skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing, below is a quote from the same post.

> Thirteen years later, that's my default plan. There’s just too much downside for me to get distracted with others’ opinions of my opinions. [1] It's not that I'm afraid of expressing my opinions. I just think, "Why bother?"

Is it really true that she's not afraid though? It's a perfectly natural reaction to be afraid of the internet mob shouting you down -- the first time I went through this, I was extremely distraught.

The reason I ask is bc we should be honest about the problem, so that we can solve it.

Perhaps the solution is to teach the good people around us how to have thicker skin, so they don't have as strong of an emotional reaction to internet backlash. But, detaching yourself from ego is actually a really hard skill to teach & learn. It almost seems like a hopeless endeavor when you're talking about creative people who are already very busy.
https://opensource.com/article/22/9/open-source-alternatives...
Imagine how frightening it would have been to hear those crackles inside the submarine. (In reality, however, they had no warning of the impending collapse.)
While I agree with open discussion being a great thing, this forum does not lend itself well to diverse political opinions.
I just asked it right now. It wrote me a 500-word essay with multiple important bullet points, each of which is probably a 300-500 word essay on its own. This is simply not a twitter-length topic. If you're really interested go educate yourself. If you're not, quit wasting both our time.
What a fascinating opportunity is given to us to finally break free from YouTube and computer in general; no more cat videos lol!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3InF19dzlM
Why not revive your pebbles? Depending on the model, there are replacement battery options, and with rebble.io the software aspect is addressed.

Literally wearing a fully functional Pebble Time as I write this. I also have a Pebble Time Steel (not wearing currently) also fully operational.
You didn’t budget for it at all? Just 100% confident that you’d never have to pay it?
Getting banned 16 times from a social space is a pretty clear message that you're not welcome. Equivalent behavior in meatspace would likely get you trespassed from the property or arrested.
I don't understand the relevance of this comment.
Quadratic C.I. Cost Growth
High-value emotional purchases attract it more for obvious reasons. You see it less in cheap commodities. Your transactions at the grocery store tend to be pretty honest.
Weakly inversely correlated.
A large part of the failure to recruit is a gigantic 500 pound gorilla in the room no one wants to acknowledge:

Young Southern White men make up the bread and butter of the military. They have been the target of recruiting campaigns for decades upon decades. This group has collectively checked out of a society that has nothing but contempt for them. When the highest levels of the government and half of the political establishment have nothing good to say about you, opine about how "toxic" your existence is, and openly laugh at your struggles... who would want to put their life on the line for that? When patriotism, their basic existence, etc. are derided as "fascist", then why even give a shit? When you're suffering from record levels of depression, dying from suicide and drug overdoses at rates never seen, still being openly discriminated against and laughed at, supporting the system that not only allows, but encourages that behavior is ridiculous.

Effectively, the US Military is experiencing a variation of "go woke, go broke". Guess they couldn't find enough Emmas with two moms to fill their ranks. I guarantee we'll see the US government start to peel back DIE initiatives to fill their ranks back up.
"Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported basis. Any time you skip a commercial or watch the button you're actually stealing programming." --Jamie Kellner
The ability of the secretary of education to "waive or modify" any student loan repayment provisions during a national emergency that congress officially declared in order to provide relief to those affected by the emergency was also approved by Congress, the Senate, and the President.
McMansion Hell isn't about taking the piss out of one's superiors, it's about looking down on the lower classes without the refined architectural taste of the author and audience.

It's punching down.
I switched from GMail to iCloud, because I didn’t want Google hovering up my emails into their advertising business. I reluctantly switched from iCloud to FastMail, because iCloud’s alias feature wasn’t fully functioning. I love FastMail and wholeheartedly recommend it. I guess I have used it for about 5 years.
I'm also a christian and this whole thing is very clearly intended to enable oppression and harm to already marginalized groups. Supporting this decision is to spit in the face of christ.
Harvard is about being a reproduction ground of the current elite ruling class, both literally and figuratively. Although it's also a great educational and research institution, a brand, and a hedge fund, those are all secondary considerations to its primary purpose, and analyses that don't center class miss its fundamental role in American society.
Why would the Constitution need a rewrite? The several states are capable of defining their own education finance policies. There was no need for the Federal government to be involved in the first place.
If you're on iOS, I highly recommend Yattee[1], a free Youtube app with no ads, background playback and sponsor block built-in.

The way they get around App Store restrictions is by claiming that they aren't a Youtube app. They're technically a video-watching app which is supposed to be used with your own personal server. The server API they require, however, is supported by Invidious[2], an open-source, privacy-preserving Youtube front end. If you configure an Invidious instance in settings[3] (you don't have to host your own, there are plenty of them out there), you effectively get access to the entirety of Youtube.

It's not a replacement for the official app by any means, it doesn't have a recommendation feed, it doesn't let you log in with a Google account, so it doesn't sync watch history with your other devices, it doesn't let you cast to Youtube-enabled devices, post comments, scroll through shorts etc, but if you have a playlist or a specific, longer video in mind, it's quite good. It also supports Invidious accounts, which let you manage channel subscriptions.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yattee/id1595136629
[2] https://invidious.io/
[3] https://gonzoknows.com/posts/yattee/
Your cut off makes no sense, because Harvard is about potential. If we had a perfect, balanced, equitable test for academic potential than of course we'd use it, but we don't. So you can't just use the distributions about existing tests to prove your point.

If you truly think that the top 2.5% of black students would be "out of place" at Harvard then you have a completely invented mysticism of what it means to go to Harvard.
> ... and use high surplus returns to fund fundamentally expensive innovation

We might still see examples of this, but in the more than 70 years since Schumpeter developed his theories, the financial sector as well as state spending (military budget, infrastructure, public research, pension funds, etc.) expanded a lot. So there are many other sources for large capital needs available today.
On this point, I realized recently is that at one time, auto-plying audio or video on a web site would have been a cause for torches and pitchforks. It was one of the most asshole things a site could do. Now a significant fraction of the websites I hit (esp anything 'news') immediately pop up an unrequested live video window with full audio, and even if I close it, as soon as you scroll over any media on the site, it auto-plays, and when you scroll past, the window pops back up playing video.

When did this become ok? Telling them to get off my lawn hasn't worked.
The decision has no effect on foreign students
As I recall there were two more efforts after that—-one around Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and the last one centered around the war in Iraq.
I want an iPad for drawing to make sticker files to send to my Cricut. While it's apparently the best pen/device for drawing, the fact that they are priced $500+ is has been a blocking point for me so far. I'm not sure why people think they can export video from an editor, that doesn't sound like a pleasant experience.
Your comment framed AI Doomsdaying as being a concern of the public, when it is pretty far from being something the public cares about.
> Does it affect the utility of the house?

They're generally very large and of low-quality construction, making them expensive to heat, cool, and maintain, for little upside. They're also generally kind of impractical; you end up with either way too many rooms, or impractically _big_ rooms.

There's an element of subjectivity to the aesthetics, obviously, but I don't think you'll find many people who'll see most of the examples on that site and go "that looks good actually".
This is why cars make you more independent than buses and trams. It'd be a lot harder for the government to close all of the roads than just shutting off public transit.
> My personal belief is that even if you "increase" intelligence by an order of magnitude, your ability to predict the behavior of external systems doesn't increase proportionally.

This is what Max Tegmark writes in his book. I don't know why he has taken a doomer stance on LLMs.
What bearing do you think this has on the question at hand?
I have been nominated seven straight years for hacker news reader with the least knowledge of security, so I’m embarrassed to ask: what keys would one want to sign and why?
I know many people had trouble with the adaptation, but he is truly amazing as Mr Singer in The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter.

And of course The In-Laws. Great in everything really.
Because it's prettier than a text file.

Because I can see what my connections (close and not-at-all-close friends) are reading.

Because I like it and have been using it pretty much since 2013.

Goodreads works perfectly for me as it was intended to be used: a nice book database
And how many microplastics are released the second time the container's microwaved? And the third?

I'm all against microwaving brand new plastics (not a huge fan of take-out containers). But I suspect the plastic coffee brewer I've used ~1000 times has long since leached out anything that was going to leach out. I wonder if there's any research on this.

It'd be cool if there were a commercial lab I could send a some samples to measure microplastics, the same way I can send my tap water to be tested for lead.
The Model T Moment: LLMs and the Assembly Line
Netlify acquires Stackbit to bring no-code creation to its platform
SponsorBlock is the answer.
While it is confusing why Reddit wouldn't offer it as an olive branch, I don't think allowing Reddit Premium subscribers to access the API for free would be an ideal solution. It would be extremely confusing for the majority of users if they had to both 1) subscribe to Reddit Premium in order to use 3rd party apps at all, and then 2) also pay (likely via a second subscription) to use each specific 3rd party app. Both Reddit and the app developers would probably have to spend a significant amount of user support effort to explain why users need to pay twice (or more if they want to use more than one app) to access Reddit.

Imagine it from the perspective of a user who is new to Reddit and downloads one of those apps off the app store (possibly paying money to do so). After they fire it up they'll discover that they can't even use it until they subscribe to Reddit Premium. Due to app store policies the app can't offer the opportunity to subscribe from within the app, so the best they can do (on Android, at least, Apple doesn't even allow this) is to direct the user to sign up for an account and buy a premium subscription on Reddit itself first. Assume they get past this hurdle and then discover after a week or two that in order to continue using that app they have to sign up for a new, separate subscription through the app store so that the developer can get paid. I imagine a not insubstantial number of users would get extremely frustrated by all of this and take their frustration out on either the app developers or Reddit.
How to Utilize Yattee to Watch Ad-Free YouTube (iOS, TvOS and macOS)
> YouTube, streaming services, etc. provide you a service in exchange for you also allowing ads to be loaded on your computer.

I don't remember signing a contract with YouTube. They send my browser a list of "things" and their URLs required to render a page and, as my agent, my browser can freely load or ignore them.
It is going to hit like a tax hike on the middle class. And this comes on the heels of corporations scooping up all the gains made during the pandemic via raising prices and inflation (also acting like a regressive tax). That should all spill over into consumption.
I've tried a few things. I now have a single vault with folders for my major categories. (Work projects, Household management, etc)

My primary plugins are Quick Add, Templater, Dataview, Tasks, and ReadItLater
OK, but what is the argument that those numbers represent a moral decline?
The ruling is explicitly about individuals but I don't see how this can do anything but precedent for corporations at large. What if Wix had a Christian owner, or, to makeup an outlandish bogus scenario what if religious extremists took control of say CloudFlare or aws? Is the freedom of those entities really the only thing that deserves protection?

> Colorado seeks to force an individual to speak in ways that align with its views but defy her conscience about a matter of major significance - Gorsuch
Alcohol interferes with your liver’s ability to process vitamin A, which in turn has a negative impact on sperm production. That said, moral support is also a pretty good reason.
"Diversity" isn't an abstract number we try to grow, it's a word to describe human beings who are extremely capable of doing a thing that they're not allowed to do because of the shade of their skin tone or what side of the tracks they grew up on. You want diversity because living in a world where people get to do what they want is a better world than any alternative.

You also want diversity because you want the best people for a given situation, and the odds it's actually a bunch of rich white kids that are the best at being doctors and lawyers and whatnot is basically zero.

But I agree with my sibling commenter; ChatGPT will give you the best form of this argument, better than anything I can write.
The issue is that this leads to the Harvard label being misused as an indication of skill or capability. You see, suddenly those princes aren't being hired because they are a prince - no, it is because they went to Harvard so obviously they must be very smart and capable. It'd be a lot harder to justify that hiring when they went to Random Mediocre State University instead.

I agree that it is beneficial to the lucky few "low-class" people who manage to get into Harvard, but that's at the cost of eroding the concept of meritocracy for all those who don't.
YouTube Premium reached 50 Million subscribers in 2021, so they're doing pretty well: https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/50-million/
This makes no sense. The fact that users don't want to pay and don't want to watch ads is a pretty clear indication that YouTube is user hostile.

And why are you assuming that YouTube should make money at all? It is YouTube'job to find a business model that works without coercing users. If users don't want to pay (money or attention) then YouTube is not offering anything worth paying. And it's their fault, not the users'
I think the fake white bookshelf wallpaper has a certain aesthetic about it. I would like it in an AirBnB type of place, but definitely not in my own house.

I would also want it to actually fit on the wall and not be awkwardly cut off on the right edge.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall at Reddit HQ at the moment, also I wonder what it's like to be a dev on the Reddit app too? Don't get me wrong I'm not downplaying how poor the app is (I've gone desktop-only based on how much I dislike it) but it can't be fun having the entire web panning your daily work every time it comes up.
It's nowhere close to understanding basic logical concepts of the real world. Mimicking human sentences is something my African Grey parrot can do.

Building a deck is something AI cannot do.

For all our technology, we still don't have an automated kitchen because the work involved in the logistics and maintenance of the kitchen/materials is astronomically greater than simply doing the cooking by hand.

AI has no bridge to the real world. It can't build a house, farm crops, and maintain vehicles. For those on hackernews, a laptop may seem like the portal to reality, but that isn't the case for the other 90% of the human workforce.

We are 50% of the way between the big bang and heat death of the universe. There are no interstellar civilizations contacting us yet. They better hurry up if we plan to fulfill the scifi notions I see on this site.
Perhaps this is an American culture as I don't ever hear this in NZ.
> you must relearn correct technique from the beginning (actively get worse at bowling)

I was told I'd need to do that with typing.

I started out two-finger hunt-and-peck at age 7 on a TI 99/4A, and gradually added more fingers. Using my pinky for Shift, in particular, was a gateway to using my middle fingers for letters too. I didn't take any speed tests at the time, but retrospectively I'd guess I was around 8-10wpm.

By the time I got to middle school and took a typing class with Mavis Beacon emphasizing home-row and stuff, I was already faster than the kids leaving the class from the previous semester, on the order of 20wpm. I did the exercises but I didn't really change my style much, and left the class typing roughly the way I started, but with more awareness of how I was "supposed" to do it. Feh.

Then in high school, I learned about BBS's and modems, got my own modem, and found a local multi-line BBS with multi-user chat. And that created a heck of an incentive -- the faster I could type, the more I could participate in the present conversation rather than what happened 2 minutes ago.

Social connection was thus linked to typing speed, and for a 9th-grader it's hard to find a more powerful motivator than that. I found myself adding fingers and breaking the 60wpm mark before the summer was out. No more hunting, still basically pecking, but pecking with 3 or 4 fingers on each hand.

These days my typing style superficially resembles a home-row style; my wrists rarely move, but I perch over QWEF/QERG and JIO' rather than ASDF and JKL; like Mavis would've liked. I find the slightly higher perch gives me easier access to the symbols on the number keys and functions in the F-key row. I sit comfortably around 80wpm on plain text, and handily outrace home-row typists on code or anything with a lot of symbols.

Moreover, the division between hands simply isn't. When typing with two hands, the letters in the middle, YGHVBN, are fair game for either hand. But if I have to reach for something, or if my right hand is on the mouse, I'll reposition my left to WRTH or thereabouts, and it feels perfectly natural to roam around the whole keyboard as needed.

Thus my keybindings in games and CAD are probably horrifying to a home-row typist, but since I'm not wasting half my left hand's reach with tab/caps/shift, I have a lot more useful keys available to me in keyboard+mouse mode. I have CAD bindings from QAZ all the way to IKM, with only OPL off-limits. (And frankly, my left hand is on a SpacePilot half the time anyway. When I bounce it back to the keyboard, it's not required to settle into any particular home position, because the whole board "feels like home" for either hand.)

I've never felt a desire to unlearn my evolved style and start over with home-row; I believe it to be demonstrably inferior for the sort of things I actually do.
The refugees have to go somewhere.
This action was taken before the emergency was over, it's simply taken this long to go through the courts.
Having people do these long commitments to independently reinvent techniques, with the prevailing odds being worse alternatives to what already exist, is financial insanity under the current regime of only rewarding people for value they can capture.

One example of a reward model that could facilitate this kind of activity would be a universal basic income. We admit we have no idea /where/ value comes from in the first place, we acknowledge that it is not always entirely capturable in the second place. Ergo, a fraction of the stream is rerouted uniformly through all the other actors.
> 2. God help you if the insertion point is just a character or two away from where you need it: you either have to do the long-press on the keyboard, then carefully drag to correct it, or tap somewhere else completely and then tap where you want it.

I don't know if anyone remembers but back in 2012ish there was a jailbreak tweak in Cydia that allowed you to move the cursor by swiping on your keyboard. It was really intuitive as you don't have to lift your fingers off the keyboard and I remember asking myself why this wasn't just part of iOS. Apple never added that feature to iOS and I still miss it. Not sure how it would have worked today with keyboard swiping but I wish apple let you switch between "swipe to type" and "swipe to move cursor".
Haven’t read the article yet, but no it’s not garbage. There’s literally not a single terminal app on linux that remotely comes close to it. ITerm2 is extremely flexible & powerful & well designed. I used to get beachballs w/ it though & I think that went away as I went from using tons of tabs to just 1-4 & tmux for the rest.

Closest I’ve come on linux is xfce4-terminal w/ devilspie2 to fill the gaps.
Delete Friction
PolarH10 Detrended Fluctuation Analysis Alpha1
I don’t think you’re overreacting if you think any invention newer than 100 years has a high probability of being detrimental to our nature in some way.
Ad tracking company Criteo fined €40M under GDPR
I am struggling to know if this is a troll or not?

I don't let Ads tell me what I 'might' need. I already know what I need (I might 'want' something but that is a different topic).

Ads try to convince me that I 'need' whatever it is they are 'selling'.
AI Accountant V2 is more accurate than 80% of human tax pros
Paxys initial claim was "there are millions of people uninvolved in making AI who are commentating on AI and they should shut up."

Take it up with them if you disagree that there are millions of people who care. It's not relevant to my point, which is that you need not be directly involved in the development of a technology to be a stakeholder in its development, especially when it's being deployed to the public at massive scale and breakneck speed.
> Advertisers have no morals, they're completely depraved. They'll eagerly exploit a teenager's self-conscious body issues to sell useless beauty products. They sell sugar water to fat people and at every turn promote the rampant consumerist culture that is destroying our planet. They're lower than pond scum and I never want to see a single ad from them ever.

Well said. While I recognize the right of people to put out messaging, advertisers seem to put out some of the most disgusting messaging ever.

The recent pushing of incredibly obese people as all healthy and normal is a very dangerous phenom. Many of us could afford to lose a few pounds, but the idea that BMIs > 40 are healthy is going to get people killed for certain.
The news states that America has a problem with significant groups of people not trusting the opinions of experts. These experts are, I assume, pretty smart. But their ability to persuade is limited.