skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. We should be pouring outrage, derision and hate on it instead. We should be personally calling out those who perpetrate this opinion, and haranguing them to change, or ostracizing them if they refuse.
US task force to look into how military could use generative AI
That in itself is orthogonal to progress or regression. For example, while one team could put a fidget spinner in Notepad, another could ruin right-clicking in Explorer. Which obviously raises the question if another team could be spun up to incentivize the first team to distract the second team long enough for a fourth team to swoop in and fix right-clicking in Explorer.
> how would you characterize "the sentiment of the headline"?

Imagine it rewritten as "3% of scientists contacted by us said they were cutting back on Twitter".
The addiction isnt to the smartphone, but to social media applications. It's the constant pumping of information and misinformation, as well as a false sense of reality.

Teens (and other age groups) are constantly bombarded with topics, issues, and information which they have to make sense of. Quite often, this information is pretty depressing, rage inducing, or emotionally manipulative in one way or another. They learn from this - instead of having a curated view of the world and information from their parents, elders, siblings, etc.
it sounds like what you are interested in is negotiating mutually beneficial bargains with people, then, or manipulating public opinion in your favor, by applying the currently fashionable ethical norms (or at least appearing to do so) and attempting to shape them to your liking

in the former case, you don't seem to be offering to make any concessions (and in any case, how could you, in a public forum like this), and in the latter case, it seems like it would be in people's best interests to close their ears to you except when your arguments are factual (as opposed to normative); and possibly even then, if their interests are likely to run counter to yours, because selective reporting of facts can manipulate people to act against their own interests just as effectively as outright lies

that's what i mean by 'there would be no point in discussing ethical issues at all if moral relativism were correct'. there is certainly a point in negotiating agreements, or even evaluating who is likely to fulfill their negotiated commitments, but that isn't the same thing as discussing questions of ethics

attempting to return to the substantive questions, perhaps we would do well to promote pseudonymous and even anonymous online interaction (especially for media likely to be used by edgy and troubled teenagers) and not grant governments the ability to eliminate facts from the historical record piecemeal, like beria editing stalin's opponents out of photos
The built-in hub was one of the best features of Apple boards for a long, long time. It started with ADB ports on on late 80s/early 90s boards and extends all the way into the 2010s when the wired aluminum board finally dropped the USB ports its predecessors carried.

It’s such an obvious little quality of life improvement, and yet the only other board I’ve come across with the feature is the HHKB Pro 2 (Pro 3 drops the hub) and some variants of Das Keyboards.
"Dead" batteries from Leafs and Teslas are still quite useful for energy storage and thus quite valuable and unlikely to end in landfill.

The recycling rate on lead acid batteries is over 99%. Li ion batteries will likely end up with a similar number.
Hello! Is there an ability to delete ones account after signing up?
Sounds like you're using a rather poor IDE.
The water is being subsidized. Other people are paying for it. Alfalfa is a low-value crop. It's a stupid and economically inefficient crop to grow in a desert.

You can't waive away actual physical constraints as being due to "big government" or whatever.
In the UK, where this is happening, that's simply not true. There were 1695 road fatalities in 2022 total. That's very different from "thousands a day".

I do not believe it is desirable (or practically possible) to eliminate all risk of death or injury from life, and increasingly orwellian surveillance measures to clamp down on every misdeed and ill advised risk does not, I think, make for a happier or freer society.
Thanks!

I saw a chart that was showing the revenues and they didn't really grow from 1998 to 2000. The real increase started between 2001 - 2005 which correspond to the second gen imac and more importantly the ipod.

Having said that the apple share stopped declining after the first imace release so it may not have generated a lot of money but at least gave confidence in the market.
Yep, excellent list. I wonder where this state ranks in student outcomes???
Fair, but I think we’re ought to be much more concerned by surveillance of private messages on a communication app than we ought to be of surveillance of people’s activities on a public road. It ought to be understood that you might be observed while driving.
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I don't do either of these things, ever, and still feel this level of automated surveillance is repugnant.
don't you find it too convenient that the journalist the US want to annihilate happens to be a poop-smearing rapist ungrateful douchebag?
I am surprised there are more people not wearing seatbelts than using mobile devices. I would have predicted the opposite, by a large margin. Wearing a seat belt is such an easy thing to do with great benefits.
Yeah but if one of the biggest political obstacles is "what about the jobs" then it makes sense to talk about the renewables jobs.
What about when you accidentally go 5mph over the speed limit?
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You can restore the legacy right click functionality in Explorer with a registry hack: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/restor...
So you're in a boat, and a hole is in the base, and well, only a little bit of water has come in so far. Everything is fine?

In november of last year, there were no alternatives to Twitter at all save for Mastodon which was an unknown open source backwater. nobody needed them. Now we have a vastly larger Mastodon userbase as well as extremely serious competitors like Threads, Bluesky, Post, etc on the scene, and to a greater or lesser degree, people are moving to them. This seems pretty significant to me, if I were the person in charge of keeping Twitter where everyone is

Bigger picture, this kind of discussion is so silly. When Musk took over Twitter, Hacker News was all like "hooray! free speech at last!" what a joke, right? the man literally throttles /bans individual users and offlinks he personally doesn't like. I am going to posit right here that all of this "ho ho, the data shows nothing, if anything scientists are joining twitter" will also be similarly ridiculous in six months.
Happy 30th birthday, Debian!
In a lot of places, "self promoting and the theatrics of demonstrating impact" as this Ex-Google employee put it[1], is becoming more important than the actual work itself. People are rewarded for their ability to market themselves, talk about what they [may or may not] have done, and their efforts to document the work. The people actually doing the work but failing to loudly tell everyone about it? It's as if they aren't doing anything.

1: https://twitter.com/bengold/status/1618589049803132931?lang=...
I suspect many horseshoers and saddle makers lost their income when the automobile came to be.
It might be a weird question,

But why are the websockets and SSE are migrating to extensions?
self advocacy as a method of advancement is not specific to any industry or company type. it is part of human nature
Coinbase wins approval to offer crypto futures in the US
In my experience it is not generally an issue of laziness, it is more often a statement of ideology.
Mastodon's infosec.exchange is doing genuinely well. It's not the infosec Twitter of the olden days, but it's the most promising replacement we've got.
My sister's kids both have birth defects on the eyes - my father worked at Dupont in research at the time (n=3? Or just coincidence?) Sorry, but it's quite obvious that data has been thrown under the rug systematically.
I agree with his approach but I'm on macOS so I don't think I can even use this currently. Anyone know if he has a plan to get this out so everyone can use it? It's not like the authors of Clang are going to implement this. Is he trying to get the C++ committee to standardize this idea? Or will he make a commercial product? If it were cross-platform I would pay for it.
20m resolution from geosynchronous orbit is pretty neat engineering. 20m at 35000km is 0.12 arc seconds. The Arecibo dish (also L-band) was (well, is, but it's also full of wreckage) gets 3.5 arc minutes resolution.
The Neuroscience community used to be vibrant and active on twitter, and now is sad and lonely with only a few extremely active voices left. The heaviest posters before are still there, and the extremely long tail seems to have left the conversation.
There's no process to "authorize" an existing approved prescription drug as a treatment for ME/CFS and Long COVID. Doctors can already prescribe those drugs off label if they wish (although the patient might have trouble getting insurance coverage for those claims depending on their policy). In order to make them on-label treatments then the drug company or some other party will have to conduct a large-scale clinical trial and go through the FDA regulatory process to prove that it is safe and effective. This is expensive, but drug companies do such studies all the time in order to increase revenue and extend patent protections.
First, great that you're able to do that. I support that fully and hope to do the same. However, I'm sure there are a lot of parents that wish they could do something like that but circumstances prevent it. E.g. lack of awareness, local societal pressure, or the need for it (e.g. bus ticket apps)

> No amount of regulation outside of an outright ban is going to make this go away.

How about regulation mandating voluntary parental controls mechanisms on social media platforms or devices?

Or how about regulation mandating that companies share certain aggregate usage data to get insight into the scope of the issue so that ultimately parents and society can be better informed of the damage being caused?

Or regulations about phones at school so that teachers and schools have effective tools (e.g. parentally consented confiscations).

Sure, these regulations may not make this go away but it's high time that we take a closer look at the consequences of social media and smartphone use that has exploded the last ~15 years. Not to mention this is the EU. I think you'd find broad support in the populace here for at least taking a stab at the issue.
> even if they are making decisions that are bad for their physical health

Distracted driving is a risk to other people, obesity is not.
Windows 11 has it.
> is how you get ahead in the workplace.

Serious question, and one that I think is very important to this discussion...

What do you mean by "get ahead in the workplace"?
It's the same argument throughout; that "people arguing that beef production uses to much water" in the Netherlands aren't necessarily scoping their discussion to just the Netherlands, but the global beef industry and its impacts.

"But it's wet here!" really misses their point.
doing them right requires a fair bit of code and I'd like to keep the core AJAX-focused functionality as small as possible
The users were contacted by email, not by twitter message.

You may be right that some users saw a survey about twitter in their inbox and thought "I've already left, therefore I'm not the target audience for that survey".
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There is an important issue to be fixed here, yes.

It’s heartbreaking when this happens and I fully agree that there should be more checks in place to prevent this.

However, I am very glad that I live in a country where you are not allowed to record and process this because it’s a violation of my privacy.

I do not think that this is the solution.
And that's a bad thing! Is it not my manager's job to keep track of what I'm doing? I generally hate self-promotion, unless it's of the kind that is directly useful to other people in the moment.
Or are upset but don't want to spend any more cycles on the topic.
that's a good point, maybe the cities should be the ones forced to move out.
The average age of a car on the road in the US is 11 years. That implies that most cars are driven until they are at least 20 years old.
Can anyone explain why Htmx is such a big deal? I really don't get their 'motivation' section on their landing page.

I mean, for example, the first motivation it lists is 'Why should only <a> and <form> be able to make HTTP requests?', why is that an issue? And 'Why should you only be able to replace the entire screen?', I mean that hasn't been an issue since XMLHttpRequest or am I missing something?
I have a friend who once described state lotteries as “a tax on people who can’t do math”. That’s not particularly kind or fair. To me the combination of desperation that people feel that a lottery win would resolve a lot of their problems, and how many state-run programs are dependent on lottery funds to continue to function, is indicative of how bad an idea a lottery is.

It’s a trap for people who are desperate, trying to survive and a band-aid for a budget shortfall because people don’t want to pay taxes otherwise.
As someone with a lot of live audio background, I lament bad audio at conferences. I keep thinking that there is a product need there, but it feels too much like selling vitamins.
> HW

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> Wasm still generates html and outputs it on the screen

Sure it can. More usefully to my point though, it can also use any of a number of C++/Rust/etc. UI libraries to render directly to a buffer or canvas, which is in my opinion a better long term solution for true applications (vs websites).

When you do that you get total layout control with no need for CSS or worrying about browser defaults.

As a random example here is the Rust egui library demo app running in a browser using WASM (no HTML): https://www.egui.rs/#demo

The speed and “native application” feel are hard to replicate in JS/HTML, as they are just not great tools for the job or rich desktop (or desktop-like) applications.
People throw around the word invented a little too easily. Disney formulated a lot of paints to match specific needs, including to distract and draw attention.

This is hardly an invention, even if the formulas are a trade secret. We use different colors in everyday activities... Red anyone?
Mastodon (more correctly, the Fediverse) is far more suited for interest-based communities than Twitter is.

With communities getting onto their own servers (journa.host, econtwitter.net) the quality of network effects is increasing.

Twitter/X will end up as a place to share stuff that riles people up.
Go is a fabulous game (and AlphaGo is a wondrous software—I read the first technical paper immediately). But it's another thing I'd have to do online. Seattle had a go center in the 1990s that still seems to be around. San Diego had a few players who met up in Hillcrest or Carlsbad, both an annoying drive away. Who knows if there are any go players in Salt Lake? My one go playing friend lives a time zone away. It's far easier to find f2f bridge than f2f go.

In the early days of Amazon, a call center employee pointed me to a deal on go set shipped directly from Japan. Beautiful slate and shell stones. I haven't played a dozen games on it. I almost feel unworthy of owning it as a perhaps 12 kyu player.
We had Bugdom installed at our elementary school and I was surprised to play a 3D game for the first time.
I guess I was wrong when I wrote this song parody in 2001:

March 22, 2001: "Don't Cry for Me Argentina"

Steve Jobs was back at Apple, the blue iMac was out, Microsoft was in big anti-trust trouble and had just invested $100m in Apple, Steve had bought out NeXT. But the future wasn't yet assured:

This won't be easy,
you'll think it's strange.
When we try to explain what we need
that we now need your help
after all that we've said.

You won't believe us.
All you'll see is Apple you once knew,
although we've crashed down in the dumps
begging for Microsoft cash.

It didn't have to happen.
We should have won
Better software and patents than Bill
Looking down on Windows,
staying far from Sun.
So we chose NeXT.
Running aground, trying computers in blue.
But nothing revived us at all.
You never expected it too.

Don't cry for us, William H. Gates.
The truth is we're dead without you.
We need your dollars
We need Mac Office
You need a rival, for your survival.

And as for Fortune,
and as for Time,
We never invited them in
though it appeared, to the world,
they were all Steve desired.
Even Adobe,
they're making solutions for Windows right now
The answer was here all the time.
We need you, and hope you need us.

[chorus]

Have we begged too much?
There's nothing more we can think of to say to you.
But all you have to do,
is look at us to know,
we're through without you.
Elon isn't serious and it's time to move on
Yes but the UDM-Pro-SE is a separate product from the doorbell. The Reolink doorbell does not need a separate product to function. You can just get a POE injector or POE switch from any brand, run Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi or NUC and it'll work. The UDM acts as an NVR for your doorbell camera, you couldn't use it without it, right?
How to create synthetic data to evaluate your LangChain pipelines
There's a sync tool with Linear, which is like Jira but simpler and much much faster.

https://linear.app/docs/jira
Nothing offends me more than the billboards of a young girl watering a houseplant saying “just a sip.”

Of all the water use cases to go after, they want to make children think water is so scarce that spilling one can of it is somehow a problem?

Meanwhile, eat whatever produce you want at any time of year, as long as you can’t see the water being wasted, it’s fine right?
I disagree with everything you said, lol. Besides the original NEW Zelda being fun.

Nintendo is very sparing in how often they make mainline games in their IP (besides Pokemon). Mario has had one main 3d game in a decade. Zelda had 6 years between BoTW and ToTK, and 5 years between BoTW and it's predecessor. Everyone of those (Mario and Zelda) until ToTK was completely different, with a different feel and different mechanics.
> If you are going to be for phasing out coal very quickly then you have to be willing to bite the bullet and accept that certain regions of the country are just going to be completely effed over.

What do you think happened to Appalachia? It sucked for a while, and it's still not a bustling tech hub and never will be, but people are adapting and in a few generations it will be a good (if less populated) area.
The typical expected value of a lottery ticket is 50% of what you paid for it. That includes hitting the one-in-many-millions jackpot, which you could go many lifetimes without hitting. If it's given you don't hit the jackpot, then your expected value is much lower.
"We can do one simple thing and our water supply crisis will be over."

I don't think this was written as a parody. I think the author really thinks like this.

They seem to ignore some pretty obvious things. I will assume they are fairly intelligent and educated, so the ignorance is suspicious. For example, they seem shocked that treated potable water delivered via an expensive network of sanitary pipelines would be more expensive than untreated water delivered via a ditch. They gloss over the "10 or even 12" crops of alfalfa a year, but don't seem to realize that 10 or 12 cuttings a year is phenomenal and a big part of why Imperial County is special. Other places struggle to get four cuttings per year.

I think the author almost hits the right target even though they are aiming at the wrong target. We don't need to stop growing alfalfa. We need to have a rational pricing system for water. If somebody can buy water for $1/unit right out of a well, then spend $3/unit to treat that water and $1/unit to transport that water to market, and can sell it for $6/unit to the public, they might get outbid by somebody who can buy the same water for $2/unit out of the well, spend $0/unit to treat the water, spend $0.5/unit to transport the water to market and be able to sell it for $3.50/unit. In any efficient economy, this is a no-brainer.

It could be more rational to argue that we need to stop growing humans on our most productive agricultural real estate. We can grow humans by the bushel in Montana. We can't get 12 cuttings of alfalfa per year in Montana.

If the argument is that the world is running out of water (which does seem to be the author's argument) then we have bigger problems than alfalfa. Eliminating farm land so we can fit more humans will not solve the water shortage. It will compound it.

I am not proposing that we cut back on humans on the planet. I think there are plenty of resources for both. The author is right that we have to balance the demands we put on those resources. But I think we should be more thoughtful about it than the author proposes.
> And you will continue to be downvoted and flagged when your comments, which we both know are not anywhere near “nicely”, are against the guidelines.
I reduced my JavaScript 100% and experienced no loss of business.
i believe cppfront is more of a way to try out and demonstrate ideas in the hopes that they are adopted by the cpp standard
> But sure, only compatible cultures should talk to one another?

No, this would be taking my argument too far. Online communities develop their own cultures and norms, mostly borrowed from the real-world cultural contexts of their constituent members. Someone trying to participate in a community without conforming to those cultural expectations is going to cause trouble.

> So which cultures pair well with yours and which don’t, then? Who would you kick off the Internet/social media?

I see no reason to kick anyone off social media, but I think unfocused social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, &c. are causing social problems. There were Americans in America protesting against coronavirus lockdowns in Australia, and there are Australians who have reoriented their entire identities around Donald Trump and QAnon: people are being radicalised about events that have nothing to do with them, and over which they have no control.

The social media I want to see is the old-style message fora that existed before modern social media: phpBB- and vBulletin-based communities that were designed around shared interests, not platform functionality.

Moderation is a real problem for modern social platforms. In the 90s, we had the so-called Scunthorpe Problem: AOL users living in UK towns like Scunthorpe and Penistone were banned from the AOL support forum for giving honest answers to inquiries into their location. The problem persists in a more subtle form, even on this website, in the Forbidden Meatball Problem[0].

Interest-based online communities would be able to carry out their own moderation according to their own cultures, and consequently avoid these problems.

[0] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-dish-encounters-q...
I mean, farms come in a lot of varieties. Entirely possible for one to be successful at cranberry farming but know little about many/most/all animals (that don’t attack their crops).