skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t see software/tech valuing work/life balance better. It might just be that software/tech is more remote and more flexible. But tech can punish you just like investment banking.

I was asked point blank by my tech CEO: “how much do you work” - first time in my career and that’s having come from NYC finance. Don’t believe the hype!
wow, that ad was really moving
He doesn't mention if he used WDT, which is a strange oversight.
Didn't the Xbox just ban 3rd party controllers?
I haven't gone as far as a straight razor, but I've just in the last few weeks switched to a DE razor coming from years of using cartridge razors with too many too closely spaced blades that clog then degrade and cause irritation.

I'm trying a Rockwell 6C (around $60) with its interchangeable base-plates for different aggressiveness on blade exposure/angle, and just started on a variety pack of blades to see what suits me - so far so good on the experiment, it's at very least not causing any more irritation and produces less waste. Shaving accessories _is_ a ridiculous rabbit hole of hipster consumerism, but doing better-than-default seems like it might be worthwhile.

Right now it's just for face, by my hair is rapidly approaching "Doonesbury's Old Surfer Dude" so the role might expand.
This is still the bizarre but all-too-common line of thinking in which someone talks themselves out of marshalling available resources. It’s negotiating against yourself, and a recipe for failing at life.
It's got more security holes than Swiss cheese.
I guess it's easier to require it not be able to distinguish at all than define what bias actually is and what the errors on that are.
I don't disagree.
Can you list better tools?

I've descrived the process of picking the tools.
If you know a better one, pls tell me
Why do you think so? It sounds like this pricing structure applies to any company, local or foreign. Or an I mistaken here?
Genuine question, what's Beeper’s angle? They knew they could be cut off. I’m guessing they envisioned being the mouse in a cat and mouse game, or they’re laying some tracks for future lawsuit(s) to open up iMessage.
Europe may be small, yet there are measurable genetic differences between its peoples: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2735096/

Looking at a larger, but still relatively closely connected region, magnifies those differences further: https://site.nevgen.org/2020/05/05/autosomal-pca-charts-of-e...
It's an alan-kayism: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/douglas-engelbart-... “I don’t know what Silicon Valley will do when it runs out of Doug’s ideas.”
Beeper Cloud is now working with iMessage
Most HPPD is just floaters or tracers, and SSRIs can cause them too.

The magnitude of HPPD and the frequency/prevalence need to be studied, but I think seeing some extra floaters in exchange for having a will to live is a trade most would take.
Is this triggered under certain workloads, or has it been chewing data for everyone, and how much?
This would be marginally good for automakers. Some people would decide to buy an extra car to have on-going access.
But SyncThing exposes users to a risk that they may have not been prepared for. It's a great tool, but it's not a tool fot the masses.
And Microsoft did it nearly 30 years after Nintendo released their Hands Free Controller.

There's no need to attempt to diminish what Sony is doing. Anything that improves the quality of life for people that have been previously excluded should be applauded. Even if they took longer than others.
thx for mentioning it.
What would be a good replacement, you know any?
Don't get lost in technicalities and don't impute me what I never said. I never claimed that Twitter is, from a legal standpoint, bound by the First Amendment. What I said is that Parag Agrawal and team made the conscious decision to institute censorship policies incompatible with the First Amendment.

Obviously, the First Amendment case law only applies to public entities -originally only to federal entities and since the passage of the 14th amendment due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_R... also to states and municipalities- and certain private entities that receive public money such as universities.

There are also limitations to broadcasters that use properties, such as the allocation of frequencies, regulated by government https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_doctrine .

While how these latter policies apply to social media companies such as X/Twitter is part of ongoing debate and litigation, private social media companies, irrespective of the law cases, can decide what kind of censorship regimes they like to have.

Under Parag Agrawal and team, Twitter was a far left platform.

Under Elon Musk and team, Twitter/X is a centrist platform, meaning that neither the far right nor the far left have a free reign and the big middle is pretty much free to say anything they want as long as the First Amendment is not violated.
Let me know when the congestion toll is actually being applied. How long ago did Congress approve of removing DST? (we still have DST) I feel like I've read these "NYC approves of congestion tolls" articles 10 times in the past 4 years. Constant deja vu
>popular local services

>Vkontakte, WeeChat

Since 2008 big US tech companies have been a runaway GDP doubling success. It is laughable to compare them with VK and WeChat.

The reason we Europeans should aim to have our own big tech companies is because we are currently missing out on the greatest wealth generation in history.
When the Linux kernel is huge (MLoCs!), complex and lacks stable internal APIs, this should not surprise anyone.

There are better ways to do it, and it is being done.

Refer to the microkernel multiserver architecture, with efforts such as Genode (on seL4) or Fuchsia.
Which is like... Yeah? You fire or demote professors and students because they make their colleagues "uncomfortable" with "micro-aggressions". What is this then?

And he's jumping from a clear call for genocide to things that are more debatable WRT that...
>i live under a literal tyrant right now in india.

>civil rights.... haha

I wasn't even talking about you lmao.
"If-else rule-based systems" aka expert systems are an example of symbolic artificial intelligence e.g. "Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence". Just because it doesn't use the newest most trendy methods doesn't mean it isn't AI, and even if you object to applying the AI label to these kind of systems, these systems are nevertheless valid targets for regulation.

"Good Old Fashioned Artificial Intelligence" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOFAI

"In artificial intelligence, an expert system is a computer system emulating the decision-making ability of a human expert.[1] Expert systems are designed to solve complex problems by reasoning through bodies of knowledge, represented mainly as if–then rules" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system

"Symbolic AI used tools such as logic programming, production rules, semantic nets and frames, and it developed applications such as knowledge-based systems (in particular, expert systems), [...]" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_artificial_intelligen...
> the US-Saudi relationship.

Less of an issue than it used to be. The US is now a net oil exporter.[1]

[1] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...
I always assumed "search and rescue" was an euphemism for military research
unfortunately many use OSS as a marketing trick.
If you see any tool from the list that's not OSS anymore, let me know
It’s only a conspiracy theory until it’s proven right. Which is pretty often.
Ask HN: Who like Engelbart is ahead of their time now?
With Doug Engelbart on the front page right now, it's a good time to ask: who (a person or team) is ahead of their time right now, that we'll look back decades later and see that they saw where things were headed?

Almost by definition it can't be someone famous, and also it probably has to be someone who is doing things not just prognosticating. Who are some possibilities and what are they saying or doing?
No, it showed setting text through a different method that does not use a dictionary. (Maybe it uses one in its implementation, but we're taking about the interface here.) There is no usage of Python dictionaries anywhere on the whole page.

I have to admit, the alternative method used in the second example is interesting, it's probably just as good as my suggestion in most ways. But ape4's quote about dictionaries still doesn't make sense to me (both on its own or in context in this conversation).
to be honest, categories are really difficult to get right.
try the "alternatives", it's better.

But I will improve categories, I'm working on it
Yeah, real time knowledge sounds more like a bug than a feature. "Real time knowledge" is what I get when my sons come to me yelling about which one of them is to blame for the fight they were just in.
Got a Leap from a user office furniture warehouse. Great buy for sure. Look up in your area there’s probably one too. They are usually in an industrial area somewhere. Just a giant warehouse with used office furniture.
The PS5 and its games have great accessibility settings. No more fears of developing carpal tunnel for me.
Designing UX stuff for disabled people is surprisingly hard. There's a huge array of disabilities and non-disabled designers can't fathom the challenges by themselves so I can imagine it's a very lengthy iterative process.

It was also probably never a huge priority for Sony until the X-box released their own and showed there's a market for them.
You Are the Best at Something
good idea, I actually have one idea on how to implement this (using AI and the docs)
And I think this constant is not constant. It's growing with pollster distrust and with cynicism (which, let's be honest, is much more prevalent in genZ than before).
Loosely, yes. The historical reason is a lack of state sales tax for many states in the 20th century, however one of the main justifications for continuing this process is to highlight what portion of the price is sales tax. However, it has become incredibly evident that large chains abuse this for psychological reasons.

In the EU and Japan for example, prices include tax, allowing for a more honest depiction of total cost to the consumer.
OK, thanks. In other words: does not require an order from a doctor.
Vegan restaurants exist for a reason - people like having more than one option when they go out. Imagine getting basically the same burger wherever you go because that's the thing on the menu you can eat. It's better than nothing but it gets boring really fast.

The number of vegan restaurants compared to the actual demand right now is too high though, especially fast food vegan places that can't differentiate themselves well because they all use the same substitute products without doing much to them.
When you know before hand that it will 100% just waste time, then the value is in not making you and others more aggrieved and annoyed.
What did the ipod shuffle use?
University of Pennsylvania President Resigns over Comments on Antisemitism
But to what end? SEO optimized recipe copy sites already exist and are so numerous to the point where going to specific sites or books is now just a signal of reputability in a sea of trash.
The 1200 casualties on Oct 7 included 283 Israeli soldiers and 57 policemen. 859 civilians were killed. Doesn't change anything but it's worth using the correct figures.
The Annotated S4
Ask HN: Cereal Box Video Games?
From time to time I think about how much I enjoyed the FPS Chex Quest. Were there other games like this distributed in cereal boxes? If so, what were they and what were your favorites?
Yeah, my experience is that philosophy journals typically expect word documents.
> What social media isn't?

You could ask "which turd sandwiches don't taste like shit?" when really, the question isn't "where are the better turd sandwiches?" but rather "why the hell are we eating turd sandwiches?"
Not really.. they're often statistically based, but don't need to use Bayes' Theorem or be based on a Bayes Network. They are driven by expectation maximization and stochastic gradient descent, mainly. An autodifferentiation back-propagates the parameter update through a neural network model, but the network doesn't necessarily represent a Bayes Network.
Thanks for that, it’s interesting. It seems that his involvement was just for the one lecture scene though? The movie itself is chock full of references to nerd, hacker, conspiracy, and security knowledge. Anyone know how they did all the research for this film?
It felt like all lead-in no body.
For the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyushu_J7W_Shinden
I'm sorry but I cannot see how to view this charitably. To me it clearly seems to be a way to enact further unjustified regulation on something that would otherwise be hard to create public support for, by using big new scary words like AI, even though it has massive overreach into more traditional programs.
Missed a few things, my bad.

> This. Is. The. Problem. Framing an end-user as a mentally deficient 'normie'. Why? What's the point and what's to be gained from this?

Most end-users are, okay? If anything unusual happens at the computer they come running for the nearest nerd, poorly explain the problem, waste the nerd's time when it turns out it was simple, and the most important part, they don't learn from the experience.

It also serves as a useful distinction between types of users. Normies browse the web, maybe use an e-mail client, some office software, maybe Steam or Zoom, etc.

Power users want to explore the fullest capabilities of their computer. They're going to want different software and different experiences from the normies.

Developers will want to explore how much they can do and control. That's another type of user with different needs and software preferences.

Frankly, I'm not interested in talking about the needs of average users, because more average users will cause communities to believe their software doesn't need advanced features because there are greater numbers of simple users. Flooding Linux with normies won't make the software any better. It will create an Eternal September problem where you'll get loads of criticism and bug reports and problems, but almost nobody from that crowd will have the insight necessary to help devs decide on solutions.

There really isn't any third option. Everyman software ends up toddler-fied, and bespoke software overloads the normies. Both groups cannot be served by the same software. I challenge you to find any piece of software that adequately serves both groups.
Cop28: China 'would like to substitute renewables for fossil fuels' in agreement
Worth mentioning, if you do get a sonicare or any elective toothbrush, go much more slowly than you think. Makes all the difference in the world.
Personal Capital... It's free but belongs on this list: https://www.personalcapital.com/
Tab Limiter
It really is mindblowing that Windows 11 is still capable of running 32-bit programs written for Windows 95, that's 28~29 years of backwards compatibility and environmental stability.

If we look back to programs written for Windows NT 3.1, released in 1993, and assume they run on Windows 11 (because why not?) then that's 30 years of backwards compatibility.

Did I say mindblowing? It's downright mythological what Microsoft achieves and continues to do.
Scary AI recognizes passwords by the sound of your typing
Predictive Markets.
What makes you say SSRIs are poison?
.com was not for sale
First time reading Hacker News?
Another State Lawmaker Wants to Criminalize Porn Through Age Verification
No, I posted a much more specific theory above with a disclaimer.

Here, none was necessary, since I wasn't going out on a limb. I also do know enough people who work at Amazon to know that many of their SWEs despise their employer. Reporting (in newspapers) about warehouses is horrific. That strongly supports that Amazon is not tending towards the happy end of the "employees acting in employer best interest" curve. My own experience, my friends, and anecdotally on posts like this, has been very negative about the honesty and customer service from Amazon starting around 2020.

Now:

Corporate corruption is complex.

To give an extreme example, if one is at an Enron, one keeps their job by keeping their mouths shut and participating in the fraud. It's the likely whistleblowers who get fired.

This is not at all uncommon in organizations. It's a stereotype that working too hard at some union shops is not good for one's long-term job prospects.

One step down from that is employees who don't care about their employer. They want to keep their job, have decent salary, future options, work-life balance, and enjoy work as much as possible. If an employer doesn't fire people who don't work, no one works. If an employer has no means to check if items are correctly packed, very quickly no items are correctly packed. This is not uncommon at the CEO level either (at least for external CEOs), who mostly want to pump up short-term profits to get bonuses and prepare for their next gig.

Acting in corporate interest is only occasionally correlated with keeping ones job. In general, you need to keep your stakeholders happy (probably your boss), and the extent to which that correlates with business success is... mixed.

This impacts a majority of large businesses.

At scale of over ≈20-1000 people, organizations are dominated by incentive structures and dynamics you can model with game theory (ref: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita). The hypothetical business where everyone is aligned is, well, almost hypothetical beyond some scale.

It's not uncommon that in a large organization, zero people care about that organization. If there's a problem, no one fixes it. It survives in the free market simply because their competitors are no better (and how well large businesses manage this largely determines their success).
(Edit: original response was to a pithy "it's hard". Commenter added context after the fact so I am adding context to mine):

No it isn't. Unless the company doing the designing isn't serious about it. Exactly of companies who are serious about inclusive design are Apple, and if you want gaming Microsoft. How are they serious?

- hire people with disabilities across the board so input happens at all phases of product development

- include people with disabilities during product and focus group testing

- bake inclusive design as part of their process

- hire people with disabilities in QA/QC

So, yes it's difficult if you have one person saying "make this thing inclusive otherwise we might get sued". It's not difficult if the organization is serious about inclusive design
I don't target specific options, but different words of what I'm trying to achieve, crop/cut/extract as a pretty bad example. It takes me to the description of the option I'm looking for where it will also have useful extra options to combine.

I can't say the same for GUI icons, many times hidden behind dropdowns. If I hover it will say select, then I have to find how to crop that selection, behind another dropdown, probably a few levels deep. And none of them searchable. If I need help there's no one place to find a guide, my best bet is google or the website.

For both an intuition has to be learned from use, but GUI people act like they were born with computer literacy. I used to think the CLI was stupid as well, but now that I've seen the light I can't imagine going back.
I love this.
I would like to see a mod that turn the ipod into a easy to open device live the nokia's from the 2000
That statement is entirely factual though.

Musk has continually promoted the car as being bulletproof.

And we know from regulators and crash tests that it's going to be a nightmare for pedestrians. To the level where in many countries it is likely to not be street-legal. Factor in the sports-car level acceleration and it is going to be an unprecedentedly dangerous car.
MIT engineers design a robotic replica of the heart's right chamber
This person knows what they are talking about. This is what makes HN worth it.

After doom scrolling seeing some people pretending to be smart, you find a gem like this one.
It's the same stretch as saying people pirating content will never pay for it. All non-customers are simply not paying a creator for content. It doesn't fucking matter why they're a non-customer. From the perspective of a media publisher a pirate is no different than someone buying media second hand or never watching it in the first place.

If I buy a used Blu-ray I'm not giving a dime to Disney. I get to watch the Avengers all I want without ever paying them anything. They have lost nothing because I didn't take anything from them nor prevented them from selling a copy of the Avengers to someone else.

If you replaced my second hand copy of the Avengers with a pirated copy, nothing would change about the situation. Disney was deprived of nothing. The same is true if I rent it from the library, borrow it from a friend, or just never watch it. To Disney I am simply a non-customer.
Being able to make predictable changes directly to the algorithm would be a starter.
Yes but your original comment said mostly unelected, which isn't true.
"... smart for being programmers just because we get paid too much for it"

I wish people would stop propagating this idea. The opposite is true.
Logging detailed hours is now basically a requirement nationally in the US because of the messed up change to the tax code that makes companies separate out maintenence development from greenfield development.
It is literally about art. People need to stop exaggerating piracy to life essentials if they want to be taken seriously. No, I will not blame a homeless dude who grabs a few pieces of food from a grocery store. It can be literal life or death.

I can't say the same about someone who "needs to play GTA V" (it was already free at some points. So you're not just entitled but inefficient in your frugality).

we can take down big pharma first and then worry about DRM on media you want to consume. It's not all or nothing.
Well, I try.
I feel like I’m the only one here that actually agrees with you
Does the FBI use these? The FBI is tasked with counter intelligence, and for a spy it could be highly relevant to learn if they are being targeted.
Ah yeah. I forgot that with a good frequency two black people give birth to a white baby or vice versa.
Don't know why you got downvoted, it's a very good question.

I've been using matrix. It's e2ee and multiple client sessions seem to be working just fine, they all sync without problems.
How do you peer review an opinion
I thought about for long how SFX in f.e. airsims are done nowadays: different engine characteristics are just one thing. Are there still samples / recordings involved?

Same with racing or train sims.