skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It means your harassers can reply to your posts with all kinds of things meant to change other reader's perceptions of you, while you, the victim, are completely unaware of why your circle keeps shrinking.

Otherwise you could block the aggressor outright, which disallows this kind of activity.

Muting is not the same, even if some people mistakenly believe they are. Muting is what you do to annoying users that always try to be the center of attention, even though they are so extremely boring or whatever. They can still participate in threads... you just won't see their constant floods. They aren't harming you. They're just an eyesore.

Blocking is what you do to someone you don't want involved in any aspect of your life, and especially in your active conversations. Harassers, exes, etc.
More interesting than last time? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35748484
> Fear has been the primary motivator in the world of government ever since 9/11.

Ah. I really don’t want to tell you what basis to build your private mythology on but fear as the primary motivator did not start with 9/11.

We feared the bear so we become the hunters and killed it. We feared the night so we made fire. We feared the others in the next valley so we sharpened our sticks.

We feared the flood so we built dams. We feared death so we invented delusions to placate ourselves.

Even if you somehow constrain yourself to the history of the US government, would you say the cold war was not driven by fear?
A non-profit is still...a business...its just a non-profit business. I don't think being non-profit exempts a business from staying alive without funding, wherever that comes from. I'm not saying your last point isn't valid though.
Hmm, I know it's frowned upon generally to say one culture is better than another, but I grew up in guess culture and I tend to gravitate towards that naturally, but a lot of my maturing as an adult has come from adopting more of ask culture and being more direct.

Guess culture sounds exhausting because it is. I can't count the number of times I've had a resentment towards someone for something they inadvertently did without even realizing. And the converse is just as annoying, when someone is upset at you and you have to play 20 questions to figure it out.

I think if you're high in agreeableness saying no to someone can be hard, which is where guess culture comes from IMO; but on the other hand, that's just a super important life skill even if you are highly agreeable.
Correct, but see, people in tech or many blue collar jobs can't afford to live in small towns since all jobs are in large cities.

And since high earners are all in large cities then so does everyone else move there because that's where the money is.

Instead we should facilitate spreading out, so that wealth can also spread out, and people can enjoy what you just mentioned.
Is there any tooling for that or are you talking hypothetically?
3 points, 3 months ago, 0 comments. Nobody saw it last time.
Show HN: Prompts with Friends
Hello HN!

Prompts with Friends is a sample B2B webapp built with https://github.com/fogbender/b2b-saaskit - sharing it here in case you're looking for a day-zero build kit.

The app itself lets you - in collaboration with your team - tune GPT prompts (OpenAI) by setting message role (system, assistant, user), reorder messages, and run the prompt up to a specific message.
> When they switch buses or trains over to electric, they have to build a new vehicle... the processes of manufacturing them aren't 100% renewable. No one's exactly making renewable steel. When they have to repair a road for the buses to ride around on, that concrete puts CO2 in the air as well.

Yeah, at least for busses that's annoying. Like sure, buy the ecological ones but don't just trash a perfectly good bus
Starship is still entirely unproven.

There's a possible world where the cut corners and the Dear Moon mission winds up with the vehicle burning up on reentry or slamming itself into the ground, killing Tim Dodd and everyone on board, with the resultant investigation looking something like OceanGate.

SLS is big, dumb and stupid and has a LES and a capsule that lands via parachutes. If SpaceX fails as a company after some accident like that, the SLS will just continue to plod along.
> There are a ton of theories that are very difficult to validate because you simply can't run the experiment due to practical or ethical reasons.

But they HAVE run high/low context experiments.

> For example my theory that UBI is unworkable. Basically impossible to prove because it's just too expensive to ever run a real UBI experiment.

Are you referring to Universal Basic Income? If so, countless experiments have been run. [0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income_pilots#...
Why does a university have the power to find somebody guilty of sexual assault, and not the actual courts?

EDIT, I am rate limited so I can't reply:

The specific phrase was "found guilty" and the specific wrong being alleged is sexual assault, which is a criminal offense for which people can go to prison. University HR can fire him if they like, but they cannot find him guilty of a sexual assault any more than they can find him guilty of fraud or manslaughter.

People are innocent of all crimes until they are proved guilty in a fair trial, in a real court with a real judge and a real jury.

> Did the university send him to prison, or are you collapsing multiple different connotations of "guilty" into one?

Excuse me, am I collapsing multiple definitions here? It seems to me the parent commenter is pivoting on two different connotations of "sexual assault" and "guilty", so as to have it both ways: ostracize this person as one would an actual sex offender, without needing to go through the awkward formality convicting him of a sexual offense.
A self DDoS! Neat!
It's very odd that their 12-port dock also shows a DP port in the image, but it's not listed in the specs.

But the 2x HDMI are visible + listed. :(
Shooting Cats: Australia's War on Feral Cats
"Local minima"

It's not a horrible comparison. It's an obvious one. Pardon me if I'm not swayed by your proclamation.

The important point is that I don't think anybody's actually broken down the difference

As it is, artificial beef requires more shepherding than co-produced. It requires consumable goods and equipment and human intervention and specialized equipment. Yes, these will all get better. Maybe it'll get better.

But I suspect that biology will always be more efficient at specific manufacture than human industry unless it's for small molecules.

Human innovation is faster than evolution. An order of magnitude or two orders of magnitude is a huge advance hard-on through cleverness and huge capital investment, but cutting down a zero or two still leaves a long path compared to hundreds of millions of years of evolution. So it's only a million years or a hundred thousand years or a thousand years to find something.

Refrigeration of artificial beef will only remove the energy required to cool bones, not the initial need. I'm sure you could sterilize and shrinkwrap a cube of lab meat and shelf-stock it like a carton of soy milk, but I don't see it happening.

Eat a goddamn bean.
> Incoming hot take: Don't become a professional systems developer. Do it as a hobby. If the goal is to optimize for $$$ earned over one's career

Deep systems programmers get paid a lot. I'm sure there are other jobs that pay more, but if you make enough and like what you do, you should do what you like.

Also higher up the abstraction chain you go, the more froth their it (I'm mainly thinking of frameworks, but this is true more generally) so you have to pay a lot of attention to what's going on. While the deeper you go down the stack the slower the slewing rate and the more time you have to understand the domain more deeply. Which, to go back to your "$$$" position, acts as a moat.
My windows 11 upgrade experience was one of the smoothest ever. I was playing AOE, got a notification that my machine is eligible for upgrade, paused and saved the game, did the update and resumed.
OTVDM is great, but it's just using Wine. Windows really ripped out the whole 16-bit compatibility layer, which is a little sad.
Even if flawed, it can still act as a safety in numbers game. You have to be able to abuse TPM and be in a position to do so, in the context of fde, even a flawed tpm v1 approach stops 90% of potential threat actors capable of abusing an unencrypted device.
> vectorization is one of the obvious ways to get better performance in a wide range of situations.

Or, well, in a narrow range of situations where you have certain kinds of hardware with vectorization support.

> C has zilch

C has operating systems written in it which use parallel processing internally and make parallel processing available to applications. True, that may be done using techniques that are not described in ISO C.

Common Lisp has undefined behavior, a familiar example being (rplacd '(1 . 2) 3): clobbering a literal object.

Optimizations in Common Lisp are exactly like UB in C: you make declarations which specify that certain things hold true, and in an unsafe mode like (declare (optimize (safety 0) (speed 3))), the compiler blindly trusts your assertions and generates code accordingly. If you asserted that some variable is a fixnum, but it's actually a character string, that character string value's bit pattern will likely be treated as a fixnum. Or other consequences.

Common Lisp is nice in that you can control speed and safety tradeoffs on a fine granularity, but you do trade safety to get speed.

Common Lisps (not to mention Schemes) have extensions, just like C implementations. In plenty of code you see things like #+allegro (do this) #+sbcl (do that).
Orion is an open-source error detection system designed to monitor and detect errors in logs.With the release of version 1.0.0, Orion has gained new capabilities. This version is equipped to retrieve error information from a database and promptly alert the designated target team by sending error notifications via email.
Eh, kinda. On linux you can only assume kernel abi compatibility whereas pn windoes you can assume the basic runtime (win32 or whatever) to be present and available.
The "Luddites" were right about the monoculture becoming a problem, though.
"conspiracy against rights" is a recently popular charge that would seem to apply
Putting solar on home can at least offset part of that usage.
Long past, unfortunately.
(2016)

Shared under different urls

Anything new since?
Most sci-fi stories involving human cloning that cover legal aspects seem to predict that laws will be updated to account for a possibility that crime was performed by a clone. Laws tend to lag behind technologies, but not too drastically.

It's also much cheaper to just fabricate evidence (cf. XKCD #538 aka $5 wrench vs security). Worked well since time immemorial, and doesn't leave a clone.
> Back in Latvia I would just slide my ID card into a USB reader and cryptographically sign the session with a passcode.

I think this is a good authentication model, but it costs money. There is the upfront cost of the physical card, and then the higher cost of lost account recovery. I think that's the turn-off to most banks; they will have to staff a call center that can verify your ID, issue a new card, and then deal with your immediate concerns because you can't access the website. Passwords + security questions are often free, "oh you don't know your password? we'll just email you another one if you remember your first elementary school's name".

At the end of the day, they are allowed to cut costs on critical infrastructure (everyone's money!!) because we have a strong victim blaming culture in the US. If your password is guessed, it's because you're bad at picking passwords, not because passwords are an intrinsically flawed technology. If your money is lost, it's because "it's really cool to have transactions that can't be reversed, you should have done your due diligence". It surprises me that everyone is OK with this.

(Incidentally, the only place where I've seen the option to use cryptographic authentication is on Vanguard. They added it right about the time we were testing security keys / U2F at Google, and they were the administrator of our 401k plans. I think Google strong-armed them into implementing it! Would love it if they did this to some banks ;)
Not too long ago, the Wikimedia Foundation spent nearly $1 million on two executives' severance pay. One had only worked there for 2.5 years:

Signpost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...

Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36029115

And for a laugh, see the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/style/katherine-maher-ash...

"The couple traveled around the world in early 2022 and moved to New York that June. ... On July 22, Erica Kochi, a friend of the couple who became a one-day deputy marriage commissioner in San Francisco, officiated the wedding before 140 guests on the lawn of Willow Camp in Stinson Beach, Calif. The day before, the groom rode in on a white horse for a Hindu ceremony.

“It was two days of cross-cultural celebration and community,” Ms. Maher said, “and a really big dance party.”"

I guess the donations helped pay for that as well.
Quite a few known ancient scripts, including sometimes Greek, were written and read boustrophedonically, i.e. the following line starts below the end of the previous line. This appears to be the case with Rongorongo and it's reasonable to assume the same is true for it. Of course, we can't be sure because, unlike Greek, we can't read it.
This sounds very useful, I wonder if you have given thought to users providing their own schema to query rather than using yours(I would assume a LLM or the likes should be able to translate back and forth between schemas).

Another question would be how does the schema update if say a new feature gets added to "tickets"
> if there's multiple programs interested in the topic, how do you make sure they all get all of the messages, if they all listen to the socket, only one gets the message.

Well, you could listen on a socket for subscribers ...

(Basically a decentralized approach vs a centralized approach)

> OTOH, dbus doesn't transit over the network, so eog on a remote host can't communicate with your desktop environment, so that's kind of a pain.

Yes, and what I find mysterious is that dbus was conceived by the freedesktop.org project. How could they have missed this important requirement?
Afraid that with 30 or so years experience of heating my home, evidence contradicts you
THIS! I have been a founder and/or CTO for around a dozen startups. Two exited successfully by M&A, but they made only enough money to offset the others I lost my ass on. (One of those was due to being 20 years too early - that product might sell well, now...)

I'm no longer interested in a doing a startup for someone else to own and control. (My biggest startup mistake was hiring an experienced CEO and COO to run my dream startup. The person with the vision and dream needs to be calling the shots, and hired guns are only just that... Passion for the product is really important!)

Although I love startups, they are hard and take a LOT out of you. It's not worth the hit to your life (and your family's!)just to make a pile of equity/money for some ungrateful trust fund kid or a VC partner who thinks their crap doesn't stink just because they happened to be in the right place when their first startup hit big.

VC investment is fundamentally parasitic. If you're building a software/services startup, you almost never really need VC - if you can build a product company without it, do so. I live in Austin, where there are a LOT of startups and startup people. Out of all of them, I know one inventor/technical founder who thinks that taking VC was really worth it, and didn't get screwed over by being liquidated to death. That's not a real good showing for the VC guys. Just sayin'...
> exponential growth

Or maybe we happen to be at tail end of Little Ice Age and gradual change will continue.
Systemd doesn't remove any control, and in fact gives a lot of extra control over things like process dependencies, environment, etc. The big complaint people had/have really just boils down to someone moved the cheese--your bespoke and brittle startup scripts are now declarative config files. Some people had to learn something new and that _really_ angered them.
"Even if" != "only if"

On the contrary, having never been found guilty of anything, the bar for forgiveness / rehabilitation should be even lower. If it is a basic human right to be rehabilitated back into society even if they have been criminally convicted, it should certainly be a human right if they were merely "convicted" by an academic kangaroo court.
If your purpose is creating a strong network, becoming a CEO and leveraging relationships later in life you don't go to those schools for computer science. What a waste of an opportunity. Go into business and meet important people. Or go into the arts so you have time to join social clubs.

Going to those places to get a VC to email you more easily is better achieved by getting into an yc or some other incubator.
Frequently, no. Most companies with 20 servers aren't going to turn into 2000 server companies. A lot of companies with 20 servers are very immature, needy and demanding. It isn't worth the effort to continue support for non-customers that don't pay today and won't pay tomorrow.
As a person from the US who recently moved to Sweden, this article has finally given me some words to explain the cultural "clash" I experience at work that I could never quite explain to myself or others.
Not always - in some cases you need -Wextra or even -Weverything to get a warning. [Edit: was thinking of GCC here, and yesterday's similar thread - clang may be more forthcoming with warnings, I don't know.]
You can implement coroutines on anything but it’s slow.
Starting a company is not inherent good, but rather a prerequisite for a prosperous economy.

Who do you think maintains supply chains? Who is gonna sell food, energy, and build infrastructure? Entrepreneurship and capitalism for all its ugly tendencies has lifted more people out of poverty than any other system.

Where does this ideology come from that says people will produce goods/services for free? Nobody is going to build homes or drill for oil without a financial inventive.
Not American, sorry.
But you’re already using perfectly good American regional identifiers for those regional differences in your original post.

Pet peeve from a European: the American habit of using their distant ancestor’s European ethnicity as a shorthand for stereotypical personality and culture today a) undervalues the massive political and cultural changes in Europe since their ancestor’s emigration und b) undervalues the regional differences inside their ancestor’s origin country. Being german I find both Ask and Guess culture here, just 50 km apart. And often in the same place, differing by class or the rural/urban divide. Describing „German“ as just Ask culture is rather wrong from my perspective. I know the outside and Hollywood stereotypes differ.

(And c), I think, distant ancestors ethnic stereotypes undervalues the melting pot/salad bowl effect over generations of the US itself.)
The Linux kernel has a stable userland ABI.

Other core components that makes up most Linux distros (e.g. libc, gtk, libc, curl, ssl etc) however do not.
Sorry yes - thank you - I meant bootstrappers are far more common.

My main point is that there's an enormous amount of survivor bias with VC backed companies. Bootstrapped: not so much.
... are, are luddites known for their historic success rate?
> It is also a basic human right not to be condemned without legal due process

No it's not.

It's a basic human right not to be formally condemned by a government or government-like body without legal due process.

It's not a basic human right to be free from all judgement by your peers without due process. If I think my neighbor's a dick, I don't need to hold a trial by jury to decide if I'm allowed to disinvite him from my BBQ.

In this case, it seems like a number of people in this community think Geoff is a first-rate asshole for publicly-known reasons. I have no knowledge of whether that's true or not - I've not reviewed the evidence. But a lot of people believe it, and those people don't want papers authored, co-authored, or believed to be authored, by Geoff in their conference. That seems reasonable, at least for people who believe the original allegations against Geoff.

(Disclaimer: there's some other bad stuff mentioned, like harassment of the author and some shitty assumptions that her own work was secretly Geoffs, and that's to be condemned, but that's separate from the main thrust of this post.)
Thanks for linking the graph, that's kind of wild. I agree with you that the lowest datapoint seems crazy. I can think of a few explanations.

- Random bad luck.

- As you say, failing to control for something -- although, if you then treat the lowest datapoint as being effectively the default risk, this would suggest support for radiation hormesis (that people who got a bit more than background radiation actually did better.)

- Some kind of data collection artifact. Perhaps the people with the absolute lowest dose, in a radiation-worker dataset, are selected for being ones who are not getting an accurate measurement (i.e. sloppy about wearing dose badges or something), and those people genuinely do have worse outcomes.
> many students in the program were already in private schools or home schools.

So the private schools raise tuition by $7,200 and everybody wins, right?
"What happens next" is mentioned a lot, but in my personal pessimistic barely-informed opinion we've already passed that.

Pole ice has not grown back enough; pole ice reflects heat back into space, while naked sea will absorb it.

Permafrost has been melting in the northern regions, making thousands of years of sequestered and frozen biomass defrost and decompose, releasing huge amounts of methane.

Sea flow (whatever it was called) that pulls warm water north and cold water south, balancing out temperatures, is slowing down because of heating up + desalinization (from melting glaciers). When I read about it years ago, it said that that's what causes an ice age (as in, ice sheets going south).
I once took down HN by submitting /topcolors. The moment it reached the front page, HN ground to a halt. I quickly fired off an email to sctb who cleared it up within a minute or two (by wiping it off the front page, not by fixing the caching, which is totally valid), otherwise it could have taken much longer to figure out what had happened.

Caching is a hard thing to get right. I try to use “vegeta attack” to load test pages as I make them, but the measurement is the problem. Unless you already have a profiling pipeline set up, it’s a bit hard to fix the issue quickly.

One trick is to comment out half the site in a binary fashion until it suddenly loads, then keep bisecting until it stops loading. It’s crude but only takes log(n) steps and can be done quickly. You’d have to do it in production, but it might be easier than guessing.
This is another piece of the puzzle climate change deniers don't understand (I am not calling you one btw). Of course these people are not going to stay there. We will see mass migration. It is easy to dismiss climate change by saying that life will go on. But we all know how the western societies view and treat migrants these days.
Sounds good, but I'm not interested in unilateral disarmament against monster sized vehicles and drivers being ever more distracted.
Maybe they care now. They certainly did not appear to care when my mailbox was getting spammed into uselessness by their customers.