skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A forward slip is a cross-controlled maneuver that feels unnerving

Have you actually flown a forward-slip?

It might feel unnerving on the first attempt but once mastered, it becomes a normal procedure one can rely on as a pilot.

Some planes require it for landing, e.g. aerobatic airplanes with a high angle of attack - otherwise the pilot would not be able to see the runway.
So we're fucked at this point, and nobody is saying anything about it.

Don't Look Up was right. We're dumb idiots of a species.
Isn't the bigger issue that they haven't been actively enforcing the trademark since at least 2020? You have to enforce trademarks otherwise they lapse.
That sounds needlessly disruptive. It is a workstation after all. I restart mine as little as I'm allowed to and once a month sounds way too much already.
I don't think that VSCode is bringing its own Chromium runtime when it is running as web application... (it's also not the 'complete' VSCode experience because it can only install extensions that are 'web compatible').
Xlocking workstations became a problem at our university. People would claim a workstation, lock it, go do something else (lunch, lecture) and then come back to their reserved workstation. So the admins added a button that you could log someone out if the screen had been locked for more than half an hour.

They didn't want to ban xlock because they cared about security.
I've never had an issue using HTTP/2 with a self signed cert.
To be fair, I don't think that is what advertisers - the companies trying to reach you - wants. They would most likely prefer ways that didn't bug you, as they want happy customers.

It is however what the advertisement companies and agencies want. They are selling shitty products.
Yes indeed, I have a couple mentors and they are great people to have in my life, for both professional and personal development.

One of my mentors I met organically, the other one formally. So IMHO the two best ways I know to find mentors are:

• Organically: Talk to lots and lots of people. Especially in real-world situations. Attending events which you enjoy, whether work-related or not, is also a great place to meet potential mentors.

* Formally: Look around online and ask friends if they can recommend a coach / mentor. (I'm a mentor and coach myself). Talk to a few people and see if you find someone with a potential fit. Most coaches will offer the first session for free (I do as well).

Hope that helps. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to chat.
I don't think Elon has ever aimed to specifically be a "climate activist". His positive effects on the environment seem more of a side product from making the "crappy but sustainable, will be cool in 10-20 years at current pace" option "cool+useful and sustainable, now". Which makes sense, he would probably have gotten less done environmentally and generally if he didn't have success of the businesses as clear priority.

I think he stated that his underlying big plan was to act in fields that he thinks will have the most impact in the future, being good business while not just profit-driven, after he got the PayPal money (Can't find a source right now though) in which he has succeeded, profiting from making the world better, instead, for example, lobbying against ICE's and then providing "just-good-enough" Environmental(r) ShittyCars(tm)

He also has shifted his focus accordingly when Tesla, and at part, SpaceX, were at dire straits. For his kind of personality, I'm not sure just working more would even transfer as simply to linear benefit on that thing.
Sometimes people ask questions like "how do I shoot myself in the foot and still have a working foot", though. Questions are not always reasonable. A question is not always "pure" either, but can embed incorrect assumptions.
I still don't get why it's useless. Maybe less useful, but useless seems to be a hyperbole.
Mike Krieger at the Airbnb Tech Talk, on Scaling Instagram (2012)
This was previously submitted 12y ago with no traction, that page had an audio recording and some notes - I could only get it to load, sans audio, via archive:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3834235

https://web.archive.org/web/20120621063933/http://bob.poeker...

Still some interesting detail/history in the slides alone though.
Early industrialisation was incredibly inefficient.
I wish I wrote down the un-freeze PIN codes or stored them in Bitwarden when I did this six years ago.

I'm dreading trying to recall the PINs I used when the time comes to un-freeze them.

Still glad I did it, though. However burdensome the PIN recovery process will be, I'm sure it's less stress than dealing with fraud.
No.

The native VSCode uses Electron/Chrome, but the web version of VSCode is (almost) the same frontend (HTML/JS) rendered with your browser instead of Electron/Chrome
Yes, because teachers are known as a well paid class of people who have loads of free time on their hands, and for who the overhead of sourcing laptops through eBay and setting up operating systems and integration with other systems from scratch is an appropriate additional workload.
25$ chinese rechargeable duster
Angular Addicts #15: Angular v16.1, TypeScript 5.1, new RFCs and more
In the meanwhile, product specific forums seem to be doing well.

I especially enjoyed my time spent on various Discourse servers, e.g.

Figma: https://forum.figma.com/

CodeMirror: https://discuss.codemirror.net/

Compared to SO, those single product servers have much better signal to noise ratio and the community are very welcoming.
Signal is very much a first generation private messaging application (in the sense that it was the first generation actually adopted). I think we're starting to see true gen 2 protocols rise to fix some of the issues it has like matrix, berty, briar, etc.
Show HN: An Open-Source Website to Track OpenAI API Cost by Model
Given the simplicity of the OpenAI API usage interface, I often find myself needing to check the individual costs consumed by different models. Hence, I wrote one myself. This website is open-source.
It uses everyone who has already downloaded a file to help share it, so the more popular a file is, the more people host it.

You don't have to keep sharing though, once you've downloaded it. It's voluntary.
> Your chart shows if we adopted a fish base diet it would do more good than a plant based diet that included tomatoes.

It's not the same and easily comparable.

https://www.seaspiracy.org/facts

Today only 3% of pacific bluefin tuna remain.

For the first time sharks are going extinct because of us.

Sharks kill 10 people per year, comparatively, people kill 11,000-30,000 sharks per hour.

Approx. 50 mil. sharks are killed every year as bycatch.

Seabird populations have declined by 70% since 1950's.

Studies estimate that up to 40% of all marine life caught is thrown overboard is bycatch.

There are 4,600,000 commercial fishing vessels in the world.

Over 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises are killed as bycatch every year.

46% of the pacific garbage patch is fishing nets.

There is enough long line set every day to wrap around the planet 500x.

Six out of seven species of sea turtles are either threatened or endangered due to fishing.

The fishing industry kills more animals in a day than the deep water horizon oil spill did in months.

Fishing has become a major threat to coral reefs from the Middle East to the Caribbean, where 90% of large fish have disappeared.

In the 1830's a typical fishing boat caught 1-2 tons of halibut per day, but today the entire fishing fleet catches 1-2 tons across the entire year.

Fish populations are in decline to near extinction. Virtually empty oceans by 2048.

Fish carbon stabilizes our climate.

> It also shows only two types of meat (lamb and beer herds) with the largest land use but ignores chicken and others.

If does not, read the original study https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325532198_Reducing_... or see here https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...
its a problem but once you know to look for the updated comment, it's not that bad.
Well, ordinarily, you just know your specs and your requirements, and install rate limiting and load balancing. Just standard availability & resilience. With proper resource constraints and observability in place, your system should be fine in most cases.

I think it’s standard practice to plan for failure and simulate adversary access patterns. On the other hand you say “no one ever tests” stuff like that. I suppose it’s not that standard after all.
I take real issue with their occams razor comment under "Don't assume a hidden agenda" [0]

> it's often safe to assume that Occam's razor is applicable and the reason it is being proposed is that the team proposing it is trying to tackle the use cases the proposal handles

Just because something is initially conceived innocently and in response to a purely technical problem does not mean it wont be co-opted by the parent company that has a track record of establishing market hegemonies and anti-competitive practices. Humans didn't split the atom because we wanted to vaporize cities, we were merely curious about the "technical" fabric of reality as a natural pursuit of science. Furthermore, just because you're tasked with working on the technical problems, doesn't mean that technical problems are the only aspects that can or should be considered. It's plain as day how this will have non technical implications, and asserting those should be ignored for any reason - but especially in this context - is frankly insulting.

In other words, this seems to be a textbook case of "they were too preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to ask if they should."

> To be more concrete and clear, personal attacks or threats addressed at the folks working on the platform are not OK

We agree on that at least.

[0]: https://blog.yoav.ws/posts/web_platform_change_you_do_not_li...
It's a shame the first youtube link is so overcompressed because it's clearly been from very clean VHS, and absolutely destroyed when it was encoded.
Radio and TV have ratings and viewership estimations, billboards and video panels presumably have a knowable amount of vehicle/foot traffic. These things are independently verifiable to anyone so inclined.

When buying internet ad space, though, the information asymmetry is vastly different.
Stack Overflow ought to be Google's dream site since it deals directly with questions and answers in reasonably natural language.
But I find the moderation a little heavy handed and an unhealthy amount of people using the platform to be a 'smart ar5e' while offering solutions based on their idea of best practice and not directly answering the question.
Classic case is anything to do with a strict vanilla JavaScript requirement being solved by something like jQuery.
Or a PHP requirement being solved by yet another layer of abstraction.
This is a very shallow and dismissive take on a serious issue.
1/3 of Stripe employees use internal LLM tools every week for productivity
> So, a very brief history of the Video Toaster. NewTek founder Tim Jenison loved Vermeer and designed the first edition, with Brad Carvey (who also worked on Men In Black VFX) building the prototype.

You might also be familiar with Brad Carvey's younger brother, Dana.
As far as I can tell, the criticism against the proposal was mostly surrounding the clearly stated goals of the proposal, such as protecting intellectual property. Didn't see much wild speculation, even though the internet is usually filled to the brim with it. So this advice as general advice makes sense, but is odd as a response to this situation.
If you enjoy being cruel to casual acquaintances who haven't hurt you in any way I don't really know what else to tell you.

Meanwhile, it turns out astrology is pretty good at revealing people who mock and denigrate others for no good reason. Who'd have thought it? Maybe I'll start using that technique.
I'm a teacher.

I've spent a lot of time out of contract installing Debian on old laptops. It was a huge time sink.

But if I were paid for my labor, it wouldn't have been the cheap way at all. I think your plan assumes that a bunch of people will do the work for free.

I also have a lot of domain expertise: more than almost anyone in my role.
Mid 90s were fun at Uni.

Replacing a T-connector with a broken one to sabotage unpopular classes... Or binary searching it with a terminator to save one you liked...

Learning that pinging Windows 3.1 with a big payload would BSOD it and writing a script to perform a rolling BSOD of the entire lab while sitting in the back...

Sending random insults to random spots on ttys while people read their mail using Elm...

Writing a trojan to steal and then delete the MUD accounts of the dudes hogging the only 2 computers with Internet access available to undergrads...

And being caught and let go with a not so stern warning. Simpler times.
I think not allowing deleting answers is ok, this is something like asking wikipedia to delete content you contribute; at some point it isn't really your content and its part of an article. If your asnwer is accepted others are discouraged to post another answer, so deleting content retroactively is really demaging.
But also none of the answers should contain personal information so don't really see a reason to delete it.
I believe either my brother or someone he knew once wrote a program that spawned lots of child processes. He did that to test a scheduler or something like that, but it got a bit out of hand and swamped a major server in endless processes. Admins weren't pleased. But also not too upset, because they approved of students experimenting. We had pretty cool admins.
There are aimbots for all modern games even though the developers have invested in anti-cheat
When thinking about how people are missing the knobs in cars, I'm left wondering if focus groups and market research is still relevant in todays world or maybe the market research groups misunderstood what the consumer meant when they heard people say, they wanted to get rid of "nobs in cars"?

Volvo and Saab went to great efforts in the 80's to ensure the controls on their cars were suitable, so volvo had buttons that were big enough and tactile enough for people wearing winter gloves so that a gloved finger didnt accidentally push a neighbouring button and they werent left with any doubt about the button being on or off.

Couldnt do that today with some cars, which is perhaps why UK police are fining people for wearing big winter coats and clothing in their cars, the police feel the car heating systems are better than someone's home so they dont need to be dressed for a hike through a winter snow scene when driving to the shops.
When a shirt is dirty, one stain doesn't stand out much.

When a shirt is white and clean, the smallest stain stands out.

Mozilla is one of the rare companies with a mostly white clean shirt.

It is been judged harshly, while we should rejoice that they have been doing amazing things for 20 years despite the competition being terrible people playing dirty.

If we keep doing this, they will be no more Mozilla in the world. Who wants to be the good guys if you are held up against impossible standards when your competitors are paid handsomely to destroy the world?

I know some groups that target perfect ethics: they do nothing, because it's impossible to do anything without screwing up sometimes.
> it simply make all of your work their property.

Do note that your posts on SO are published with a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license:

https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing

so regardless of who owns them, they can be reproduced, and probably are. So in many senses there is no deleting them.

Also, don't understand why you wanted to delete. Despite its problematic policies, SO is an important public resource and I assume so were your answers on it...
Can you provide an example of feedback that hasn't been ignored?
Musk has been obsessed with this domain he owns for decades now. PayPal started as x.com, he's reliving his glory days.
But Norway is a member of the European Economic Area (EEA), which is what matters for commercial relationships.
Others have already addressed "Attribution is necessary for advertising to work at all." so I'll address the remainder of the issue.

What prevents any of the following solutions from providing assurance to advertising clients, without also destroying the Internet and general purpose computing:

1. Building trust with advertising clients be treating them with respect, honesty and transparency. If your clients don't trust your advertising network and were demanding assurances in the form of WEI and similar proposals, surely it's obvious there are bigger problems. The advertising client would likely have dropped the advertising network long ago but can't due to monopolies existing.

2. Advertising networks undergo independent audits (results available to clients) and become more transparent to clients in how their advertising spend is being used.

3. Advertising clients survey users at checkout to ask whether they found the product/service from an advert, or whether they recall seeing an advertising campaign and where they remember seeing it.

4. Advertising clients host advertisements at ads.company.example (in a few highly restricted formats) so they can keep track of impressions themselves.

5. (still a bad idea, based on user surveys, but one which Google et al should have considered for minimisation of data collection and privacy impact) Browsers collect advertising metrics during use and when a user makes a transaction at an online store, the online store asks the user (via the browser) for permission to obtain those saved advertising metrics to provide only to the online store. Users can review the entirety of information sent to the online store before it is sent. Advertising networks don't have a need to access browsing history for everyone on the Internet in real time.

6. Online stores and similar continue to rotate their marketing spend through various advertising networks and marketing campaigns, checking their own metrics to see if advertising campaigns have been having an impact. Campaigns could include marketing using the Internet but outside the reach of Google et al such as use of campaign-specific coupons and products marketed through product review websites, referral schemes, influencers, etc.
I don't understand – how exactly DRM knows that I have a video-capture card recording my screen right now? The browser has no idea.

Or what prevents me from copying NYT article and re-hosting it? What DRM has to do with it?
Yes, someone tested it on GPT-4 for me too and that actually gave a quite decent reply. Still, there are always some cases somewhere where it messes up.

I'll just keep an eye on AI progress, but will probably not make it my goto for some time. Maybe later (whenever that is)
Not quite true, though indeed getting upvotes seems not to be as easy as it once was. I still get an upvote on some of my relatively recent answers once in a couple months, although it depends on the answer.

The quick way to accumulate reputation is through bounties. However, it's very much a lottery: bountied questions are often about ultra-specialised niche topics. You may need to hunt for a long time to find something you actually know something about.
Yea but colleges != corporate America and colleges want as much money as possible
devcontainers has nothing to do with cloud per say. It’s an open spec you can run fully locally.
A fork bomb. In shell:

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this. also, they have a payment feature that opens them up further on grounds of regulatory scrutiny.
I would have thought they a/b tested the verdicts given by reviewers, so that a descision can't be made by a single reviewer
I've seen Louis Vuitton branded skis for sale - I think they were 12,000 Euros.... don't know if that included bindings!
>> Sending random insults to random spots on ttys while people read their mail using Elm...

Receiving such a write and tracking down the offender for a face to face "you got a problem man!?!?" ;-)
It's clearly a signal of ongoing warming, but the assumption of a Gaussian probability distribution of annual ice extent- something we only have a few tens of years of data to estimate - seems peculiar.
The quote from one researcher here:

Antarctic sea ice levels dive in 'five-sigma event' (abc.net.au)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-24/antarctic-sea-ice-lev...

34 points by adrian_mrd 1 day ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36839757

has it a bit over five sigma and easily less than six.

Still hella significant.
>> informational content that can be compressed does get compressed

I think every single SEO content farm, and food receipy blog, would disagree with that.
Google is not "losing" any fight. Google is deliberately letting spam thrive because that spam may contain Google Ads/analytics and increases engagement on the SERP page as people who click on the spam go back to try something else (potentially one of the sponsored results). All these contribute to Google's bottom-line.
> The market is trying really hard to price out web scraping... scraping is becoming non-existent in user-space apps

Uhh... Those two matters are pretty much unrelated to each other. Scraping is becoming non-existing because the era of static web pages has ended. No need to "scrap" when you have a nice, performant JSON REST API provided for you.
The moderation culture is why I stopped engaging with stackoverflow and software.stackexchange. I noticed two problems.

The first is marking so many interesting questions and answers as off-topic or opinion-based, which vastly reduced the scope of interesting content, and discouraged daily visiting to learn instead of just using the site as a reference through google. Relying on google to feed you users is a fool's gambit. Websites need to create recurring visitors, and they do that by providing something that engages. Stackoverflow and software.SE's moderation policies made it far less engaging as they grew more heavy-handed. This left the sites open to changes in google's algorithm affecting their traffic.

The second major problem is duplicate policing and a lack of staleness policies. By not allowing the same question to be asked again it meant that the content of the network has grown gradually more and more stale. Even my own old answers are now often wrong because they are simply outdated. Stackoverflow is filled with questions in the style "what is the right way to use technology X to do Y", and the right answer to that changes every 2 or 3 years, when technology X gets an update or when new insights in how to best do Y are formed. I tried updating a few here and there, when I saw people engaging with wrong answers, but overall the blame is on stackoverflow and its moderators for not working out a more effective mechanism to get rid of stale answers and letting new users answer old questions with answers that have a shot at rising to the top. This also means that as top-voted answers grow more and more stale there is a tipping point where google no longer sees the site as a useful resource and starts lowering it in the ranking, and this is what seems has happened.
> Same thing with books. If your book contains one central argument, respect your reader enough to cut out the fat. I don’t need a comprehensive history of the subject if your argument can boil down to a few paragraphs.

I tend to politely disagree with that. In most cases "comprehensive history of the subject" is important to understand the subject fully and, most importantly, reasons for the argument.

Currently we have endemic of people who suggest doing thing in particular way, but when you question reasoning, there will be no answer. It's picking up ideas here and there without understanding of premises, and it's very dangerous because idea without premises is likely inapplicable to slightly changed premises.
On Github (just press '.') it's quite nice for exploring repositories instead of using the regular Github UI. I don't use it for making changes though.