skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is that a topic that they need to be open-minded about, or can they just dismiss him as a racist crank?

Well, this is kind of the point of peer review, isn't it? You review the work, you reject it if it doesn't pass muster.
I don’t think anyone’s knocking the work but there is a tendency to see the success of that as inevitable in hindsight. After all the probability of success now is 1. But at the beginning of each venture the probability of success definitely doesn’t feel like it would be certain. When people say luck is involved it’s remembering that feeling because there are a whole bunch of external factors you can’t control for involved in the success of any venture.

I also think this kind of content marketing is effective largely because it is designed to rile people up.
That doesn’t really have anything to do with what we’re talking about, but many of those types of accidents can also be avoided.

There’s a significant number of people who feel personally attacked by a car merging in front of them, despite the fact that a merging vehicle has right of way (in all countries I’ve ever driven in). There’s a video that keeps popping up on my Instagram where a car changes lanes, and the car behind has plenty of time to react and slow down slightly, but they instead crash into the merging vehicle intentionally without touching the brakes at all. Most of the comments side with the driver who caused the incident, not the merging vehicle who did nothing wrong.

Anyway, my point is, there are a lot of people who refuse to give space to merging vehicles, which increases the chance of these accidents happening (fraud or not).

If you put your ego aside and immediately back off when a vehicle in front merges, you’ll be far more likely to avoid this type of accident. Alternatively, if you tailgate a merging vehicle out of “principle” you’re just inviting an accident.
Meanwhile this is such an everyday thing in film/tv. Product placements are 1) everywhere 2) really blatant.
Don’t we all feel the urge to sail forbidden seas?
You lose a lot of nuance in written text and its harder to infer tone (especially for non-native speakers), so written discussions can often come across more hostile than spoken ones (even in a workplace between people who know each other).

But I think a lot of it comes down to the freedom from consequences on the Internet. If people acted in real life like they do on Twitter or Facebook then there would be repercussions - whether social or legal or even physical. A lot of people hold views that are not considered socially acceptable - so they keep those views to themselves in public. But anonymity gives them the confidence to share and act upon.

In terms of how you can fix it, I don't think you really can without making huge sacrifices. It's hard to change people's views, and stripping anonymity from the Internet would have significant downsides (and be technically very difficult).

Although as is often the case, XKCD proposes an interesting suggestion:

https://xkcd.com/481/
They do have a web version now, but if you try to log in you get hit with an 'install the app to continue" wall.

Nice try, Zuck.
Can't you provide DNS servers as part of router advertisement packets ? RFC8106
Count on us.
Are you referring to a specific incident here? Do you have a reference?
> Should OP just bask in Stallman's glory and not notice things that were bad etiquette even in the Victorian era?

No. But I 'm not sure whether you 've read OP's other comments in this topic (about Stallman's cancer), some of which are hidden due to downvotes.
One of the issues in my company is that since the pandemic we have only hotdesks. So bouncing ideas off team members is hard as they're usually somewhere else in the building. Before we had fixed desks and departments so you would know where to find someone.

We have this terrible booking app called Planon that doesn't offer any way to locate someone. And it's horrible to use (every time you use it you have to sign in with a 3 step MFA process). So most people just ignore it and it causes a lot of conflicts between people that booked a desk and people that just grabbed one. It's a total mess. At the same time I'm sitting beside all sorts of noisy annoying sales goons that are on the phone all day so I get nothing done.

All it's accomplishing now is that I thoroughly hate the company and its 'leadership'.
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The point here is that nobody can beat Shenzhen-like logistic integration and economies of scale and EU squandered that chance, the comparative advantage it once had.
Yeah. I remember such an ad in a German book I had. It was the only ad in that old book and this ad didn't age well: it was for a product not offered anymore. This ad was tailored to the story, something like this: "In a different vein, wouldn't be it nice if the hero could enjoy product X?"

It was on two pages such that you could tear it out. The first page was almost empty with a small teaser and on the other page you had the ad text and a small logo.

I found it very weird and it is awful because it tears you out of the story. You lose the flow.
The author of the article lives in Germany where fair use is not a thing.
Agreed. Ben, although he doesn't know it, is one of my biggest inspirations for what I do. Back in 2005 or so he did a presentation to my class at the GSD on his genome visualizations. I was blown away, but even more so when I asked him what language he works in and he said Processing. I said I was unfamiliar with Processing and he said, "Oh, I wrote it." Mind. Blown.

On days I'm looking for inspiration I revisit that day in mind or visit benfry.com to see what other cool projects he's been working on. Thank you Ben for your amazing contributions to data visualization programming and for being an inspiration to an aspirational hacker.
9% of people consists entirely of shoulders, elbows and knees
http://heyjackass.com for Chicago numbers.
fwiw Jira recently updated its UI and seems to be way faster compared to years ago. i'm still not necessarily a fan but i think it's pretty competent nowadays.
"I look at numbers all day and try to come up with stories that might explain the incomprehensible to the indifferent people." (stole this one from Peter Watts, it's funnier than saying I'm a data scientist at a fintech company).
AI alone, but logically AI eventually combines with capabilities from robotics, or is able to reach into auto-pilots of cars and planes, drones, self-manned turrets, missile controls, etc. No?
US seems determined to cement its status as the luddite nation of consumer payments.
I really don't get that reasoning.

If a company accepts that remote work is better and in the end gets more done, then why care about the lease at all?

Simply pay the rent for the remainder of the lease and file it under "bad decision". Really, what's the alternative? Force people to come back to the office just to justify the rent? If it's not in the best interest of the company? (remember we determined earlier one that the productivity is higher with people working remotely).
Show HN: I Broke LinkedIn with 10,000 Mentors!
I've been working on ADPList (https://adplist.org) for two years now - we're one of the most prominent mentorship sites, funded by PeakXV (formerly) Sequoia India's Surge.

The reason I'm writing this is to get a discussion going, EVERY great VC I spoke to ask me "how do you want do disrupt LinkedIn?" they are a giant monopoly, so you should think about this.

TBH... I'm trying to understand where this question came from and why is it important. If you have some insights/comments to share, I'd like to hear it and jam with you.

Try us out, tell me what you think.
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A big oil company was a defendant in a billion dollar lawsuit. The case hinged on the interpretation of a comma in a safety code for boilers and pressure vessels, whether it meant "and" or "or". The expert witness' interpretation happened to be in the big oil company's favor because that was the intended meaning. When laws and safety codes are crafted, it's vital that they are expressed directly and unambiguously so there can be absolutely no doubt.
I know we've had decades of brainwashing trying to blame individuals for water and energy (ab)use, but residential water is almost never where the problem comes from when talking about freshwater: the problem comes from agriculture, and even at the rate you're talking about above it's not economical and we're still draining aquifers at an alarming rate.
> Just rebrand "not giving change" as "mandatory tipping" and it's even a pro-worker move!

rounding-up to avoid handling change is the norm when paying cash in "tippable" situations like at restaurants or farmer's markets.
Not pretty for who? Can you explain?
I now have stuff shoved at me on the home screen that I don't know who they are, don't want to see their stuff, or both. I'm only ever on Twitter to see stuff from a small handful of people so it's very noticeable.
im curious, did you actually see what he said in its complete form?
I dont know if the pixel he was referencing is new or refurbished but I'd keep an eye on Swappa/BackMarket, if you're in the EU and looking to buy a used relatively new phone for a cheap price.

I would also appreciate an answer to the same question FirmwareBurner has asked.
As someone who's read and loved a lot of pulp fiction from this publisher, it's never bothered me. It was clearly separate from the normal text and you knew it after a couple of times; if I remember correctly, they were done in a low key amusing way.
I keep being amazed how `Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions` gets so little love here.
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> But most businesses do.

Ummm, for quite small values of "most" :)

I have a handle on this because I set a resilience assignment to a
cohort of about 20 MBAs at a business school. Specifically I asked for
a representative range of businesses;

- fast food
- gymnasiums and sports
- nail bars and hairdressers
- auto-repair and mechanic/garages
- child and day-care

.... you get the picture, _loads_ of variety.

They did 1 hour, 12 hour, 24 hour and one week case models.

As tech people, we are probably biased to think too heavily about
digital and electronic systems. Many businesses can function in
"survival mode" during a tech outage, including electricity in some
cases.

As I recall, after "telephone", it was payment systems that were the
real killer. Interestingly many access control systems fail-safe simply
locking everyone out of the buildings!
How good is Golang for AI? How promising, in particular, is the combination of Machine learning (ML) with Golang? In this article, you will learn when to use Golang for building AI-based apps. We will also analyze specific cases of Golang-backed AI software development.
Must love the sweet smell of Brexit freedom in the morning... /s
Marcus Aurelius "Meditations" is a very popular recommendation these days, I keep seeing it around
> Is it possible to get a bank account now without a debit card?

Absolutely. I have one myself.

I have the had the account for nearly 30 years and maybe I should completely close it. But for "historic reasons" some senders know only that account and some direct debit is still active there. But I have cancelled my cards a decade ago when I intended to close the account.
Poland seems to have a home ownership rate of 86%. They are fine.
I stand corrected, but I haven't seen this in practice yet.
A lot of this stuff was done outwith contract, in both places, during the pandemic.

> Anything else is an informal benefit and can be taken away at any time

Well, yes, and this is why people are getting mad. People should also be much more explicit about the cost of their commute; you can argue back and forth about the benefits of being in the office, but almost all commutes are deadweight loss and some are both miserable and expensive.
Okay, this is actually something I remember from Fantasy and Scifi Books. I had totally forgotten that was a thing :D

I think my German editions of the Skylark series by E.E.Smith have this.
A lot of Trek episodes happen because Starfleet engineering is criminally bad.

After all, who’d design a fuel tank that explodes when it loses power and “antimatter containment” fails.
Yet another garbage click-baity article on HN. Look at the news source: Fox News local.
Atlassian design has been the ideal model for enterprise™ design for me. It's like promo videos with smiling people from stock. Look nice and clean but you just feel the rat race behind.
I lived in another country last year and had to contact the German embassy. They told me to write down my problem and fax it to them
> I am more and more convinced that the Internet is a net negative for discourse and human socialisation, and no one is really exploring this possibility.

A huge amount has been written and spoken about this.
"Any" and "all" do have similar meanings, but you can't always simply replace "any" with "all" and retain the same meaning every time.

"From any floor, you can use the fire escape to reach the ground" -> "It is true at all floors that you can use the fire escape to reach the ground". In this case you can replace "any" with "all" without changing the meaning; hypothetically one could interpret that to mean that while occupying all floors simultaneously you can use the fire escape to reach the ground, but since that's impossible (unless there's only a single floor) no one would interpret that sentence that way.

"Ensure we have proper licensing for {any|all} software we depend upon". Again the meaning is preserved, because in this case "for all" is actually the more correct form. Every one will interpret "for any" correctly (as "for all"), but it could alternatively be interpreted to mean that you must have the license of at least one of said software.

"Press any key, 3 times." -> "It is true of all keys that you can pick it and press it three times. Do so for one." Obviously the meaning changes if you just replace "any" with "all". A more subtle nuance is whether you're being asked to [press three times] [any key] or to [press any key] [three times].

"Aim to dress for any weather" -> "It is true of all weathers that you should aim to dress for it". This is the same case as the second example, it should have been "all". Otherwise there's an ambiguity that could be interpreted to mean that you should aim to dress for an arbitrary weather of your choosing.

I would say that "any" when used in a declarative statement (such as your first example) means that the proposition is true for all members of the set under consideration. When used in an imperative statement (such as the other ones) sometimes will mean that you must apply the action to all members of the set, and sometimes that you're free to choose any subset and apply it to those. "Wash any dog" and "wash any dogs" and "for any dog, wash a cat" all mean different things.
Yes, whomever's on call for fixing any related system should have the physical keys to open the locks. Automatically logging that and post incident reports / etc as necessary.
IIRC it was logistics as well - the shuttle prop was taking a lot longer than expected.
Vote communities have a horrible reputation in terms of upvoting good stuff. Echo chambers reign supreme.
> Few people regret not working more.

For what it's worth, working more would build a habit of doing so. A good work ethic would mean that you need a bit less motivation or discipline to get things done, due to it basically being just something you do.

It doesn't have to be just for some corporation, but also when you're trying to build some personal project, especially the ones that might get a bit bigger (writing your own blog engine or static site generator, maybe even a game engine, or planting crops or building a shed for all I care). Sometimes there won't be many shortcuts to success, but just boring slog of legwork that needs to be done.

In that regard, I definitely regret not working more, because I still need to rely on motivation, which is fleeting, or discipline, which is unpleasant, all just to get through things sometimes, even when I take care of myself in every other way (sleep schedule, nutrition, activities, mental health).

As for the whole retirement aspect, sadly I don't have answers for that, the state of the economy is concerning sometimes.
Carmack says in one of the subthreads on there that he's pro-second-amendment, so that tracks I suppose.

But it's kinda futile, it's just the illusion of having power and self-governance, when the others have machine guns and worse.
Why is the CGI better than anything in “The Flash”,which I otherwise greatly enjoyed?
Certainly. One puzzle it ever and always entices you with is: "can I do this without allocation?".
This requires client support though, which isn't a given.
Eh you gotta curb your expectations with 8 billion people alive trying to out-achieve you every single moment.
Have remote workers considered political solutions to the RTO problem? In cities like SF or Seattle, many of the people living there don't want you there. You also don't want to be there. So why not team up and make some noise about increasing taxes on businesses that don't allow WFH?
> Erowid is great, but the trip reports were universally fanciful

I can assure you that my lengthy description of waves of orgasmic bliss that descended into a hospitalised bad trip† while on 2C-I and cannabis is written as I experienced it, nothing fanciful about that. But I also don't understand how do you claim stories about people literally on drugs to be fanciful. What do you expect people to see and experience if they've taken strong psychedelics? I have no basis to doubt one has really spoken to the Alien God while on salvia.

† thankfully it was only a panic attack, but they're a little bit scarier to have when the walls are melting.
At the scale of BBC's social media managers I hope they are not on the x.com website typing in updates and clicking post.

They should be using custom software and be able to redirect / duplicate the distribution of their news to different or multiple outlets with little more effort than a few lines of code.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37731829

I draw the line at "can it be updated without returning to the factory?"

If microcode can be updated by the user (or remotely by Intel), it’s software. If it’s immutable then its hardware. If an FPGA bitstream (say a RISC-V soft core) is locked into the FPGA’s NVCM, then it can no longer be modified, and it counts as hardware. If however it is merely stored in the SPI flash and can be modified, then it’s software.
It's a really nice and succinct quote, I should remember it.

Makes me think of the second amendment and John's stance on that; a "well-armed militia" might be a force to be reckoned with, but if it comes to an actual confrontation they're just peasants with crossbows vs the US military.

Not that I believe the US military would ever go up against their own people, mind you.
It only took Usain Bolt 9.6 seconds.
Cloudflare DNS having problems on Europe
But mining activities led some of the plant-based artifacts to be burned and scattered outside of the cave; some baskets and other objects were distributed among nearby villagers.

That's durability, no joke.
Off topic:

I'm a developer who got burnt out after a few years

I currently work at one of Dick Smith’s former competitors, Jaycar

It’s utterly bizarre working in such a company. The sheer range of backgrounds of the people you work with is immense

I’ve met genuinely top of their field “between grant” astro-physicists and kids who wouldn’t pass Year 12

It’s what I imagine working at RadioShack was like in the States, pre-mobile-phone-shoved-down-the-throat shenanigans

The amount of proper engineering still done sourced with a 50-200% mark up in Australia is insane to me, but must make sense to someone?

Also: the amount of life threatening work some customers are willing to undertake themselves confounds me. Even though I can show countless examples of people within 200km causing their, and their family’s demise
I haven't read the book, so I feel I can't give it an honest criticism, but I'm assuming the book isn't so much about what the "peasant" or "teenager" would do with AI, but more what smaller unstable nations with rogue dictators, or terrorist groups, or cartels, etc. would do with it?

At least this is what I find more worrisome personally. But realistically I'm not sure we can keep it away from them, similar to how North Korea managed to acquire nukes, except it seems way easier to acquire powerful AI in this case.
Don't forget privacy is a very important part of security.
Guess you're forgetting the whole "lots of people not able being able to go to their job and get paid" thing during this time, right?
Interesting theories in the replies.

But no, those blacked out sections are there in the original book, not added by the blog poster. Probably to stretch the few ad sentences over a whole page (or two).
I always wondered why these texts are so difficult to interpret... ... ... why certain symbols, like a crow have ambivalent meanings. In some cultures the crow is evil, while in others, it's benevolent.

GPT4 to the rescue, let's see what'll happen if everyone has the means to summon demons, curse others and the like.