to 5%, stoking fears of a 'mortgage bomb'
Depends on what you call quality. Production value or content.

In my experience it's true a lot of Indian content can improve their video / audio or script proofreading... But they compensate being the only ones sharing their knowledge in niche areas for free. And when you're lost, I take whatever I have at hand even if it's on 240p with a potato mic, I'm grateful it exists.
yes. weather people are aware of the sun. but thanks for pointing it out lol
"0118 999 881 999 119 725...... 3"
https://nptel.ac.in/
Since you're already in Google Cloud, perhaps try their PubSub. Not sure what features you need but that should cover most.
I vote for "Mad Minsky Disease"
I added an automatic penalty for Reddit stories a while ago because of https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Once this tsunami dies down, we'll put it back the way it was before. In the meantime, when there's significant new information (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...), we can take the penalty off. The trouble is that it's not exactly easy to tell significant new information apart from significant new drama. Plus I was offline for part of the day yesterday.

As you can see from the above HN Search link, it's not like HN has been lacking for Reddit discussion—the problem is all the other way.
I feel like a basic understanding has served me well:

ActivityPub is a way to share social media.

Mastodon is like if Twitter gave you email addresses.

Mastodon is where I can talk with cool people and make new friends :)
On the flip side, literally the only app I've ever had BT earbud issues with is Discord (on Android). With two different earbuds that both support multi-point, neither one would reliably work with Discord.
Don't you mean the house of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha? Windsor is just some weird PR stunt they pulled a 100 years ago.
The resources intended to locate a deep sea submersible probably don't overlap with the resources needed to search for survivors in the Med.

By the same token you could just argue that since both cases involved people who were certainly already dead, the pageantry of a search serves purposes other than efficient use of resources.
How do submarines commonly fail? Is the assumption of a violent implosion warranted?

I would think another failure mode could be water rushing in without the overall structure catastrophically failing, which would actually relieve pressure on the structure as it happened and be much less energetic.
No, it isn’t. The code doing the rounding cannot know that you computed

0.1025 × 14

and not, for example,

0.1025 × 14 - 0.000000000000000001

to get the IEEE float that prints as

1.4349999999999998

All it knows is that it got that float, and its value is less than 1.435.
Update / correction: There is a penalty on Reddit topics: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36435312>

================================================================================

Previously:

HN's policy is that there is less official (mod-based) moderation where a YC connection exists, a point dang reiterated specifically concerning Reddit within the past week: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36366909>

There have been a tremendous number of Reddit submissions in the past month (621 as I write this), as compared with 2,629 in the past year, which puts the preceding 11 months at a mean of 182 Reddit submissions.

Keep in mind that front page space is highly limited on HN. There are 30 slots per day (though there's some intra-day movement on and off those), or 10,950 front page stories per year.

I've been in the process of gathering and running some statistics and analysis of historic Reddit front-page activity, and even as of a few days ago, pro-rated for the year (and ignoring the fact that the floodgates really only opened just over three weeks ago: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36141083>), 2023 is trending to exceed the high-water mark for front-page Reddit mentions set in 2012, of 46.[1]

(It takes about a half hour for me to update stats, I'll reply with current numbers when I have them.)

Mostly, I suspect it's a matter of the front page being hard to land, probably combined with fatigue on the topic. And I'm not without a horse in this race as I've just submitted an item of my own on the subject.

Update: Here's the mentions-by-years breakdown, as of 2023-6-21:

2007 41
2008 31
2009 15
2010 44
2011 41
2012 46
2013 28
2014 27
2015 27
2016 19
2017 15
2018 15
2019 12
2020 24
2021 12
2022 13
2023 29

Given that we're 47% of the way through 2023, the pro-rated tally for the year would be about 62 FP stories, well above not only the recent trend (teens to twenties) but 134% of the all-time peak in 2012.

________________________________

Notes:

1. Earlier analysis from 8 days ago, here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36321773>
That's exactly what Reddit more than 10 years ago. Right now they have NFT, real time chat, image and video hosting (imgur used to handle these), various one-off functionalities (r/place, polls, etc), react-based frontend (and the mobile counterpart), mobile apps for Android and iOS (seemingly a separate codebase), ads departments, various virtual goods (gold awards, profile pics customization), and perhaps many more I'm not aware about.
Have you ever heard of the concept of copyright?
Perhaps it is. But if Indian YouTubers instead produced exceptional quality videos, I'd be as attracted to an Indian name popping up as I am discouraged by one now. I don't believe my discrimination is based on race, therefore isn't racism.
Life sciences is beyond the pale :( Lots of papers coming out of China are entirely fake and made to order by professional paper forging shops. Doctors have to be published to get promoted there, even if they are just regular hospital doctors and not professional researchers, so it leads to really bad incentives. Even the Chinese government's head of research integrity was found to be engaging in research fraud! But, nobody can do anything about it, as journals aren't interested in becoming research audit organizations. So they just publish floods of fraudulent work discussing non-existent interaction effects on random proteins and stuff.

Public health is in even worse shape. During COVID I was forced to conclude nobody in power was actually reading the papers that were driving policy. They'd regularly have major errors in them, like model code that was full of bugs or where things were stated about the real world as if they were clearly 100% true but the underlying paper stated the models had unrealistic assumptions! (same people making both statements). Universities didn't care about any of this.

I never saw outright fraud in CS but I've seen things that were getting close to the line in cryptography research. Some years ago there were a spate of research papers on Intel SGX that kept claiming they'd broken the security. When examined closely they all used an identical version of GNUtls in the enclaves for their proofs of concept. I got curious about why this specific version of this not very popular cryptography library kept cropping up as the reason for using it never seemed to be mentioned in the papers. Turns out that it's an ancient version, the last version before side channel mitigations were added. The techniques they were claiming broke SGX only worked if you ignored basic cryptographic best practices and used obsolete libraries. And last year there was a non-SGX case where the researchers claimed to be able to extract private keys over the network via side channel attack. The demonstration required the use of a very specific algorithm nobody actually uses, and required the target server to not be doing anything else, and for it to be saturated with traffic that did nothing except invoke this specific obscure algorithm and even then it took days. So this wasn't a realistic scenario anyone needed to worry about but it was presented as if it was.
there are several of them on youtube. the most popular being related to sports statistics (e.g. SB nation)
Be an Engineer, Not a Frameworker
And most importantly, Discord provides free hosting.

This is a huge deal, especially for people who aren't tech savvy. Setting up a Discord server and providing 24/7 availability to all your friends is as easy as sharing a photo on Instagram. No need to find a computer that you can leave on 24/7 or messing with your router.
The complex interplays between personal and social harms and responsibilities, secondary effects, and cultural matters make this subject rife for disagreement...
DHCR24 reverses Alzheimer’s disease-related pathology in 5xFAD mice
And now make something more production oriented like multi-screen window support, whoops you can't and you buried this feature request in your github. GG.
I might feel this way to the first people to land on Mars or something. This was not a "mission" to advance human knowledge. To me, it's one step away from "hold my beer"
Neovim isn't immune to slow plugins, it's just a smaller ecosystem and therefore has less exposure.

My two cents, I've never seen a case of "VSC is slow" that isn't user error in this vein or on codebases that don't struggle similarly with similar tools. Ex, if clangd is struggling with your million file codebase under VSC it doesn't somehow become more responsive under Neovim.

And ya, anecdotally, I've never seen input latency specifically move an inch. The VSC team lives and dies on input latency and it shows in the current product.
> The findings challenge the assumption that higher intelligence is the result of a faster brain. They suggest that faster is not necessarily better, and that under certain circumstances there is a tradeoff between speed and accuracy which results in better decisions.

Talk about conflating different aspects of something to arrive at faulty logic.

There clearly is a relationship between higher intelligence and a faster brain, to some degree. However faster thinking enables more sophisticated searching of complex problem spaces.
I still use Jetbrains but I don’t really push it on other people the way I used to. It was always a pig, but it was less of a pig than Eclipse, which I haven’t met anyone who still uses it in a long time, so now Jetbrains is “the pig “.

I figured the targeted versions would fix that, but I haven’t found that to be the case, or at least not for mature projects.

Point is, VSCode isn’t trying to be good, it’s just trying to be better than Jetbrains. Which is a nearly universal failure mode in this industry, and why it takes us so long to get good tools. If someone throws a terrible tool out, we have to go through two or three generations of replacements before someone finally has an original idea that isn’t built on the misguided one we started with.

The bones for running other languages or enhanced Java on the JVM were laid down in Java 1.2, but the first assembler built for Java was terrible. It wasn’t even a macroassembler, you had to do your own pointer arithmetic for the stack and IIRC for the constant pool. It was two assemblers later before we got one that made me say, “this is actually pretty usable” and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the number of JVM languages basically doubled a short time after that. We could have had all of this in 1998, not 2008.
I used web scraping -> vector embeddings -> vector DB search here. The chat functionality is built on top of search and AWS pages are used as context for better responses. The hard part was the fact that AWS Documentation is so large so embedding took a while. Also happy to chat and answer any questions you have on your personal projects!
Those wrecks usually get some coverage in Europe, but it happens almost on a weekly basis now, so obviously it's not gonna be frontpage every time.
The 2s are the default setting for when the server is under attack. In a normal scenario, it‘s ca 100x less. It would take your laptop 0.02s and your hypothetical phone ca 1s. But the screenshot for xmrig-android shows 117H/s, so it would take such a phone only 0.4s, going by that logic (I don’t think the performance penalty of mCaptcha is x20 on mobile though).
They're already well capable of ramming vehicles with their current bumpers, they're just too scared to do it.

Montreal has no qualms going for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCT74Szg_sA
I read it as extension developers will never be able to match core since their api is limited.
It's going to translate to an increased rate of extreme weather events. Droughts in particular are of a concern as they're already resulting in massive crop losses. Here are a couple of recent examples in North America

* https://www.ualrpublicradio.org/local-regional-news/2022-12-...

* https://globalnews.ca/news/9761043/dry-spring-southern-alber...

This kind of thing can easily lead to famines if a significant portion of the crops ends up being lost during the year.
Don't forget, NO multi-screen/window support, which is ridiculous. Apparently everybody code on 40" TV screen or something, rofl.
This isn't really prohibition though, just restrictions on sales. The point isn't to make it impossible to get a drink, just make it more difficult, so that some margin of drinkers will be incentivized to do something else.

As a result, while Im sure some small blackmarkets for booze will spring up, there isn't really the same incentive for violent, organized criminal gangs to spring up as was/is the case with US alcohol/drug prohibition.
Nice concept – are you guys building any finetuning on top of this that could make this more relatable for my users when they got on my website.

That would be super helpful. Also curious which API you're using on the backend over here (guessing OpenAI's gpt-3.5 at the moment)
> then you'd be arguing against literally every government in the world

I'd like to do that^^.

1. Imagine what would happen to the mafia etc... No more war in mexico for example.

2. Normal people wouldn't just start taking heroine for example

3. Imagine what happens to jails

4. You could use some of the new tax money (which goes to the mafia currently) to hire some medical professionals. That way you could help the really addicted.

5. 100% pure heroin would not destroy the body (it was developed as painkiller).
Those junkies are that f*ed up because of the other stuff they pump in their veins. How is that a win for society?
Generally speaking, B2B involves contracts which guarantee business for a certain period of time. Churn won't be zero, but it's not going to happen on a whim, like a B2C Netflix subscription would. You can lock in 10K/mo for 12 months and have that guaranteed income, while 1000 users at $10/mo might churn every month.

The hesitancy part you mentioned isn't really a churn thing but rather part of the sales cycle. One thing the author didn't mention is that B2B sales cycles are _really_ long. You can convert a B2C Netflix subscriber in 15 minutes, but it could take 6, 12, 18 months to convert a B2B customer into a paying contract.

Technically, the author is correct in that B2B can lead to more stable businesses and less work overall, but the lengthy sales cycle can be draining in its own way, even if the end result winds up being "better" for the solo founder. (It could be worse, too, depending on contract terms!)

In other words, I agree it was a poorly worded statement, but the author isn't totally wrong there, but they aren't totally right either. They oversimplified the advice, ignoring the complexities of B2B.
Thanks! Hope this saves you time instead of searching the docs. If you have any feature requests, let me know!
That was just an example calculation, to illustrate the write amplification factor, of course. You can scale it up pretty arbitrarily.

I mentioned only WAL for simplicity, but it also has to modify and write out the index pages themselves, and write them out eventually. And that's going to be mostly random I/O. Flash storage is good at handling that, ofc, but if things are adding up like this ...

Not to mention you still have to copy the WAL over network to replica, or perhaps to multiple replicas. And if you have physical backups with PITR, you gotta keep all the WAL somewhere too.
A timely response conveys something about how fast we can locate something underwater.
It's actually interesting. UC Berkeley had to take down their videos since they weren't subtitled (and therefore not ADA compliant).

There's an interesting industry around this. I wonder if they could have sold a license to them to me for $1 and then I would be free to put them on the Internet.

Alternatively, perhaps the YouTube automated captioning would have been sufficient.
All of the "serious" people who are "panicking" while refusing to actually amend their life or act in a reasonable fashion is a large part of why people have disengaged.
Ah, oops, that should say 2018, not 2023.
Some people can't tell the difference between 17 ms of latency and 68 (4 frames at 60hz), while some can't bear it.
THat would require small companies having to implement their own Ad business. Sorry, your idea is cute, but completely unrealistic.
From NOAA...

This global 5km Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Anomaly product, displays the difference between today's SST and the long-term average. The scale goes from -5 to +5 °C. Positive numbers mean the temperature is warmer than average; negative means cooler than average.

https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/ocean/sst/anomaly/index.h...
I really do like TSX (react + typescript) for the exact things: Functional Components & Hooks - which are basically functional (albeit impure) building blocks for UI things and interactions. Sure, there goes on a lot behind the scenes and so on, but these two things is for me like "perfect" for composing UIs out of reusable building blocks.

But I really hate how react does not have a "blessed"/"official" router or state management, and a lot of "innovation" in this space simply looks like fashion waves nowadays, often reinventing the wheel, and are getting unpopular again over time.

I personally do use Meteor again these days to have real fullstack stuff easily, which has built-in state management (client-only collections work extremely well for state) when things become more complex than a few useState things. Also SSR "just works" with this, since a useTracker (from meteor) is executed during SSR cycle (as opposed to useEffect API calls), including rehydration with a fast-render package.

This absolutely is crucial for my projects, or else stuff like proper SEO is simply a pain in the ass. I would even pay money for react to have kind of renderToString on the server that simply BLOCKS (or awaits) during SSR so that the initial HTML contains fetched data. The discussion about react server components at this point is just comically absurd for me, as if they really want to make the simple SSR requirement as complex as possible for no reason, other than maybe force users into Nextjs so they can make more business from magically working hosting.
The time it would take to pull out a phone and call a Cruise support line is already too long.
Somebody will feed all these insightful McKinsey studies into an LLM and nobody will ever know the difference
or rip out the wires and attach whatever speaker you want, not really detectable
I wouldn't want to date women who use an app because it's open source, but I'm sure many HNers are dying to.
Enough iterations in this direction, and people will come full circle to how message IDs operated on Usenet. <datetime.processID.sequencenumber@domain> for example.
You're mostly right but you're ignoring the elephant in the room, which is search. Not even public search engine crawlers, but search within a Discord server by the server users. On a busy server, it's nearly impossible to find anything after the fact, especially so in a topical server where the majority of threads are talking about largely the same subject matter.
Classic "whataboutism".
I don't think that these people should be banned from the clearnet. I do think these people should be banned from Hacker News.

There are many people, mostly from marginalized communities, that don't participate on HN due to the presence of overt bigotry here. This is unjust.
Strictly content. I'm looking to learn not be entertained so good explanations is all I'm after.
Yeah, all those United Colors of Benetton ads really introduced the neat features and style of their range.
> I always found finding pain-points in an industry as an outsider (not working in the industry day-to-day) very hard.

This is a good place to lean on your network of friends that don't work in the same industry as you.

And if you don't have those kinds of friends... it would be good to work on getting them. It's important for many many reasons to have a diverse social network.