skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I am advised to open a separate financial account just to safely do business with a vendor, maybe I simply shouldn’t do business with that vendor?

But why all this scamminess to begin with? Are there that many customers that are somehow bad actors? If so, why not just turn off the card key, and done: no more gym access? Simple greed? Or the only way to keep the membership to $X/month is to make it hard to cancel, otherwise it would be $X+y/month and no one would join?

IOW, there’s some dynamic I must be missing. Maybe it is simply greed. But gyms have employed dark patterns for decades (I’m old, and it has always been this way), what has kept someone from opening the “not scammy” gym?

(And if you live near Redmond, WA: someone has opened that gym, called Eastside Gym.)
It would be interesting to have an iOS app where you're in a discord with the developer and can make feature requests really directly, or say that a font or some UI thing needs changing and get that patched in a week.

Small game dev communities are close to this, but I can't think of other software that's really similar.
I have a book on the shelf called "High Performance Python".

Seriously, though, if every Python program in the world was 0.1% faster, that would probably save a lot of energy.
honestly, as long as DNA is used to confirm the suspect, I'm ok with it.

I understand DNA isn't 100% perfect, but we convict based upon it so it doesn't seem unreasonable to try and generate a face and then run it through a facial recognizer to gather a list of suspects.

Now how they approach those suspects is a different matter. If you ask me, THAT is where the problems arise, not from the use of the tech itself. Although, having said that, I think it's clear this technique isn't all that useful.
9/10

Some of you really need to up your game. I do think discerning AI from real photo will be an important skill in the upcoming years.

A lot of the artifacts should be obvious (Spoilers below)

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1. Glasses completely and utterly fubar, the easiest

2. Orange shirt melds into his skin... creepy af

3. Mishapen iris, weird neck lines, the ocean in the background LOL. Second easiest, you could only miss this if you only focused on the face.

5. Mishapen iris.

9. Characteristic waifu, that alone should tell you its fake. Also reflection in iris is mismatched and left ear seems to blend in with hair.

I got #8 wrong, I thought the camera focus was inconsistent on the hair.
You said it already, it's self reported data.

There are at least two possible alternative explanations for your experience:

- Similar people group together. You said you have depression, so you tend to affiliate with similar people.

- Biased perception. You tend to notice the things your mind is revolving around. Like people with a pregnancy scare seeing children everywhere.

In addition surveys showed that most people have a positive hedonic tone and report being happy. I won't argue against the rising prevalence of mental illnesses in developed countries. However it seems that those numbers are just more diagnosed cases that did go unnoticed. In general. There are contributing societal factors like inequality, loneliness, etc. that make the US have higher rates than europe for example.
"Lie"? You can go fuck yourself, bud.

Maybe in BC it's much better (I doubt it), but in Ontario, wherever you go to get online appointment, it's $50-70. There are places that still accept OHIP, but it's harder and harder to find. Last time we just bit the bullet and paid $60 because of urgency.
It seems Grand Theft Auto fits the author's definition of a "cozy game" quite well. Particularly the open world wandering aspect of the game, where people spend significant amounts of their real-world time completing side quests and accumulating resources and buying fancy houses and cars without any real end goal. Perhaps for some degree of real-world social status among their peers. It's simply fun to participate in the markets of GTA and Animal Crossing - where the article's metaphor holds up regardless of whether time is spent stealing cars or catching butterflies.
When the host gives their guest something nice, the host is acting on their interest to please their guest. Or their interest in being a friend. Or their interest in seeing their guest happy. By definition, the only interest you posses is your own, even if that interest is a benefit to someone else.

Only straw-man arguments in economics use self interest to literally mean like “hedonic self interest” or layman’s self interest.

Economics actually does the opposite, the “self interest” is basically “whatever people want”. What do people want? They want to maximize their utility! What is utility? Whatever people want!
> When your mum or dad talks about their day or the show they are watching do you really think that they have no underlying theory of what is going on that they are expressing?

I didn't suggest anything like that.

> What is the agenda behind casting other people as idiots & zombies?

Show us where I suggested that people are "idiots" and "zombies". You're attributing qualities to my comment that are not there.

> Is the idea that it makes it ok to kill them and then move to Mars?

No.

> Or is there something less sinister that drives this?

No.
Neither GDPR nor ePrivacy directive demands cookie walls. ePrivacy directive demands consent. That consent can be given programmatically by browser APIs. There's even acknowledgement of such possibillity in the legal text (see point 7 in the directive). GDPR itself does not demand cookie banners, either. It merely demands there to be a legal basis for processing of data that constitutes personal data. One of those bases is consent. It's not the only basis. Other notable basis includes contractual necessity (includes all the cookies that are necessary for user experience, i.e sth like PHP placed session cookie).

Browsers do not have automated means to give consent/not give consent under ePrivacy because the largest browser is ran by an ad company. Monetarily speaking, the ad company earns more if it coerces its users with dark patterns into giving consent under ePrivacy than it does offering pro-user choice technologies to give a blanket not consent.

And ePrivacy itself is not just about cookies. EDPB recently released binding recommendations that severely expanded the perceived scope of ePrivacy (the true scope was always as it is, the adtech industry just ignored it). ePrivacy includes JavaScript side tracking, fingerprinting with various APIs and so on. It's not just cookies.
>Travels because it’s considered acceptable – and cool – to travel.

Wow, that's how I feel, I'm not a fan of traveling

It doesn't make me happy, tires me as hell due to planning & stuff, I don't feel like I'm getting anything out of it (except improving bound with my friends)

But somehow I don't think I know even one person who doesn't like traveling.

Generally I'm finding this post really coherent with my experience, but I've been calling it "why is it so hard to be relatively rational?"

like you know - not smoking, drinking a lot, doing sports, etc.

I'd add one thing:

People rarely aggressively manage their careers, especially outside tech.
their cheaper vacs are made in China. Still high quality, but not as much as their more expensive models.
What this article lacks is the self awareness that the entire process being described is the literal definition of normalcy. Hitting inflection points, changing your habits, then realizing that your new identity conflicts with your old social circle and so on is the most mundane stuff in human existence. It's the narrative of every Bildungsroman. There's a version of this blog from every person hitting 30/40 or whatever.

Also culturally, this kind of stuff:

"Don’t feel ashamed of acting differently. Find out what works for you, regardless of what others think."

is already the default mantra of our time that everyone is supposed to live up to, that's the slogan of every Pepsi commercial. Nowadays it'd be significantly weirder to say: "Listen to the advice of your elders and live up to social rule expected of you".
I still miss coffeescript's ability to do dict(@name, @age) though I understand that it creates an unwelcome coupling between the parameter names and their names in the calling scope.

For my part, those names are often the same anyway, though, since the calling scope names are often arbitrary and might as well match the parameter names.
Interesting that 2 of the first 4 comments begin with the same 5 words, too.
45 and couldn't figure that out either. I have family, work and kid so that's pretty much "everything" in modern Capitalism.

But I did figure out that there are two types of people. One figured out what they wanted to do in early life and went ahead to leave their names in history. The other didn't and perhaps never did.

There is not much one can do. If you are in the first camp you simply could not suppress the eagerness of going ahead and dive into what your destiny is, and if you are in the second then you simply could not figure out.

Just move on and figure out on the road. It's fine if you never figure that out. Most people thought they figure that out but they did not.
What is a gram?
> You can kinda treat branchless code as a form of flow control as well.

That's the common understanding of flow control, the other poster is right in that it's not typically just conditionals. There are a few posters who were under that misapprehension, but that's never been the common understanding of it, it's just that conditionals are typically where people worry over flow control because otherwise it's linear.
There's a really interesting boardgame based on the cake-cutting problem https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/173648/booty .

You play many rounds of trying to fairly divvy up piles of loot. Different pieces combine in ways to increase their overall value, as well as each piece having a base level amount of value. As a result the actual act of dividing it fairly becomes complicated, and players will try to influence the outcome in order to maximize their score at the end of the game to win.
If the Black Swan model of science is true, then most of the consequential innovations and advances are discovered rather than engineered.
My 6-year old was invited into the cockpit for the first time on January 1, 2024.
I was wondering the same as you up until that moment.

JetBlue US Domestic
forgive me for not engaging with your core ideas, but as far as I know the vernacular term is "cattle prod" and "cattle prick" sounds rather like something else
And if it takes more then an hour to get to a computer I can use? What if I’m wait to report it to the police? Seems like it should be a day.
AI-Assisted Dependency Updates Without Breaking Things
Your brain is not a rational machine, and its irrational fears will bring you much more suffering, on average, than an actual accident you could have prevented because of how rare the accidents are.

Therefore it's very rational to take great care about your irrational fears and feelings.
I mean to say comprehensive insurance as we have in Australia, that covers theft. What's it called in Canada
And in this scenario, it might not even have been an assessment of risk, but rather "just to mess with him". The reporting person may have thought it would be a funny prank to have him questioned by police over the message and that would be the end of it.
> Option 1: Big Intel has totally broken TLS and can see all TLS traffic in the clear in real-time

> Likelihood: very unlikely, I don't think this would stay secret for long.

People smart enough to break TLS at scale wouldn't be dumb enough to reveal their cards on a false alarm, that would be a massive blunder. Yes it wouldn't stay secret for long, which is why you must use it with impeccable deliberation.
They can be called something else, it's just an example from the nearest clinic that offers that.
More concerning to me is that there isn't anything better out there to buy anyway.
The video was great. I think my favourite part is where he dumps the Chinese knock off version and finds the random ARM code and reverse engineers it. So much cool stuff in there.
I find that, for me, this is a symptom of specialization and the “day job”.

If I can dive into some coding one week and whip the garden and landscaping into shape the next and work on a book the next et c, I thrive working longer hours than that.

It’s when I’m doing the same. Damn. Shit. Day after day, week after week, month after month, that I feel drained to exhaustion after doing just a few hours of it.
> unless .. game-changing

I have been silently dismissive until seeing a c.a. 5 minute ad on YouTube last night. Now I would be interested in at least trying the experience. However, I am wondering if the sales video might be better rendered (or somehow more impressive?) than the VR/AR itself.
Animal Crossing is also a game where natural resources are infinite and not rivalrous, alienation of labor is impossible, the labor theory of value dominates, and comparative advantage doesn't exist. You make money by personally extracting resources from land and (optionally) creating finished goods with your own labor. Demand is constant (other than the daily 'hot items'). You cannot saturate the market or run out of supplies.

So it's not just that it's a world where you won't starve in a ditch for not working hard enough, but a world where your reward is reliably and indefinitely proportionate to your labor investment. If you work hard, you will succeed; the harder you work, the more you will succeed. Who wouldn't want to live and work in that world?
Really cool. Just tried it with notepad++ and it seemed to work as expected. Can't find a use case for me yet but may come up.
It's how God programs
The people who investigate or shedding light on real conspiracies are journalists, academics and members of the government. Exactly the kind of people that according to conspiracy theorists should not be trusted.

In practice, people investigating and shedding light on real conspiracy are not called "conspiracy theorists" by the large public and the main media. Of course, people who want to cover up will say "they are conspiracy theorists", but it is very easy to check if they are or not: do they claim something based on only belief. So, in the large majority of the cases, it is very very clear when someone is accused of being a "conspiracy theorist" while they are not, and the rest of the large public and main media will not follow on the accusation.

I think it's the point: people who fall for conspiracy theory don't see how easy it is to distinguish between real investigation and conspiracy theory, and therefore, they will say "but look at this real investigation that uncovered a real conspiracy, they look exactly like us". Except that they don't, the same way that a physicist working at CERN does not look like a teenager pretending having invented a perpetual motion machine. The teenager is convinced they are the same as the physicist, but people with a minimum of expertise see immediately the difference.
In the UK filming in public and publishing the film anywhere is indeed a right and freedom, so you're mocking British concepts of freedom and the pianist for defending it.

It's ludicrous to claim you have a right to force others to avert their cameras when you are out in public, and that otherwise, your rights are violated. If you don't want to be seen, wear a mask. The public and its eyes/cameras don't belong to you.
What was opposed was forced vaccines on teens using a new vaccine. Our own family doctor recommended we wait until a few years had passed. A few years later - we got the recommendation.
> If people are observed to be abusing WFH it can be revoked for them

2 things follow from tips mode of thought:

The first is that you view (and presumably you believe others view) RTO as some sort of punishment. ("Oh, Jones, we caught you abusing WFH, therefore we're going to force you to RTO. That'll teach ya!")

Second, you have a presumption that OTHER PEOPLE will be there in the office with Jones! (Or else, why exactly force him to go into the office?) Now those "other people" can either be folks who choose to be there, or else it'll be made up of an army of Joneses! I'm not sure if I want to work in an office environment where EVERYTHING is forced to be there against their wishes.

> If they aren’t performing they can be fired

Yeah, business as usual.
The trick is, how do employers retain happy peoductive employees, especially around the issue of RTO?

It's not as easy as "fire poor performers", especially if the employees claim (as many here are doing right now) that RTO is an absolutely miserable and unproductive experience for them.

Firing and rehiring people is expensive. :-/
Hand authoring complex SMIL animations really sucks. The declarative nature introduces obnoxious limitations, and none of the browsers interpret it identically. I’ve spent hours writing it just to find out it only works in chrome, then spend a few more hours hunting down and finding work arounds for all of the bugs in each browser’s rendering engine.
damn, very impressive. As I was reading your post I think the only thing that could tempt me away from a 1M a year job might be an offer from OpenAI, and sure enough it sounds like you have that option.

>"and quality of life hit (longer hours, worse commute, higher stress) are worth the tradeoff."

Looking back, the hours I put in were never the largest factor in my happiness, it's always been having a cool boss, having interesting problems to solve and having engaged coworkers that mattered most. YMMV.

"there is really no "let's keep my current situation constant in my relatively cushy role".

I don't know if that's true, if you're willing to take a (huge) pay cut. There are probably a ton of small companies that would take for a modest salary and some stock options that may or may not pay off, even if you were going to put in 30 hours a week or something.
Right my point is you’re basically describing a search engine and that requires constant downloads and storage for it. Any useful graph that comes close to current social media levels of discoverability is going to require lots of storage.

Otherwise you’re talking about a simple feed on someone else’s computer delivered to you and this defeats the purpose of federalization.
(I generally agree that everyone should almost always choose the more readable version)

In this case the speed difference will likely always be there, since `dict()` can be overriden (monkey-patched) - hence the interpreter needs to resolve it at runtime.
Despite having capitalism, we still have many good social programs that help many people.

There is lots of bad stuff too, but the social programs can (theoretically) minimize the negative impacts of capitalism.

If everyone has access to food, shelter, transportation, health care, and mental health care (regardless of whether it's gourmet food or luxury shelter), people as a whole are going to be much better off than they currently are, and it will very much weaken the ability of capital to compel people to do things they'd rather not.

I'd argue there would still be problems with such a system, but it's leagues better than what we have now.
You put a lot of trust in that 30-pin connector. (:

That's pretty awesome, though!
Here are my thoughts I left as a comment on the blog:

I've got ideas! As a parent of a toddler myself, I felt that comment about picking the color... For sure the most important.

Anyways, here is a feature list of things you may have considered but haven't implemented because this is just a fun side project!

1. Live view. Use the phone's camera and iPhone's AR capability to display a dot in the (general) area of the aircraft. I've done some coding on how to calculate this based on the user's position and ADSB info if you are interested!

2. Mark an aircraft as "seen" or "missed"* which would go into the next suggestion.... (*could even digest this feedback in somehow and fine tune what is displayed?)

3. Badges/Stats! If your daughter is anything like mine, she loves getting badges in apps. Maybe create a local DB of previous sightings so then you can track things like "number of different airlines", "number of different aircraft types", "farthest flight time spotted", "shortest flight time spotted" etc etc (Note: I understand and totally appreciate the possible issues around gamifying apps meant for consumption by children.)
What I don't understand is, why can't we just have a browser that doesn't give any of those details that is used to determine unique a browser. It doesn't make sense to allow a website to have access to that info.
This thread was fun to read. Pretty sure you are trolling, right?
I don't. A couple times in my career, I've worked with someone who was clearly vastly better than me. They're the cream of the talent pool, I'm just adequate.
It always strikes me as a little confused when criticism of Marxism focuses on the utility of markets and not the existence of private capital (only the latter is incompatible with socialism). A common Marxist critique of social democracy is that it allows for the accumulation of incredible wealth in the hands of a small number of people who invariably use that wealth to try and end social democracy.
AI is more like gardening than engineering. You try things without knowing the outcome. And you wait a very long time to see the outcome.
There's a fascinating Radiolab episode about anesthesia that is worth a listen: https://radiolab.org/podcast/anesthesia
Yer it's quite curious, the snapchat endpoint would be behind https surely. So nothing todo with the airport Wifi?
The story assumes none of his friends reported him, which I guess could be plausible.
Maybe snapchat has internal systems to raise the alarm?
How do you measure that for an individual worker?
Wouldn't be the first time. The English word "bus" is derived from a neologism "omnibus", "for all" (as in, "carriage for all") invented to describe the first attempts at mass transportation using horse carriages. In that word, "omni-" corresponds to "all", and "-bus" is just a suffix indicating dative declension of a plural noun.
I suppose you could make a similar thing happen based on git, or maybe even a combination of `find` and `diff`.

It’s certainly an interesting debate whether to use a general-purpose approach vs creating a dedicated and fully customisable implementation. In this case, I was interested in the exact numbers and output structure that snapdiff produces. I’m not sure what it would take to make the same output happen by using git, or how well that would work on directory sizes in (or beyond) the 100.000 files / 100 GB region.

If someone would be up for trying that out and sharing their insights, I’d be interested to learn about it.
>In fact, manually entering the checksum digit would result in a "product not found" error.

That is hilarious to me. The obviously safer approach of checking the check digit was not merely neglected, but actively forbidden.
DNT specification does not allow for giving valid consent under GDPR because it is not granular and it is not informed. There's no browser dialogue that details the requested consent for which and what processing.

There are proposed browser signal specifications that would meet legal GDPR consent defintions. See https://www.dataprotectioncontrol.org/spec/

And as for why DNT did not took off, it's because MSFT sabotaged it by making DNT set by default in Internet Explorer. The social contract in that time between adtech, publishers and users was that the signal would strictly be opt-in. The adtech industry used IE making DNT the default as justification for not honoring any of the signals being sent by browsers. It doesn't take a lot of reasoning to realize MSFT did this on purpose, knowing it itself earns income from ads.