skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like if you're the type of person to download uBlock and set specific filters you're the type of person to never click on an ad on purpose.

I don't understand why Youtube is doing this, wouldn't it make their numbers look better if the people that won't click ads never have them delivered to them (5% of users clicked on ads vs 1% of users clicked on ads)
Content Moderation with AI
Ok, but if someone avoided social life and worked in gender segregated environment in the past, they would had zero romantic partners in the past too.
> rendering backend (`<canvas>`) [...] you're using it right now!

Yup, looks like canvas for sure, can't copy-paste anything and all the lines are clipped because it's not even conforming to my window size.
Sounds like he wasn't happy with his last PM haha. Interesting convo starter article though, as the PM role seems to also draw a wide range of opinions. In my view, the PM duties are critical, but the PM function is what a company makes it, as there are multiple ways to divvy up work and get things shipped.

To me, great products are a result of having a leader in the company who brings strong vision, customer focus, prioritizing the needle movers, and assembles the right technical talent to turn concepts into reality. This leader "gets it", and they make the tough decisions.

So while simply having a PM doesn't ensure these things, it doesn't necessarily prevent them either. Once you scale, the PM function brings much needed order to chaos. But if a company is relying purely on IC PM's to bring the vision, focus, needle movers, leadership, the company is flying blind as it's a signal that the founders / execs / board are absent. And that's a bigger problem than not loving your PM.
Australia has had free, searchable collections of Australian Law for 25+ years. Austlii is a prime example. There are Federal and State collections as well.
The author is conscientious enough to read the scraping policy (or was blocked by anti-scraping tools) from feeding from one of these sites into his LLM.
> There is no context where a rational businessman would choose not to advertise to you.

...except, the businessman wanting to show me an advert doesn't have a choice. The website chose DoubleClick; I'm paying DoubleClick not to show me any ads.
Websites that don't choose DoubleClick either get adblocked, or I avoid, thus making less money from me.

There is some expected value that DoubleClick will get from me in the course of a month; that's not infinite, and if it's a reasonable fee (like, $12/mo) then they'll get a lot more from me than if I use an ad-blocker.
Startups do the same thing. They spent too much on R&D when they should be spending the money on marketing.
> "Drought and heat have already reduced global cereal production by as much as 10 percent in recent years, according to Steffen."

I'm not sure how they define this because I find conflicting info elsewhere. Our world in data has global cereal production only going up [0]. That data only goes until 2021 so there could have been a decrease in 2022 but then it would probably be wrong to say "recent years".

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cereal-production?tab=cha...
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.

Because Apple has had this for years a while now with the MagSafe battery pack.

I actually think it should become a standard that all companies adopt. It's far easier and quicker to use than removable batteries and doesn't remove valuable space inside the phone.
Declarative Confidence
> Generally it is quite important especially for SaaS.

You see, I don't think that's true at all. If it was, certainly you'd have clients complain loudly enough for the PMs to notice.

But that doesn't seem to even register a concern, both from the client and from the PM point of view.

Convenience is a nice-to-have, and fixing problems that don't exist registers even lower in the priority queue.

> Non-technical PMs tend to gloss over things like that (...)

See, this is where I think we disagree at a very basic level.

There is no such thing as a technical and non-technical Product Manager, because a product isn't technical. A product is something that meets the needs and expectations of its customers. A Product Manager's responsibility is to know their product and manage it to meet its clients' needs, and in the process help guide the development effort to maximize its returns on investment. Whether it's to paint a button red instead of blue, or to tell if they need to upgrade TLS, a PM's job is to read the room and deliver what meets the needs.
Buffalo are not extinct. They are coming back, as humans leave the Great Plains.[1]

If you're in the SF area, Golden Gate Park has a buffalo herd in a fenced area.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Commons
Go + HTMX (DB Postgres or Sqlite)
Wait til you learn what sheep eat and where one can find it
Can you give a quick elaboration on what you mean about the fate of RethinkDB? I'm not familiar with it.
> It’s worth becoming your own health researcher if no one else can identify the issue.

This is something I have been a big advocate of. I would never claim to know more than a professional nor would I ever give medical advice to another individual.

However, it has helped me plenty of times. I feel like I have been able to ask more important and impactful questions to doctors, and I have been able to push back on some choices that doctors would have made that I think might have been incorrect.

For example, I was almost prescribed a medication. That particular medication might have treated its indicated condition well, but it is known to exacerbate my immune-mediated disease as a side-effect (to clarify, the medication was not for the immune-mediated disease).

When I mentioned it to the NP I was under the care of, she said, "I have never heard that side-effect." Well, she looked into it, and it turns out I was right. Had I not done my research prior to our visit, then I might have been subjugated to changes to a disease that could have been entirely been avoided.

I still think she is a wonderful NP, and no one can know everything.

I even have another account.

I asked an MD about a newer medication for my immune-mediated disease. He said, "I have never heard of that before." After discussing it with him, he did not seem to be interested in trying it. I swapped doctors, mentioned it to the new doctor, and she prescribed it. It's actually the single most effective treatment I have tried since I acquired the disease 7 years ago.

As Schoolhouse Rock once said, "It's great to learn 'cause knowledge is power!"
The Case for First-Brain Memory: Spaced Repetition, Calendar Memory, and More
This is how statutory rape works. Consent is invalidated by a law!

If person are intoxicated, they are prevented from resisting. So even if they give a verbal consent, this consent is invalidated by section 261 (a)(3), because they were prevented from resisting.
Narrator: They will be back soon and Zuckerberg, Benioff et al. already knows it and don't care.

Just attach more c̶a̶r̶r̶o̶t̶s̶ cash on the stick when their employees rent rises and they will start running back.
This is what happened at the last startup I worked at, before we had a product, even MVP level, the CEO hired an engineering manager, who however was really a process person, except for the title the progression of things is about the same. Things quickly went south. A career ladder was introduced, this is in an org with 6 engineers. Everything even the smallest changed required an RFC and a spec. Open sourcing unrelated stuff got me into trouble. Instead of working on product we got into endless discussions on how to tweak the career ladder or some other part of the org, when there was no org to speak off.
removable batteries was to allowed the laptop to run without a battery pack for as long as needed
The way to fix it with infinite money is to have individual human curators (concierge services) for every customer. This eliminates fraud and makes a very, very easy-to-use "user interface" when the human concierges are well trained.

Regardless, even if I'm wrong with "cost effective", the word still isn't "optimal".
Web dev frameworks are like pizzas: everyone has their favorite toppings and styles, some are more popular than others, and others are sometimes loathed (pineapple), but it generally all comes down to cheese, dough, sauce at the end of the day.
nice link

this is as close as possible to i will ever get to understanding how the older generation feels about cars from the 1950s.

it's not even so much about the tech it's about the memories i have from being young, and the process of discovering that some of the mysteries of the man made world do actually have answers.
With suicides, it is kinda. Gender rates of suicides wary between countries.

But what is also happening is that men tend to pick more violent ways of killing themselves - shooting themselves and alike. Women tend to go for poisons and such. So, the suicide attempts are much more closer between genders - but men more successful at it.
The main difference is between a product and a project. The gist is that projects are short term specific plans while products are a bit more open-ended ideas with continual feedback. Here’s a decent overview: https://martinfowler.com/articles/products-over-projects.htm...
The point 9 about falsifiability needs a lot more nuance. The problem is that we cannot get away from unfalsifiable hypotheses. No matter how far we probe into some phenomenon, there is always the question "why?" beyond which we don't know.

When we are left with a "why", our only choices are (1) take an agnostic stance and decline to make hypotheses, (2) make unfalsifiable hypotheses. If we choose (2) there are unfalsifiable hypotheses that are superior and those that are inferior. The superior ones are ones which postulate less. The best unfalsifiable hypothesis is the one which postulates no hidden variables. The answer to "why" (why things are the way they are, and not in some other arrangement) is that (a) other arrangements for a universe are valid and exist, but we are biased because we are intelligent beings which live in a particular arrangement and only that one is observable to us (the "anthropic principle"); and (b) in fact, why not: all the other possible universes exist, just not "here". (If they don't, then we need to come up with a hypothetical reason why they don't, which is more complicated than assuming there is no reason: by Occam's Razor, we just trim that out.)

What we don't want to be doing is spouting some unfalsifiable hypothesis as if it were unvarnished truth; but nevertheless, we can pick the best one and defend it against the others, when they come up.

I should add that there is nothing wrong with postulating theoretical entities and processes; doing so has served us well, and in many cases, additional discoveries lended reality to the postulated entities. E.g. atoms were originally a philosophical construct based on the idea that subdividing matter into smaller pieces has to bottom out at some indivisible particle; and that's where we got the atom word. Subatomic particles were postulated initially too. These are not exactly the same as hidden variables because their existence is falsifiable. We have evidence that there exists an electron, for instance, even though originally it was just postulated.
> the Wii differentiated itself with its motion controls and a low price. It was a hit.

> Lately, I’ve been thinking about the blue ocean strategy in the context of Apple. Like Nintendo ...

Well, Apple is certainly not differentiating on 'low price'. And I don't know that high margin is "innovative blue ocean".
True, but people who buy expensive cars care, which is exactly the target for such a system I imagine.

I am not a mechanic but can at least hazard a guess at what's wrong with a car from the way it sounds with reasonable confidence. I imagine a purpose build AI design by the car's manufacturer with multiple microphones in the engine compartment and around the car could gain quite a lot of insight, perhaps even outside of identifying maintenance problems simply to tune the performance of the engine, especially when combined with other sensors.

Having said that, we seem to be near the end of the line for ICE vehicles, so I wouldn't hold my breath for such a system to be developed.
> I’ve never seen someone put together a coherent defense of the practice

Let me give it a try then.

As part of part of our cognitive functions, our attention is inalienable. It is ours. It's not theirs to sell off to the highest bidder. It's not currency to pay for services with. They do not get to insert brands and taglines into our minds without our consent. Advertising is mind rape and ad blocking is justified self-defense. I literally don't care how many billions they lose, I will block ads, I will help others block ads and I won't lose even one second of sleep over it. They are not entitled to our attention. Their choices are to charge money up front or to deal with it. If they send us ads, we'll delete them.
Said the farmer, not realising that there were grass everywhere, not just on his farm.
Feature, not bug. There is a steady stream of features that build on the newer hardware, for example local dictation support starts with A12 devices. The big question is not whether a five year old phone supports the most current software (I would hope so), it's whether today's brand new phone will likewise support the updated software in five years, and what features can app developers rely on being present in five years.
My daughter does have some wicked myopia. The optometrist blamed her reading.
Climate change is not a fundamental theory. It is derived from thermodynamics, the Navier Stokes equation, quantum mechanics and probably quite a few assumptions on what is negligible. Falsify any of those and you falsify climate change.
It's a morbid joke but 30% of bc residents don't have a family doctor. Maid is being used as a tool to lighten the load on the system.
Popper
Of course not. Alpha males command the most attention
> Apple makes an original, user-hostile decision

You make it sound like the decision comes with no benefits.

All of the hardware to support removable battery means less space for the battery.

And especially in the early days the iPhone was struggling to reach a normal working day.
Will it run doom ?
In the Netherlands I remember typing in a code to record something. That code corresponded to a specific start and end timestamp. So in that case it ‘skipped’ the commercials.
Building a Photography Website
Please make them cheaper and sustainable instead of adding removable batteries.
I wonder if there will be a time when textbooks will be created in digital-first format, instead of being mere replicas of what print books are. It doesn’t have to be static text and images on A4 pages.
> Is it claiming anywhere to be open source?

They have a page on their website where they claim to be "an open source company" (https://surrealdb.com/opensource)
Siracusa's simpering, consoomer defensiveness for Apple has become intolerable. He seems unable to deal with the fact that his precious company's business practices are incompatible with his political/enviromental beliefs. Instead concocting this 'blue ocean' dream that Apple will switch back to user serviceable batteries, creating a new market where there competitors don't dare tread.

What?

There are still plenty of Android devices that have user serviceable batteries, but they don't sell as well because what the majority of users want is to minimize size and weight at any cost. The minority of geeks out there who think something like this is important doesn't move the needle. Apple (particularly under Tim Cook) only cares about maximizing profits. Their environmental schtick is merely dressing in front of the ruthless profit making machine at work.

Obviously Siracusa can't deal with the dissonance that his precious Apple doesn't care about the environment as much as he does. Thus typing up silly articles like this...
The title kind of buried the lede that nearly half of tech workers say they are willing to return after a layoff. This fits my own it’s-just-business attitude, but I thought spite would be more common.
Thinking is hard. Learning to change your opinions/beliefs is even harder. It takes deliberate and consistent practice to get better at these things (join your local Skeptics/Humanists group if interested).

To quote Bertrand Russell: “Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do.” ;-)
The reason that falsifiability is a core requirement of science is because if there is no way a proposition can possibly be falsified, then there is no way to objectively assess whether or not it is true.

This is not to say that the proposition is false. It's possible that things can be unfalsifiable and true nonetheless, but those things would still exist outside the range of the scientific method (at least until/unless our understanding of reality expands enough to devise a test). That's an intentional trade-off, in order to gain greater confidence in the truth of the things we can test.
How to keep following people when a major social platform implodes
>War is typically fought over limited resource

Citation needed

The wars we've seen most recently have nothing to do with limited resources. Most wars through history have been about ego/ambition of royal assholes, and hatred/religious differences. Neither world war was about limited resources.

>"Most wars are not fought for reasons of security or material interests, but instead reflect a nation’s ‘spirit’"

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2013/07/16/most-wars-are-...

While it is possible future wars might be fought over limited resources, that hasn't really been the main factor in most wars that we know of dating back at least 1000 years.
When did maths become unfalsifiable? Someone should have told these guys https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1966-72-06/S0002-9904-1966...
I think you're right to identify two distinct things in the air, but it's the other guy doing the mixing. What science is and the extent to which that is approximated in practice are indeed two things. Neither is inherently more real or true than the other, or necessarily more right, depending on the context.

But I take this particular context to be about Sagan's comments on distinguishing truth from "baloney" via science by expressing principles that best express the scientific ideal. I don't take that to be "corrected" by appealing to science as practiced, which is where the mixing up of the two comes in.
omg just had a look and this one is just everything I hate about mathematics and academia.

Starts with lots of random definitions, remarks, axioms and introducing new sign language while completely disregarding introducing what it‘s supposed to do, explain or help with.

All self-aggrandization by creating complexity, zero intuition and simplification. Isn‘t there anybody close to the Feynman of Linear Algebra?
Sending people there is incredibly risky, and there just isn't that much science to do.
Show HN: Tailgram – A stupid simple anonymous discussion platform
Hi HN, I recently focused on building a commenting system for a project, and it works great.

I decided to branch it out for a smaller project, creating a simple anonymous discussion platform where you can have standalone individual posts that you can create and share.

This platform is useful for conducting market research in private or for performing a 'mom test' to help validate ideas. No sign-up is required.

Let me know what you think.
See my reply to the sibling post — binary reproducibility is not the end goal. It is an important property, and I do agree that most compiler toolchains should strive for that, but e.g. it might not be a priority for, say, a JIT compiler.
All those companies are free riding open source specific and humanity in general. Nothing of value is lost.

Google will dissappear. People will install some p2p thing on old laptop stacks, and peer tube will take over.
Life finds a way.
> Have you actually worked in the companies at Meta caliber

you're taking it personally.

I work for a > 30k employees company, not based in the US.

All I'm saying is companies optimize for what's better for them, so at some point you'll have on payroll thousands of people you don't need for your core business because they solve a lot of non-core functions. such as dealing with authorities or devise a strategy to reduce the pool of talents competition can pick from. HR, accounting and legal departments will also increase in size a lot consequentially. so their massive size doesn't says much about the complexity of the tech problem they are solving.

the fact that Discord runs on Elixir at that scale is remarkable, regardless of how many people work at Discord.
The Terrifying Longevity of Ideas [video]
What about, for example, the Drake equation? Not falsifiable, but a useful tool for thinking.
Network complexity, talent shortages drive shift in enterprise IT buying habits
Sealed off user-interchangeable batteries are a solved problem. GoPro does it.
Quick care beats quality care past a certain level of time and money.
Asteroid 2023 NT1: A Cautionary Tale
Thought this was interesting - while I broadly agree with his politics, I'm not sure what point they were making at a Python conference.
I absolutely disagree. Romanized Korean is harder to read than Korean itself. The sounds implied by the roman spelling do not match the sounds you're supposed to make, and you lose the syllable boundaries that aid in pronunciation. I feel like a caveman stumbling over my letters when I try to read a romanized word.

A one-page alphabet reference chart would be enough to remind the reader which letter is which without relying on the romanization crutch.

Normally I don't like to make argumentative internet comments but I really passionately think romanization is a detriment to a learning tool.
Blue Origin reveals mockup of Blue Moon lunar lander prototype
> frustrated ex-adblock-users will ignore my ads by muting them or looking away

That's exactly what I do when something manages to slip past my blocker. I also mute my TV and pick up my phone when ads start playing.

I don't generally hate the brands though. I understand there are some perverse incentives at work in the market which means they have to spend money on advertising or be outcompeted by others who do. I blame the advertising industry itself. There's one exception though: where I live, some businesses are so obnoxious they pay people to drive around playing loud advertisements all over the city and in my neighborhood. Those certainly get my utmost hate. I'd blacklist them forever but I can't even understand what the ads are saying anyway.
This is a problem they're working on solving, I think. The hospital group I've been using in the Portland area recently announced that patient-initiated messages that take more than a few minutes, and require e.g. digging through a chart, are billable to insurance: https://www.legacyhealth.org/messages

MyHealth is just what this hospital system calls their patient-facing Epic portal.
> And if they do come back, they’re likely expecting an average pay bump of 25%, Wong added

Single tech position gets like 100 applications, thousands of its remote. I think this guy is out of reality!

Devs in countries like Poland are now thriving, many of those jobs moved into cheaper regions!
I was wondering where I had heard of that domain name. Then it finally clicked. First time I am hearing about vercel. What would constitute as breach of TOS? Is it because he is providing it as a service (free/paid not sure exactly)? I also thought it was based on cached content!? Also, did he not have any backups elsewhere? I could never solely rely on the cloud services. They can change their TOS anytime and screw you over.