skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think these are fair points, let's take a look:

> I don’t find this engaging as a murder mystery. Firstly, the player doesn’t have agency other than revealing other clues. I think it would be more entertaining if the player could choose what questions to ask.

I tried to keep the game simple, but it is certainly possible to introduce more interaction. I guess, in its core, detective work is mostly reviewing clues and making accusation, but this is supposed to be fun as well.

> > Also, the 15-minute time blocks don’t make sense to me. From today’s mystery:

> > Clue #1 Eddie said "I saw nobody when I was leaving the bathroom at 10:45"

> > Clue #2 Eddie said "I saw Bob when I arrived to the living room at 11:00"

> I would immediately ask him why it took him 15 minutes to go from the bathroom to the neighboring living room. Are they in an electric wheelchair that’s almost out of power, or did they in-between commit the murder?

I have to think about this, but the clues could be rephrased to convey that Eddie spend time the bathroom and the the living room, between 10:45 and 11:00.

> > Also, the suspension of disbelief isn’t there for me:

> - looking at the victim, how hard is it to choose between poison, rope, gun, and knife, especially given that it can be deduced that the body wasn’t moved?

I'm not completely sure what you mean here.

> - if they don’t dare lie, why not just ask them “did you do it?”. A murderer that can lie would IMO make things more interesting.

I agree, and I will be introducing a murderer that could lie, which will make the game more interesting (potentially, harder in some cases).

> > Minor items that affect play:

> - the player has to open all clues up to the murder weapon is revealed. Once you know that, opening those each day will become a chore.

This is not the case in fact, you can deduce where the murder weapon is located and discard the ones in rooms that were not visited.

> - in today’s puzzle, when I make an incorrect accusation that includes “Carol”, the text says “After apprehending the suspect”. Isn’t she dead?

Something to fix. I think Carol should not be in the list of suspects (except perhaps, if we allow suicides, which is an interesting idea)

In any case, thanks for all the comments and suggestions!
It's important. Not quite as important as you're making it, though.

Parents (or whoever raises us) sets the "default settings" for our life. It's what we think "normal" is. But we aren't robots rolling off an assembly line. We can change those settings away from the default. This is one of the most important choices for young adults - what are you going to keep from your parents, and what are you going to change?

But yes, given a culture with set of beliefs, the majority of the next generation is going to keep those default settings as their own.
C++ was a total disaster for one reason and everything came out of this:

It cannot handle running out of memory safely.

Handling an out of memory exception requires memory. 50% of the nastiness came out of the way Symbian tried to address this by redefining the new operator so that it could return null instead of raising an exception - the whole approach to memory management became horrendous because of this. 2 stage initialisation etc. It meant that all existing C++ code and containers were not portable.

20% of the nastiness came out of C++ being very immature at the time it was all started so OS classes for handling various kinds of unicode strings were not nice, there was no ABI stability. At Nokia the ARM compiler was used and it was very slow and required licenses which made it expensive to build in parallel.

20% of the nastiness came from choosing the windows DLL model over the linux .so one with export slots so that adding one method to a class would move the slots around and make a DLL incompatible if you didn't go through a complicated freexing process which seemed to go wrong from time to time.
Adding one item to a datastructure also could crash existing programs which is par for the course in C++ but not Java and this was quite shitty.

These percentages are just my rough stab at it - maybe enough to give an idea.
Look at how much we humans changed the world in just 100 years.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-...

You can't be that ignorant that you don't see how crazy much we have an impact on the planet
I think the funniest part is that you have to add ‘module;’ at the start, as if the extension doesn’t make that clear, or that the file exports the module explicitly with ‘export module mod1;’

You guys OK in C++ land?
Sometimes I miss the simplicity of the early Mac. For example, as per this book, the Finder had just five Menus - Apple, File, Edit, View, Special. Really easy to grok in a few days. I understand that the much greater capabilities and power of today's computers necessitate a more complex UI. I just wish we could have both the power and the simplicity.
> That's a pragmatic strategy to ensure that sensitive information isn't leaked

No ot wasn't, it was because he didn't know how to use computers.
I apologize, you're right - you were sincerely questioning "where does the energy go?" - which is laudible. I mistakenly read your post as insincere and lumped you in with the others who were being dismissive. I should have directed my criticism at grandparent posters.

There's definitely a heat-loss phenomenon - look for skinny kids in shorts in 40 degree weather - but it's also the case that a variable amount of input calories can be discarded without full digestion by the body - energy not even extracted for use. The religiously calories in : calories out folks assume a linear digestion efficiency relationship between total calories consumed and that this holds unifomally across the population. Given the complexity of biology, they should be unsurprised that there will be myriad outliers
I generally assume when people say VAT in a general context they also mean sales tax (and the reverse)
You don't. If the information is valueable enough it will be scrapped, you can use captchas, logins and all the tips and tricks available, but at the end of the day, if a dev wants to scrape the info, it will.
Why Is the Front End Stack So Complicated?
Okay so we've established that neither my imagination, nor the labors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are any good for determining how likely we are on course for nuclear war.

You know that humans do have nukes, right? And a long history of killing each other over pretty much anything? (from land rights to idealogies and everything in between).

So in your estimation, who would be a good source to determine how/whether humans get to a point where nuclear war is a likely scenario?
This is not Reddit. It is considered acceptable, even preferable, behavior here, and has been basically forever.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314
My local municipality charges 5% to use a credit card to pay for automobile or property taxes.

5% is high, but so long as it is disclosed up front I don’t have a problem with this one. A merchant is entitled to demand a certain amount of money for what he’s selling, not 97% of that amount and then you and the credit card company split the other 3%.
It looks like the comment's author may be shadowbanned but has had many of their posts vouched for. Could be a good candidate for review.
I care less about this with one-off businesses (hotels, restaurants, post) but doing this with rent at apartments seems like they’re duping people into paying more than the advertised rate. It genuinely seems like fraud.
I've had this startup idea rolling around in my head for a while. Basically a self-storage business but instead of individual units, customers drop off their items and they're all stored together in a backend warehouse that optimizes for space.

But I don't know anything about this particular set of algorithm problems; this is a neat resource.
My son (7) is going to a bilingual school and he is currently learning how to read. Both German and Romanian had pretty standardised implementations of the Latin alphabet. He learned pretty fast that we sound out the S in German but not in Romanian, and that sometimes he needs 3 letters for a sound, while the other language only needs one. His two languages come with different rules, but there are very very few exceptions.

I am really curious how a child from an English-French speaking family fares in school, given that both languages take such a "historical" approach to spelling.
It's worth pointing out that society is shifting HARD on the idea that pipe service providers should be "neutral" with respect to the traffic they're carrying. Recent pushes around scam calls and texts have resulted in policies with providers to more heavily screen their customers from the start, requirements for text campaigns to submit their content for review, internal evaluation of traffic for fraud patterns and dropping it before it gets to the end point, enforcement of the "STOP" thing for texts, and even things like STIR/SHAKEN which while not specifically about the content of the message (other than the caller id info) still involves each layer asserting what degree of "trust" they give what they're carrying.

Realistically every time you see someone lamenting that telecoms aren't dropping scam callers and texts and policing that better, you're seeing an advocation against net/carrier neutrality.
What a Gold Standard Does to America – Peter St Onge, PhD
I think we're both right and describing different things.

The air in the engine will be 4x as dense, but the flow rate will be the same.

The air in the tank cannot change density, and will therefore have a 4x higher flow rate.

The result is that storage is worth less strokes/breaths at depth.
Consolidation means there are only a few possible vendors. It looks like we have choice but we don’t. Comparing between Vacasa and AirBnB isn’t really a comparison when both are directly encouraged to hide fees until you’re ready to checkout. So you spend time comparing options only to realize the one you’ve chosen has +30% per day cleaning fee. Now you’re unable to even appropriately cross compare results because of the hidden fee structure. I used Vacasa and AirBnB mostly as an example, but cable companies and telecoms are worse in that you don’t know about the bullshit fees (and anything that is labeled as a fee is bullshit) until you’ve signed up. Additionally, they can add fees at will; which, I can’t believe is at all legal. Tacking on any fee labeled or not should be illegal unless I directly consented to it.
It's a good question!

Coaching is about helping people find their own answers. One needs to know about a topic when giving specific advice / guidance.

Having said that, for me building technology has 2 challenges: people and technology. Initially in my career I focused on the technical aspects of it (clean code, good design & architecture, etc) and later found the people challenge is a lot harder than the tech. I learn by researching topics so I read quite a lot about teams, management and lean. Then I pieced together what good and bad managers did and how that related to what I had read.

From my experience most managers (and product managers, engineers, etc) perform their work in the same way they learned from other people while doing their job and rarely do any research or go to the source to learn how to be good at what they do. They might be sent to a 2-5 days course on how to manage, but that's it. The knowledge they have is often from 2nd+ hand, and very diluted. If you fancy doing an experiment, grab a couple of managers and ask them what mix of managerial theory or practice they follow. Ask for names of authors and thought leaders. Ask for any book they have read in the last 6 months about good management. There's a big chance you won't get anything or something very fluffy. What I found is that one doesn't need to know a lot in order to make an impact, and going to the sources helps a lot.

About a nun being a sex therapist, I do know a few Buddhist monks and nuns who joke about how much relationship advice they are asked when they never had a romantic relationship or when they weren't very successful at them before being ordained.
Qaul – Internet independent wireless mesh communication app
Never going to happen. The culture has a scammy undercurrent that ultimately thwarts all efforts towards fair civilized behavior in commerce.
I naively thought ISPC turned into the new DPCPP compiler they’re leaning into with their oneAPI marketing. Are those really different lineages?
These days it's more like "so I opened X, formerly known as Twitter, on my phone only to discover [.,.]"
With 3-6 degrees we will see sea level rise of a few meters. This already affects a lot of coastal regions.

And there is still a big question mark if we don't break something fundamental on the road ahead.

It might not eradicate us but millions and millions / billions will suffer.
> Really sounds like Python 2.8 to me!

That's the problem, isn't it? Nobody who works on Python actually worked on this fork, but it sounds and looks official. That's why the Python Foundation people found this troublesome enough to demand a rename.

Tauthnon has lots of additions to normal Python, most stemming from a bunch of PEPs that author liked. You can't run Tauthon code on any Python interpreter (either 2.7 or 3.x), and there are a few edge case incompatibilities as well. It's probably a great interpreter for those who want newer features but are still stuck with Python 2.7 for whatever reason.
We don't need laws against junk fees.

Undisclosed fees are fraud.

We need litigation and prosecution over fraud.
Navidrome: Open-Source Software to enjoy your music collection from anywhere
By putting a huge emphasis on serving/caring for the local (physical) community around me, I have more or less been able to implement "critical ignoring" without really trying to do so.
Probably yes? Avoid fructose for a while before and after because that allows bacteria to avoid xylitol uptake.
Navaratri
Can you give me a single example of people creating games/movies/books/music etc. bia ML that are of much better quality than those churned out by AAA?
A Fleet Prone to Captive Labor and Plunder
Yes - for example: overconsume fat to an extreme degree and watch the color of your stool turn towards white/clay, and watch it start to float, among other notable changes (size, shape, consistency, odor, etc.)
This kind of thing is for rich people who want to LARP as cyberpunk homeless people for a while.
There are many stories surrounding the festival.

One of them is the tale of the demon Mahishasura and how Goddess Durga decapitated him.[1][2]

The Mahishasura Mardini Stotram is a hymn written in her praise.[3]

Happy Navaratri to all.

[1] Durga Slays the Buffalo Demon at Mamallapuram (https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-asia/south-asia/x...)

[2] Durga (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durga)

[3] Aigiri Nandini by Uthara Unnikrishnan (Mahishasura Mardini Stotram with Lyrics & Meaning) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6W281Bav1k)
Yeah if anything it's a sign of directors making changes in post production vs reshooting the scene. Looks like a "we need more excitement in this scene, add some people", etc tweaking
They talked about that in the article. The lagoon-like nature of the reef apparently means there are reduced currents.
Do Hacker News for X ever work?

It's too hard to bootstrap a community, hence most fail.
My dentist recommended Mi Paste, and it definitely seemed to help. I ordered 2 tubes of it ~5 years ago, and I use it infrequently, but my sensitivity has definitely been helped.

I have thin enamel on my teeth, I guess it's some sort of genetic thing. I wouldn't say it's solved the problem, I still have to be careful about eating too much that's high in acid and salt (Honeycrisp apples and potato chips seem to be foods that particularly trigger my sensitivity). And when the dentist does a cleaning there are definitely areas that are still sensitive.

But, with infrequent use of Mi paste, my day-to-day sensitivity has largely gone away. Maybe more frequent use would make it better, dunno.
> What is great about header files?

One great thing - it's nice to have an interface[1] which already has tooling to let other languages use your private, hidden and compiled implementation.

If those C++ libraries that almost all of Python scientific work is built on had used modules[2] (or something similar) instead of headers, interfacing Python to those libraries would have been an immense effort.

Even with modules existing now, if you're writing something core and foundational in C++, it's not getting adopted like Numpy, BLAS, etc unless you also provide header files.

And that's just Python. Think of all the other languages that rely on performance critical code written in C++, and used with a C-only interface.

[1] Of course, your interface can't be a C++ interface either, so there's that.

[2] If modules were around at the time.
It also is a great way to ensure your writing is guaranteed to never be timeless.
There is literally no info there except rumors which OP doesn't even specify the source of.
The Slack redesign is dividing opinion
Not a new article, but it seems that the rollout has been going on in stages. The switch was forced onto our org a week or so ago, and people are really struggling. Screen real estate is worse, navigation is worse, notification callouts are not clear... generally, several steps back in usability.
> If the governments of the world provided nation-based social media structures where real people, confirmed as vested citizens, go to communicate, you would see a dramatic drop in "misinformation".

Is there an example where that has been successful? France's Minitel maybe?

> misinformation helps the various intelligence agencies and media outlets sell eyeballs or distort truth.

This is the likely outcome which puts us back into government controlled propaganda and no government-approved online alternatives.
Props for the UI/UX, looks very inviting. I'll make sure to try it out later.

I just feel like if you're serious about being an a tool for researchers you need to be open source.
Noted!, I will be thinking about this in the next iteration.
By the same logic I can support people in desperate need in a third world country. But presumably if you cared about the people you want to support, you'd be supporting them regardless and if you didn't care you wouldn't support them. So either there are YouTube creators you're enjoying and should support or they are elsewhere and you should support them there instead. Simple.
What makes a fee undisclosed?

If a restaurant raises food prices by 10% to pay for healthcare, is that an undisclosed fee?
https://twitter.com/KProfiles_com/with_replies

What's amusing is they think it's "rival websites" hacking them with redirects to russian purse sites
I am inclined to the think that the internet is more and more filled with patterns that exploit the "weaknesses" of the human mind. My Youtube suggestions often include video shorts of scantily clad women in very suggestive postures (the videos have millions of view counts). That's hacking the male mind...
Exactly. Which is why I read the phrase as sympathetically directed toward management. They are the ones losing here, and they want a way to shift the blame away from their own incompetence that requires such free overtime to run a profitable business.
Well, what was at least in my echo chamber considered to be the inofficial sales pitch of Facebook was "It's not MySpace".

Similarly for Reddit: "It's not Digg".

So in my opinion B's sole marketing pitch "It's not [other thing A]" can work if B is considered to be the new cool kid in town.
Opinion How AI could help – or hurt – internet freedom
"The increasing power of artificial intelligence tools is both good news and bad news for internet freedom. That is one glaring implication of the latest Freedom on the Net report from global watchdog Freedom House, which found that, in 2023, for the 13th year in a row, the internet became less free. AI could make that picture better or worse, depending on how governments and everyday people use it."
The "Not Just Bikes" channel on YouTube offers good analysis on how city planning is detrimental to the independence of children and young people.
Yeah, the idea is rather than pay China for solar and battery REM, burn coal and jump to nuclear. The coal’s going to be burned in Africa anyway, so why enrich our rival (who is also burning coal).
"In January 2008, the voter-approved San Francisco Health Care Ordinance went into effect, requiring any business with more than 20 employees to set aside money for their workers' health care."

It's ok for business to tell their customers why prices are increasing via line item.
There are places that too cold for humans to survive without tools. Maybe they will become more temperature friendly.
No. Trying to make money is something that all businesses do, not just monopolies. Having loss leaders is also something that many businesses do.

Here are behaviors that are fairly unique to monopolies: raising prices while degrading their product. Many businesses try to do these, but monopolies, who have no significant competition, are more likely to succeed. Sure enough this monopolistic behavior is what Google has just exhibited: by banning people who use ad blockers, they have either degraded their product, or raised the price (from $0 to the cost of YouTube Premium for those users), depending on how you look at it.

They can do this because they are a monopoly.
Not viable considering the number of services (e.g. 2FA, certain apps) only usable on a phone.
Causal inference as a blind spot of data scientists
And not a lot of ways to consume their content
Yeah, an apartment I looked at told us there would be an extra $100 for utilities, then an extra $30 for trash, then an extra $100 community fee... If they're mandatory, fixed expenses, those need to be part of the rent and listed up front.
If they list their real raised prices on the menu, it is not undisclosed.

If they expect customers to magically know about the extra fee ahead of time, and add it to the bill after the meal, it is undisclosed.
A cousin of mine is in film production (think EU teen movies) and one of his movies had a full two minutes product placement segment. I made fun of this (not the kindest move in retrospect) and he explained that this segment pretty much cemented the feasibility of the whole movie. It was a known in advance fixed fee source of income. I have no clue about writers and books but perhaps the publishers (they give advances to well-known authors?) repackage some of the risk via endorsements? That would be finance where you wouldn’t expect it.
I repair bicycles for free. Someone started selling the repaired bicycles around the corner. Is it fair to be upset about it?

To me, the problem with ChatGPT is that someone builds a business around my work, and I don't get paid or credited for it.

I feel the same way about content farms paraphrasing my work with no addition of their own. I'd also take offense to someone paraphrasing my website to paying customers as a service.
Pomotastic is a Pomodoro timer online that works right on your desktop or mobile browser. The aim of this web app is to help you focus on your work or study in a more productive way. The Pomodoro Technique is used for that.
As the article kinda acknowledges, world-wide demand matters vastly more then U.S. production.

But in a world where climate-change-related ideology and posturing are usually more important than actual climate change - clearly the U.S needs to rearrange the deck chairs, so that we are not responsible for the ship sinking.
It's a bit late since it already crawled everything once.
Its disclosed, indeed, but the problem is why is it so high? I can't recall the last time I've ever seen a payment processor so high outside of tax/government paid services.
Data point: They call you once you hit 300TB egress per month on a _free_ tier and ask to start paying (nothing wrong with that, just a data point).