skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YES, 100% same experience, at least with the first fella, and his brother. I don't know how many more times I have to tell Youtube that I'm not interested.

It's almost like the algorithm is constantly testing the waters just in case I'm suddenly more receptive to being radicalized into that particular world view.
A general solution would just be lukewarm for a lot of people.

A chemist might type "dropper" often, 'dp' while a bureaucrat might prefer "department"
Well, but underperforming and coasting could be enough to tip the scale in favor of making the employee redundant.
Not sure about America, but another option could be voluntary termination, which wouldn't give you severance but you'd be allowed to collect unemployment for some time.
'Failing the whole way up' is a bit too much.

Echo (and others) was actually successful back in the days, just not in the way Amazon envisioned. Commercially it didn't make sense for Amazon (I guess most ppl don't want to buy stuff over a speaker) but it can still be a great entry point for many other things, given the new AI progress.
You are decrying that comment but not Apartheid... so you must support Apartheid. ;)
> Aren't assassinations targeted by definition?

Sure. I should have said assassinations and targetted attacks. The video shows the ability to target specific races/genders/demographics.

> The drone is just a delivery mechanism for the ordinance, and good luck getting your hands on that.

I don't know why a shotgun cartridge could not be used in place of a shaped charge. Just pop down to your local Walmart.

You seem to be arguing that this work speculative fiction isn't interesting because we already have a huge number of ways to kill people, and that it's not currently possible. The point of this sort of fiction is to get us to imagine a world where these things are possible, where it is achievable.
Correction: He is under arrest in Romania but is from England and the U.S. I don't think the fine people of Romania would want you mistaking him for one of their own.
I’m the descendant of Indian immigrants, but is someone who grew up in North America, speaks English as my first language, and is very westernized—I wouldn’t even consider myself Indian to any respect, except for my heritage.

I’ve never experienced caste discrimination (through I think I come from a high caste). But, I recognize that my experience is likely different, and probably slanted by my caste status in comparison to recent Indian immigrants.

I was wondering if any other Indian diaspora or Indian immigrants to North America could chime in with what they’ve experienced: have you faced any caste discrimination?
That Wikipedia article is full of unverifiable bullshit, and I think you know it.

> I'd never believed that sending someone a pizza would qualify as an act of violence

It doesn't unless you interpret every instance of adversity as an attempt on your life.

Nobody trying to kill anybody sends a pizza, unless the intent is to induce poisoning or choking.

> [Wikipedia] Users also leaked sexually explicit photos of her

"Leaked" sounds so much worse than the truth of the photos being found on a 2257-compliant commercial porn site, which Keffals willingly worked as a onetime model for under a 4-letter pseudonym. To say they were "leaked" is being intentionally dishonest. They were available for sale, by the studio that took them. Users shared the preview images that were publicly posted, because nobody involved felt they were worth paying for.

Don't take my word for it; anyone can see for themselves-- they're helpfully posted in her KF thread, if the site is even up anymore.
I worked with de-identification of records - it was not only difficult, but also rewarding. The records were used in research, tied to other biomedical data.

Some of it was simply migration of encounter data +/- a date range, with removal of the obvious stuff, too.

Other was cool like NLP on doc notes to ensure stuff like “pt said the school shooting they got this wound from was..” (think: cohort sizes for major incidents are often small and therefore easy to re-id.)
Another entry for "things which make one feel old" (it definitely is a reference to that, and it absolutely needs explaining, but...), especially because:

a) I can't imagine more than a single-digit percentage of people on here were on Usenet, and

b) this is _exactly_ the sort of place which will have a wildly disproportionate number of old Usenet denizens; most places that single-digit percentage would be more like 0.0x% at most. (Other candidates; Dreamwidth, I reckon, probably Tumblr, and anyone who still unironically uses mailing lists).

In the earlyish 2000s, I gave a talk once to a bunch of more senior academics at the institution I was working at, the central thesis of which was "in about five years, you're gonna start getting undergraduates who have never known of a world where they couldn't cheat on their homework by cribbing Wikipedia".

This was a true – arguably, even insightful – observation at the time, but in retrospect, it's a charmingly quaint view of the future compared to where we are with ChatGPT. Eternal September is the same kind of deal; it contemplated the future through the lens of the present and, well, it _sort_ of got there, but it kind of missed the full existential horror of "your grandmother on Facebook".
I use a similar technique for typing all the symbols. If I press f I get f, r gives me r, but if I press f and r at the same time with my left index finger positioned between the two keys I get $. w and s are {, e and d are }.

All the other symbols, parens, etc. are mapped to similar one-finger-two-key shortcuts.

Significantly cut down on finger stretching which used to cause me mild pain.
I have disabled watch history and as much personal tailoring of the algorithm as I possibly can, to the point where my youtube main page is now completely empty, with just a prompt to enable watch history. I am now mostly free of those suggestions.

However, I do occasionally get flooded with "rabbit hole" video suggestions underneath a playing video. My personal experience is that it most often happens underneath mainstream news reporting from "reputable" sources (Reuters, etc.).

The most recent example was a news story about wildfires, where the first 20 recommendations underneath were exclusively China hysteria from far less "reputable" sources. Videos predicting imminent Chinese societal/political/economic collapse, or a major police state crackdown, or invasion, or about economic imperialism, etc. Personally, I think there's zero basis for any of that, but even if I had a more "mainstream" view that China is a peer competitor and that we're in a new Cold War, these videos would be radicalizing, and exclusively in a more aggressive direction.
> Doing their best to push adults out of being able to smoke

As they absolutely should.

Australia has a free health care system and smokers are disproportionate in their use of limited resources.
This would be primarily aimed at the large number of students who have to take organic chemistry as a requirement.

For organic chemistry graduate students and professional organic chemists, all this stuff will largely be so ingrained as to not to require these kinds of resources.

There are, however, a large number of people who are in chemistry fields who need occasional refreshers on introductory concepts and for that purpose, these are excellent.
In theory that would be protected by the second amendment but I'm not sure how it would go over in practice. I can't actually think of anything though, contractors in the middle east took out the fuel pump kill switch, removed the airbags, and sometimes did something to reinforce the frame rails, but that's pretty much it. A roll cage could work, but then you need a full face helmet and a HANS device. Sticking anything to the front of the car would probably just kill pedestrians.
Pascal's wager ends up very fun coupled with Monty Hall, such that as long as any religious belief can be falsified, if the primary motivation for belief is Pascal's wager, you should switch beliefs whenever any other belief which was around when you made your initial selection is falsified.

Thus given the number of failed doomsday cults regularly coming up short, anyone who has held beliefs for a few decades is due for a switch if they care about Pascal's wager.
It's hard to know what to mourn more here: the subsumption of NSU into Volkswagenwerke AG, or the demise of Citroën in the USA. Both manufacturers had genuinely fresh ideas; both provided truly mold-breaking machinery.
Cmon, TARS!

https://youtu.be/a3lcGnMhvsA?feature=shared
Funny thing to me is how so many Australians insist it's the best country in the world to live in, when most have barely traveled anywhere.
> If there is a god then humanity is probably something akin to an ant farm to it. To expect god to care about any particular person is like trying to care about one particular ant in a colony

That analogy doesn’t hold.

I have an ant farm.
But, I didn’t make the ants.

I notice people rarely think about both sides of the question.

That is, as an exercise, assume that there is a God. And, then based on what you know of the world, yourself, humanity, etc, what conclusions can you draw about the nature of God.

Messing around with Euclid’s postulates is similar. Start out by assuming, for instance, parallel lines always meet, or the angles of a triangle always exceed 180. Take those as givens and explore the ramifications.

You seem to be starting out with an assumption of God, but then immediately finding an apparent contradiction. “We’d just be like ants…” or, you might have said, “he couldn’t be both benevolent and Omnimpotent due to burned up babies, etc”

That’s no different being asked to omit one of Euclids postulates and then complaining that the whole system gaps apart. Well, it doesn’t. In fact, such seemingly absurd exercises can lead to profound insights about the universe (spherical remotely, relativity, imaginary numbers).

Pascal did this.

He assumes there is a god, and then explored what that must mean. He didn’t assume there was a god and then Look for ways to disprove him… that’s backwards. If you truly wish to explore, you assume God exists and try to figure out how this world could possibly make sense given that assumed fact.
No more swearing to noobs that are camping from now onwards…
In one sense, that’s how people talk to each other. The reporter is based “growing” off of people talking about it. It’s sort of unclear how many people need to talk about a thing for it to be part of culture? Or if these articles should even exist in the world of interconnectivity? But our lives are online now — this is a quote from a “man on the street”.
In the first handout, any idea what this sentence means?:

> For organic chemistry is NEON or 8 valence electrons is key.

I can't tell if I just don't know ochem or what.
It doesn’t have to be this way. It didn’t used to be this way. Rent control helps not just renters but keeps runaway property values from occurring due to renters. Without control to keep the industry from raising rents to 99% of what you can afford, we’ll continue to see what you describe. If I know humanity, it’s that they will always find the next sucker.
All of the topics in these handouts are the kind of general knowledge that you'd get in a college undergraduate chemistry program, so it would all be familiar, i.e. if you encountered it you'd know where to look up more specific information on your particular problem.

However, a lot of the databases and tools needed to do analysis, say of an unknown compound, aren't readily available to the public, it's often curated proprietary libraries of things like spectra data, for example this is a short interesting discussion of the software used to match an unknown sample to a reference in a library, which I think might now be applying AI approaches as well:

https://youtu.be/_BHhbg9Bv9Q

Usually you're working on some specific problem, and thus you need access to the historical chemical literature on that problem, which as often as not is hidden behind paywalls and not available on sci-hub or similar, so you need access to a university library or similar to get all the old papers (especially their materials/methods/results) on the topic. Industrial chemistry advances might not even be published over IP concerns, which I guess is somewhat like Nvidia proprietary GPU drivers.

Highly specific software and programming information is certainly a lot more accessible, everything that's highly specific in chemistry is often harder to find and/or costs money to access.
> As they absolutely should.

No, they shouldn't, lol. No excuse for it at all.

> Australia has a free health care system and smokers are disproportionate in their use of limited resources.

Many countries have a similar health system, and there are other solutions that don't impact liberty like taxing cigarettes and putting that money back into the health system. Which is already done of course, making your argument moot.
The hilarious thing is that even the hugely expanded post-Eternal September Usenet lot (hi!) are a vanishingly small percentage now :)
Scrum can produce something out of nothing. Kanban can allow nothing to persist.

If a team is very low performing, scrum is great. Once they're high performing, drop the routine and let them practice Kanban.
Is a disk image that includes Linux and some proprietary software sketchy?

I don't really see the difference-- as long as you have tools to pull apart the disk image.
So, it works like the HN bookmarklet?
Ikclaks has been doing something interesting on top of their magic sturdy keyboard layout layout
https://github.com/Ikcelaks/keyboard_layouts/blob/main/magic...
These kinds of appliances were old school in Hawaii when I was a kid 60+ years ago. Almost everyone used/uses them as rice cookers; my mom had a large family-size model. Maybe using them for other things is what's new. I have a smaller Panasonic version that I still use multiple times a week that goes back at least to my college days. I had to replace the plug and repair the handle on the cover, but otherwise it works fine. The removable cooking pot depresses a spring-loaded heating element in the bottom of the outer container when the pot is placed inside; somehow the weight of the contents conditions how long the thing cooks before it shuts itself off (my cooker has no timer or temperature dials, just on/off.) However it works, it's very simple.

(Off topic a little, but old appliances seem to last longer for being simpler. I have a washer/drier combo that's 29 years old; all they've needed were new belts around 10 years ago. My fridge is also 29 years old and works fine - does nothing but keep food cold, doesn't even have an ice dispenser.)
For me, due to health reasons/disability, it’s got to be 100% remote.
People have lived through plague, famine, mass deaths caused by invasion, etc and still manage to raise and pass the torch to the next generation.

Get over yourself.
What an unwieldy headline.
> Ask yourself if an infrastructure company should be forced against its will to support this.

Come on, that is the literal fucking purpose of infrastructure. Water/sewage doesn't get to refuse to flush my toilet because the content of my stool doesn't meet their nutritional expectations.
I think it's time to acknowledge that "when searched" should really (statistically, if not in this case) mean "when searched on google.com which happens to share some stuff with youtube"

The search results on google have been abysmal for very long; they might be harder to study for outsiders (no good indicators like popularity on individual links) but I wouldn't be surprised if they're just as bad an influence as youtube algos.
“an interest in critiques of feminism could lead to men’s rights and then white supremacy”

What a rabbit hole!
NZ didn't prosecute anyone for only watching the video. Some were prosecuted for sharing (edit: or possessing) it though. One ended up with jail time[0].

[0] Philip Arps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Arps
> I'd rather get tased than have a photo of me in high heels.

When it comes to being forced to do something for a job I’d personally rather be compelled to do the thing that creates evidence that I can later rely on in a lawsuit than get shot with the excruciating pain gun.
I wonder how much of this perception is based on the observer’s age. To me “trucks have gotten so much bigger than I remember” but what I think of as my formative car years were late 90s, so of course that is how it feels… it’s for sure true that rigs have ballooned since ‘95. It’s not necessarily true they have since 2015?
Feel free to check my post history for signs of authenticity. And while you're at it, consider re-reading the HN commenting guidelines[0].

I understand that the glowing reccomendation is unusual and out of place. But we're in a world where it's increasingly difficult to find decent retailers and even more difficult to find decent authentic reviews. If there's something that I know is amazing quality, I'm going to tell people because I'd like them to tell me about great retailers and brands that they love.

In short, your criticism is useful feedback -- it's nice to know how my comment is received. But in all honestly I knew it sounded like a shill and I didn't really care because I truly believe in what I'm recommending and I think a lot of people here will love them. A more useful comment would tell me how I could change what I wrote to feel to feel more appropriate for HN while still communicating the important information about the brand.

That said, I am going to edit it to say that I have the Tatung steamer and I've not been impressed by it because I don't actually know how to use it and I don't often cook the type of foods that are most appropriate for it. I also upvoted the counterpoints from 'boomboomsubban

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
If the study was done collecting data post 2020, and YouTube announced changes in 2019, then what use does the study genuinely have? Potentially the changes YouTube have made are successful vaguely but again no data prior to compare it to.

Would have liked to see deeper dives into specific demographics, concerning both older generations who have more free time, as well as 13-18 year olds. Both groups are hypothetically vulnerable to such content for a variety of reasons and usually without proper supervision.
It's a mess on Desktop as well, I couldn't click on a single video link
You won't get a source because it belies a fundamental misunderstanding of New Zealand law and attitudes towards censorship.

In NZ we have the Classification Office. This is the government organisation that classifies publications (books, movies, games, even technically websites IIRC?). The Classification Office issues a rating (PG, M, R16, R18, etc.) and it is a crime to provide restricted publications to people that are under the restricted age.

It takes quite a lot to get a publication outright banned. In some cases the Chief Censor will issue it a "only at film festivals and academic settings" rating.

Note: only egregious distribution tends to get any attention, let alone prosecution. People importing objectionable material for sale, that sort of thing. Back in the day when video stores were still a thing, 15 year olds would rent R18 porn and no one went to jail.

Yes, CSAM is the sort of thing that would be rated objectionable (I.e. banned) but the NZ censorship regime is not "CSAM laws", it is much broader and more comprehensive than that.

In this case the Chief Censor banned the Christchurch shooting video because of the harm that its distribution would do to the community [1]. This sort of decision is normal and expected in NZ.

The rest of the world does not look like the US. We don't need to bend laws past their original intention when we already have a functional system for dealing with these kind of issues.

(I'm sure someone will pipe up to tell me I'm a slave in Stalinist Russia because I can't watch snuff films.)

[1]: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/397953/charges-laid-in-3...
Me: “Here’s my experience so far.”

You: “Your statistical methods are flawed.

Me: “???”
https://synthmodes.com

Cheat sheets for multi-mode eurorack synthesizer modules. Before I made this the standard was to have a binder you flip through when going deep on a module
I prefer in -person jobs. I would take a remote job for a substantial wage increase wherein I can afford a bigger space/ an extra room to work from, along with an additional premium.
Politics is preference, little to do with truth.
>And if that's hard for me as an overpaid tech worker,

What's your salary compared to the median household income in your area? How do other people make it work?
the intended use of this engine is in vehicles that ain't far from strapping your arse to a roller skate.

Which i now want very much to do. I know I do not have any need to, much less any resources to dedicate to it, but ooo i want to make such a vehicle fly around the gravel roads here for a bit.
I read white noise first by a few years and found it much more enjoyable. I remember a few parts of underworld, and I definitely annotated it a bit, but I don't find it broadly memorable or formative. (Judging by some receipts I left in it, I probably read it in fall 2010. I probably read white noise in 06-07ish?)

That said, I don't give it unqualified recs. It's a good rec if you enjoy other postmodern fiction. It and Catch-22 are my two favorite recs if you haven't read any postmodern fiction but are curious.

If you know you hate postmodern or otherwise self-aware fiction, feel free to skip it.
Isn’t Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister from an OBC? I don’t think he makes a secret of it
I just started a robot to clean a particular room with my voice. Alexa is useful!
In that case, should they compile against an ASL header, or is there something with linking and kernel modules I’m not grasping?
I'm lucky enough to not (yet) see the first person, but I occasionally see Canadian academic guy. Not sure how many times I have to click "Don't recommend this channel" before they get the hint.
This could be a good coffee table book.
Don’t forget to leave a tip too!
If there is any genetic component to wanting children, this will hopefully work itself out over a few generations as the bloodlines of people that don't want children die off.
If I was a hotel chain, I’d pay one of the front desk folks another $50 to throw up a TikTok.
This is something I would love to see open sourced but I know that’s not going to happen.
All depends on what you’re doing… sometimes people have to write, like, css.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36274525
As my other reply states, this is a complete misunderstanding of the situation in NZ. Either you are ignorant of the NZ context, or wilfully ignoring it.

Please stop.
Crime, including murder, has existed since ages. Human civilization has created the justice system to deal with that.

Crime existing is no reason to strip away our rights by dismantling due process and the rule of law.
Does that mean you can upload any old junk to prevent the account being deleted?