skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both Santa and God are accepted because they are considered as greater than humans, or perfect. Whereas modern day surveillance is done by ordinary humans, which no one would consider as superior. In fact, most people would likely consider humans that perform covert or illegal surveillance as inferior or criminals. So there isn't really an equivalence relationship here. Again, people are willing to accept the judgement of a perfect being watching over them, but never humans.
@johntiger1 Where do all the references for this come from? What's the document source?
You (the average person) can't choose your way out or really be safe - but you can at least avoid doing the equivalent of putting your head in the lion’s mouth. At least most of the time. It's not that difficult to use non-plastic kitchenware, or learning to not put plastic in a microwave (or come to think of it: any cooking) at least 99% of the time.
I did use Imba on some of my side projects.
Easy to get most things up and kind of fun to work with. Has many cool ideas as some one pointed out.
That's what I mean by different levels of shadowbanning.

"Well, the algorithm just isn't promoting you, that's not the same thing."

The algorithm is sorting a feed containing millions of posts. There is no mathematical difference between a penalty and the removal of a bonus that similarly situated accounts get. They both cause your posts to be not seen by people who would otherwise have seen it. You can easily be blocked from 95% of your audience and still be able to find people in the last 5% who occasionally see your posts.

The thing that makes it a shadowban is that it's a hidden penalty applied to your account, regardless of what you subsequently post or how the people who do see it respond to it.
Maybe "I don't use a microwave" is becoming the new "I don't watch TV."
My reply was not intended to be an all-encompassing list of all possible avenues of resisting adtech's dominance on the internet, and at no point did I imply so. It'd suck if I had to post an entire guide/list every time I mention some tech that helps.

Noscript isn't worth having in favor of uMatrix, IMO.
THIS, but `sed 's/fewer/far, far fewer/'`

AND - the owners of the (relatively) few web sites that most people visit are far more invested in staying malware-free, vs. the Ad companies letting ~anyone on the planet run js in ads, at "what's their credit card good for?" scale.
That’s great! In this case the child is telling their parent there’s a problem. It’s worth finding out what it is.
Ticket revenue is just one source for the artist who is betting they make more from the lifetime value of a fan buying their brand (merch and historically listening to their music, but I don’t know if streaming changed those numbers). It’s like a giant advertisement for their brand - early on in a band’s life, it can even be a loss leader after all the crew is paid.

A key part of that concert experience is other people’s excitement too. For one extreme, a Grateful Dead show was basically a mini festival with one act. The crowd before, after and during is an integral part of the experience. Empty seats don’t tell others about the event or participate with the other ticket holders, degrading the value for artists and many concert-goers.

So, a Dead show that sells just a few hundred many-many-thousand-dollar tickets might sit on a maximum supply / demand curve for the venue or scalpers just looking at ticket revenue, but could destroy much of the value of the event for the band and it’s everyday fans who want the event experience and want it for as many people as possible.
sure, plastic coating is not what those consumers wanted but some goals take time to reach. Let's not dismiss people who are making sincere efforts.

For instance, I've been using reusable shopping bags for 25 years and buy most of my food through farmers market, never touching plastic bags or packaging in the whole lifecycle. That's probably at least 10,000 fewer plastic bags. Sure there's some wasteful people that probably use that in a month, I see how people shop.

This isn't a virtue contest - it's a lifestyle commitment just like deciding not to smoke for health reasons. At scale these things have impact.

Also I'm not anti-plastic - I just don't like making a bunch of trash and appreciate higher quality materials.
And thats it though. No information on things like how you should hit the notes or for how long.
A bit of solutionist brain-storming here:

It seems to me that the main advantage of plastic food storage containers over glass ones — other than price — comes mostly from weight. You don't want to carry your leftovers to work in glass containers; they're heavy!

(And AFAIK no other container material besides plastic is a good substitute for glass in food storage, because 1. they're not washable / interact chemically too much with the food, or 2. they're not visually transparent enough to tell what's in the container. So let's ignore other materials as possible solutions for now.)

I presume that the problem here isn't that microwaves are causing vaporization or spalling of the container material in such a way that microplastic particles coming from the outside of the container can end up in your food. (If that's the case, then plastics are basically entirely screwed for this use-case, and we may as well give up on them entirely.)

But presuming instead that the problem is only with your food interacting with the inner surface of the container, under heat/acid/etc — i.e. some kind of leeching or osmosis of the food against the container surface, causing the plasticizers in the container to "exchange" out...

Then, if that's the case, would it be possible to make a food storage container that's mostly plastic, but then has "just a little bit" of glass, lining the inner surface? A glass barrier-layer, sort of like how plastics themselves are used as a barrier layer on the inside of aluminum cans? Resulting in something that's a lot lighter-weight than a thick glass container, but a lot more "inert" than a plastic container?

Glass is usually brittle, I know; and unlike a glass food-storage container, which is usually thick, plastic food-storage containers are usually more thin and flexible. A plastic substrate would want to bend, and that would, naively, shatter a glass "film" on its surface.

But! We've recently invented bendable ("foldable") glass, haven't we? And in fact we're laminating this "foldable" glass to plastic substrates all the time. It's even transparent!

I think it's workable as a process. You could, in theory, produce glass-lined plastic food storage containers. I only wonder if it could be made cheap enough that, even at massive scale, these containers would come out at a price-point that anyone would pay.
Care to comment on the idea that $ is over celebrated as a metric of success? That seemed like a bigger point.
I think it’s crab mentality.
Sesame Street changed in the early 2000’s . They started to invest in digital animation, the issue I had with it was too much energy was put into the production of the medium and not enough into the quality of the content . The last years of pbs before it went to hbo were odd , but my kids aged out of it then too . But good memories none the less .
Instead of fixating the perspective on another competing country with wishful thinking of its demise it would be much more advisable to fix what's wrong in the own geographical region.
From a European perspective gained during the last 60 years, the US is increasingly neglecting its very own populace in appalling fashion (lack of universal health care, racism, religious fanatism and ignorance, large scale imprisoning) and blaming and fighting the rest of the world for its own deficiencies (war on drugs on global scale instead of fixing the social issues underlying substance abuse).
The error is in assuming that the enemy is out there, but in reality USA ignores the fact that it is its own worst nemesis while making the rest of the world suffer from it.
This is a clear case of ignoring what is within the own circle of control, while burdening the own shortsightedness on the shoulders of external nations.

https://www.advisorpedia.com/growth/we-have-met-the-enemy-an...

https://library.osu.edu/site/40stories/2020/01/05/we-have-me...
I assume you are referring to the CSS shorthands Imba provides. Yes, they are controversial... and optional. These all work the same in imba:

css div { background-color: red; display: flex; flex-direction: column; }
div@hover {background-color:blue;}

css div background-color: red display: flex flex-direction: column
div@hover background-color: blue

css div bgc:red @hover:blue d:vflex
They are still working on RTGs. https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/isro-barc-join-...

Above was paywalled, check this https://www.reddit.com/r/ISRO/comments/151j6zw/isro_barc_joi...
Why don't we just make JavaScript in ads illegal? Perhaps paired with some identifier per ad buyer, much like political ads must menton who paid for them.

Ads don't need JavaScript or anonymity. Then ad providers can easily filter out those most dangerous, and remain in compliance. Regulators can easily scan for violators.
I think picocss is the best classless CSS framework, but there are a bunch of others:

https://github.com/dohliam/dropin-minimal-css
In case of tarantulas, there is active black/grey market trading and smuggling them, so that probably explains why white-hat scientists have hard time following.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/science/spiders-tarantula...
A simple loop over lines using Python's `re` package is unlikely to be as fast as an optimized grep. If your inputs are small, the difference might be negligible. But if they're large, the difference might be enormous.

And that's not even accounting for just regex engine throughput on its own. ripgrep for example uses rust/regex. Compare its performance with python/re: https://github.com/BurntSushi/rebar#summary-of-search-time-b...
imo we've not settled on a meta as the game is relatively new, has been changing a lot over the decades, they take a long time to play and lots of the learnings are fairly hidden in companies.
Self selection bias. It worked for me therefore anyone can do it!

In reality people have ideas and build things all the time. The vast majority never make money.

I read posts like this I rarely see any mention of luck surrounding the outcome.
The point of these types of libraries and patterns isn't necessarily that, although that might be a nice side-effect.

It's to provide a simpler, less bloated alternative to trending JS UI patterns and libraries by leaning more into what's already there.

In the grand scheme of things, I think it's absolutely necessary that we start removing and saying No to cruft and bloat.
Deadbeat
"a massive amount of luck and/or first mover advantage"
I'm so sick of people complaning about "reinventing the wheel". Even for the literal wheel, I can think of at least 3 times off the top of my head that it was usefully reinvented in just the last 20 years. There is nothing that is perfect for all use cases.

People who say "don't reinvent the wheel" should come up with something new to say.

But they can't, because they hate innovation so much.
That warning IMO is over the top and too long. All that noise with key fingerprints and filenames makes the eyes glaze over. Any user who knows what a "key fingerprint" is will be able to find and compare them if they are interested. The message should just say something like:

WARNING: Remote host identification has changed.
If you did not expect this, verify this change with the remote system administrator before proceeding.

Ideally the message should be able to be customized so that organizations who provision computers for their employees could include e.g. the phone number or email address for the internal help desk.
Then they just pay homeless people to register. Whatever clever you can come up with, they will figure out a way around it.
> life savings being stolen overnight.

Sounds like crypto to me.
> No way it is healthy.

That’s a bold claim. How did you come to this conclusion? Do you have any scientific literature you can point us to that proves microwaved food is unhealthy?
But then I have a kitchen gadget ONLY for making popcorn. The microwave is multifunctuonal.

I don’t see many actual commercials anymore but I do value being able to get up during a movie with other people and make popcorn without asking them to pause or missing much context.

Maybe I’m weird in this way but pausing movies breaks my immersion, even if I miss a bit of context while I’m out of the room.
Access to arts and culture is broader now than it has been ever before in human history. If I want to listen to any Olivia Rodrigo song, I can go to YouTube, Spotify, or Apple Music, search for “Olivia Rodrigo”, and be set. Other than the price of internet access and a device that can connect to the internet, it costs literally nothing, unless maybe I want to pay extra to get rid of advertisements.
it's not healthy, but only in the sense that it lowers the barrier to eating more food. other than that, heat is heat
Yep, I do that.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/DigitalHorology

Nobody is buying, but I love making weird clocks.
Could you be talking about Event[0] by any chance?
Personally I wouldn't use a full-on replacement interactive shell because I have a stacked .bashrc that I've constructed over a long time, and things I install from my package manager all come with bash_completion support etc, and even scripts written in Python can vend bash completions (https://pypi.org/project/argcomplete/). Also shellcheck's static analysis of scripts is very educational and that feeds back into interactive use.

I like that you support the scripting use case with vanilla Python syntax. That's something that made Xonsh a non-starter for me (I'm not going to write scripts when syntax highlighting and auto-formatting don't work because it's a superset of valid Python syntax).

Evidently my definition of "going off the deep end" here is giving up lots of working tooling and integrations.
They likely sit deep in the bowels of a very large company in a position shielded from the market. No expectations of delivery and no accountability for failure. You don’t get hired into a role like that, it’s the end result of a multi-decade tenure where you slowly evolve into a potted plant in the corner.

I know a handful of these at my current employer.
If you go by that standard, barbecuing over a fire is pretty unnatural too. Burning chemicals, depositing random hydrocarbon soot onto your food, having poor control over the cooking temperature... And we know it's unhealthy.
GPT-3.5-instruct is a ~1800 ELO chess player. 150 games of GPT-3.5 vs. stockfish
The culprit here is plastic. There has never been a reasonable suspicion that microwaves themselves are in any way detrimental.
Not cool if you work in a bigger team. Especially if there are some people that are not super experienced with git, and have no idea how to fix that locally.

But if you're working alone or in a smaller team, that's perfectly fine.
I think he's just using it as a test here. He forces infinite backtracking by adding

false

to the query. You wouldn't do that in an actual program.
Congratulations on such a huge milestone. What an inspiration, I know you’re going to achieve even greater milestones. Keep on building
Allow me to point out other comment threads here suggesting "humans sometimes exhibit unintelligent behavior" isn't an especially convincing argument.
Yeah most of the time that is a good way to test. There are some specific actions that aren't easily tested outside of the regular spot though. Mostly deployment related pieces due to the way our infrastructure is setup.
For the same reason why artists use Ticketmaster. Do you think they are stupid and just hand over ticket distribution to a company that routinely charges 30$ fees to a 40$ ticket?

No, artists and producers aren't stupid, they get the most of the money from the Ticketmaster "fees". But when a fan sees a 70$ ticket, they'd may decide Bruce Springsteen (net worth 650$ million) isn't a man of the people. When they see a 40$ ticket and a 30$ ticket, fans just swear at Ticketmaster.

I'm confident in a few years we'll read about how scalping enterprises do profit sharing with artists and producers.
Thank goodness for Safari reader mode…
New Mumbai Faucet
Hi Everyone!

I just create a new Mumbai Faucet! The idea here is to attract developers and clientes to work AE Studio :D

The metric I'm using to know if this is succeding or not is basically the amount of people that visit AE website from the faucet. Do you guys have any suggestion on how I could make that number grow up?
I would dispute that the comment in question said that, but now it is gone (deleted?). Your view is quite reasonable, the original post's was not.
Probably shouting into the wind here, but it would be amazing to get Erlang compatibility in the Windows Nano Server Docker images [0]

Without it, to run RabbitMQ in a Windows containers, you have to run the enormous Server Core images.

A niche issue, I know, but a constant thorn in my side!

[0] https://github.com/erlang/docker-erlang-otp/issues/360
To be fair. The title of the post only focuses on money and completely ignores whether the work has any real value to themself or society. Kindof implies pretty strongly “their identity”.
How about using cheap, old-fashioned food-grade silicone, instead of bendable glass?
> For a forum created by an accelerator, it is weirdly anti-success.

It's not anti-success. HN applauds anyone making millions by doing real hard work that benefits everybody. What's frowned upon are these look-I-did-nothing-but-still-made-it-big stories.
IANAL but I don't think so, it's more or less the same thing insurances are doing since forever: they assign a risk score based on your attributes and decide the price of the policy or even to not insure you.

And, as I wrote in the other comment, it's not even an "AI model", it's just old and boring statistics and math.
> Perhaps a more contentious take: rebasing doesn’t bring any real value.

I strongly disagree. I rebase feature branches on a daily basis and it's a must-have feature for anyone who works on feature branches that you want to keep updated and mergeable as fast-forward merges and ideally peel off small commits in separate pull requests.

Here's a small example of a very mundane workflow. I was assigned an issue where I needed to enable a component in a legacy project. I cut the feature branch and started going the "lean on the compiler" approach to fix blockers. Each individual blocker I addressed I saved as a local commit. Throughout the process I spotted a couple of bugs in mainline, which I also saved as local commits. Finally I got a working local build, but team members already merged a few updates onto mainline that created conflicts. I rebased my feature branch onto mainline's HEAD and fixed the conflicts in each local commit. Time to post pull requests for the fixes. I noticed a few of them were related so it would be preferable they went in before everything else. I did an interactive rebase to reorder local commits to move these bugfix commits to the start of the local branch. I squashed them, cleaned them up, and posted a pull request. The pull request was merged into mainline and in the meantime other PRs went in as well. I rebase the remaining commits in the local branch. Followed the same process for another bug. Rinse and repeat. Finally all I had left was the fix for the original issue. I rebased the remaining commits onto mainline, cleaned them up, and posted a PR. Done.

One ticket, around 3 PRs, and almost a 1:1 ratio of rebase-to-PR.

And here you are, saying rebasing doesn't bring any real value.

I think those who complain about rebase are overrepresented by the subset of Git users who barely go beyond the very basic features of checking out branches, pulling changes, and committing stuff. They have no idea how and why other features work, so they complain about things they know nothing about. When pressed about basic usecases, they fall back to trying to fill in the holes in their reasoning by arguing that workflows should be different or that other features are similar, while completely ignoring that features like rebase do the job and do the job very well and very easily.
A quick warm water bath serves a similar purpose while often giving me better results.
> Something iffy with that cooking method

It’s anything but iffy; the science behind microwaves is well understood. What part exactly don’t you trust? The laws of physics that govern this particular universe we happen to exist in?
Well, it very much depends on your definition of "secure". The OWASP top 10 were pretty easy to eliminate entirely with a language that supports static analysis, but we accidentally introduced a couple more:

1. the model made it hard for the developer to know what data was flowing from the server to the client (e.g. are we leaking a secret as part of a closure?)

2. on the web, you can only (mostly) trust the code that's executed on the server, as the client could have been patched to be running arbitrary malicious code, but the syntax of Opa made it very easy to forget that some of the code was living in this client-side warzone, which in turn could lead to serious security vulnerabilities;

3. when you patch code, especially in auxiliary functions, it's easy to lose track of where it's going to be executed, which means that it's easy to accidentally add a secret leak/capability leak.

We tried many things to reduce the problems, and eventually settled on removing most of the intelligence from the slicer, to make it more predictable, and replacing most of the slicer's tier inference with annotations, to make sure that the developers actually paid attention to the decision. I believe that this wasn't sufficient.
It is strange to see people with such mistrust of a microwave because it is "unnatural" and therefore unhealthy.

The process of cooking anything using something "natural" like a fire creates a lot more carcinogens than a microwave.

You wouldn't put plastic in a pan or oven to cook your food in, so if you want to reduce your exposure to plastic just use another container, it would be useful to know what the objective harm of this practice is compared to say using gas stove.
> You get what you deserve if you don't block ads.

I hope you do great contributions to the cause if you are already at the point of victim blaming.
Wood preservation by low-temperature carbonisation
Looking at it right now, thanks!
This is a troll post, right?
iPhone 15 Pro Max vs. DSLR photos: Real world camera comparison
The anti microwave comments in this thread are kinda wild considering if you put plastic in other cooking methods it's even worse. Microwave is just the less obvious one.

Especially considering the studies that show how microwave keeps more nutrients in your food (I think the studies I have seen have been particularly for vegetables but I would imagine that is true for others but I don't know).

Would be great if we could find an alternative to plastic covers you have to piece for frozen meals (or plastic steam bags) but I have yet to see an alternative.

But this is a good reason to at least when storing leftovers or sauces to put them in a glass container instead to minimize exposure.
CSS is great until it isn't. The abstraction layer it provides is clever and useful, but also incomplete, opaque and so idiosyncratic that getting better at using and understanding it provides you with close to zero transferable skills (in our out).
Congratulations on such a big win. That’s a huge milestone. Keep on building you’re such an inspiration. Don’t listen to the haters. It’s easy to talk down when you’re not in the arena. Keep on building, keep on hacking, keeps on winning.