skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite a lot of resort to anecdote there, tbh.

I guess I was thinking of adult platonic relationships, not those of children. As a parent I've seen that school is something of a special case: kids grow up together in a pre-existing school community, with some necessity to get along, and with adults (ie teachers) on hand to enforce rules. Quite different to the environment that most adults exist in.

I do agree on the necessity to cultivate friendship skills between sexes though.
My guess is that it is 2 things.

Firstly, as stated by others, accepting these things requires us to accept that our lifestyles are not sustainable, even if we can afford them financially, so we make excuses.

Secondly, I think there probably is an amount of ego involved where the armchair experts honestly think that they have thought of something that "the politicians" or the "experts" have missed. You see people on forums/TV saying with no irony or doubt that "Electric cars are not environmentally friendly because of Lithium batteries", or whatever, without actually having any figures to back this up.

I agree that doing something, even if not perfect, is better than nothing but I did a Penn and Teller show where their logic was "do nothing now because it is expensive. Wait until we have better/cheaper technology and do it later". Again, seems illogical but people do believe that.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_branding

>*Emotional brands have a significant impact when the consumer experiences a strong and lasting attachment to the brand comparable to a feeling of bonding, companionship or love*. Examples of emotional branding include the nostalgic attachment to the Kodak brand of film, bonding with the Jim Beam bourbon brand, and love for the McDonald’s brand.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

>Edward Louis Bernays (/bɜːrˈneɪz/ bur-NAYZ, German: [bɛʁˈnaɪs]; November 22, 1891 − March 9, 1995) was an American theorist, considered a pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, and referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations".[3] His best-known campaigns include a 1929 effort to promote female smoking by branding cigarettes as feminist "Torches of Freedom", and *his work for the United Fruit Company in the 1950s, connected with the CIA-orchestrated overthrow of the democratically elected Guatemalan government in 1954*.

If you don't consider deliberate induction of emotions that imitate love, fear or hatred in order to sell product manipulative I don't know what to tell you.
That's any company.
Twitter is not special.

The gp I think is talking about rage bait videos on social media where people used to post how work was so easy at xyz company.
We should know better than rely on rage bait for information.
Ask your friends who worked there if they knew anyone slacking off.
For me the last nail in the coffin was showing unfiltered images of human remains - from the latest middle eastern conflict. No trigger warning, no NSFW filter, nothing. That's unacceptable.
> For gzip in particular, this sliding window has a fixed size of 32KB.

I'm surprised people keep reaching for gzip for this sort of comparison. LZ4 / zstd compress better at the same compression speed, and zstd and brotli compresses much better. Brotli is also supported in all modern browsers.

There's basically no reason to use gzip in new software. (With the exception of compressing for the web - at least until zstd makes it into browsers.)
Doubtful. These terrorist attacks are legitimately bad for Israel just like 9/11 was legitimately bad for the US. The attacks bait an overreaction, which then cripples the country's political cachet and financial prosperity. An invasion of Gaza followed by an occupation of 2 million people is expensive to a back-breaking degree for a country of only 10 million. The attack and response will stymie regional normalization talks. The status quo was working just fine for Israel.
> The western world's energy and resource consumption isn't sustainable

If god wanted us to have infinite energy and resources he would have put a gigantic fusion reactor in the sky. (OH on Twitter)
Literally the first sentence of your article: “32% of U.S. adults say they personally own a gun”.

I agree that there’s a steel-manned version of the original statement which is valid. You’re definitely getting a lot closer to it. I mean we can keep splitting hairs (I own guns, but only for sport not defense, I never carry, and they're stored field stripped with uppers and lowers in two separate safes and all ammunition in a third safe in a separate room). But of course after additional back-forth we’ll reach a point where we all eventually mostly agree with the intended sentiment of the GP’s comment.

I just thought it was important to clarify to the audience that the “average” american is not, in fact, armed with a firearm.
It's been said a million times, but I'll say it again for the ones in the back:

Housing prices and tech wages. City got great because everyone wanted to live there. Because everyone lived there, it made a lot of large business start up. These tech giants and other ritsy businesses pay a ton. People move there because of this, which drives houses up.

You hit a bubble where the wages drive the demand which drives the housing price, cyclically. This is what we all know.

The part we don't know or at least isn't talked about is the offshoots of these issues. Hypothetically, I go to SF and live in a camper because I want to get better job opportunities without buying a house. This exposes me more directly to other seekers, homelessness, and 'street people' (drug dealers, criminals, addicts, gangbangers) because I am living in the 'undesirable' places, forced into these locations due to my transient living situation. I have all this money from working, living in a bad area, likely depressed from living in a camper, lacking creature comforts, and suffering burnout, so I turn to these street people and now I am part of the problem.

The unique situation of transient individuals with tons of cash means that it assists in creating a bigger problem faster.
In a single word: money.

A bit longer: there are a ton of vested interests that couldn't care less about destroying the world for future generations as long as they get theirs now. This sort of selfishness is institutionalized to a degree that I'm not sure if we'll be able to deal with it short of a total system collapse and even then it might be resurrected.
I wonder if the key is not really handwriting but rather a deliberate summarization, because I always used a computer to do that. I did have a printout of my own summary, of course, so papers may have also helped as well. (I also tended to walk around and mumble a lot when I really need to tackle a hard problem in my head, but not when studying.)
Yes, the implementation is a challenge and the WebAuthn specs are even for experienced devs hard to understand (as it's an entirely new paradigm compared to other authentication methods).

In your case with your phone, I suspect that Yahoo has implemented some kind of device management and works with the WebAuthn request option AllowedCredentials to allow only certain credentials on a device (here probably something was messed up).
> and be legally bound to sell it to anyone who comes up to them offering that price

Why? This just seems to create yet another perverse incentive structure that people have to invest time into understanding (and some into exploiting), rather than adding any actual value. Taxes mean nothing if everyone is too busy figuring out this sort of scheme to do anything valuable.
The cheap and better technology only happens because people invest and buy the expensive and novel technology upfront. If Tesla Roadster and Model S didn't have a market, getting a model 3 out would've been quite difficult.

It is more like a side effect of equally treating all voices as important and not giving weight to peer review scientific literature or critically analyzing the talking points.
I don't think the job went away, it is just that the titles have evolved as the role has expanded to include modern solutions. Keep in mind that before "IT" was "IT", tech departments were called "Data Processing". Still would be an accurate title, but there is so much more going on now that more nuanced descriptions are used.
DHH: The price of managed cloud services
DHH shares about how HEY dropped its cloud bill by an many orders of magnitude. They're spending about 5K a month amortized!
The benefit is the land you own is now more valuable.
Ok now imagine that you would wan't to use an Android or Windows device in the future. How do you easily access your iCloud Keychain. Or that for some reason Apple blocks your account?
This is exactly what TFA addresses.
The problem is that you don’t know what noise complaints are dangerous or not.

> but ideally you'd have someone qualified responding to noise complaints who could request police backup when needed.

I don’t think you are going to get any takers for that job. “You only are going to get shot at 1% of the time, if you survive you can call for police backup.”
Given that the recommended number of reports is about 5, this seems about right.
In real estate property value is constantly being corrected by an actual market. Prices aren't set by bureaucrats; they're paid by people for whom that price is worth it.
Copper mining is the odd one out here, since a typical PV system will have as much copper as a car.

Cars are everywhere and few people spare a thought for how much copper they use.
I’m not sure about that part about most people. We obviously come from different anecdotal stories, but in my business, which is non-tech enterprise, nobody views GPT as “thinking”. People generally see it as a “better Google”.

Our main issue is with people thinking it’s answers are actual factual. And while it’ll obviously get things right most of the time, we’re really struggling with how much our employees trust it. That and the data privacy, but that’s a different story that will eventually get solved once AzureGPT for Enterprise kicks off.

Another “interesting” issue is how GPT will sometimes “comment” texts if you don’t prompt it correctly. We had someone who asked GPT to correct the grammar in some contract, and it did. It also added some comments on how part of what was written was “impressive”. Which would have been extremely hilarious if it had been an internal thing, but our lovely employee didn’t proof read the proof read and actually sent the contract draft out to a customer. Luckily a good humoured customer who took it with a laugh, but hell, that’s going to be a nightmare going forward.
or they are monitoring for the name of the city where they live
I wonder too.

I remember doing python the hard way years ago, which encouraged you to type in the example python programs and run them yourself. It made a definite difference to sort of deliberately slow down and absorb during the exercise.
To begin with, the training material is tokenized and one thing the choice of the optimal tokenizer depends on is the source language(s). Consider that in English, the optimal tokenization of "cats" may be "cat" + "s" (based on the vocabulary and morphology of English) but in another language that may make no sense. The choice of the tokenizer is probably more important in a language which has less training material available.
I think this might change in a future update or later stage of the rollout. Making use of the "usernameless" behavior is a potential that Amazon currently left on the road.
Exactly my point. If a category becomes 3x more expensive but it only takes up 1% of my expenditure then a stacked graph without proportions is very misleading.
Read my original statement.

It is a fact that "the press" in the first amendment referred to the printing press. That is indisputable. That courts have expanded that at times or attempted to hone in on its meanings over the centuries is irrelevant to that fact or to my point.

It is an opinion, that goes without saying, when I offer: "The 3D printing presses should remain equally free."

The right to speak, the right to pursue happiness, the right to print freely on a press, the right to bear arms, the right to liberty, these are all enumerated rights. These are more than enough to cover the right to print in 3D, nevermind that these enumerations are non-exhaustive.
People pay billions in subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, so we can just move those and leave taxes as they are.
Readable from France.
The problem that Western governments have is that everyone in the country has a vote and people don't like inconvenience. If you want to "do the right thing" and e.g. ban ICE vehicles, you get a massive backlash, so instead you water it down, kick the can down the road, pretend other less contraversial measures are just as effective or (in the case of the UK), "we are already ahead of other countries so we don't need to inconvenience ourselves too much".

Sad really because the green economy could provides lots of jobs, great opportunities to export etc. It's not a coincidence that the UK imports a lot of high-efficiency building products from Germany and Scandinavia, it is because those countries have invested in the tech and are reaping the rewards.
I'm not that surprised I'm afraid. I am familiar with South Wales more than the rest of the country, but for many, many people, they live in small, former mining villages. If they're lucky, there's a bus or two every hour going to the nearest big city.

If you work outside the city, or in a different city, your commute skyrockets.

Additionally, many of these small villages only have very basic Nisa Today type newsagents/mini-markets, and the supermarkets are optimised for car travel, not bus (and certainly not scooter).

It's also a pretty deprived area, and a car, while expensive, is essentially a necessity. An e-bike would be an additional cost on top of the car. There are also considerations around the weather, etc.
Curious to hear more! I was there last year for the Migration Gravel Race. Amazing place.
So many small and large companies just rent cloud space for their servers, and that cloud space has 20 roles that mean "a part of sysadmin", and then the medium businesses that still have bare metal have the same 45 year old schmuck working on them because that's all he can do at this point and that is his job security, pension, and retirement.
I didn't completely understand that, could you elaborate or rephrase maybe with an example? If you have time. Sounds interesting.
Okay, you wrote 'a'.

Mostly, moderators and answers feel like disjoint sets because the majority of answers come from the long tail of people (at least it feels to me).

But likely it is similar like with Wikipedia where the moderators feel like that they do most of the work when in reality they really don't and others would be happy to do the work if the moderators wouldn't hamper them.
Will it even end up as anything at all? I don't think the userbase of Twitter is equipped to know what Bluesky is in any capacity. Except for the terminally online crowd (i.e., you, me, and everyone else on this website), the word isn't out, the hype isn't building, and no one is talking about it. It won't just be "another Mastodon instance", it may as well not even have existed in the first place.

Locking read-only viewing to a login wall is something Instagram can get away with due to their network effects, but I don't see Bluesky benefiting from it for that much longer.
I like these points. Would you expand that to talk about targeted vs untargeted advertising? For example, does a targeted ad feel more manipulative or less? Is a targeted easier to ignore or less?

Personally, I find untargeted ads more obnoxious but perhaps that's because of the point mentioned earlier that they tend to be for more obnoxious services such as gambling.
There is that and then there is Greenpeace campaining against nuclear non-stop because Choronobyl'.
It's the same here too... before the recent state-level elections here in Bavaria is was basically "everyone against the Green party", the right-wing government (CSU and Freie Wähler) trying to out-populist the far-right populists from the AfD while trying to not sound too much like them - with the result that the AfD gained 4.4 % points compared to the last elections, FW gained 4,2%, CSU lost 0,2% (looks like they weren't populist enough) and the Greens lost 3,2%, losing the status of largest opposition party to the AfD.
Sought after candidates is not how software hiring works. Maybe start ups flush with cash are an exception, but for everyone else hiring almost always is dominated by perceived compatibility more than anything else, even more than utility need.

That is because there are smart people in the world that can self educate and jump into new technology with minimal friction, but those people are rare. Most employers want employees as early as the position opens and they don’t want to invest in training. Java is super desirable to employers because many developers are taught Java in school, it’s single paradigm, and it’s terse OOP conventions force the vague shape of a uniform architectural style. Most developers only know enough to be hired and not enough to write original software, of any style, so employers have to account for these things as though everyone is a junior developer, least common denominator.

That line of thinking suggests lower expenses, ease of candidate selection, and a wider candidate pool. In reality it tends to result in a less qualified larger labor pool with greater insecurity. This is why everything on the JavaScript side is about giant frameworks and the software is super bloated, because putting text to screen is all that matters but nobody knows how the technology works without a framework.
The article makes it sound as if the benefit of handwriting vs. typing is a settled matter. But a recent metaanalysis finds no overall benefit of handwriting over typing:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0361476X2...
That's very cool! I may be slightly like-minded. It's been many years and technology has outrun it, but ~5 years ago I built a model to translate between Scandinavian languages and in particular the two written forms of Norwegian.

I had the same problem of lacking training data, but I tried an approach of bootstrapping from rule-based translators. There exist decent rule-based translators for the Scandinavian languages. Of course they make mistakes, but I figured that as long as I used the rule-translated text only as source, never as target, it wouldn't matter.

Effectively, instead of learning to translate from real Danish to correct Norwegian, it learned to translate from slightly broken machine-Danish to correct Norwegian. And my hope was that it would learn to translate from real Danish to correct Norwegian as a side effect.

I then figured that I might as well let it take input in slightly broken machine-Swedish as well, hopefully helping its generalization.

Then I could use this translator for the next step, again using the real text as the target, but using output from this translator as input.

It worked reasonably well. It certainly beat Google Translate at the time, since that at the time went via English even for closely related languages like the Scandinavian ones. I seriously considered making a start-up and commercializing it, some people had expressed interest (among them newspapers - they used a rule-based translator/grammar checker at the time, I think maybe they still do.)

But in the end, it's probably good I didn't. These days I understand they don't even train sequence to sequence models, they just train a general-purpose language model and instruction-tune it to do translation.
Sometimes wasting a perfectly good kitchen sink on a small problem gives you two bigger problems.
A 5 whys analysis will likely get to "people benefiting from fossil fuel pollution not being costed in" one or two steps back from that guy who doesn't even know why he objects to wind power.
The irony: we borrow money against our future selfs assuming endless economical growth. But when we extract finite natural resources and use up a finite pollution buffer, we do not pay our future selfs the opportunity costs.
Open sourcing something like this would be a good strategy. Financial companies would pay handsomely for custom features, updates, managed services, etc.
> Why would SMS OTP be used? 100% of accounts today will already have a password, that's how you would login if you lose your only passkey device.

> If/When passwords are not a thing anymore then why wouldn't the recovery use a "lost password" type flow that happens is facilitated via the account email?

Well, passkeys are descended from FIDO/U2F keys, which have traditionally been used for "two factor authentication" - by confirming both 'something you have' and 'something you know' your account is protected if someone has shoulder-surfed your password, or stolen your phone, or hacked your e-mail, or whatever.

And FIDO/U2F keys kinda a hassle, so they're only used by the most security-conscious people in the most security-critical situations.

For these people, a recovery mechanism that falls back to a single factor (password-only login, e-mail only login) is a big weakness, security-wise.
Also driving a bicycle is polluting, because bicycles don't grow on trees, but are produced by industry. Yeah, yeah.
Does "full solar lifecycle emissions" include the gas and coal powerplant you use because you couldn't build energy storage and your electric grid can't handle the peak power? Does it include the reconstruction of the grid it necessitated?
I'm surprised to read that "the scientific wisdom of the time (...) held that there were no significant elemental differences between the Sun and Earth", because I distinctly remember looking up why helium was named after Helios (the Greek name for the Sun). It turns out that it was discovered by analyzing the spectrum of the Sun, only years later being isolated from Earth minerals.
Spread-out suburbs require more heating, transportation infrastructure, and more physical land to exist than alternatives. You can argue for them based on other gactors, but they use more resources, full stop.
You can’t make everyone happy all the time. I’m a lot more okay with a situation in which a person is compelled to sell their very valuable property because they can’t afford the taxes than I am with people being unable to afford housing.

If LVT helps to loosen up some undeveloped/underdeveloped land and get it into the hands of a willing developer then that is a big win for the fight against the housing crisis.
This is bad news for me. I am working on a simliar project (gaussian splatting + dynamic scene). Our method is different with the mentioned 4D gaussian splatting, but I am unsure shall I continue or not.
I've written in notebooks for many years (mainly write-only, like perl). I think the key thing to remember is that no one is going to read or judge your notes, so literally write anything.

Shopping lists, random thoughts, UML-like diagrams of code, sketches of possible art pieces, knots, etc. Just anything.
If I did see CO2 as a problem I'd still be against wind and solar and all the other harebrained schemes that are mathematically proven to be unable to even make a dent in climate change. However, they are guranteed to lower our standard of living substantially.

And a prediction that you'll be able to observe in the coming decades: a lot of those "minor" and "invented" concerns will be front and center once we all have EVs and solar in order to nudge us onto the next thousands of dollars spending or to tax us or simply to keep the eco spirituality of "humans bad" alive.

Technological solutions simply aren't wanted by "your" side and so, eventually, all technology will be attacked just as fossil fuel based ones are now.
Really cool project!
I was wondering what led you to build this tool when DBT is already open source. What were you missing?