skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really cool. I’m wondering what the “correct” UX is for triggering a tour like this? I am not personally a fan of the ones that auto load… maybe a button start the tour? Maybe a special tour URL?
I've always used the phrase "technical wealth" to explain the opposite of technical debt.

But I agree your term works a little better since you can have both assets and liabilities and ideally you want to be wealthy not indebted.
Pretty bad article IMO. It just raises a few questions, without answering them clearly, other than throwing some theories (without any source for those that are not completely unfounded).

> The answer is unclear, but one thing is obvious: Violence sells games. The most popular video game franchise is Call of Duty, a war game where killing is the goal. [...] Employees sometimes take breaks and shoot at each other.

Sounds like how a non-gamer would describe Call of Duty. Let's now read what a gamer says, just on the next paragraph:

> "It's a military game where basically you have an objective on each level, and basically you need to pass the objective, whether that's getting past supersoldiers or a checkpoint, without dying,"

So the person who plays says that it is about high level objectives, but the journalist concludes that it is about "shooting at each other"?

> Violence sells

Sure. So do sports games. And I wouldn't say that Nintendo games are violent, are they? Could we stop for a minute and consider maybe that "video games sell"?

> Gentile says that his research shows that children who play more violent games by and large behave more aggressively.

Could they be less specific? First, how old are those children, and what are those violent games? And couldn't it be that more aggressive children tend to play more violent games, rather than the opposite?
I wonder how releasing new films (good or bad) is supposed to "murder" an existing franchise.
https://www.kqed.org/news/11209729/did-the-emptying-of-menta...

This nice timelime adds to what this person said.

There's more that helped shape the publics perception of mental health. The movie "One flew over the cukcoos nest" seemed to create a negative perception about these facilities.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pr0.1983.53.1.1...

This study in 1983, though small, showed that 4 out of 5 people who were questioned before the film was released ,then after, changed their view of mental institutions to negative. They also showed them a TV documentary that was more factual about the mental health system but it didn't have an impact.

In my opinion this is case of the public hearing about a systemtic issue within a very nessacary institution, regardless of how frequent or serious, becoming upset, locking their view in, then the government taking action by either reducing or eliminating that institution.
My parents had been paying taxes since they entered the job market in their mid-teens so I feel no guilt in recovering some of what they contributed.
Linux 6.5 Brings New “Cachestat” Syscall for Querying Page Cache Stats of a File
There are options between "an inhumane system of frequent and revolving incarceration" and "never punishing public drug use under any circumstances."
Musk: Tesla Full Self Driving Will Release by End of 2023
Hmm? A nonprofit is still a privately controlled entity. Many nonprofits and for-profits are given government grants and subsidies, this does not exclude them from being classified as private entities.

So this still qualifies as privatization, no?

If your contention is more rooted in the amount of direction that the government gives the private entity it is "delegating" to, then maybe that's something to explore?

That said, I would still say that using contractors like Blackwater or Lockheed Martin is "privatizing" various aspects of the military industrial complex, even if their actions are to greater or lesser degrees guided by government mandate.
Thanks for posting that. That's pretty cool.
I think better criticism is, well, constructive. "Here's a better way to accomplish what they're attempting", not "That's all crap because I don't like it". And before you can do that, I think you have to understand what it is they're attempting.

I'm a professional programmer now, and I much prefer simple, straightforward manuals with clear descriptions. If I was trying to get work done, a bunch of whimsical cartoons would only get in the way. I would have no use for _why's guide today. Even way back when, I was annoyed by the ratio of text and cartoons to actual code & lessons.

But the world isn't made up entirely of professional programmers trying to get work done. There are teenagers who are curious about programming but intimidated by thick volumes and spare language websites pointing at API references. There are workers sick of their current career and looking for something new, and bored stay-at-home spouses. Whimsical guides to quirky languages are for them, not you.

I don't think anybody is pointing to _why's guide as a reference for people who need to write software for self-driving cars or aircraft telemetry in the immediate future. Nobody is arguing that all programming material must be whimsical and quirky. But there was room in the world for a cute little guide to catch newbie or non programmers and teach them a bit. The guide was just an on-ramp, and the community that surrounded it was just a bunch of newcomers fooling around, not Serious Programmers™. That's all it ever was. And in spite of that: a lot of good ideas came from that community, as others have pointed out elsewhere in this thread. A lot of them went on to be Serious Programmers.

I'm not under the impression that you're criticizing me. I read a chunk of _why's guide before I got bored, and then used Ruby for some hobby projects for a couple years nearly two decades ago, before switching to more robust languages: my identity isn't tied up in either of them. I feel like a bystander sitting on a park bench sipping coffee, witnessing you yelling at a group of kids dressed up as an anime characters or whatever, that they should put on a suit and find a real job goddamn it. Like dude, they're just having fun, and frankly it's none of your damn business. You don't like cosplay? Good for you. But maybe chill out a bit and stop yelling at strangers that they're living their life wrong.
> It seems like many drugs are banned in various societies today, so I don't quite follow you.

OP thinks no "advanced civilization" has ever allowed drugs. Drugs bans enforced by state power only became a thing near the end of the 19th century. That means no advanced civilization existed before then - not the Romans, nor Egyptians, Greeks, Persians, Indians, or Chinese - and countless others. Sounds incorrect to me.
> The best solution is not being exposed to some classes of drugs at all and fixing other issues that cause this.

Yes we should have a “War on Drugs”? What could possibly go wrong?
I've been trying to think this way about replacing my primary computing hardware. I hate my 2019 intel MBP, but it doesn't slow me down in a way where buying a new one would make me more money, not yet. It would be nice if the fans didn't spin up just to run xcode, but whatever. If I was running arbitrary docker instances for clients and didn't have an issued M1 max with 32gb or more of ram && by buying a new one I could either do more work or complete work faster, then the $5k on a new laptop would be a no-brainer. I'd have hit a wall, the other side of which has greener grass.

At my last job, we were refactoring a bunch of Angular 1.x code for a variety of reasons. It took way way more time than anyone was anticipating, and it was tech debt that had low interest and probably shouldn't have been paid off much earlier than it was. People had chipped away at some components gradually over the years, much like mortgage payments, but after Angular 1.x fully reached EOL, and (imo) we entered a new level of efficiency with build tools, that interest rate started increasing.
google sheet is secure enough.

password generation can be implemented as an extension using
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/sheets
Is there a "bespoke life and career advice" LLM yet?
This comment reminds me of when American based AAA game studios were mad about Elden Ring's success.

What functionality is missing that you would add?
see my clarification above
Welcome to 21st century, where everything is almost done, and all you need is to know the language to specify what you want in the universal config.
Why's it gotta be about money? Sometimes it's interesting to follow what other people in the field are doing. I used to follow a ton of ML and compiler researchers on Twitter. Was a ton of interesting conversations around 2013-2015.
A bit more detail: https://news.itsfoss.com/openkylin-linux-os/
huh? how so? what stops the exact sort of gaming at glassdoor et al, from also occurring via some web annotation system?
> 2. Threads' main user base is Instagram.

Those users already have Instagram. Threads is competing against Twitter clones.

> App size has nothing to do with how much battery is drained out.

Larger apps use more radio, use more CPU for decompression, use more flash writes on updates. All use battery. Decompression and writes for background updates slow the phone. The additional flash writes lead to wear causing storage to become slower even when the app is not being used or updated.
Not really forgotten because Phil Winterbottom was familiar with it and went on to work on Go.
Wait, so they were defaming a dead guy? Wouldn't that be something the guy's family could sue over?
My philosophy is that you should do what you want to do today, instead of doing something you don’t want to do because of a hypothetical future repercussion.

Could this harm future employability? Maybe. But what’s the alternative, work a job you don’t want to maybe have a better chance of working another job you also don’t want in the future? Personally, that’s not the way I’d like to conduct my life. Opinions differ on this, and that’s OK. Everyone has different priorities.

If you’re happy working on your own project, I think that’s fantastic. To me, that’s more important than optimising for a unknown future.
Detection of Marine Debris with Sentinel-2
>and are often recreational drug users themselves (i.e. too close to the issue)

I think this is an interesting thought. As a recreational drug user myself (I drink alcohol sometimes), I do indeed feel like drugs should be legalized, so as to enable regulation. But I don't feel like me dealing with the subject in my day to day life should have a bearing on whether I'm able to have an informed opinion on the matter. It's like saying rape victims are too close to rape and therefore their opinions on rape legislation are skewed.
I agree with you that this perhaps the most useful engineering skill. I think schools try to teach this fairly young with supplemental book reading on top of lectures. That’s the teacher telling you where to find the information, but forcing you to process it yourself. The next level after that is finding the information you need on Wikipedia and beyond.

I think students at all levels tend to avoid this, and there isn’t stomach to fail them for it on the academic or family sides.
I'm in Hong Kong, I don't get what you mean. There's no porn or snuff movies on it here either, how tame is it in the US ? I bought it for my 5yo to get her Disney dose, do you guys buy it for even younger children ?

What other countries do you think exist outside the US? Why are there "different animals" of Disney streaming services ? Have you pursued your thought down to even quoting a few examples of what you imagine would happen in Tokyo, Johannesburg or Milan if you started Disney+ ?
You joke, but honestly, it's still the same class of problem. I don't think I should write TypeScript in order to query a DB with a perfectly serviceable query language, either, and I've seen so much time get spent on dealing with the headaches condign upon leaky abstractions to render the productivity benefits claimed by ORM proponents transparently nonsensical. And yet...
Some fraction of the 1 billion+ who didn't download the app care, including me.
I saw some screenshots, and it doesn't look bad at all.

I wonder if it is not easier for China to cut its reliance on US software than for the US to cut their reliance on Chinese hardware...
A frighteningly high number of internet phenomena and meme styles have their roots in Neil Cic works.
I’m reminded of the YouTube/Facebook videos where the furniture maker first makes their own lumber from timber, planes it down etc. It’s really not necessary for the vast majority of projects you can buy good quality hardwood at the local mill.
I'm sorry for making you go through all that, should have looked into the documention before asking. Thank you.

Godot really is the only game making software that has this artful feeling of beauty. Portable, always consistent, small. I usually give up on software in favor of frameworks because I don't know what's happening and the documentation is too daunting compared to just making my own thing but reading how godot's made is an exception.
> This is really pushing people, including myself, away from caring at all about this issue.

That is, at best, a childish reaction and, at worst, a sign of oppositional behaviour disorder.

Think about it. Virtually every climatologist is in unified agreement — a rarity among scientists — that extremely difficult climate conditions are going to cause extreme suffering and upheaval. Just the crop failures alone will force mass migration and, inevitably, mass conflict.

But because some kid half a world away engaged in hyperbole, you reject it all. “I just don’t care any more, because «100’s of k’s of scientists and experts» didn’t put her in her place.”

I mean, seriously? That’s just mental.
Not to say anything about the merits of your idea, but do you have anything to back it up? I mean, I'm assuming you do, because this whole sub thread I started was about people who don't know what they're talking about telling others who know better what to do. And I presume your evidence must be very compelling, for you to feel confident in calling what others are doing for a living "insane" and "propaganda".

What I don't understand, though, is why you're not providing this very compelling evidence along with your comment.
I don't see how it is. Different, but the same number, of elements is a different time. There's no constant time between [0, 1] and [0, 10], both having two elements.
https://archive.ph/CSmeE
I use the same argument for IDEs versus fancy text editors like EMACS. Sure, you might prefer the specific keyboard shortcuts, but IDEs objectively make developers more productive through features like source code integration, debuggers, and refactoring capabilities.

Use whatever you like on your home projects, but at work you should be using whatever is most efficient.
> What we can’t know is whether they would have been fast enough to tweak their product to their current market without using a scripting language.

Exactly. And I am saying the following as a fan of dynamic languages but let's be realistic: this is practically their ONLY true benefit -- quicker time to market. They lose out on pretty much any other metric, with the exception of also slightly quicker iteration in the day-to-day work.
I'm really unsympathetic to the idea that "we all need to row in the same direction" which just happens to be the direction that the monied interests want.

When these companies actually make money, do you think they'll pay the people living in the areas that they treated as test courses? If not, if they think their responsibility is to investors only, then why should anyone else pull for their private interests? You're framing silencing criticism of public road AV tests as some kind of civic good, but these companies don't work for the public.
The letter was sent by a partner at Quinn Emanuel, a well known and highly regarded litigation firm.
I'm kind of amazed at how saturated the news is with stories about Threads. And not just tech news, but also every mainstream news site has at least one or more "submarine" marketing articles promoting Threads. Meta Marketing Team: You're not fooling anyone into thinking these are grassroots and viral, but honestly, well done with the media saturation. Meta's clearly got all the right channels on full-blast. It's really impressive.
And what is that option that doesn’t involve the Justice system targeting minorities and the police not killing people for trying to sell a single cigarette.
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It's annoying to you to hear that the majority of rental units are effectively controlled by a soulless organization? From the article I linked:

> One of the algorithm’s developers told ProPublica that leasing agents had “too much empathy” compared to computer generated pricing.

The article also has multiple anecdotes that run counter to your own. Just because you saw rents drop in response to demand decline doesn't mean this is what happens in practice most of the time.

> For tenants, the system upends the practice of negotiating with apartment building staff. RealPage discourages bargaining with renters and has even recommended that landlords in some cases accept a lower occupancy rate in order to raise rents and make more money.

> Hutchinson, who is an analyst for the police department, wondered if a computer algorithm was behind building staff’s inflexibility. “It was pretty obvious they should have been dropping prices,” she said. “They were digging their heels in.”

Please remember: this isn't some economics game like the price of cars or eggs. Housing is something you need TO LIVE and for which there is NO SUBSTITUTE. Increasing supply will only go so far, as long as your society allows it to be controlled by entities that see is it as a profit maximization game, you will see horrific outcomes.
I gotta say removing political/controversial topics isn't necessarily a bad thing. Just depends on your use case and stuff. Not every platform needs to be a free speech zone—right now it feels like a pretty chill space to share food pics and talk about inconsequential topics with friends.
I would recommend `zod` as a good typescript schema runtime validation library as well. It does require strict type checking to be on however.
Zuckerberg seems to me to supply mostly amusement, with the occasional creepy feeling. But I don't use Facebook or Instagram, and perhaps I would feel differently if I did.
Yeah but React is really good. A lot of these articles[0] delve into an analogy that they twist into a complicated mess and say "hey look at how complicated frameworks are." But React isn't complicated. Most kinds of interaction, even for the smallest apps, are easier with React than with vanilla JS. I've never felt like I'm managing a factory factory factory when using React. And if I do, it's easy to peel back the veil and write vanilla JS alongside React.

[0] I realize this was probably one of the first of such articles and thus has fallen victim to [1], but someone did post it today.

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn...
Something I've been mulling over for a while: security vulnerabilities are basically the original developers getting outsmarted, caught out being careless. Even a very skilled, careful team might ship bugs that have security implications. But low-skilled, careless teams are definitely doing this. All buggy software is also vulnerable. There is no such thing as low-quality but secure.
Is threads.net the official website?

This is the first time I actually look at anything that is on the Instagram Threads.

Seems a lot like the comments under an Instagram post, without the picture / video on top.

Also the logo on the top of the page just toggles dark mode / light mode, instead of bringing me to any kind of home page where I can explore more discussions.

Weird.
Renewable is already 'fixed'. It's already way cheaper than fossil or nuclear.

The one remaining issue is consistency but I'm countries with much hydro that's also a solved problem.

The issue is more the installed base of fossil consumption, like vehicles. Also, for some categories like airplanes there's no viable alternative yet.
> unless you use windows enterprise. Which of course you can't purchase..

I recently purchased a Windows 10 Enterprise key from a website called "RoyalCDKeys" for under $4. It worked to upgrade my Windows 11 installation.

Basically any reseller will work but only if they use a payment processor other than PayPal. PayPal will only end in misery and your money being lost.
Have you seen the Win95-in-dosbox-in-the-browser item in the archive?

If not, it's here:

https://archive.org/details/win95_in_dosbox
Thank you for your reply.

Here are my thoughts on your 2 points.

(1) Noted. The main graphic emphasizes reporting rate over the delta, in both the axes selection and the ranking - and indeed the ranking is the main takeaway from many of the readers. If you rank by percentage delta of report rate, the graphic would be drastically different. This newer graphic wouldn't be "fair" either, as countries with higher control (no money) report rate would have a relatively low percentage delta.

(2) The World Bank Enterprise Survey data is listed under the title "Percent of firms using e-mail to interact with clients/suppliers" (for which China is at 85%) which I think is not the same as email penetration rate (which in the above reference in my parent comment, is at <40%). I understand your reasoning that cross country data is hard to come across.

I also read your reply in Science. I believe that while there are multiple limitations conducting the research - all perfectly reasonable - the limitations nonetheless affected the credibility of Fig. 1 - the main figure of the paper.

It is also mentioned in the reply that creating new social accounts is unfeasible. While I think this is true, wouldn't a single account per platform suffice? Most social platforms allow anonymity for display names / handles. If the social account name does not bear resemblance to an actual name, I don't think the participants would notice.
Frameworks are good if what you are trying to do aligns with the model/architecture of that framework. Trying to do something outside that gets exponentially more painful the further away you are from that framework.

The same also applies to external libraries and the architecture of your library/application.
it's not uncommon for open carry states to have lock boxes inside the entrance of government buildings for people to stow their firearms. i haven't personally seen it other places (i.e. museums), but it's actually a thing
Beautiful Soup scrapes data for Dubious Soup model training
If this is a YOLO launch, then Facebook have scale and moderation down to a science now. Hats off, those were very hard challenges in the early days of web 2.0
Absolutely correct, but I think it’s still valuable to be able to recognize if you’re struggling against the code or the domain.

Additionally, once you recognize that you can also recognize if you’re dealing with incidental complexity (e.g. poorly thought out/designed code) and inherent complexity (e.g. physics calculations). The former can be fixed, the latter cannot. Knowing the difference saves much pain.