skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard not to think that all of this radicalization is being programmed .. not just with billionaires, but with regular people as well.

Youtube suggestions these days are pushing the general public to the opposite side of the same radicalization, creating an "us vs. them" scenario.

I can't help but feel that this is an intentional programming to set the stage for conflict. It's teaching people to not rely on the normal methods of societal problem solving (policies, government, voting, referendums) .. and other attributes of a well structured society.

People on both sides have very much given up on compromise or even the idea that society can be governed and now everyone's "my way or we burn everything to the ground"

It's hard not to think this is intentional programming on a mass scale.
At the same time, anyone buying a fleet is expecting a discount for bulk. So the margin is thinner.

It is, for example, how airplanes have been so competitive despite there effectively being a duopoly. Pretty much no one is buying an airliner at list price.
I'm old enough to remember when "the wisdom of the crowd" on collaborative web sites was going to solve all our problems, but every platform that could have delivered on such a promise has sold their soul to make an extra buck from people gaming their systems, and killed the golden goose in the process. The only reviews I trust are on Steam, and even then, I take them with a grain of salt.
Blind company reviews are way more trustworthy because they have a way to verify that you're a current employee with your email.
>housing (separate from land)

Under this definition of housing US housing isn't speculative either. It's only the land that goes up in value. It's just that earthquakes and tsunamis aren't as frequent and powerful here and the zoning laws are more arcane here. (as well as some other reasons related to the speed of development of these countries). Japan is one of the least afordable places to live in the world. That is in large part the reason why the population is declining. But nobody is speculating on US bathrooms.
I thought you were joking, but no, the CUNT is real

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Update#Critical_Upda...
I know. My point is that that's what you need to do, rather than trying to use (anec)data from passengers' perspectives, as the post I originally replied to did.
People eat all kinds of trash.
Funny enough, windows updates are infinitely better than macOS updates, which takes 30-60 mins each time.
> Twitter also hasn't got a code base, a performance tweaked runtime, a test engineering group, or an operations group like Instagram has to borrow from.

Unless you count Tesla and SpaceX, which Musk apparently did, as places to borrow from, despite the rather different application domains.
Especially when there was a restless underclass that doesn't tend to share your religion, education level, and culture that gets beat down by your media used as political gasoline.
I can't say I've often seen GPT use phrases like "the cool thing about this.."
> According to you, owning the houses is an completely irrelevant factor

No, they're saying the price of the house is irrelevant. If they bought both houses for $250k, say they're now worth $750k, they're a millionaire and got a million dollars of profit!

Their point is they need two houses for their family and will until they die. If they have two houses still worth $250k or two houses worth $750k it doesn't matter to their quality of life.
Yes, the scientific consensus right now is that the prefrontal cortex does not generally finish developing until the mid to late 20s, and this is the main locus of executive functioning. Perhaps according to some very narrow definition of “raw brain power” one could say, as TFA does, that this is all done in one’s teens - there seems to be consensus that IQ peaks around 19-20, though even short term memory (which I think would be unambiguously classed amongst “raw brain power”) is thought to peak in the mid 20s.
It's a cool idea but it fell a bit flat for me.

> However, it's important to note that every clue you view will have an impact on your overall score. Exercise caution and strategic thinking as you navigate through the evidence and interrogate the suspects to piece together the ultimate solution.

That sounds great! But what actually happened was I clicked through clue after clue about person X being in room Y at time Z until I eventually got told what the murder weapon wasn't three times in a row. I didn't feel like I could exercise any caution or strategic thinking; it was just "Nope, this isn't enough information" over and over until "Yes, this is now enough information".

At the point where I thought I had enough information, I realised I hadn't been consistent in how exactly I was using the notebook: does a tick in the "9:15" box means "They entered at 9:15" or "They left at 9:15"? The boxes really need to correspond to the times they're in the rooms, rather than the instants they move between (so either labelled with a range: 9:00-9:15, 9:15-9:30, or move the labels so they sit in the gaps in between).

Also the "How to Play" link isn't openable in a new tab (because it's handled by javascript), and if you open it normally and go back to the main page you lose all your progress
Ask HN: V language (vlang) users, your experience of it?
vlang.io
You don't think food deserves more consideration, higher priority, more special casing, than painting watercolours?
math is like writing a novel, though
It figures it out once you let it reflect on its answer: Consider the following situation: You have a 12 liter jug and a 6 liter jug, and you want to measure out exactly 6 liters of water. First, generate an initial solution for this problem. Then, think about the solution you've generated, considering if there might be a simpler or more straightforward way to achieve the goal. If there is, please provide the more accurate or simpler solution.
I don't have any personal experience with the upper levels of a large company, but maybe the mechanisms at the top are similar but the scale of the organization is increased enough to result in a much higher ceiling for advancement? For example I'm wondering how much "know a guy" is required for being on the board of one of the big four banks.
Interesting. I've never personally come across that, but it does seem rather convenient. Wikipedia says it's used in France, Portugal, Spain, and their former colonies.
Auto stop/start requires some (mostly minor) modifications to the engine, as well as updated software so that it is used only in “ideal” conditions. And the engine shutdown is done in a way that makes it quick and easy to restart.

I’m not sure, is it even possible to use these systems on diesel motors?
> political violence pre-dates video games

I'm talking more about things like school shootings, which were pretty much non-existent before the invention of the FPS.
Pretty sure this is going on to some degree. It seems like there should be some kind of regression testing possible on these systems to definitively prove these claims, rather than these anecdotal stories that seem to rarely ever come with concrete examples.
The problem is that you are trading institutional risk (your local bank goes out of business) for systemic risk (the entire financial system goes under).

There are other ways to mitigate that institutional risk. Such as FDIC insurance. And the availability of securitization for loans. The bank makes the loan, sells it off to Wall St, where it becomes part of a bond deal. And now the bank is insulated from default risk, and can make another loan.

Before securitization, when a local crash hit, lending became hard, and the downturn would stretch out. After securitization, towns began to bounce back more quickly after local hard times (eg a factory closing).

On the other hand "too big to fail" is a huge problem with the biggest banks. And regulation stops being meaningful when the institutions engage in regulatory capture. As an example, in the leadup to 2008, a ton of new financial regulations were enacted. But all benefited the same 5 Wall St firms. Who, when they ran into trouble, nearly destroyed our financial system. (I know people think it was overblown. But we were actually within 1 day of "ATMs will stop working" when TARP was passed.)
There are numerous developments happening all up and down the chain to improve efficiency and reduce emissions. Yes some parts will take longer than others, some will have unintended or ignored secondary negative effects, and some will happen faster and better than expected.

Diesel and ICE in general is not going away over night and there are efficiency developments happening with those technologies as well. It seems foolish to just drop any focus on things like solar, batteries, wind, and EVs because it hasn't yet met some standard of perfection.
"in most countries teachers are underpaid."

Based on the average level of competency I see (There are definitely exceptions), I would disagree...
> If you are doing something that has inherent value — extracting gold from a mine, performing music, working a factory line — you are the top of funnel for value creation.

The standard "how come patrons at a bar pay $10 for a drink but I only make $15 / hour when I serve twenty drinks an hour" argument.

The answer of course is because you didn't create the bar, you didn't secure all the necessary supplies and amenities to run it and ultimately you're not liable for what happens to it. In essence if the bar loses money each month you're still owed a paycheck.

And ultimately that's why raw materials and content DON'T have inherent value (e.g. dug up gold sitting in a mine shaft, the best song ever buried in your notebook).

What they have is POTENTIAL value if the infrastructure exists to get them processed and to the locations where people want them and if people are willing to put skin in the game to bet it will pay off.

And that need for infrastructure is the reason that argument always falls apart.

Co-opts are about the best feasible answer we have now, but it always seems to be the case that suddenly people have far more capitalistic notions about running a business when THEY become the majority risk holder for a new venture.
Tommy Gregory Thompson
Like anything, look at the incentives. There are simply very strong financial incentives to generate ridiculously unrealistic low bids.

As for people talking about "why is the software industry like that?" I have great personal anecdote that to me explains why. Years ago I was tasked with a small team (~5 people) on a software project. We all got together and spent a good solid 3 days on planning and estimation, and our estimate was something like 5 months. Sales team freaked out, they said they needed it next quarter, so we had 3 months. So we looked at our original estimates and tried to find ways where we could cut scope, and came back with a "well, if we cut out literally anything remotely non-critical, and pray a little, I guess we can say 3 months." When all was said and done, the project took nearly exactly 5 months, just with a ton more stress and worse quality.

So these days, I'm more wise to the ways of the world. If someone says "we need you to find a way to cut the schedule by 25%", I basically say "OK, we can cut scope, but in my experience it always takes the time of the original estimate anyway." So then when things eventually go over budget, I don't stress at all - I leave work at a normal time, and just say to myself "everyone knew how long this was going to take, we just wanted to pretend it wouldn't take that long."

A big reason software is chronically over budget is that people simply want to pretend it will take a shorter time than it actually does, but they also know there is some real value to everyone engaging in that "mass pretending" in the first place.
No one trusts these review companies actually. They simply exist to extort entities that get reviewed either to remove negative reviews or promote or even auto-post fake positive reviews.

Yelp is a classic example that did this for years.
> https://github.com/surprisetalk/blogs.hn/commits/main

Uh, wanna talk about your commit messages? I mean I love it to bits, but I feel something needs to be said. Not sure what. It may be U+2603.
Ask HN: Ruby Warrior – online version available?
Many of us will remember https://github.com/ryanb/ruby-warrior. There was also a online game made out of this on bloc.io (with a great soundtrack to boot).

Would anyone have a resource available where this piece of nostalgia can be relived with new friends and family; sending a link and motivating them to hack and slash their way forwards?
Another thing I was just thinking of this morning was that you could implement possible charging into a route of packages -- pushing an automatic break in for a driver to stop for 10-15 minutes and grab a DC fast charge somewhere. It'd almost be a win-win: the driver gets a predictable break on the route (and knows they get a break!) and you can keep the vehicle on route longer.

On top of that, while plugged in, they can keep cool/warm in the vehicle without having to idle it or have additional wear and tear...
Almost all of the rioting was actually from teenagers and early twenties, that can't really be denied. They are restless youth and their hormones and brains react by breaking stuff instead of processing and communicating about it which a trait adults take a while to glom onto.
You can't evaluate them with a single prompt, single execution! Any given output is just a sample from a range of possible outputs, but all of them (ALL) are considered plausible returns. You have to think of it as returning a distribution as a random variable (in high dimensional space) but unfortunately there's only 1 sample from it at a time. Maybe some day they'll let us control a random seed.
Ummm... lmfao, this thing is on drugs.

(ChatGPT 4)

You can measure exactly 6 liters using a 12 liter jug and a 6 liter jug by following these steps:

Fill the 6-liter jug completely.

Pour the water from the 6-liter jug into the 12-liter jug. Now you have 6 liters of water in the 12-liter jug.

Fill the 6-liter jug again.

Carefully pour water from the 6-liter jug into the 12-liter jug until the 12-liter jug is full. Since the 12-liter jug already contains 6 liters, you will be able to pour in only another 6 liters to make it full. This leaves you with exactly 6 liters of water in the 6-liter jug.

Congratulations, you now have measured exactly 6 liters of water using a 12-liter jug and a 6-liter jug!

> https://chat.openai.com/share/929e68a3-9c67-44c8-8fbc-b555c1...
I think big businesses can be dysfunctional enough that the communication overhead/standardization creates more inefficiencies than scale removes. One example would be groceries - it’s common for small ethnic groceries to be more efficient than big chain groceries (manifesting as lower prices, no long line for checkout) or for small non-ethnic groceries to have better local produce/staples due to having more flexibility in their product lineup.
I think it's insanity that ext4 has per-directory case sensitivity. Just why? Why would you do that to yourself?
I'd update this to say you DO NOT need jQuery. I haven't used it in almost 5 years, and can't say I've missed it
By this logic nobody can ever be underpaid lol
> Like, cat is on this list. And it's like, "you could `sudo cat` a file!" … well … yes?

The `sudo` tag means, if you're naively messing with /etc/sudoers, that allowing passwordless "command" with sudo might be a bad idea.
That's pretty cool.
I notice how MS has become so much more respected as they have embraced open source. Is the next frontier for companies to become open process where the best companies attract the best people because of their open processes?
That's pretty interesting, also makes the direct connection to the other use of the word character.
> They don't refine oil locally and would have to buy back gasoline

There is a refinery at Mongstad capable of processing 10 mill. tons of crude oil per year. It could have provided all the gasoline used in Norway, but probably not all the diesel.

More relevant is probably that there is a significant hydroelectric production, so there is no need to use petroleum to generate the electricity for the cars.
It doesn't even have to be a scheme. It's just selfish and greedy people trying to rationalize their selfishness and greed by being even more selfish and greedy.

Of course people who already think they are god's divine gift to the world will think they would be the best to give out or pick the recipient of billions in charity over a more democratic system.
> 3. If the turk worker gets similar ones wrong to other turk workers, they're probably not cheating

Per a comment above, that for a long time now they've been sharing scripts to get the same answer so they can get paid, this indicates cheating.
Rabies. From the BBC citation:

> Rabid dogs are responsible for the deaths of an estimated 25,000 people per year. In countries where dogs commonly carry rabies they are involved in up to 99% of infections, according to the WHO. Countries with large numbers of stray dogs, including India, are the worst affected. According to the WHO, about 36% of the world's rabies deaths - 20,000 of about 55,000 deaths worldwide - occur in India each year, most of those when children come into contact with infected dogs.

> Dying from an actual dog bite is much more rare. There is no reliable worldwide data, but of the estimated 4.5 million dog bites in the US every year, only about 30 people die on average.
This display with regularly-rotating high-quality pencil art could be a neat business. The comparison to wall art makes the hardware price look more reasonable, and you could offer a subscription to curated pieces or a network of artists' output.
Technically a git repository is a blockchain.
Unicorn is like htmx specific to Django. It reminds me more of Hotwire or Meteor. Very productive! Not 1.0 yet, but I'm happily using it in prod.
Safer than card skimmers though.
Here is a retelling of this time:

"Dev Deletes Entire Production Database, Chaos Ensues" https://youtu.be/tLdRBsuvVKc
It took us a LOT of years to realize that running bare pipes inside the concrete slab was a really bad idea. Jagged limestone leads to pinhole leaks.

Many Florida residents have their second set of pipes running through their attics.

PEX may not have the lifespan of copper, but it sure is easier to repipe.
>Only 28%? That's over 2 billion people

But wasn't that in direct response to the claim that most people did not have that access? It feels like either a misunderstanding or mischaracterization of what they were saying.
In Chicago, where I live, route cutbacks are major drama. If nobody is riding the busses, as the ancestor comment suggests, the routes get cut. You know that's happening because people are constantly pissed about it. It was that comment making the extraordinary claim, and ordinary evidence is sufficient to refute it.
This is a huge point that I don't think gets covered? Having banks not keep the loans that they originate is easy to see as a giant problem here. Not hard to see that they will easily unload their good loans, but eventually get stuck with the bad ones. Which will ultimately mean they stop doing the bad ones. You basically drain the local environment of the safe value too quickly.
human CVE
Get it directly from MS?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/collections/xboxseries...
Tech execs are stressed out. Half are heavy drinkers and 45% take painkillers
This is disappointing to hear but very useful, thanks. I was considering buying a discrete Intel card for tinkering.

Can I ask if the FPGA use case was ML-related? Feel free to email in profile.
Owner of Symbolics Lisp machines IP is interested in a non-commercial release
I think you're confused about the purpose of this project. From the website:

> It is important to note that this is not a list of exploits, and the programs listed here are not vulnerable per se, rather, GTFOBins is a compendium about how to live off the land when you only have certain binaries available.

This website is essentially a lookup table that teaches you how to break out of programs that you find on a system, but aren't intimately familiar with, e.g. during CTF challenges.
That is very interesting - found your older post pointing to https://web.archive.org/web/20110210194715/http://forge38.co...

So actually a full-stack developer, according to the person who coined the term, is not just someone who can do backend and front-end, but you need to have the design (and business) chops too.
Agree - also sending a patch via email is definitely possible, but not at all practical. I’m not sure if I’ve ever come across anyone who’s gitops workflows include email
I just want useful bots.
A good one is in Bloomberg’s help function.
Mostly it’s there to route you the the right human, but it does save time
The interesting engineering behind your Car Window [video]
Show HN: My new book “Making a Metaverse That Matters”. AMA about the topic
If the parents are just a bit misguided, that could help greatly. I'm concerned that terrible parents would still have much influence over the development of their kids, perhaps even pulling them out of those extracurriculars.
> No, that sounds like a tangental problem born of inexperienced developers and/or poor communication.

I've yet to see a single project to not devolve into a mess of class names. Not only that, but a mess of class names with significantly repeating boilerplate, intimately tied to specific elements.
That's a big broad brush you just swiped with, but yeah, I kind of agree with it.
> overly reliant on upselling you on services that are frankly rip-off’s

My experience has been exactly the opposite.

My experience with Wells Fargo, a big bank was constant up-selling and fees. Back when it was still legal Wells Fargo would send me these fake checks that if you cashed were effectively a loan.... Constant hassling / offers that were WAY off from market rates.

My experience with small banks was nothing like that and far more positive, better rates, etc.

Just because someone's margins are different or worse than someone else doesn't mean they inevitably choose to make up the difference, or if they do if they do it with poor choices.
That was a nice read! I would have loved to take a brief dip into the less hardcore rogue-lite scene that sprung up, but that might have doubled the length again.
By rocky, I’m not talking about pebbles and small stones. I’m referring to boulders and ledge that may need blasting. It happens quite often up here and most of the time excavators may not know about these issues until they start digging.

> Well you dig it till it is the same shape as the plan...

That’s not how it works. Either the surrounding property needs to be regraded, in which case you’d still be forced to use excavation equipment, or you’re making an even more complex machine to be able to support building things like walk out basements on a custom grade. In the case of basements there’s simply a lot of volume of material that would need to be either removed out of a lot or just moved within the lot. Again, still needs excavation equipment to do that. The same excavation equipment that can dig out a foundation within hours and is perfectly adept at dealing with boulders.

A machine to handle other parts of the job such as foundation pouring might be viable. I’m just saying that a magical machine that can do it all if left alone for a few days is wishful thinking.
Hi, thanks a lot for the feedback. This is actually my first website, it seems I have to rethink a few parts of it
This would be true if we lived in a society where value of assetsd you own has no impact on access to and cost of financing, and other advantages, that can be realized without sacrificing the assets, but that is very much not the world we actually live in.
The other reply got it right, but I would add that the higher the temperature the faster the pack degrades, even when it is just sitting there.