skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Odd, something similar just happened to me for the first time.

Amazon says they delivered my package, but their picture confirmation of delivery wasn't even my package. I looked outside and couldn't find the package anyway.

If I wanted to mark the package as lost, Amazon says to wait three days as if the package will magically manifest itself. Amazon also says to ask all my neighbors as if delivering my package to someone else is expected.

Lo and behold, the correct package was delivered on the third day without any notification whatsoever.

The fact that the correct package was eventually delivered seems to indicate that Amazon knows there's a discrepancy between their internally- and externally-facing systems and they've built a bunch of speed bumps (like a three-day waiting period) to reduce customer discontent.
There are reasons from an economical point of view why a shrinking population isn't great. So they may see it as a problem that needs correcting.
and also spinning up additional instances on the backend
When I read this quote I cannot help but think of the millions received from Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine by the Bidens.
It did, but only as a test. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-49
I've been observing a pattern that I've been trying to articulate here and I can best describe as a framework where stuff 'comes to you' whereas the Internet for a long time was an enabler of 'you go to stuff'. The pendulum swung back, thanks to ad tech, and centralization, that have or are trying to orchestrate a culture shift. Okay, here are some concrete examples.

1. Television/cable (absent a TiVo type device), things come to you (ads and programming were fixed and you had to conform to their schedule back in the not-so-old days). Early 2000s, we could download content (illegally), we could pay for Netflix to send us DVDs of our choosing, and the algorithm was benevolent: its recommendations were superb.
Russian and French directors I positively rated -- ratings 1 through 5 stars plus a written review were permitted back then -- opened my world to suggestions for other movies that I got to select. Today, Netflix/HBO/etc display a limited UI set of options, highly hyped shows and movies shown repeatedly, and it now Comes To You. You have a tiny bit of choice, but not much.

2. Google search. Before, it was a resource for you to customize and find what you wanted: information about medicine, a product, or a store. Now, it Comes To You. You search for thing X, you end up in a rabbit hole of Y and Z topics or things, and a lot of things seem algorithmically generated or manufactured to steer you rather than help you.

There are many many patterns like this, from news searches to even tech problem searches and articles. Don't even get started on product comparisons. It's scary I can't even search on medicine interactions (I add reddit to the search field).

I should add, web sites all have their own mobile app so you get trapped, they can steer you, and you can't control ads, the UI, cut and paste, and so on. Thanks, world in which Things Come to Us now.

Such as it is: a heavy weight on pulling and steering us, and new generations growing up on phones not knowing it could be different.

Phones are an extension of our organ senses now. How will a world in which Things Come to Us and We Dont Go to Things anymore affect us cognitively long-term?
https://web.archive.org/web/20230831161113/https://chrlschn....
And Docker Hub is the default repository where images are fetched from when you do

docker pull ubuntu

Which doesn't feel right. I wish the hub URL was mandatory.
Ironically, the narrative of "right wing rabbit hole leads people to <whatever scary bad thing>" is itself far more concerning to me for the stability and functioning of the US.

I frequently talk to people across the full spectrum of political beliefs, and something that's become very clear to me is that there is almost no overlap between "what Republican-voters want" and "what liberals think Republican-voters want".

I read online that everyone who voted for Trump is a Nazi full of hate for everyone different from them. Then I talk to Trump voters in real life and they're generally decent people worried about their jobs and the safety of their kids who just have different ideas of how to solve problems and different priorities for which problems are most important than I (a purely Democrat voter) do.

The "rabbit hole" might be a problem, but the "shining a magnifying glass on the 0.0001% of people at the bottom of the hole" problem is bigger.
Noticed a typo after the edit window passed. Nor* not not.
Kora: A Cloud-Native Event Streaming Platform for Kafka [pdf]
That's an internal matter. The supplier needs to include the customer's order number anyway or no one in the company will know how to deal with the invoice. That number will be linked to the person who raised the order.
Meta comment that is probably borderline HN guidelines, but I think different because I'm honestly looking for information rather than just bitching.

I can't stand when websites pop up those near full-screen things like that asking me to subscribe or put my email in or something. I haven't even finished the article! I couldn't because you blocked it. I could click the X and finish reading, but lately I won't, I just hit Ctrl+W.

Has anybody seen the data behind those? Do they actually work? Given how often I see them used and how nearly every marketing site on the planet includes them (and generally marketing is a very data-driven field), I would think they must be effective, but it's just so counter-intuitive to me that interrupting somebody's flow would make them more likely to subscribe to you.
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Where did 𝕏 get the money to buy a startup? The stories I've found said it was acquired for cash and equity, and Laskie had been funded to the tune of $6 million. https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2023/05/16/twitter...
I don't include HN as 'social media' either mostly because it doesn't constantly ping me when I get a reply. I have to check manually. It also don't change much so checking it once or twice a day for ten minutes isn't a big deal.

I feel if we include things like HN as social media then we need to include Newsgroups/BBS, Forums of the late 90s, etc. and literally every site online where a person can post a comment.

Perhaps technically they are all social media but to me when someone says 'social media' I think of the never ending feed of content that is manipulated to keep you coming back like a drug along with notifications about every "like" or comment or retweet (or whatever we call them now), etc.
There is a huge leap from "Infinite growth is not possible" to we're about to hit a wall.

And I don't know how capitalism demands more growth, it just provides more growth which is why capitalism is successful at things like reducing poverty.
Just as long as you recognize that if the worker/retiree ratio gets significantly out of whack, the demand for services needed by retirees is going to massively outstrip supply supply so inflation is going to kill any retirement savings you're planning on.

If you're directly or indirectly working on that problem somehow, you're probably doing far more good for future humans than you would just by having kids.
Where did you get 98% from?
To me, this entire story was about HashiCorp updating their TOS without changing the "updated date" - which to me is reason enough to drop use of all products from a company. That being said, it does look like the updated date has been modified to reflect the change. So maybe it's not so "silent" anymore, or maybe they changed it because of the backlash here.
Yes I've done a lot of customer discovery interviews in this space, and what resonates is a quote: "People like spending their money, not spending time with it."

Outside of people who money manage for a living, most analysis tools seem to fit into a "low frequency, low pain" problem for individuals in the "retail" segment. UHNW have so many assets they need tailored help. And people with huge pain in debt don't have much time, or lack the wherewithal to manage spreadsheets or analysis apps.
They did but couldn't detect the fungus from that so they proceeded to the biopsy. The surgeon said that the cerebral spinal fluid can get filtered quite a bit by the time it gets to the area where they do the tap which was why they couldn't detect it using that method.
Or we could opt to care for our elderly and encourage compassion and empathy instead of shaming and stigma.
Fair point on design - I was thinking more of implementation, and should have worded it more clearly.
Police follow orders. For example, it's pretty obvious that in London they've been ordered by the powers that be to be very lenient to Just Stop Oil when they block roads over and over and over again.

Meanwhile, also in the UK, a lone anti-abortion campaigner has been arrested on more than one occasion for silent prayer outside an abortion clinic.

Under normal circumstances, it seems reasonable to limit protest in locations where patients visiting the clinic could be directly harassed, but at the same time, other protesters are permitted to repeatedly cause traffic chaos all over London, and are disrupting major events with no indication of any particularly harsh consequences.
I do not think that is what the author intended - "You want your home country to do well but at the same time you are hyperaware of its numerous deficiencies."

I am aware of the deficiencies, but also very aware of the progress being made. There is no magic wand to wave to make people not be like people and change a vast, diverse population into something they are not.
How are they going to collect employment data? Just ask their users, or harvest it from other sources?
Parkinson’s breakthrough as blood test could help develop cure
A full on chat program is more of an active pastime, whereas mastodon I choose to browse now and then throughout the day, and don't expect replies or reactions to be necessarily the same day, just 'whenever'. Perhaps that's why it skews so Gen-X older.
The deeper problem here is that review sites don't work well for things as personal as books. I've read many books based on excellent reviews in amazon, and hated many of them. Most people don't have the same taste as me. Likewise many people hate the books I love, and give one star reviews to them.

What's the solution to this?
It's weird to admit, but ever since Twitter jumped the shark LinkedIn has become my main replacement. Closest thing to vaguely broad views and updates from people most of which I know to some degree.

It _is_ cringe, but not the stuff my "network" writes, and not really based on writing style, for the most part. It's mostly just the sponsored and boosted stuff. That also wasn't my favourite content on Twitter.

If X tries to become LinkedIn, it sounds like their major opportunity is to become the worst of both worlds. And what Elon thought was "cool" in the past was, at least in my opinion, mostly not.
It's like buying a car seat from the repair shop and then saying "well, I'll just build the rest of the car around it, easy".
I assume you're talking about Société Générale? I've experienced that, and what's worse it's that's it's broken on purpose. A joint bank account doesn't require the people to be married, let alone to share names. But if they tick the married box, whoops, now it's suddenly mandatory.
People seem to be buying them already, looks like OpenAI is now pulling in $80M per month in revenue.
Yes. Microbes once in the blood stream can cross/bypass the barrier by a few ways such as by crossing endothelial cells, crossing loosened or disrupted tight junctions or by entering a host cell that then traverses the barrier.

Normally, intact cell-mediated immunity prevents harmless airway colonization of these types of organisms from entering the blood stream or causing clinical infection hence why they're called opportunistic infections. Rare in immunocompetent patients.
How long do you guys think until tools like this eliminate data analyst or business intelligence developer jobs?
Can you provide any citations for this (extraordinary, if true) claim? My knowledge of operating systems (which is based on experience in designing toy ones, but also studying other operating systems) suggests this is not the case on at least windows, macOS and linux. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong however!
Effective because so few do it. It’s just not scalable.
Literally perplexed at that statement. That was the only place for solid community, damn good information, and endless free file downloads in it's heyday. The barriers that made people drop it actually make it more attractive these days since the masses will never show up.
It could be that millennials are more familiar with the paradox of tolerance, at least in practice if not in name.

It aligns with the relatively widespread notion that equality and equity are not the same thing.

Simply put, a blanket freedom of speech for everyone can and will stifle the speech of some who do not feel safe speaking out, and/or who do not feel safe as a consequence of what others say.

That means there is no such thing as a complete and total freedom of speech. So the question becomes not if speech should be restricted, but how.

Within this conceptual framework, "free speech absolutists" are not only arguing for something that cannot exist, but they're arguing for something that harms others. So the solution that would lead to greater freedom of expression among the largest portion of the population is to paradoxically restrict speech that discriminates based on innate attributes.

I'm sure many here will disagree. I'm not writing this to get into an argument, but to explain a possible reason for the millennial polling. In the conversations since BLM, I do think this type of thinking is reasonably widespread.

I happen to agree with that viewpoint while also being quite concerned about any attempt of the government to stifle dissent, which I view as being antithetical to democracy. I do not see that as oxymoronic. Democracy is not easy or simple.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Ah see now I have clarity.

You are indeed making the “things that work in other places won’t work in America because of differences in race and ethnicity” argument.

This is a fairly lazy analysis that plays on America’s often unspoken cultural beliefs around race. While it is true that race is a major cultural marker in America, this fact is not innate and the oft repeated argument that “homogenous” societies can do things that we can’t amounts to little more than “we can’t do it because we are different”.

The determinants of diversity in the sense that it might be relevant to a discussion on free speech depend on a multitude of cultural factors. You can’t just say “well they aren’t diverse because they don’t match the criteria set out and defined by _America_”.

95% of Americans speak English. If half the country didn’t speak English well that would make for a very different society and culture than the one we have now.
They can run any code. You can use checksum and such a site centralizing would be in the clear as it doesn't contain any copyrighted material, only hashes (perhaps including cover art would be a problem?)

As far as I know there exists one specifically for switch (nswdb.com, which is used by a common dumping tool to verify if your dump is valid or not) and another for basically every console but the switch (for some reason) run by no-intro (datomatic.no-intro.org)

Another site that only cares about disc-based releases is redump.org, which has quite a few dumping guides in their wiki.
Ish.

Advertising-based media gets funding and will work. Due to the nature of funding, any ad-based media will always be bigger and more mainstream. See Youtube, TikTok, Instagram. The content creators are now glorified advertisers who can hawk their attention-economies for money.

You can't beat money, not for mainstream. Those who work for money can make more money, and spend that money to make more money on top of that. That in of itself drives more content and eyeballs, and to some degree higher-quality (or at least, more attention-grabbing) media.

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That's not to say that Mastodon is going to fail. We nerds don't care much about attention and care more about having a discussion space to share ideas. Yes, there's a degree of attention-economy here as well (see any 1980s-era computer magazine: the advertisements for various computer parts are obvious). So there will be a tredmill towards advertising and attention media IMO, even on something like Mastodon. (Ex: Tumblr and Threads might be ActivityPub / Mastodon compatible, what then?).

Recognizing that we're a niche community who prefers to slink away from attention (and indeed: attention-grabbers disgust us rather than intrigues us), that's fine. We just need to build our own little corners of the internet that matches our discussion style and pace.

But don't fall into the trap of believing that Mastodon can displace Twitter (or whatever replaces Twitter in the long term, like Threads or Tumblr or whoever). Appreciate what Mastodon has built, but also recognize its a niche appeal.

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For the non-Mastodon aware, I think the best example of such a discussion site is https://mastodon.gamedev.place/explore, perhaps one of the better Mastodon instances for nerds that match Hacker News's stereotypes.

There's no chance that gamedev.place will ever become a mainstream instance. And that's fine and cool. Their focus on game development and programming issues makes them a pleasant community to interact with. That's the kind of community that only Mastodon can build, that will not work as well on Twitter.
The surgeons never said one way or another. I got the distinct impression that they are, unfortunately, at quite a loss when it comes to people like my dad since he shouldn't have been immunocompromised. In fact, prior to the biopsy, they were convinced it was some form of cancer.
I'm talking about the potential famine of 2024, it didn't really start yet. Caused mostly by reduced food exports from Ukraine and Russia.
> Companies can find a way to convince consumers that their products are environmentally friendly

For some reason, whenI lie to the insurance company, its fraud and I am a criminal.

But when a company lies to me about my environmentally friendly product, it's just business.
Wouldn't that be somewhat outside of Theseus' design and add overhead more akin to modern OSes? Theseus relies on Rust's type system (ownership/borrowing and otherwise) to ensure that all binaries have many verified properties; arbitrary WASM program can't hook into that, yes?
For me, the question isn't "Will humanity overcome?" I don't have a doubt about that.

Instead it's "What are the chances my kid – the individual – will lead a relatively peaceful, fulfilling life for the next 70-90 years?"

I don't know the answer.
I pasted in ChatGPT and it responded and both the prompt and the response got a TOS violation.
Poor is an expression of compassion, and sucker is dismissive. They're contradictory.
fwiw, the switch actually uses cooperative multitasking. This causes emulation headaches of its own, because sometimes retail games are buggy, but due to the relative determinism of scheduling nobody ever noticed (e.g. race conditions that are reliably won on real hardware will suddenly start breaking in emulation).
Programming is like 20% of senior+ software engineer time, on a good day. The rest is spent all sorts of communicating - emails, presentations, specs, docs, figuring out incidents, in general trying to make sure the team is building what should be built - or efforts which support the business and/or the team, like fixing or optimising CI/CD, monitoring, hiring, reviewing backlogs (note plural), mentoring juniors, helping out sales or support with customer issues, working with support of your service providers, etc. This is especially true in big orgs with many teams, in smaller ones you might see a bigger share of pure coding-related work depending on a week... or coding overtime because there simply isn't enough hours in a day to open the IDE normally and these guys still like to code something every now and then.

Computer sciency stuff is maybe 1% on a good year (obviously there will be exceptions depending on the products you're building).
Confirmed, this is what I was getting at. Containers + simple compose file for orchestration.
He is probably making some elaborate libertarian point with this stance, but nobody understands it or even wants to :)
Rapid changes are always problematic, no matter the direction. Society and environments can accommodate slow changes much easier than they can accommodate quick ones.
> If that's your definition of corruption

I wouldn't say it's my definition. I don't invent words.

> then it is not possible for a non-corrupt person to get elected in the U.S. since the Citizens United decision.

I agree that it's extremely difficult.

> So on that view, calling a politician corrupt is vacuous.

How is the truth vacuous?

> My definition of corruption is someone who uses the power of their elected position to enrich themselves personally.

Ok, but that's an overly narrow conception.
In my search to provide find examples of economic and population growth correlations, I came across two papers[1][2] which find no correlation. Thank you for changing my mind.

1. Barlow, R. (1986). Correlations Between Population Growth and Economic Growth https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/100865

2. Barlow, R. (1994). Population Growth and Economic Growth: Some More Correlations doi:10.2307/2137634
Nobody has any desire to muddle through life
I recently read this https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2022/08/22/what-... by Forbes, which pointed out that the popular idea of exempting STEM PhDs from green card caps is primarily procedural:

> In July 2022, hopes were high the FY 2023 defense authorization bill would include an amendment on green cards for individuals with Ph.D.s in science and engineering. In what has become a familiar story, it was not to be.

> “According to a Congressional source, the House Rules Committee did not rule the amendment in order because the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said the provision would cost $1 billion over 10 years,” as reported in July. “To address the issue and offset the cost, a $7,500 fee was added for the individuals who received permanent residence under the provision. However, the House Ways and Means Committee said the fee could not be included because it amounted to a tax and, therefore, violated Clause 5(a) of Rule 21 of the rules of the House of Representatives.”

That's just the first order reason. The second-order cause is that there is just not enough political will to get this over the finish line -- nobody wants to spend enough political capital pushing it through all the little things that can stop a bill, so a random reason pops up every time. All the hurdles here can be overcome -- just nobody in a position to do something cares enough about it compared to all the other legislative priorities they have.

As for the reason no congressman wants to spend political capital on this subject? I don't know enough about congressional politics, internal or external, to say.

The primary takeaway I have about this whole saga is that it's not enough for a bill to be without much opposition -- it must have people actively pushing it through all the little vetoes that different corners of congress built into the procedure of passing bills. It's not opposition that kills bills -- it's indifference.
IBM severed most of their ancient technology off in to Kyndryl. They’re pretty much all cloud at this point.
I can't wait to see how EU sideloading will work. I hope they do it properly.
Mastodon mainly since it's been around 7+ years, but can also lump in Threads + Nostr + Farcaster + Bluesky + Cohost + whatever others there are out there.