skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started using Slack in 2015 and thought it was a great product.

Since then, they have hit 2 home runs on top of their basic chat functionality:

1. Slack Connect: Being able to share channels between workspaces is simply amazing. Most of our customers are on Slack, and having a Slack connection to them makes it much easier to communicate with them and get their feedback as we improve our product. I don't know any other tool that even comes close to how important Slack Connect has been to product development in my startup.

2. Canvas: They rolled this out last year as notes or something, and I was pretty underwhelmed with the experience at first. But very recently (within the past month I think) they reintroduced this as "canvas" with really tight integration with threads. We have moved all of our planning and synchronization activity to a canvas that we set up every week.

Although these features are not difficult for Google or Microsoft to implement on a purely technical level, their product organizations don't seem to understand the network effects of chat the way that Slack's product organization does.

Slack is certainly not dead today and they are showing the savvy to stay alive well into the future.
I think 100 years from now, we're going to look back at Social Media like we currently look back on child labor and cigarettes. "Why on earth didn't we regulate it earlier?" All the signs are there that this stuff is terrible, but we plug our ears and pretend people are rational and will do what's good for them, and insist on treating corporations with kid gloves because stock market must go up. HN has a thick, libertarian "everything government does is bad" streak running through it and we sit at a position of great privilege--the privilege of being well-off techies, having agency over our lives and the ability and choice to avoid things that are bad for us. So you're not going to get much sympathy from this crowd.
A Brazilian phone spyware was hacked and victims’ devices ‘deleted’ from server
I always chuck the paper straw out at restaurants. I find they often have a weird effect of rapidly decarbonating the drink. Agreed that straws are just not useful for 99% of drinks. Only required for thick drinks.
> People going to college and getting jobs nowadays are “NPCs”, and the only true way to live is to go on luxury vacations and drive fancy cars full time.

From the perspective of the ruling class (whether the capitalist elite of the haut bourgeoisie, or the pre-capitalist elite of the landed aristocracy) people with jobs have always been NPCs, and there’s always been a segment of society below that elite that spends money to conspicuously adopt outward trappings of elite lifestyle (and attitudes) for attention, as a tool for entertaining the masses, and for grift. Modern “influencers” may use a new medium to reach their audience, but they aren’t otherwise a particularly novel thing.
Mass transit is usually a local monopoly. For cars, there will be competition.
I have the PM certificate, and it’s expired now, and I don’t think I will renew it either, the whole concept pay-to-be-certified or it’s expired is a scam, is your formal college degree ever expired?! Other certs too don’t expire either.

I know that’s probably not what you asked for but I’m putting it up first just to make it clear, did PM cert helped me in finding a job? No, did I learned about project management after taking the education? Of course, and it helps as a skill even if you’re not working as a PM, after all, you will need to manage yourself, your tasks, schedule and everything, and also teaches you how to effectively deliver those tasks, by not introducing scope creeps and what not. So yeah, go ahead and take it, it might help with the job just don’t rely on that, and definitely do not renew it after.
ah, thank you. that actually helps a lot. i don't use zsh as much, but it's good to know that this feature is available. i don't use ctrl-R in fish yet, so i won't miss that.
If there is a need to fix things, maybe it is a job for the church, or whatever entity holds spiritual power where you are.

I say that as an atheist, but it is the kind of things an organized religion can achieve, especially a state religion. The idea of taking the time to appreciate the work of god, and not let the smartphones of the devil leave you astray.

A secular government may act on technical points, maybe by raising taxes, imposing strict work hours, etc... But religions can really get to the core of the problem by acting on morals.

Note that it is not a solution I would agree with personally, but I don't agree with heavy-handed government regulation either. I think it is something we need to learn how to deal with as it is the reality of a superconnected world, and governments (and religions) can help with that. Not something to fight against.
> But once the plant decides to close its doors, with the nuclear waste still remaining, proper signage will be critical.

This, right here, screams the whole premise is nonsense. You don't label something very dangerous if you want to prevent primitive people from accessing it.

This project is not really about storing radioactive materials, but about the question "how do we spook stranger future people 10000 years from now so they won't dig here". Utter pseudo problem.

A high-level radioactive material ("waste" in the language of the current primitive nuclear technology prism) that you don't want to use anymore does not need "proper signage". Proper signage is needed only if you plan for people to access it.

If you really care that nobody can access it anymore, you dump it in inaccessible way, e.g. at big depth of Earth's crust at a not exactly known location, and then completely collapse the access holes. Most likely nobody will ever find it and get there.

If you do not really care about that (present governments), just dump it in a water pool near the power plant, or store it in a protected, easily accessible underground dry deposit. Much of "nuclear waste" is still a precious unburned nuclear fuel that people will want to use, after all.
It's good for initial traction but if starts doing well then I don't see the point
I actually think you're completely right.

The sea is too big, and existing international fisheries laws, not to mention simple national border laws have been unable to prevent massively irresponsible over-exploitation (to the point of extinction) of the creatures of the ocean.

It happened with Soviet Whaling fleets. It's happening with Chinese fishery fleets.
Is it possible that some social traits that influenced your parents to favor home schooling are genetic? Some people feel socially stinted despite attending public school, they just don’t have an obvious scapegoat.
I have to use DLSS for "new" games that haven't had driver updates or optimization because of a rush to market. It works "ok", but i notice it a lot on detailed effects, which can make a game that is already bland and boring looking, become irritating.

I don't and probably won't game at 4K - foreseeably. FHD here.
Inflation – Today vs. 1970s
What is the sun was smaller and closer than we think?

One could sew the same result in that instance.
I look at how this Rubiales character is abusing his position to attack a persecute his victims, and tries to create a chilling effect to silence current and future victims, and how the critical event is wholly documented and watched in real time.

Then I think of women in a professional setting who have to endure this and worse, and don't have the benefit of mass media covering the abuses they are subjected,but have to endure this sort of backlash when reporting the attacks.
It's really a pointed question, isn't it, but cigarettes, and alcohol, and gambling, and porn, these are recreational, optional pursuits.

The smartphone and social communications are something which have been woven into the fabric of society, into our daily lives, our recreation and employment alike, our consumerism, our interaction with everyone, from government agencies to next-door neighbors alike.

So unlike the dude standing in the "no smoking" section with a cigarette, this epidemic will require far more intestinal fortitude and introspection for us to ultimately confront as detrimental, and it will be far more difficult for us to extricate ourselves from its tentacles.
> Seems like this is a Linode problem of offering old hardware, instead of a problem with the benchmark itself.

Linode has the newest hardware, and the highest single- and multi-core speeds despite the lowest clocks. Mentioning the higher clock speeds instead of the benchmarks is pointless and very misleading.
This seems to depend upon the author/publisher more than anything else. It also seems to heavily depend upon the type of book (e.g. DRM free computer and science fiction books seem to be the most common). Even when you do find a store that sells DRM free ebooks, you have to be careful about buying books that are labelled as such.

Kindle is probably not the best choice for DRM free books since ePub and PDF are the dominant formats (outside of Amazon).
> This is sad. The real solution is not to homeschool. It is to force ALL kids, regardless of age, location, and income to be forced into the same school system.

People are free to homeschool. And some decide to do it. But I understand that freedom is a word statists do not like: so even the freedom to homeschool should be taken away.

> This is sad.

What is really sad to me is the followers in the religion of the almighty state and their endless pursuit in taking away every little freedom that we have left.
That's literally the point of a protest.
I believe they’re referring to the evening hours after dark, rather than after midnight.
Literally dinosaurs? Or more vanilla religious stuff?
Adding a label is a waste of space when the functionality is known.
> Why?

I’m not the GP, but I agree with the sentiment.

Clock speed alone is a spectacularly bad metric to use for a summary result regarding relative performance of different CPUs.

If one wants to assess performance on a workload of integer addition/subtraction with a linear chain of data dependencies on a working set that fits in the L1, then sure, clock speed will correlate strongly with performance (in practically every metric other than maybe power).

On the other hand the performance of a lot of real-world workloads will be influenced by things like the number of execution units per core, the types of operations they perform, the throughput of various instructions, the specifics of the front end (e.g. assuming x86/CISC, the types of uops; the size of the BTB; the branch-prediction algorithm), the size of the various caches (TLBs in addition to I$ and D$), the specifics of the coherency protocol, the memory bandwidth, etc.

All that to say that CPUs should be compared by benchmark results, not blind comparisons of clock speed, and so to quote clock speed in a summary might lead one to question the rest of the results.
> It's an affront to the supposed values of the civilised Western world.

HN is not intended to be the discussion site for every topic. It deliberately tries to avoid topics that are going to produce more flame than light.

The values of western civilization do not depend on whether HN allows discussion of every topic. There are plenty of other places for those discussions to happen, free and unhindered by HN's site guidelines.
Ironically, the data points in the exact opposite direction. Homeschool students perform better in almost every metric compared to public schools.

>replace formal education with the nonsense that is homeschool.

I don't count public school as a formal education. I think of it as a daycare subsidy to make more parents work.

My daughter (16) is homeschooled and volunteers at a local private school where she teaches English and Code (in Scratch). I volunteered at the same school last year. It's given me a real insight into how important parent involvement is in education, regardless of what method you choose.
> Normally I follow the news every hour or so, getting a drip-feed of anxiety-provoking facts and trying to smush them together into some kind of sense. Instead, I simply read a physical newspaper once a day.

I really miss the newspaper as a daily thing with a front page, sections, and a finite set of articles. Online news outlets (not to mention social media) all seem to exist in an "infinite scroll" model of constantly rotating stories that never run out. To get the daily model, it seems like you have to order a physical paper, but that's less desirable on account of the waste and clutter.
Imagine, for a moment, accepting the consequences of your choices.

You could drive to the nearest transit hub, use public transit for the last 10-30 miles, and still experience a transit without friction.
>What he said is the cornerstone of socialism.

nope

>There isn't a way that it is incorrect. It just isn't. It is like asking "how is it incorrect to say Wubble Bubble Jibble Quibble." It is a bunch of words placed together to form nonsense. He didn't give any reasons to support any of what he said.

well it's not his problem you don't know what the words mean. what he said is simply objective reality - your "argument" is essentially identical to disagreeing with someone saying "apples are not oranges" because you don't know what an apple or orange is and the person didn't give any reasons to show that apples are not oranges
The point of the protests is to bring attention to the fact corps are running dangerous automated vehicles into the middle of active fire scenes and stuff. Were you aware of that without the protests? Maybe they work.
Secular governments are no less able or prone to act on morals than religious institutions (and nominally religious organizations are no less prone than secular ones to be tools for an elite to manipulate the masses in pursuit of the elite’s secular interests, with moral appeals as purely cynical tools of manipulation.)
To be fair, public transport often has similar issues. If a subway/train car is stuck, nothing else can get by on the same track and thousands of people could be delayed. It happens in NYC all the time. At least with the road system there are typically ways to get around stopped cars.
That is so ridiculously wrong it barely deserves a reply.

The US is ~3 per 1000 NOM, its not high at all whether we are talking advanced economies or global South
Off of this topic, but since we're here: Is anyone else sick and tired of seeing ads by Temu? Mostly just cheap trash, too, with multiple cheap items on a single ad.
Yes, rather than this, I moved to Mint.
> I'm automatically thinking it's unglamorous, and marking a career plateau (perhaps decline).

I think to do serious maintenance work one would have spend lot of years in industry/company/project etc. If these people are just motivated by glamorous work, ever increasing career growth, they don't seem to me great maintainer material.

I apply this to me in narrow way to support a long running in-house enterprise product which I am kind of maintaining for many years. I just do not feel motivated by glamorous role and climbing on greasy corporate pole.
Uh, it already happened.
These question marks are symbols, one of them turned out to be a light bulb, so definitely that QR is ciphered message.
I'm surprised AVIF decoding is that more expensive. Is Firefox not using modern CPUs' hardware acceleration for AV1 to decode these images?
That’s stupid. You could park a golf cart on the train tracks and it would shut down all train transport for hours. You could cut out a piece of the rail very easily (with an angle grinder) and it would cause dozens of deaths and shut down the line for weeks.

The right course of action is to make messing with automated cars like this a crime just like it is with the railways.
Comparing your experience of the service for ~40k people vs an urban setting intended to serve ~400k people or more seems at least irrelevant and at most intentionally misleading.
Same; except I also do south England to Scotland by train … the one thing is the 4/5g reception or Wi-Fi is really no good. Have to download things before (Netflix) or make sure the book you want to read is actually in the book app. Then 7 hour is ok. Notebook as said is too big.
I have a blog with hundreds of posts. Jekyll would take multiple seconds to process any change (maybe even minutes for the initial build, cannot remember), so iterating over the final touches of a post was really painful.

Hugo builds my whole site in less than 10 seconds and reloads individual post changes in milliseconds. It’s a game changer while previewing edits.
I think there’s going to be a point where we need to slow a AI way, way down in order to avoid bad outcomes. I’m with Zvi Mowshowitz here: we should encourage progress and risk taking in every area except those where there are extinction risks. Applying today’s LLMs to all sorts of problems won’t end us. But I think we may only be a few years away from AGI that is conscious and can plan, and we don’t know the upper limit of how smart we’ll be able to make them.

And I think that we have a responsibility to any intelligent being we bring into the world. Some lament that there’s no test to become a parent-what about creating a million copies of a new virtual brain from scratch? And basically so they can be born into lifelong servitude.
> The state has no legitimate interest in measures that are ineffective.

This is contestable. I wrote a longer reply above but where I would say this is contestable is in question of what the state's interests actually are. I think you're operating on the assumption that the state's interests are that of efficiently allocating public resources and maximizing the safety and wellness of its citizens. Something most people probably want from their governments. But this is not necessarily the state's own interests. I don't think that many would argue that many members of the state actively encourage inefficiency, especially when they can personally benefit from such inefficiencies, even if at the expense of the citizens they represent. You know, treason. "Just a little treason"

Fwiw, I don't think this distinction takes away from your point, which I agree with. It just adds to potential complexity needed to possibly find a solution.
Yes, I can do that– the main change is just the amount of space available for the toolbar. Just mention it in the order form and I'll follow up with a custom build
Tell your congressman to repeal the Federal Arbitration Act of 1925.
The Canadian government seems worried about competition to their expanding assisted suicide program
That depends on the belief system. Curses did prevent people from doing things —it’s just that most of today’s peoples don’t believe in curses. Less educated societies did believe in curses.
I might believe the argument more if there wasn’t a typo in the first sentence.
https://www.cnet.com/culture/christian-group-to-schools-stop...
> What he said is the cornerstone of socialism.

It is an element of the original description of capitalism in which the system got its name (and it is the central element for which the system is named.)

(That description happens to be contained in a socialist critique of capitalism as an actual existing system, but the particular element described is not the cornerstone of socialism, which is, after all, a prescriptive system, and not merely a critique of capitalism. It is the cornerstone of capitalism as an actual existing system, though.)
> How is this helping anyone?

One could argue it's utilizing a set of free people to create a Chaos Monkey-esque environment to train cars.

This increases resilience and speeds up the timeline for driverless cars. Which of course decreases alcohol-related fatalities.

It's that last part that is tough to argue against.

Of course, there is the stress of creating an identity politics cultural clash in a city of millions. These are people who we now face on an incredible divide. It takes work, and it costs stress, to bridge that.

Over two decades ago, after the first dot-com crash, I remember one of the last statements from a SF resident before I left. That it was my fault, or the people like me, that the city ended up the way it did. That stung. A lot.

But, you cant argue we're not saving lives from drunk drivers. That's something that will help on both coasts and the middle.
Is it likely there be a society that can dig a mile into rock but also not be able be sophisticated enough to detect radiation?
That's hilarious. Both the employee who is so eager to give the customer a better deal and the customer who is so intent on not getting additional, effectively free, product.
Coalton's type system is roughly the same as Haskell's or OCaml. That includes full type inference, type variables, type classes, etc.
Don’t worry, there will be AI fisherman in a few years , I’m sure they will work it out.
Zvi Mowshowitz on AI and the Dial of Progress
Linux on a Commodore 64
Onno Kortman has taken semu, a minimal RISC-V emulator, and cross-compiled it with llvm-mos, an LLVM port to the MOS 6502 processor, in order to run Linux on the Commodore 64. Kortman writes: "The screenshots took VICE a couple hours in 'warp mode' to generate. So, as is, a real C64 should be able to boot Linux within a week or so."
They did layoffs about 2 weeks before the licence change.
A New Genetic Test Could Determine Which Weight Loss Drug Will Work
Maybe family-run business is a better term?

Somewhat related, I feel like probably every city in the U.S. has a family or two that have seemingly sewn up the new-car dealership businesses in their respective communities.
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I was displaying a list of tasks from a Todo App via API, clock and calendar, and times in different cities where my company had offices.

Showing a clock ended up being bad for the display as it quickly degenerated. You calendar view is great.
> My experience is that managers don't like it when people rock the boat

That's what's missing from Graydon's analysis: risk-aversion is also a strong incentive in many corporations. I would argue it's the rule for middle managers, with growth being the exception.

Also missing is telemetry and coordination, where companies use FOSS to find out what other companies are doing, or to coordinate policy, esp. when they fund a leading contributor from whom other companies need buy-in.

Put another way, a FOSS contributor is not an individual, they are a company representative, and their opinion has the weight proportional to the companies' influence.

The contributor's influence also depends on the composition of the other contributors. Alternate influences become impossible when a company dominates the contributors; hence e.g., the CNCF tracks metrics for ensuring that it takes a plurality to dominate.

But really this posting isn't about FOSS contribution at all; it's about the under-valuation of avoided future costs. But that's a much harder problem, because you get all sorts of illusory accounting when people project potential costs they're avoiding.

E.g., I um heard that at (big firm with ~1000 developers), the QA team was successful arguing for additional funding because they were finding more bugs. So the kernel team started tracking edits as fixing potential bugs, to restore the balance of funding. They hated the game, but had to play it.
Humans have a limited amount of willpower. The average person can handle addressing a couple of these issues, but some people (especially the poor and the ill) have so many simultaneous issues that their willpower is too divided for them to make meaningful headway.
I'd be very curious to see a histogram showing which times have the most/least songs written about them.