skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many times users has to click "don't recommend shorts" before youtube decides it is not for them? By that logic, no user setting should be permanent.

Growing format

Hard for it not to considering youtube tries its best to mark videos as short. Some of my older videos are now shorts and I can't convert them
https://github.com/jaronilan/stories/commit/6f21536e2eae6540...

Ok. That was an easy fix.

$ git push origin main

Enter.
if we keep the number of states equal we don't have to reprint all our flags.
I moved away from C to Java, then I returned to C. I tried Python several times, but always returned to C.

C is small, with very few hidden 'gotchas', and it works. No wonder I always come back to C. You could call it the WYSIWYG programming language.
I wonder how Hulu streaming traffic is QoS'd on Comcast. Someone should check that out and file a lawsuit.
> it's actually unlawful to make this decision without giving a specific reason and/or providing advance warning.

This is interesting! Can you share any more detail?
In the context they were used, I can see how they can be considered a slur.

The context was that some people were calling someone a "cissy".

https://twitter.com/UKHomosexual/status/1671428042072129537/...
No, it's because a use case was discovered that the for loop approach can't handle: NaN keys.
As an adult I was shocked to find out how the projection I grew up with altered my perception of my poverty-stricken country. I had no idea for my entire life that it was so much larger than other countries on the map I thought were larger. I doubt I am rare here at all.

And I have no idea what "The West Wing" is. And I doubt I am rare here at all also.
There is a character limit...
From what I've heard, the biggest selling point of GCP is its simplicity and easier development experience. Other than that, it's mostly inferior to AWS or even MS Azure.

AWS is designed to be very flexible and configurable (example: look at IAM). The tradeof is the complexity and amount of work required to set up even the most frequently used services (such as ECS Fargate or Lambda).

That being said, if somebody is looking for a simple, developer-first experience, and wants to use AWS (and have all of its power/flexibility), have a look at https://stacktape.com (I'm a founder).
> The lawsuit said that under substantial pressure from the FTC, Amazon changed its cancellation process in April but that "violations are ongoing" and that it still "requires five clicks on desktop and six on mobile for consumers to cancel from Amazon.com."

They clearly state here, that it was significantly worse before.

The suit can be seen here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.32...

The lawsuit states: 114: "The Iliad Flow required consumers intending to cancel to navigate a four-page,
six-click, fifteen-option cancellation process. In contrast, customers could enroll in Prime with
one or two clicks."

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-prime-ftc-probe-custo...

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-project-iliad-juicies...

> Amazon intentionally drew out the process of canceling a Prime membership under a project code-named "Iliad," according to internal documents obtained by Insider.

Related stuff from the EU:

> Amazon changed its process for canceling Prime subscriptions last summer after pressure from the European Commission and national consumer watchdogs. The company introduced a simplified two-click process.

Article below has pictures from a previous EU case in 2022.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/5/23195019/amazon-prime-canc...
Types in C++ don’t carry ownership information inherently either, but they’re still thought of in these terms. I know Go doesn’t often use these terms, which is why I clarified.

I think the distinction is useful specifically because it explains why Go slices work differently than in at least those two languages.
Diet + Tech addiction. Where’s my Nobel prize?
No need, AI generated imagery isn't copyrightable.
That was really entertaining, thank you for sharing :-)
It was about Eltsin's support and parliament reelection.

And please stop describing Russians as US puppets. It's your weird ideas only.
Depending on the company, their threat model, and the role the device filled, they will require more than just a drive wipe.

This can range from just crushing drives all the way to running a hydraulic punch through any non-volatile storage on circuit boards (including flash used for UEFI). This is common enough that most manufacturers will provide a guide to all the non-volatile storage in a product: Statement or Letter of Volatility.

I've gotten some great deals on high-end networking equipment (e.g. Juniper, Arista) by buying boxes that had the SSDs removed & crushed. It's a little annoying to track down replacements, but doable.
And one day we'll even let them drive cars!
I think that obsession you are referring to is part of a far larger mental illness that is coursing through European minds and cultures; the constant, compulsive obsession with trying to find the most obscure and ridiculous reasons, causes, and excuses for how brown people are Noble Savage victims and Europeans must hate themselves.

This time the reason why Europeans must hate and destroy themselves is … spins the wheel … that maps are flat and the planet is not.

European people and culture all over that planet is very mentally sick and self-destructive. Any individual person that exhibited even slightly as mentally ill mentalities as Europeans, we would immediately seek help for them.
If we're talking about owl books, I recently read and loved Owls of the Eastern Ice by a PhD wilderness researcher who spends years in Siberia in Eastern Russia tracking and recording rare fish owls, the world's largest species of owl. It was beautiful, hauntingly written and oddly funny in places. Just a totally unique, interesting read. I highly recommend! https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/51542211
Tearing-down Tesla’s in-house radar design
I haven’t tried any of those so I can’t say how they would compare, but I am quite happy with the toe box on the Altra Lone Peak. Topos also have a wide toe box.
Final photos: https://imgur.com/gallery/4KBCqrU

sirrandalot on YouTube used the Cycles path tracing renderer in Blender to create a virtual camera setup that acts like a film camera. Light rays pass through modelled lenses, individual colour film layers are simulated in shaders.
Ah, I didn’t know you were a fellow Windows user, you will find hare more offensive in this respect, the official compiler does not and will never support Windows. In theory someone could write one but I doubt it will happen.
Gwern,

If we're still around in 2030, you're gonna have to rewrite this same post about the AI drone that blew up its controller.

Here's hoping!
SEO. A subdomain is generally considered as a separate site. So having all content on the root domain increases its authority and thus rankings.

The Cloudflare blog has a good explanation: https://blog.cloudflare.com/subdomains-vs-subdirectories-bes...
There are plenty of places where you wouldn’t want to, or just can’t, go barefoot.
Canadian here, from the warm part, where we only see snow a few days a year. We're still all taking our shoes off, except degenerate college students and recent American immigrants.
Russia wanted West to approve it's greed to get additional territories. Only Hitler was ready to sign such agreements.

So Stalin went to Hitler. He was really mad guy, paranoid, former gangster.
This is at least the biggest release since 1.18 with generics, possibly bigger. I’m excited because the changes demonstrate a transition from the traditional go philosophy of almost fanatical minimalism, to a more utilitarian approach.

Loop variable capture is a foot-gun that in the last six years has cost me about 10-20 hours of my life. So happy to see that go. (Next on my list of foot-guns would be the default infinite network timeouts — in other words, your code works perfectly for 1-N months and then suddenly breaks in production. I always set timeouts now; there’s basically no downside)

Interesting to see them changing course on some fundamental decisions made very early on. The slices *Func() functions use cmp() int instead of less() bool, which is a huge win in my book. Less was the Elegant yet bizarre choice — it often needs to be called twice, and isn’t as composable as cmp.

The slog package is much closer to the ecosystem consensus for logging. It’s very close to Uber’s zap, which we’re using now. The original log package was so minimal as to be basically useless. I wonder why they’re adding this now.

I’ve already written most of what’s in the slices and maps packages, but it’ll be nice to have blessed versions of those that have gone through much more API design rigor. I’ll be able to delete several hundred lines across our codebase.

What’s next? An http server that doesn’t force you to write huge amounts of boilerplate? Syntactic sugar for if err != nil? A blessed version of testify/assert? Maybe not, but I’m happy about these new additions.
Related Article & thread from yesterday:

> FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime sign-up and cancellation process

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36418713

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/21/ftc-sues-amazon-over-decepti...

The actual court document can be seen here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.32...
yeah, I think you're right

It seems like investors prefer to have a large (but still profitable) org with a lot of redundancy and clear systems in place than an elite team of superheroes

I'm just annoyed that Spez is running a bloated overweight organization, then using that fact to justify some user-hostile money grubbing
What utter crap:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/ton...
An option for TailwindCSS classes would be really clean too.
writing C like doing extreme sport, respect but I don't want to try it soon.
thanks all developers of interpreter, because they wrote it with C, so I don't need to write C.
Paypal has it's flaws for sure, but one thing I love about paypal is ability to easily manage and turn off recurring subscriptions. One toogle bar, boom, over, gone, donezo. Easy peasy.
How can you look at San Francisco and not see how its policies are not working? How delusional can one be?
> I decided it wasn't worth the cost for me so I went inside my settings to cancel. Their stipulations for cancelling the membership was "Come back two days before the account is set to auto-renew and cancel then."

I'm not defending Amazon's sneaky tactics to trick people into signing up for prime. They got me too.

But I didn't have any trouble cancelling it right away, and I went through it only a few months ago. Not saying you're wrong, though - they probably changed things since you had your experience.
They are likely referring to Homeland Security Investigations, a division within ICE which is basically like a parallel FBI that handles white collar/CSAM/high level drug stuff. Usually not immigration related unless its related to migrant smuggling or visa fraud.
Expected a free organ. Second heart would be cool, timelord style.
> It's neat that spectral resolution is so similar for both eyes and ears, particularly considering how different their range is

Probably because it's not necessarily just resolution of the eyes and ears, but resolution of the brain that perceives that information. How "perception" works is still somewhat of a mystery.
Absolutely. Lots of humans live in a post-truth world. They learn not to trust anything they read or hear. Think totalitarian regimes wi try tight controls over media.

A more painful and pertinent question might be: Can democracy adapt to a post-truth world, and the answer to that I fear is probably no. How can a democracy function if it’s citizenry can’t remain informed?
At first I thought "Free Organ" here meant human organ and was excited to see something in the field of free (and fair) human organ transplant.

Nothing against the post though.
Defunding the police and de facto allowing the burglary of any items below $900 are "centrist" views in other parts of the world?
Considering the net worth of the occupants, I'm sure the bill won't be a problem.
What country do you live in? If I visit there I'll look out for them because I see equal-area projs like never. Even the decorative one in my room right now clearly has Greenland look more than half the size of all of Africa.
While i enjoyed the article, the title and opening sentence really deserve credit for being genuinely fun to read.
AI generated itinerary for Cancun Mexico
All I care about when it comes to editors is availability (on every platform, can be used in a terminal), longevity, and the community for third party plugins. Vim still checks all of those boxes and the only real other contender is still Emacs.

Vim is super crusty, Kakoune and helix have better takes on the unix philosophy, integrations. VSCode is easier for absolute beginners to click around in. IntelliJ has better semantic parsing. But none of that matters. None of that holds me back from being successful. I just need an editor I can type code in that I will never have to give up, that will just be there, and I can use at the next job. In fact Vim's quick editing is just a nice to have, it's never been the difference between me killing it and getting killed at work. That's why I'm sticking with Vim.
AdGuard Home or PiHole run great on Pi4s, old thin clients, and Pine64 / OrangePi boards.
Ah, nice. Thanks!
Bill Clinton was a fan of deregulation and would be considered an "extreme far right" politician in today's "centrist" Democratic Party.
Well, unfortunate that the school is religious, but I wouldn’t say that a childless person paying for school is “outrageous.”

After all, most people grow old, retire, and become dependent on the young workers in the economy to carry the tax burden, defend the nation, serve as doctors, nurses, caretakers, and so on.

It takes a village to raise a child, but it also takes children to have a village at all. So I don’t think it’s crazy if we spread the cost of education not just among parents but across the whole population.
>The Su-25s are ancient aircraft, first introduced in the 1980s

Shh, but don't look now. The B52 is a product of the 1940s
So, Facebook is basically saying:

"Fuck you, sue me if you dare. (And don't bother us anymore expecting any help, because F.U.)".

Nice, but considering the abysmal support of Google, FB, etc., the only surprising aspect of this is that it was not done sooner.
Considering the pace at which the attention moves on, it was an honest but savage mirror onto the viewers. And by comparison, the 90's was slow by today's standards.

It is funny looking back at media from that era and seeing how there was this idea that things were already too hectic. Like in the early 90's Bart Simpson referring to the non-stop fast times they lived in.

Vaguely related but another great one was the small doco "Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age" filmed in 1985, they are talking about how they cannot keep up with the pace of BBS boards. If only they knew what was coming. Also of note is this is one of the earliest recorded sightings of Richard Stallman, his message was very on point even then.
Logitech F710 has been the least reliable controller I have ever used. Connectivity and driver issues all over the place across all Windows OS's I have ever had the displeasure of using it with. Once I switched to Xbox controllers on my Win machine those issues were a thing of the past.
CNBC's CSS Problems
CNBC has a glaring CSS problem on certain viewports that produces no left-hand margin on their articles on my phone.

Example link: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/21/intel-stock-drops-6percent-as-company-updates-chip-manufacturing-plans.html

I doubt most people with iOS would notice this, as I think it only affects certain resolutions.

It seems it might have something to do with the footer.

Hopefully they fix it.

It is annoying.
At a previous job me and my team (UX Design) were so well meshed with the developers that I could hand them a text outline of the page structure I wanted of our design system components and they could produce it with 90% accuracy. Afterwards I would sit with them at their desk and we’d work out the last 10% together - either things I hadn’t thought of or bits they weren’t sure how to implement. It was glorious and it’s still the highlight of my professional life.

Unfortunately that’s been the exception in my personal experience, so most of the time I have to produce pixel-perfect comps that leave nothing to the imagination.
Maybe? Generally bad UX decisions are opposed by more experienced devs, often because of the edge cases that are not considered by designers, while less experienced devs just do it.
Related ongoing thread:

Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36424256 - June 2023 (56 comments)
Related ongoing thread:

Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36427267 - June 2023 (3 comments)
I've seen this type of post/thread many times, and yet I still learn something new every time.

For example, I'd never noticed until today that so much of Scotland is actually west of England because Great Britain doesn't actually go straight-up north to south but is rather "tilted".

I also didn't know that Papua was so big, before today I wondered how could there be so much linguistic diversity in what I though was a medium sized island.

So I don't mind the geography trivia from time to time.
It's weird that so much of OOP back then was centered around deep class inheritance hierarchies as a means to share code when my favorite more modern languages (Rust and Go) intentionally leave out this part of OOP (thankfully, imho).

An eye opener in respect to this was Sean Parent's excellent talk "Inheritance Is The Base Class of Evil" at GoingNative 2013 [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bLkxj6EVoM
Shingle Style Architecture
> I think overall this is a good thing for an internet that hosts user-created content

It would be, if fraudulent requests came with a penalty. They don’t. DMCA is a pure cancer the way it is.
I've known people who trained their dogs to stamp/pat their feet on an old folded up towel laid by the door. Seemed pretty ingenious given how wet and slushy the climate is half the year.
It's interesting that in the examples (Table 3 on page 21), the model uses the backspace token to erase the randomly-added token from the prompt, but it does not seem to ever use the token to correct its own output. I'm curious how frequently the model actually uses this backspace token in practice - and if the answer is "vanishingly rarely", what is the source of the improved Mauve score and sample diversity they show? Is it just that the different training procedure gives an improvement?
Public schools aren't a monopoly. People are free to move if they would like to switch schools. Also, a major difference is that residents usually have some power over the school board, e.g. by directly electing them or electing a mayor who chooses them.
The support is provided by a company called CIQ rather than the engineers behind Rocky itself. You can even see their support tiers on their website (NASA picked Advanced)

https://ciq.com/support/rocky-linux/
Yes, that is how you update your system.

But it would be very unusual to constantly switch between two long-lived configs. I don't see why it wouldn't work, though.
The goal in the west was never to eliminate covid, it was to slow the spread of it. School closures are an effective means of doing so (if done pre-emptively) because schools are one of a few places where an entire towns social network crosses paths at the same time.

We have known this for over 100 years, since the Spanish flu pandemic. Denying this is simply anti-scientific and motivated by your political beliefs
I worked on Prime for a long time many years ago, and it’s sad that dark patterns have taken over. We built a lot of behind the scenes stuff to automate self-service free and pro-rated refunds during cancellation (if you didn’t use any benefits you’d get a full refund, a few benefits got you a prorated refund, and if you used it a bunch already, we’d turn off auto-renew and let the contract run to the end). If you signed up and didn’t use any benefits, you wouldn’t be auto-renewed. The group was extremely customer centric.

We also had metrics around delivery times, which seems to have gone out the window as well.
So wait, what was the last system?
Nothing is ever strange until compared. Nothing is large, nothing is small, only normality can exist in a vacuüm.
> "but WHY is it like this?"

Because, historically, it's been like that all over, it's not just Go. For example, Python has the same loop variable reuse.

Probably comes from a time when compilers were a lot simpler, and all local variables were allocated stack space for the whole duration of the function call.
Also, don't breathe any air. Some of the molecules in it have been exhaled by other people.
Is it fundamentally auditory? Is that all that's going on? You're forgetting that music has a text. It is a text.

Especially, of course, music that involves voices. (Or at least most of it.) Reading a language and a musical text is a very big part of all this.
What's Quicksilver?
I worked for a SMB startup years ago that had a “call us” cancellation model, mostly out of a need for several manual steps as part of offboarding and yes, probably some recognition that cancelation friction helped metrics. Eventually the support burden was too great and we built a fully automated no-BS cancellation flow. Our retention metrics immediately tanked to a greater extent than anyone had thought possible and we were forced by the CEO to redesign it with a bunch of interstitials and extra clicks.

I feel like this is the dark side of SaaS economics: lots of customers pay for recurring services they don’t use, out of optimism or laziness or something else. Being able to leverage that inertia can be profitable, even if it’s also unethical.
> I think you should be more amazed at people who _don’t_ care at _all _ about size. Sure, this group might include reasonable people like yourself who are knowledgeable about map distortions and trade offs. But a lot of the “I don’t care” group overlaps with the “Africa is a country” group.

On what are you basing it?

IME, almost nobody cares. Even folks who like maps (e.g. me) "don't care" in most cases, because flat maps will have distortions.

AFAICT, the people who really care about these distortions are folks who have political agendas and like to sling ad hominems around, such as "Folks who don't care are morons or racists."

So again:

> But a lot of the “I don’t care” group overlaps with the “Africa is a country” group.

On what are you basing that?
Damn, that’s a really detailed exposition of the whole mechanical Turk economy
Saint Augustine must be turning in his grave.
Leaving shoes outside doesn't work unless the outside portion of the entrance is well sheltered. I've definitely seen it before in condo buildings where there will be a mat and boots neatly lined up in the hallway. Seemed strange though.
While I strongly think HBS should do much more to prevent fraud, I would also note that they have suspended Gino and seem likely to fire her. So it’s not like they are completely ok with this…
> Up until this point, we’ve used our own usage and your feedback to inform our decision-making. We’ve learned and improved a lot this way. But there’s always been a drawback to this approach: we don’t know what your 1Password experience is like unless you tell us.
Do you use Github or GitLab? And Shopify for the rest.