skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is inexcusable, and provides no benefit other than intentionally confusing the reader. I wish companies were more afraid of using blatant dark patterns in whatever they publish.

I’m sure there’s a solution somewhere out there - perhaps a crowdsourced website akin to the Google Graveyard[0], or certain fact checking sites, where bad faith decisions could be archived and accumulated until it becomes obvious which companies are simply not worth the trouble of working with.

[0]: https://killedbygoogle.com/
It was also hugely influential to me. I think seeing what is possible with extreme achievements like this can really be motivating. It's probably what spurred me to learn C and assembly during high school.
And anyway, police was on the side of the car, so at not point it time they were in danger. And their version of events didn't match the social media footage that has latter emerged.

That's not true. Police officers have been killed while standing beside the driver side door during a traffic stop. All it takes is for their arm to get trapped by the open window and they can fall and get dragged or even pulled under the rear wheel.
After being in a cast when I was 13 for 6 months, I lost quad size that I never regained, even after 40 years of trying. You can easily see the difference with the eye.
>I can't speak for other industries but I know in tech, the college you went to is basically irrelevant 1-2 years into your career.

I would like this to be true, but I think it varies a lot. I have seen execs be very excited by name-brand degrees well past that point. And then do the same thing with name-brand companies, without inquiring much as to what a given developer did at, say, one of the FAANGs.

When I've asked, the stated theory was that those places were good at filtering for smart people, so we didn't really have to evaluate actual competence. And that is one of the theoretical functions of things like degrees, so I get what they're saying, however horrifying I find it personally.
much of the data on my SSD -- in fact all of it -- is replaceable (games from steam, github repos, etc.) so I'll be the guinea pig and test it for us. ;-)
Your enthusiasm made me smile :)
I've put lenses on all my sunglasses. Works great, except when I go into a store and I have to lift my sunglasses and suddenly it's all blurry.
> the college you went to is basically irrelevant 1-2 years into your career.

but it does matter for a first job, which then has trickle down effects. If you have a better shot at a high-paying company with a good brand name and/or a better shot at "prestige" teams on those companies, that influences the next few years.

Nothing is guaranteed, but these marginal gains snowball.
>What possible "skill" are we talking about?

Getting over the fear of using these kinds of devices. Look at old people. At least around here there are plenty of them that are incapable of using basically anything more complicated than a TV. Some might be able to use computers, but can't really operate smartphones etc. And it's largely because they don't have experience and constantly avoid it.
And they had an album together in early 90's, "Santana Brothers", which besides his brother Jorge also includes his nephew Carlos Hernandez.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santana_Brothers
> i am fine with that personally and its hard for me to grok what benefits reproducibility in the guix sense would get me here

I read this as:

> i am fine with the lack of reproducibility of apt-update personally and its hard for me to grok what benefits reproducibility in the guix sense would get me here

To which my answer is:

Guix gets you the reproducibility benefit of not having the reproducibility harming apt-update.

Does this help answer your question or confuse things more?
I was secretly hoping it will tell me "you win" when I clicked decline.
He alludes to the reason why it’s like this at the very end… google and Microsoft see it as their competitive advantage, so they have no reason to collaborate, but guess who also makes the two most popular browsers… so not only do the companies that have made great improvements compared to contenteditable have no reason to collab on making a new standard, those two companies have a very big reason to never improve the APIs in their own browsers.

Another reason our activist FTC head should focus her sights on Google after she’s done pulling Amazon apart.
People who understand that higher education quality is basically at parity and what matters is your peers/connections fostered in college + the doors that open for you based on what school you went to. The perceived elite schools give you a leg up in life, this is true for every country on the planet, and a lot of parents/kids work extremely hard to try and get into them for a reason.
I often find that saying "I am not up to date with the literature on this" helps.
Imgur is used for both regular content and adult content.

They can't guarantee a random picture uploaded by a random user isn't porn. (though they give a best effort). Additionally the side bars show what's most popular. In theory something NSFW could end up with a thumbnail on an unrelated picture. So they give you the warning ahead of time. (I've used imgur tons and never seen this.)

This picture was a graph.
A PhD is one of those rare periods of life where you are completely on your own, navigating unknown territories without anybody telling you what you should or should not do, where your professional success depends entirely on your own ideas and decisions. The reason to try a PhD is that you are truly free to test your limits. It can be liberating, but also daunting. And definitely humbling.

In some ways, it is not so different from being an entrepreneur, as in both cases you are forging your own path trying to do something new that a certain community likes.
I don’t see how you can come to that conclusion. “Male and female impersonators” as written in the law was meant to refer to drag shows, which are definitely not just trans people.
> they know they're walking away from it

the article clearly says theyre ballparking 100-400k Vision pros and pushing back production of Vision (non-pro). They arent stopping at all, its just a complicated product.
I still use Facebook for the family connections and the pet cat/dog/rabbit accounts I follow, but I'm essentially done with Twitter now. I was already not posting there basically at all, and the rate limiting means I won't be reading it, either. Threads couldn't be released at a better time for Meta.
Building the damn rockets is the easy part. They could start by "colonising" Antarctica. That's an environment vastly more habitable than Mars, but still very inhospitable.
IIRC it was initially employed for their payroll system to help print checks.
Of course I do. What’s the purpose of this question?
Lexical is not mature and I wouldn’t recommend it for a project yet. Draft.JS (Facebook’s previous ContentEditable framework) stagnated for a long time. Use ProseMirror/TipTap - much lower risk.
You already knew your friend group because you attended the same "2-300" high schools?

Flagship Public Schools have long been limited elite. Hence the concept of the "Public Ivies".

Ivy does STEM, but STEM isn't the point of going Ivy. Public Schools will continue to be fine institutions for technical workers, who were and will never considered to be elite in the class sense. Real elites tend toward history and art majors, if any college at all. Even medicine is middle class.
Really? Removing caching from the world and then see what is still working. In fact, you probably wouldn't even be able to read my response anymore.

So yes, technical limitations are a major concern when designing software.
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Disease or symptom?

Maybe lack of sexual interest is merely a symptom of other issues.

For example; after menopause, some women no longer respond sexually due to hormonal and physical changes.

A man married to such a woman may lose interest too. So should he dump her for a younger woman as a matter of survival?
These sound like two different things. PCRE2, for example, has support for "callouts" which sound similar to what you're saying? https://www.pcre.org/current/doc/html/pcre2callout.html --- Other things like ragel and re2c have done similar things.

What I'm talking about in this blog is very different from that. This is about taking the internals of the regex library itself and turning them in a separately versioned library that others can compose.

This makes somewhat less sense for a backtracker because most backtrackers just have one engine: the backtracker. But an automata based library usually has many different engines that can be composed in different ways. Still, backtrackers have things they could expose but don't in practice, such as a regex parser and an AST.
FWIW, most Ivy League and other top schools (MIT, Stanford) offer extreme discounts on tuition for students with household income under around $150K. Often times they'll pay somewhere between 0-10% of the actual tuition. If your family makes less than $75k, I think you can go to most or all of these schools for free (in tuition at least, not sure about room/board/food).
“we would never hire someone that went to a shitty school like this one”
Yeah. Heavy on accusations, light on evidence. What "evidence" it does present (screenshots of Excel with no contrifirming details?!) is of a questionable reliability and provided by a super annon source who just happens to have access to all the data.

It's QAnon for COVID. Aka made up bullshit relying on people's existing beliefs and the bullshit asymmetry principle to propagate itself.
>> need to be creating something of value to be able to afford the consumption.

Why? A very large percentage of income is "passive". Even Marge Simpson has a trust fund setup by her relatives. And mutual funds, family income, real estate appreciation, pensions ... I'd say that there are large numbers of relatively wealthy people don't actually have jobs that require work. Their role in society is to consume, and occasionally vote.
Man, I have to give props to these guys for creating a business out of sharing imaginary numbers with people.
The news coming out of establishments like The New York Times is aimed at the upper-middle class. People who have enough power to “matter”. The news (at least some of it) is useful for them since it’s aimed at their interests and from their perspective.

Who’s the privileged one? Hard to say.
Their stance on immigration is completely mainstream in many other countries.
The mind can be self controlled. Everyone has a choice to consume or be unconsumed. Privilege to consume is easier to control than privilege to not consume. Limits can be placed on consumption. Limiting the choice not to consume is harder to limit. Imagine a scenario involving a protest within a prison population where the prisoners hunger strike. Force feeding with sedation and a pipe is the only choice in a total control environment. The choice to not consume is less privilege than the choice to over consume.
I find one month per turn quite coarse: much more fine-grained misery could be added with variable-length activities, waiting anxiously for something, real life commitments, or randomly wasting time.

For example, 2d4 days to read some papers, 1d6+1 consecutive days to think about a new idea, a 50% chance per day of being busy teaching, resource contention with colleagues running their simulations, etc.
The long and short of it is that when it comes to education, the US needs equal opportunities. This means paid-for education and an equalization of education knowledge / lessons, and less emphasis (in hiring) on what schools you went to. A college or uni degree should carry the same weight wherever you study at.

Personally, I've benefited from the Netherlands' older equal opportunity system; my parents weren't rich (working class, single income, house bought at inopportune times) so they wouldn't have been able to put me through college, but thanks to a government funding - only a few hundred per month - plus affordable colleges - iirc it was €1500 per year + a few hundred tops in books but the books felt optional since piracy was a thing - meant that I could get a college degree and a subsequent job in a highly desired field (software development) and comfortably move up to middle class.

Of course, thanks to inflation and whatnot, I'm not significantly better off than my parents were - I bought a house ten years later in life than they did, half the size and twice the price, and I got lucky - but I'm still fortunate that we had this opportunity.

Some years ago, the government sliced into this equal opportunity program though, turning the 'free' government student funding into a loan so there's a generation now starting out with a college degree and 15-25K in debt and a completely inaccessible housing market even if they were to combine incomes with a significant other.
It doesn't need to be actionable to have value though, is it?

Good quality news can make you understand what's going on in the world so you can be at the edge when you plan for your future. It doesn't necessarily have to be impartial too, when done properly you can gain media literacy and benefit of having a reach to the discussions.

The problem with the news lately is mostly about the way they make their money. Simply because they keep the lights on by displaying as much content as possible, they design and curate the content for improving the metrics they can objectively measure(like revenue and view counts). The second kind of problem is that sometimes they don't look in making money, but influence you and that kind of news may seem a little bit of higher quality. However, due to the sinister motives, it's actually even worse.

Not reading the news at all, can make you seriously misguided because things are actually happen in this world for this reason or another and eventually something will impact you too. If you don't have any idea on what's going on in the grand scheme of things, your decisions and opinions are likely to be shortsighted.
This is exactly it and why admitting more people to ivy league schools will entirely dilute what value was there.
Probably the most personally influential history of technology book I've read is Paul Rabinow's "Making PCR." It deals with issues around the path dependence of technology and how new technologies often arise from repurposing existing technologies.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo361492...
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That's not the impression I got. Those empty billboards are, from my perspective, preferable to advertisements. The fact that some people took advantage of the space to draw art is a nice bonus, but even without that it's a positive change.
>I mean, most people alive did not have a smartphone before growing up, and yet most of us are using one without issue right now.

I know plenty of people that do not. They have a smartphone and they use some of the features like taking pictures, text messaging apps and calling, but doing other things is unlikely. When my mom gets a new phone she has someone else set it up for her, because she can't. My grandparents have probably never used a computer either.
>MIT Licenced!

...said Afi and the very next day the license gets changed to AGPL-3.0

https://github.com/bespoke-surf/bespoke/commit/434dffe407b8a...
That doesn't contradict what I wrote.
For colleges I personally favor an all or nothing fixed tuition policy for student aid. Either they accept the amount given as payment in full, with no tuition raises or sneaky fees xor they take a hike and go full private. That would prevent double dipping and have a fairly graceful failure mode. If the ammount offered is actually too low you would expect to see growth in rejection of federal tuition and more private market as a share.

I am by no means an expert admittedly.
I was very surprised to see that there was an inconsistency between the constructors as well as the fields placed after all the methods and private and public methods mixed and matched in order, trying to see what mLooper was about.

I would not have approved this code.
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It has nothing to do with being a social butterfly. I don't have the quote handy, but it's decades old. A GOP operative said something like "our goal is to get liberals to disconnect from the political process" while at the same time engaging their own base. This is what the GOP is famous for. The social issues (flag burning, abortion, gay marriage, etc, etc, etc).

In the late 90's and leading up to the 2000 POTUS race, with few exceptions all of my liberal friends had disconnected from politics. It's always been the case, in my circle of people I know, that conservatives vote more regularly. This is over more than 40 years.
> Most Ivy League students weren't born smart.

This seems like a wild assertion to make, and here's something by Scott Alexander that points in the other direction:

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/secrets-of-the-great-f...
> I realized that a lot of that wasted time is for providing context, relationship building, and alignment.

A lot of that seems to be about office politics, which historically been something which engineers and office workers in general has disliked. It is a generally unhappy fact that relationship building and office alignments is what dictate who get promoted, who get raises, who get the desired assignments and who don't.

It might be true that those who refuse playing that game is associated with inexperience. In my experience, employees who get tired of it generally leave large companies, which leaves behind only inexperience employees or those who enjoy the game.
I was limited by time and budget there. My solution is open source after all and embarrassingly parallel so can potentially handle sharding across thousands of hosts. If I remember correctly, my calculations suggested that a cluster with 2k hosts could handle 40 million concurrent users if you push a message to every user every 5 to 10 seconds with some randomness.

The per-channel limit at that rate (1 message to every users every 5 to 10 seconds) was 20K concurrent connections but the number of channels is unlimited since you can add more capacity by adding more hosts and the sharding of channels across available hosts is automatic.

The only limit was number of hosts since there is only one coordinator instance in the cluster though the cluster can continue to operate without any downtime while the coordinator instance is down. The coordinator instance only needs to be up while the cluster is scaling up or down. That said it should be able to handle up to 5k hosts, potentially even much higher.
Note that this site is owned by the Chinese government/CCP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Tone

Sixth Tone is a state-owned English-language online magazine published by Shanghai United Media Group.

...

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian of Foreign Policy stated that Sixth Tone has a less staid and "saccharine" tone compared to many other English-language publications from China. She stated, "If webby U.S. media startup Vox were acquired by the Chinese Communist Party, it might resemble Sixth Tone".
If you haven't yet seen this video, please do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4 (Bret Victor The Future of Programming)

This won't tell you who he is, exactly, but it does give insight into how he thinks. And it's a pretty great talk, in my opinion.
I often think the test of the usefulness of consuming news is whether you can explain it to someone else in any more detail than a soundbite. If you can only regurgitate the headline, you don't really understand it yourself and can't have a conversation about it - what was the point?

Sometimes having an opinion about a news story masquerades as understanding it, but this is quickly exposed.
limited prospects are stifling those. Higher-ed should be free to those that want it -- it lifts society as a whole.
If you're involved in hiring in the tech industry, the particular school doesn't matter as much as it used to, unless you're super focused in research or something arcane like quantum computing. Post graduate vs undergrad is a different ball game. But from my experience, MIT is special, but other Ivy's, not as much. I'm a big fan of schools like RPI, Drexel, Waterloo, Virginia Tech, etc. The co-op program produces very strong engineers. Ivy's may produce better product managers though.
>> In order to produce a functional piece of software from AI, you need to know what you want and be able to clearly and precisely define it.

> Why? Why can't AI be used in an agile process? You can definitely ask for changes to existing code and have a LLM spit out diffs.

I think you're just describing an iterative process by which someone might eventually precisely define what they want.
Seems like someone has already done that: https://github.com/withastro/astro.build/pull/730
> if anyone accesses app developed by you, they can use it freely without any license.

This is simply incorrect on every level, starting with the fact that (in the US, anyway), you can't place your works in the public domain even if you wanted to.
The point I was making that a bureaucracy choosing a goal doesn't mean that goal is a good one, or that achieving it is a positive thing.
Hah, interesting. Wouldn't a user agent switcher extension accomplish the same though?
>If this rumor is real and Threads takes off, you can still stay in whichever instance that you like, but now be able to get updates from the artist, the experts, educators, politicians, the influencers that would not have joined the Fediverse otherwise. And more importantly, more people now can get updates from you. Reach might not be something you personally appreciate but it's very important for content creators.

Then those content creators can set up their own (or pay someone else to do so) Fediverse instances. The Fediverse is decentralized on purpose to avoid the kinds of lock-in that FB/IG/etc. require.

I want no part of that, which is why I don't use such centralized services. As such, why should I allow those same centralized services run by greedy scumbags anywhere near my instance(s) or even my consciousness?

Can you provide me with a cogent argument as to why, after making the effort to get away from those toxic ad-riddled environments, I should welcome those same folks into my world? I imagine that could be an interesting discussion.
That's like saying it's ok to start a fire because the firefighters do such a good job around here.

HN is constantly at risk of going up in flames—it's a large, open internet forum! If that doesn't happen, it's because the mods and most of the community are working hard to prevent it. We need you to help with that, not take advantage of it—and in any case the rules are supposed to apply to everybody (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

You can't judge these things by whether a particular case turned into a flamewar. Not every fire burns the house down. It's a question of effects in the long run, and your post was way on the wrong side of that line; which is why the guidelines ask you not to post like that. Fortunately it doesn't look like you've been making a habit of it, so this should be easy to fix.
I don't see a small C compiler as a feature of any importance really in this case. Especially if gaming is concerned. All relevant use cases support all needed compilers.
No, that is not true. Maintenance was done with the respect to the planned life time. They couldn't just have kept running. That the previous government didn't knew about the Russian war onto Ukraine makes no difference. Gas prices have recovered to pre-war levels, so there is no extra need for the nuclear plants compared to before the war.