skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd absolutely think so, but imagine how many times we might say that about Tesla & Co the last ~3 years :/

You've got to admit that a car that mostly sat idle for years (like a literal Sunday driver) had a sudden and catastrophic failure upon entry is bizarre and hard to justify. And of course my only option is to pay Tesla directly or junk the car (only worth about $20k now if the battery is fixed!)
Remote Work Is Inexorable (2021)
mtls solves the common redis abuses I know of, but still, don't presume a vuln in redis may not be discovered in the future. But if you are going out of your way to configure mtls the I am guessing you have a good reason to?
unless i'm reading your implication wrong, sounds like you prefer sharks with the munchies to sharks with bad teeth?
> The waste of space on the margins of the notebook view was (is?) awful.

If that is your only concern, it will probably be quite easy to write a user style sheet to fix it.
I seem to see very different things from... well... what is normal.

Political representation was an idea from back in the days when one had to travel to have a discussion. The traveling was rather complicated too.

For a while now we can have a discussion globally with millions simultaneously.

This produces way to many opinions that are way to fuzzy to compile into a single plan so we end up with representation again.

I think it is worthy to have your mind blown by what these large language models can do in this context.

Our representation atm is unable to read our opinions, there is just to much opinion, it is clueless about what we think or want.

But the puzzle is kinda solved now isn't it?
Cheap proton batteries compete with lithium on energy density
Where have I chided you?

And I don't care about soda, but think that plastic pollution is a menace.
I've owned one of these devices long enough to be grandfathered in when they introduced their subscription plan. I have an odd relationship with it. It's very expensive, and I don't really get enough use out of it for the price I paid. However, everytime I do use it I absolutely love it. The hardware is just so good, it really is a joy to use.

I still consider the software a bit second rate, but it does seem to keep improving.
Yes, compulsory voting is great, it removes a bunch of pathologies of democracy, to name a few: electioneering is about making people vote for me and not for others and not trying to waste effort to "fire up the base" (and therefore elections are much cheaper since the "volume of speech" required much lower); voter suppression is much harder to pull off since voting is a responsibility not just a right (still possible, just make the kill themselves, see the robodebt fiasco).
The "bad" photo there is clearly focused on the table
It's an unfortunate side effect of the "flash crowd" and "Slashdot effect" articles being merged in the past. The editors at the time decided the terms were synonymous, but "Slashdot effect" won out as the dominant title. The "1970s neologisms" category tag must have come from the "flash crowd" article.
Michael Dirda's 29 rules for book reading
> what do you think they’d do for one of their own?

Hang them out to dry, as should be evident by your failure to find examples.

Teachers failing to report student on student violence isn’t actively protecting perpetrators the way the church was reported as doing. Church administrators would move pedophiles to new communities multiple times after accusations showed up. It’s a very different situation.
Calling it a misconception is not really fair.

The "serve a single actor" is a recent revision of the principle by Uncle Bob, from a 2018 book, AFAIK. That's almost 20 years too late (if going by the sources I can find).

I can't find mentions of "actors" or similar terms in Agile Software Development or Clean Code. Pretty much every pre-2018 literature says that SRP relates to modules "[having a] single reason to change", or "[not having] too many responsibilities". The examples are always fuzzy and imprecise, but in the books the principle essentially boils down to class/method size. There are no examples in Clean Code or ASD relating to this new meaning, nor mentions of "actors" or "stakeholders", and until recently there's rarely any article contradicting the original meaning of SRP.

This revisionism seems to come first from backlash from part of the programming community, and also an adaptation of the more recent "one team per microservice" rule.

But the damage of almost 20 years of SRP being taught the way it was in the past was already done.
> (My city is using QuantAQ sensors, which weren't cheap)

will your data be publicly available in near real-time?
as far as I can tell, airnow.gov only has data from airports.
will you share this data with the epa somehow?
The reason the papers look like junk is that they were leaked by a rogue former team member who wants credit. The papers weren't supposed to have been published yet, peer review is still ongoing.
> One common mistake is serialising objects to JSON strings before storing them in Redis. This works for reading and writing objects as atomic units but is inefficient for reading or updating individual properties within an object

I would love to see some numbers on this. My intuition says there are probably some workloads where JSON strings are better and some where one key per property is better.
Maybe that's just your opinion, but a lot of people battling addiction agree that "they shouldn't be able to but that shit". So what would you do taking into account these people, many of whom don't live a great life?
God the absurdly loud music sucks. I don’t care what I’m inebriated by or how inebriated I am, it’s obnoxious. Bonus obnoxious-points to the restaurants who blast music. There’s two I can think of in Boston and while the food was great I’ll never go back because I could barely talk to my partner. Like, what’s the purpose of music that loud in that setting?
Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem
I would suggest that it's a dead end without a mutually agreed upon philosophical framework to contain it. The participants in a debate are unlikely interested in agreeing to one particular framework, and this is a big part of why critical theory in other areas is such a hot-button issue: the philosophical presuppositions that critical [X] theorists want you to make are inconsistent with the worldviews of some other people (and even inconsistent with other critical theories in some instances).
Missed the part about "presumptive demonization and loaded language", eh?

The guy was trying to say that if the dangerous lab was hustling, it's cool. It was a shit take.
What does that mean? If we want to save the money we collectively spend for their healthcare, should we also force people to do exercise? IIRC (cannot find the source right now) smokers who exercise are healthier than those doing neither, but in any case the effects are comparable.
I think the Homestead Act is a good example for explaining my objection.

First of all, I believe the government is the agent and servant of the people, not the other way around. Any government land is also owned by the people because the people own the government. The Homestead Act was a simple way of Distributing this land to to be held directly by the people instead of managing it on their behalf.

When considering the giving away of land, the government loses property. What the government gains is the hope or chance that people will do something productive with it. Even if those people only benefit themselves and retain the profits, they are increasing the economy and total wealth/value of the country. This is the repayment, and those individuals dont "owe" the government anything.

What I especially object to is the idea of retrospectively applied debt, often long after the fact.

You see this a lot in discussion of government grants for science and tech research.

The government creates and awards research grants to encourage development because the public would be better off if the medicine or whatever exists opposed to not exist, even if it is being sold for a profit.

However, when something does get invented and sold, some people then think the public is owed a debt. This isn't true. The government provided funding because it wanted the thing to exist. Once it exists, the government's objective and any obligation has already been met.

By analogy, imagine two neighbors. Neighbor A pays for the other (Neighbor B) to paint their house out of self interest, because it will make the neighborhood look better and raise their own property value. The neighbor B has fulfilled their obligation and any debt by painting the house. It is both logically and morally bankrupt for Neighbor A to come back at a later day and claim the other is in their debt, after they already got what they initially wanted and bargained for.

This comes back to the idea of the government as the "source" of all wealth, deserving repayment.

Like I said before, the government is important, and even essential for economic development.

Being essential is different than being the "source" or deserving repayment. A government built road is essential for me to get to work, however that doesn't mean the government is the source of all the work I did, or entitled to a share of my salary, provided I already paid my share for the road.
> you become a private service provider, and then have a host of responsibilities including annual audits of whether a significant proportion of your users are minors. If they are then you need to use a (commercial?) age verification tool and monitor everything assiduously. Difficult to see most people being able to satisfy those requirements.

And then I just block the UK instead, let's hope this just doesn't go through.
Selling an addictive substance through media carpet bombing without informed consent is absolutely a crime.

"But people want it" is not a valid argument.

There's a quote about propaganda which says that the goal is to make everyone feel that forced-fed choices are their own spontaneous decisions.

There are entire industries devoted to making sure that those choices - often self-harming - are not spontaneous. At all.

Get rid of those and you may have a point. While they still operate, you don't.
It's runaway natural selection.

AMC series math contests have a bit of the same problem -- pushing the material format more and more toward memorizing extremely insider arcana over a meaningful survey of the field of study.
> I find I'd much rather drive to the mountains, or a lake, or at least a nice big park, and recreate there.

This is not a sustainable solution to population level health needs, even if maybe in your particular situation you do actually get enough vacation days and free time on weekends to be able to do this (I also doubt this).
> the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills

Ok but what is knowledge? You need to follow that rabbit hole. Knowledge isn't just data. You'll find that knowledge is frequently defined with some tie in to experience and the definition of experience is tied to consciousness.

> They also call it machine learning

They have called the field Artificial Intelligence (or ML) since 1956 but that doesn't mean they had an example of an instance of artificial intelligence. It's just the name of the field. I've never heard of a researcher referring to the act of training as "machine learning" though, just the field.
Ask HN: Is creating an OAuth app frustrating, time-consuming, and shit?
At Poozle (https://github.com/poozlehq/engine), I have created over 40+ OAuth apps and have dreaded every time we had to build them. Everything with Oauth is shit! You have to fill out numerous application details and finding the right scopes is a nightmare. Once you submit an application, there is often too much back-and-forth before the app is finally approved.

Possible Solution: I am considering to build an AI-powered browser extension for myself that automates the Oauth process with the following features:

1. Auto-Fill: Pre-fills 80% of the information required to create your app.

2. Scopes: Suggests scopes based on your use case and helps you understand them better.

Let me know your thoughts in comments, let me know if you folks want to try it out, I will reach out to you.(https://forms.gle/cgsyEpTG5M9BhAHE6).
Perhaps you were simply quite compelling? I upvote people I disagree with when they are courteous or when they change my mind. I don't imagine that practice is uncommon (maybe wishful thinking on my part)
The Discovery of Global Warming: The Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Effect
Meanwhile HN will freak out over some loose study about aspartame or nano plastics, but dismiss extremely sound research on climate change. Clearly brainwashed by decades of corporate marketing.
>I'm not sure what you are hinting at

Where am I hinting at anything? I literally said that "I pay $60 for membership"

The scenario I've witnessed many times in the last year: a cashier screaming at members for not having their card ready/not having an item barcode visible/scrutinizing the tiny B&W photo for any hint of malfeasance. Just an unpleasant experience altogether. They do this because memberships are way down. And if you think it's just me here's a reddit thread

https://www.reddit.com/r/Costco/comments/14fpbjm/accused_of_...

Costco cashiers enjoy the highest pay and benefits for a job that requires little intelligence or skill. For some reason they act like frustrated divas forced to interact with the unwashed masses. Sorry, no. You're an unskilled service worker and wear a nametag. Get over yourself!

Anyway I'm not going to subsidize that. But I'm also not going to give up my rotisserie chickens and $5 gallons of organic milk. I'll get a membership again when the self-checkout machines outnumber employees.

>one time use

Nope. Have used a single card 3x. Also gift cards are highly regulated in my state, what you're describing is illegal

>they check the member that gave you the card

No idea what you're talking about. Been doing this for three months.
I really liked "Small Unit Leadership" as having some good lessons for business leaders as well.

One thing that stuck with me is how the military can't just fire the people that don't work out, so there's significant time spent on how to get underperforming people / units back into shape.

https://www.amazon.com/Small-Unit-Leadership-Commonsense-App...
Seems fine https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/4bbaa254b6b6b74912cedb39...
None of those strike me as a true duplicate of the Smithsonian magazine article. Different angles for the same phenomenon, sure, but they each provide valuable contributions and context for the event.
Limited liability corporations have been an enormous success and have tremendously improved our standards of living. Limits on liability allow me to safely invest in companies that build innovative products and create jobs while capping the potential downside. Sure, there are occasional situations where injured parties can't be made whole but that is an acceptable trade off for the benefits to society as a whole.
It was over 100 degrees where I was in the Houston area. I don’t want to walk anywhere. Nicer sidewalks won’t change profuse sweating. All of the bike and walk crowd seems to have never been to Houston in the summer. It’s 80 degrees in Cupertino right now and 96 degrees in Houston as I type this. That’s a huge difference in what is comfortably walkable.

Nobody likes walking in 100 degree heat. When I lived in Europe, certainly walkable towns were awesome. Although, I do remember being on subways in Paris that didn’t have air conditioning in July and it was straight up miserable to be packed into a sardine can surrounded by sweaty aromatic people, then exiting the station to be greeted by a blast furnace on the surface and then walking multiple blocks to the destination.

Taking a taxi was air conditioned comfort and a welcome luxury when I could afford it. I am not knocking Paris, but making the point that the ideology of eliminating private transport in favor of being out in the elements is a regression, not an improvement.

There should be balance when it comes to transport options. Streets can be improved, but it shouldn’t be at the expense of cars entirely. Make it great for all modes of transport. A great example is when Houston ripped up driving lanes to add bike lanes — other than hobby cyclists, those lanes are rarely used unless it’s on one of the six days a year that the weather is nice enough. The bike lanes made traffic worse while benefiting just a few die-hards that cycle as some sort of social protest rather than as a legitimate means of navigating this huge city.

Why not make motorcycle and motor scooter lanes instead of bike lanes? Why do people insist on trying to turn Houston into Amsterdam? Houston isn’t Amsterdam. Greater Houston is 10,000 square miles with 7.5 million people. Greater Amsterdam is 1000 square miles with 2.5 million people.

Trying to make places with very hot weather “walkable” is about as logical as building a ski resort in Austin.
That’s an absurd comparison… crack is no where near as harmful as alcohol
Useful political discourse is hard. It really is; now more than ever. There's just so much to it. It's hard enough just to wrap your head around how fucked politics is.

Money insulates you from the worst effects of regressive policy, and warps your incentives toward assholeness.

Education isn't producing many savvy, media literate critical thinkers. My class rocked a D average in Civics, and it was pretty basic stuff. We didn't have any media study. We never looked at how ads work, or where money really comes from, or where it's concentrated.

'STEM' and 'politically savvy' almost seem poles apart; no offense y'all. I don't agree that things ought to be this way, but can you deny it?

Anyway, I suspect media literate critical thinkers without much money do exist on HN - but they're elusive.

If you want useful political discourse, try Scandinavia. Might learn Norwegian myself.
There is no 'the' American slave experience. There was a lot of variety. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was written for the purpose of convincing people that slavery is so evil we should go to war to end it, but most of the slaves in the book had a pretty nice life at first. (But the eventual downside of being owned mean you have no control over when/if it all goes bad).
I think they still keep them as fairly separate networks, even if they highly overlayed and so have many intersections.
NASA satellite’s collision with asteroid sent boulders into space
A big part of it is the two-party political system. Why bother voting when you don't like either party? The proportional democracies in Western Europe routinely have voter turnouts around 80%. There is always some party whose views roughly align with yours, and your vote never goes to waste.

And yeah, the deliberate voter suppression in the US isn't going to help either. A lot less people are going to stand in line for multiple hours, compared to the "five-minute stop on my drive to work" stuff Europe is used to - not to mention the whole hassle with voter registration and voter roll purging.
> Nobody really knows

So that was completely unfounded conjecture on your part then?
Button Pushes You (2022)
Would standards of living really decline that much if we didn’t all have mega SUVs and the latest years iPhone?

There is so much consumption that is absolute crap and could easily be cut out while honestly improving life.
Originally it was a document for MIT and Stanford University's AI labs, it was not supposed to keep up with the "hackers at large". Eric Raymond, who was not one of the original authors of the jargon file, decided to appropriate it as his definition of the whole existing hackerdom, which is rather controversial. People from later communities could have written their own jargon files.
This would be, de facto, DRM for whole browsers. It would have all the advantages (to incumbents) of DRM. And for users, all the disadvantages of DRM.

If you think the John Deer tractor maintenance thing is terrible and disgusting ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Finance_Balance_of_Smok...

Edit: and also another sticky situation that we’ve gotten ourselves into…

> Donorcycles: Motorcycle Helmet Laws and the Supply of Organ Donors

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/661256
Yes, you are misinformed. That kind of shit works with entry level debate since

a) The debtors tend to suck since they are new.

b) The judges tend to just be randoms or not high quality (ie some are just random parents who volunteer who may not have actually debated) so they don't have the ability to parse through what actually happened during the debate properly.

When you get better, you have to learn what arguments matter and don't matter. The skill part of debate is knowing how to throw away as much useless arguments as possible and argume defensively and offensively against the parts that do matter.

You do not have to bother with any of the opposing sides arguments if you have concluded they are pieces of trash. I myself have won debates just by proving in 10 seconds that 4 minutes of the opposing teams arguments was irrelevant and just moved on.

Sheer volume is a valid tactic, since the opposing team COULD drop important arguments that actually matter, so that's part of the skill. I've watched plenty of top level debates where people talk both fast and slow.

Nobody wins just by being fast.
They haven’t been abolished at all. Source: part of my job for the last 15 years.
Read it the same way.
Most people don’t. They just go on with their lives until they hit their breaking point or die. Occasionally they lash out at people with actual power, but they usually just kill children and people buying lettuce.
They don’t do so super well, in general. There’s a reason that risk scoring solutions for phone numbers often see numbers flagged as VOIP as red flags.
> I don't see why they should be entitled to perpetual income any more than the company that supplied the film should be entitled to perpetual income.

Why do you think of it in terms of "entitlement". Residuals were negotiated between actors, writers, and the studios. Just like stock options are negotiated for some software engineering jobs, for example. And many companies in various industries have forms of employee profit sharing. This is no different.

The issue here is that the market has changed, and the preexisting deal for residuals didn't take into account the streaming services. So the writers and actors are naturally looking to renegotiate the terms. What's wrong with that? It's a contract negotiation.

Now, if you want to completely overturn capitalism and institute some kind of Marxist labor theory of value, we can argue over that, but it seems a bit tangential here.
My impression is that this (the difficulty of getting painkillers) was mostly driven by the opioid epidemic, is that wrong?
OAuth is more of an "authentication construction set" than an actual authentication protocol.

There are 881,123 Y Combinator startups founded on the idea that "APIs are hard, let's go shopping" and boy do they splog a lot of content to get some visibility in a world that doesn't care. The thing is that APIs are the easiest kind of programming, they're a lot simpler than writing an optimizing compiler for Intel Itanium or writing a FORTRAN simulation of an atom bomb or writing "Hello World" in React... Except for that bit about logging in.
Normally I'd agree with your pedantry, but seriously have you been to LA? "Objective" feels like the right qualifier in this case