skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look, I understand your point. I really do. But I feel that (perhaps due to one or more of your acknowledged biases) you're applying the wrong context to the situation at hand.

Namely: this is INTERCAL. There is no freaking standard. The "standard" is a 60-page text file written in 1973. The current compiler was written 90% based on this joke-filled document, and 9% new ideas because ESR came up with something even more ridiculous. (The remaining 1% was Don Woods responding to emailed questions by consulting his memory. He still has paper copies of the SPITBOL source code, but the original compiler hasn't been run in over 50 years.) There is no standard because at any given time there are at most three people on the planet who care one iota about INTERCAL standardization, and are only willing to put in any effort if it would be funny. So, for example, the question of what sort of randomness the double-oh-seven operator is contractually required to use is simply not a contextually relevant question.

You seem to be suggesting that it might be possible, even thinly so, that Chat-GPT somehow misapplied a strict standard of randomness in the formation of its response, instead of simply papering over a hole in its knowledge with a bit of improvised plausible-sounding guesswork, a well-documented behavior of both Chat-GPT and thinking entities worldwide. If not, then I humbly apologize for misunderstanding your point. Otherwise, I must politely agree to disagree.

And I'm sorry that my essay rubbed you the wrong way. Perhaps one day you will find it better than you do now, but if not then I hope it passes from your memory quickly.
nk domestically produces about 2/3 of it's total food supply. and they are getting better at domestic fertilizer production and increasing the amount of land under the plow every year. their main issue with domestic food self reliance is largely two things. low grade and low volume fertilizer, and natural disasters (typhoons and droughts). NK is like 2 or 3 good years in a row away from being able to produce it's food domesticly
I'm one of those customers. QR menus must die.
Because most people are pro-themselves, not anti-Musk.

We buy all sorts of stuff that we don't need from horrible people, so what is one more? What most commentators don't get it is that Musk is just a guy, a horrible guy with a megaphone, yet he is so far removed from the daily life of users and citizens that a couple of very cheap earplugs will suffice to not hear a thing he says.
Work with them for a while, there is no alternative.
Perfect on a first date.
Great writeup of the tradeoffs. Also, Obsidian Sync offers end-to-end encryption.
FAANG is starting to take a strong position against remote work and distributed teams. This doesn’t seem to be a popular decision with workers, but employers hold all the cards right now given the slow pace of hiring across the industry.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/08/google-to-crack-down-on-hybr...

[2] https://fortune.com/2023/06/08/google-remote-work-office-att...
Don't write your ad copy with chatgpt or at least don't use the same prompt as everyone else.
Would it be useful to voice your dilemma to your advisor? Something like:

When I hear your request, I am hearing you ask me to fudge the numbers so that this experiment has a more desirable outcome. Is that really what you want me to do? If not can you help me understand how to achieve what you are asking?

Also even if you can’t ask your advisor, maybe there is someone else with authority you could ask
clear, thanks!

I guess on Apple ecosystem things are more troublesome for such self-hosting/3rd party solution?
Oh really? You will find very few people admit that they don't know something.
Or, I have no idea how these QR providers work, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this was the sort of low-effort service that restaurants don’t want to pay for. So, maybe ad/tracking funded.

It is annoying when a transaction that for ages has been all-paper gets bumped into the panopticon.
You mean that the top-level Linux directory are hilariously badly named?

If so, I don't think anybody will disagree.

But if you meant that's a large problem, then well, no it isn't. There are 7 of those badly named ones. It's a matter of reading half a page of text to see what they do, and after 2 or 3 times you read it as reference, you have them memorized.

If would be nice to solve the issue, but it isn't anybody's priority.
I believe US requires you to have a backup camera, so probably won't be void of one (and its screen). But I would love to see a relatively small hatchback with manual, reliable and bare bones.
The average age of US vehicles has increased 11 years in 2011, to 13 years in 2022 [1]. Americans are holding onto their cars longer than before, not treating them like junk.

I don’t know why we’re seeing more technology in cars, but s based on my observation that no one says they like the change tells me that it’s not consumer driven.

[1] https://www.spglobal.com/mobility/en/research-analysis/avera...
Practical Go by Dave Cheney (2020)
Even though not all sections are complete, it's a nice collection of best practices and common wisdom for Go.

I hope that Dave Cheney decides to write a book on Go at some point.

Apart from this resource, I also frequently look up:

* Effective Go (even though it's no longer updated)

* https://google.github.io/styleguide/go/

* 100 Go Mistakes book
That would not have occurred to me as a thing to do. It takes non-zero effort to think of these things in the first place.
Object orientation kills traceability. Classes are instantiated in one trace, then methods are called in another trace, and if something goes wrong in the latter, it is not trivial to find the wrong settings passed in the former.

I think some functional programming languages solve that by running a good chunk (if not all) of the application in a single trace.
Hopefully we’ll see home buttons on cases. In theory big speakers and a physical button could be put on the bottom of a case to achieve higher levels of accessibility.
> The colors having different meanings shouldn't come up in typical cases, because who's looking at their air quality map from two different countries?

Anyone who travels between countries?
Or we could just be flexible and evolve with any reasonable colloquialisms of the time.
I was so intimidated by the WCAG guidelines, but after a while I realized that A encodes “don’t make your app a steaming pile” and AA encodes “don’t make your app a steaming pile, plus 4-5 extra accessibility related tweaks”
I played this after playing the No vehicles in the park one the other day.

When I got to the question about the soul I saw it as misleading and confidently selected the other option because previously the teleportation worked, and IIRC the other option had 30% success, both of which disproved the existence of a soul.
A lot depends on the size of your kids, and the layout of your neighborhood, and your local climate. In my neighborhood (south side of Chicago) a lot of people schlepp their kids around on the back of bikes (electric or otherwise), either long bikes with a[n extra] seat on the back, or with a trailer, or both. Not sure how that stands safety-wise, but it sure is a lot lower-impact than even my Prius hybrid. Anecdata, but I feel like I'm seeing more of these families lately.

edit: add clarifying word
Can you provide some examples of what the aforementioned "incel culture" looks like?
> If I don't have an internet-connected device capable of dealing with a QR code about my person, eating out is no longer for me.

What kind of dystopian city do you live in? QR codes are on the decline again¹, fortunately.

1: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2023/may/23/off-the-menu-wh...
“They refuse to show you content”

It’s other people’s content and they should make it available in places other than Meta.

All these Big Tech platforms should be DEMOTED to hosting trailers and teasers that link back to people’s sites where they host their own videos and community.

Why do you think people don’t just do that? Oh because the Big Tech companies have the infrastructure and no one stuck around long enough to build a good enough open source alternative, that’s why!

Until now … https://qbix.com/communities
Make sure to cover text-to-speech and speech-to-text, as they become increasingly important.
I've heard good things about IxDF and had it recommended to me by UX designers. I started taking this UX beginners guide course on their site. They have an annual membership you need to subscribe to that gets you access to their entire course library and their community.

https://www.interaction-design.org/courses/user-experience-t...
Many products have multiple stakeholders. I can't think of a single product that exists "to render dispassionate information" and nothing else.
I want to be able to change the battery far more often - possibly every 8 hours if I'm using the phone a lot during an off-road adventure or other adventure where having a charging device isn't a great solution. When I used to travel a lot I had a smartphone with a replaceable battery and I carried several replacement batteries. Going from 5% battery life to 100% battery life in the few seconds it takes to change the battery was a very useful thing when I wasn't able to charge the phone easily. And no, battery charging bricks are not convenient. They are way more bulky and take far longer to charge the phone than popping in a fully charged battery.
I updated my comment above with a link. Just an ordinary quadrature encoder, but revolutionary back in the day.
China right now. Massive real estate crisis brewing. Local government in China is funded by land sales, which encouraged rampant speculation.
I've purchased a couple items from AliExpress, and it's definitely an experience. In my case, it starts with calling my credit card issuer and having them turn off all fraud protection on the card for an hour, because otherwise the charges get rejected so early, they don't even show up for customer service.

The items I purchased arrived as expected when expected, although with much more tape than expected (I guess they're optimizing for ocean shipping by making sure the packages will float by themselves!)
> an educator employed by a reputable institution,

What's a reputable institution? These days most "experts from institutions" are proven to be wrong. The COVID-19 pandemic was a clear eye-opener on how little you could just trust anyone.
> main GDP growth is real estate

Its an abberation. This is a failure of GDP as a measurement tool. Growth in realestate prices makes us poorer

This is like saying that economy has geown because food got more expensive, so people can lo longer save.

its like saying that when I give poor people mt used clothes, I am damaging the economy because they no longer have to buyt clothes, so gdp will go down.
Don't forget Windows 2000. Between Millennium Edition and 2000, Microsoft had two versions of windows simultaneously named in reference to the new century, but with different underlying technology and no way for average users to determine which was better (hint: not the one they marketed to average users.)
Same. Hearing Zotero brought back memories of undergrad for me. lol
If you host your code on GitHub and the like, then your code is already being read by a centralized mega-corp.
I only go into the office when I'm not feeling serious about work. If I have shit to get done, I do it at the place with zero commute time and substantially less distractions. When I'm light, it's nice to go into the office to shoot the shit and hang out with coworkers.
Back when phones had replaceable batteries they were nowhere near 50-70€. Half that, if that much.
I also have a Toyota from that era - 2000 4Runner with 200k miles. The fanciest things in it are power windows and locks.

At least once a month I get approached asking if I want to sell it. Sometimes it's a note taped to the windshield, other times the potential buyer will walk right up to me.

A couple weeks ago, a group of car enthusiasts driving their custom classic hot rods asked if I wanted to sell. Obviously car experts and mechanics. One guy in the group said he also had a 4Runner from the same era with 300k miles and marveled that they last forever.

I'll never sell it. There's something very freeing about driving a completely untethered car that lacks all the modern bells and whistles.
> accessing batteries we should make the batteries less accessible

or use screws to secure batteries, not glue, you know.
The fact that it's long does not mean i used ChatGPT. I am an experienced writer
Sweet. Thanks for the input.
How do you explain weight classes in athletic sports?
I was big into Tintin as a kid as well in 2000. I checked out library books and eventually began to purchase my own volumes every time we went on a family road trip. My nephews recently found them at my parents and I’m happy to see they are enjoying them as much as I did.
Most of the electronic/mechanical things I've bought through AliExpress are poor quality, dying within a few months. But two solar panels (separate purchases/different vendors) have been absolute champs for the ~2 years keeping my security cameras charged.
Nice. Yours costs but I've always been baffled by people with money (HN) who think that's like a super big deal- the absolute difference between $0 and $22 is still only $22...
It would be nice if the technology people would stop expecting everyone to cater to them.
> BitWarden didn’t lose any of my passwords

Do we know that considering how they handle iframes and how lax they seem about it?
IMHO Tintin is at his best when dealing with international politic like in Le Lotus bleu, L'Oreille cassée, Le Sceptre d'Ottokar, L'Affaire Tournesol, Au Pays de l'or noir.
Instagram doesn’t even work for me, any link someone sends me just goes to a white blanks screen. I refuse to make an account so I just tell people to stop sending me those links because it’s just a waste of time.
I can think of a large number of restaurants in Richmond BC that are still this way. (And only Richmond; neighbouring Vancouver/Burnaby/New West/Surrey are fine.)
The IP-level block you experienced after trying to get around the login modal is an anti-scraping measure. I doubt it is based on anything like “detecting that you’ve opened web inspector”, it’s much more likely that Instagram is running some heuristic that tries to bucket you into either “potential signup” or “scraper trying to download as many images as possible”, and once your behavior pattern fits into the second bucket they apply a (very) temporary IP block.

It comes off as extreme and insulting to a regular user, but it is also one of the few methods that scrapers can’t trivially dodge (it’s fairly easy to maintain a roster of IPs, but that is merely easy, while e.g. changing your user agent to pretend to be a different browser is trivial).
It's funny though that the Apple Lisa -- the amazing computer that Jobs worked his ass off to copy parts of and then get killed (after they kicked him off the project) -- was actually far more locked down than the Mac, which Jobs was more involved in. The Mac was more of a general purpose computer, though obviously more locked down than the DOS & CP/M type & home computer type machines it was contemporary with.

And the NeXT, Jobs' next project, was actually quite open. For the time, anyways.

I think he was fairly schizo on this topic. Or just deferred to his engineers where it mattered on certain things.
If I complain about an answer given to me by one librarian, I'm complaining about that answer and that librarian. If you can find a more knowledgeable librarian somewhere else, that doesn't affect my complaint.

But to be clear, there are no screenshots in the essay. I assimilated the HTML directly into the document.
This would be a really cool and informative additon to wikipedia.

They dont seem too concernerd about innovating anymore though.
A build system is largely declarative--it tends to boil down to defining rules like "how to compile a source file", "how to build a library", etc., along with the lists of things those rules need to be applied to, with there being a confusing three-way tug-of-war between the user, the project, and the system over how to override stuff and who wins out. The end result should be that you should ideally be able to query the build system to figure out the underlying declarative pieces of it pretty easily (e.g., list all of the C++ compiler invocations, list all of the package dependencies, etc.).

CMake is like halfway there or so, combined with a shell-like language that has some annoying issues (e.g., functions are statements, not expressions, so if you want to do dirname(dirname(foo)), that's two calls to PARENT_PATH). It does a better job than autoconf/make in that it doesn't invite you to resort to shell almost immediately, but that is admittedly a low bar.
Stakes are too low, so people start fighting over the most meaningless things in my experience.
Look into Nix / NixOS
I was more saying when a tourist considers their actions. Not if. Of course not everyone knows every social idiosyncratic curiosity of countries they visit.

But "I'm only a tourist, it's ok" leads to the egregious "tourists are bad" concept.
> effort must be expended, so why use that effort on something lack luster and morally questionable?

How do you judge that other online business that have a lower profile than Amazon are not morally questionable?
if it was bot/scraping prevention you would allow more than 3 profiles or reloads... that's just to block humans.

probably bots have a way to bypass this.
Perhaps, though this potential Ponzi has been brewing for nearly two decades. If they grow out of it, it’s definitionally not a Ponzi.
I'm a bit surprised that Google let Pinterest vandalize their image search.
Not just forecasting, but reporting values right now.

Spatial interpolation is much more non-obvious than you might initially assume, when the data points are coming from arbitrary locations and not a regular grid. For anyone curious, here [1] is a good place to start, or look up "Kriging interpolation".

The basic implementation of any kind of continuous temperature estimation is to have a generic equation that relates how temperature naturally varies by altitude, use that normalize the temperature reported by weather stations according to altitude to create a "flat" temperature map, interpolate to create a smooth continuous temperature map using something like Kriging, and then de-normalize the temperature at a desired point according to the altitude of that location.

There are always going to be hyper-local variations that won't account for (are you on the sunny side or shaded side of a mountain? is there an air current? how is vegetation/buildings/asphalt affecting it?), but it's the basic starting point.

[1] https://geobgu.xyz/r-2020/spatial-interpolation-of-point-dat...
Wait till you get to template configs that automatically generate fan out config files during build time. You can report it, but you can't find it.

Really enhances the debugging experience.
I hate to say it but convenience is king. If I need to log into accounts on my phone and computer there are two options 1. Use a crappy password that I can remember 2. Use a syncing password manager. If the password manager doesn't sync it doesn't provide enough convenience to be useful to me and I will fall back to 1.

Convenience has long been an underrated aspect of security. If you make the secure option as convenient (or even more convenient) than the insecure option people will do it. Of course security is always in opposition to convenience to some degree (otherwise we wouldn't have passwords at all, just type in your username to log in, we trust you completely), but minimizing the inconvenience is key to making the system secure in practice. If you make the system too inconvenient people will just work around it no matter how secure it is in theory.

I think we are beginning to understand this and things are improving, but many legacy systems still suffer. For example NIST guidelines have accepted this and now recommend against time-base password rotation[1] but many organizations still enforce it.

[1] https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-FAQ/#q-b05
Hey, if we can distract Chat-GPT with becoming an expert INTERCAL programmer, then I say "Win-win!"
There are solutions that redirect actual sunlight from outside, into dark interior spaces. They use them in many modern metro stations, and they work pretty well to get the feeling of actual overhead windows. AFAIK some of these solutions successfully channel almost the entire spectrum of real sunlight. I always feel that this is way under utilized - I could hardly name a building that wouldn't benefit from additional sunlight in some of the interior spaces. The systems are currently quite expensive, so that's probably part of it.

As for plumbing, like you I also speculate if they could not just do a raised floor, or possibly inside/along walls, to increase the reach. They already do this in some renovations of very old buildings where they want to create a large central kitchen (resulting in almost horizontal plumbing that clogs like nobody's business).
Tell me again that you run a terrible system and don't know what you are doing like 99.9% of the IT-"professionals" out there.
I don’t really mind blocking ads and that sort of stuff. The social contract for websites is that they’ll send me what they want and I’ll render it however I want. But if they don’t want to send me content because I don’t have an account, that’s fair game IMO.

I mean, it is fine to complain, but I get where the company is coming from. They don’t make any money off those of us who block all their stuff. So, why do they want to do business with us?
> Amazon has the worst return policy of anywhere I've shopped.

Not my experience at all, Actually completely the opposite. Amazon has had the very best return policy, with no questions asked.
To end remote work, just grandfather the existing people and roles with remote work and no longer offer remote work in future roles.

Then as the Bob's say it just works itself out.

The employers hold the cards because they pay the money and workers who need money and are willing to work in an office are basically the scabs of the remote work union.

Remote workers have no power until they can get everyone to agree not to work in an office
Can't find it anymore but I've watched a documentary claiming that Henry Ford and other car makers, oil companies and tire manufacturers in US and Europe lobbied city mayors over 100ys ago to get rid of perfectly fine public transport in favor of private cars. It felt ridiculous that we're still falling for that propaganda.
I tend to agree, but it’s hard to know exactly how it went down from our outsiders perspective. They’re implying that they asked for changes before submission, and that they weren’t given a final call to ask for their names to be removed if it came to that. Personally I would be less skeptical about this version of events with more transparency about whatever technical issues they had with the manuscript
That’s tautological about whether or not the claim itself has merit. It only says if the claim doesn’t have merit, here is a set of motivations that might have biased the claim. But there’s no way to determine just from that whether the claim has merit. It goes double for the vast majority of the way we get information: ad hoc through conversations with other humans. If a neighbor tells me it’s thunder storming tomorrow, therefore I should postpone putting up my new fence plans, I’m not going through a bizarro world decision matrix involving surveying the neighborhood for validity!
Do you have a blog where you talk about the deploy?
Example of how this falls apart: you change your prices. You change your menu. You have different menus for different times of day. You have different menus for special occasions.