skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fix is to give users the tools to lean more heavily on transitive trust and less heavily on the platform.

Or we build those tools ourselves and let the platforms be dumb pipes which we selectively slurp from.

The days of trusted-by-default banned-selectively are ending. It's dark forest time.
We had these payphones years ago, some of them still exist but time is running out.

Probably the first attempt at a digital payphone in Australia.

What we found is that if you held down the language button (IIRC a flag with an L on it), before and as you are lifting the handset, the payphone will display "Out of Order" and you could replace the handset and the message would persist until the handset is lifted again.

Of course this was high school, and so we took a purely scientific approach to ruining a lot of peoples lives.

If you had a bank of 3 payphones, and you took 2 out of commission in this manner, no one would investigate the out of order handsets long enough to reverse the condition. So you would get a very long line behind the working handset.

However if you took all 3 offline, angry telephony consumers would test the handsets and restore them to working order.

It was a repeatable study on almost every bank of payphones in our town.
It only takes a single success to propagate a species. Sustained with a food source, presumably you could select for a new species which can survive the radiation and near vacuum.
At the limit it is possible to exist without an ego at least that's what self transcendence means to me.
I have the exact same problem, but I assumed I was too stupid to work out how to configure Github to stop this and didn't want to waste any more time trying to work it out so I just turned the emails off.

I work for a fairly large org with lots of Github repos which I occasionally contribute to and there seems to be no way to configure emails alerts in a manageable way – I must either get an email for everything or ignore everything. And ignoring everything is obviously preferable when the signal to noise is this bad.
> citizenship to non-citizen enlistees

This is a great proposal that could break the logjam on immigration reform.
Implemented another item from feedback, ability to summarize a user profile.

Add your username to the `Ask about a user` input and the AI should summarize your hackernews profile
Words with enormous baggage are perhaps a stupid choice
The link is 403 for me.
Obsidian has a spaced repetition community plugin that I use when I write documentation. I add a flashcard for everything that I want to learn.

So you just put #flashcards inline (or whatever you tell it to look for) at the bottom if your file.

And then:

This is a question::this is the answer.
This is another question::this is another answer.

I run through my cards about 30 minutes before I start work. It works very well.
Now you're just assuming things...

Yes I have been on a train before, and getting to the platform to board it required passing through a ticket gate and security checkpoint.
> already been a thing for several decades

You have to "be a lawful permanent resident at the time of your naturalization interview" [1]. (On the other hand, you're eligible if "you served honorably in the U.S. armed forces for at least one year at any time.")

Proposal is that anyone can enlist, e.g. at the border.

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/military/naturalization-through-milita...
Help yourself: https://github.com/tongzx/nt5src/blob/daad8a087a4e75422ec96b...
If I would be youtube ML engineer, I would use some engagement metric as a label in loss function: for example how many % of video you actually watched, not just fact that you clicked on it.
Signal Feature Request – Status Options (away/ not available/ offline)
Earlier this week I’ve read a blog post from Andreas (@82mhz@oldbytes.space on Mastodon) that thematizes the fact that mobile messenger apps like WhatsApp & Signal nowadays - in contrast to older desktop instant messengers like ICQ - completely lack the possibility for users to set their own status to be “offline”, “away”, “not available” or something like that and the disadvantages (e.g. for mental health) that come along with this.

(the blog post from Andreas: https://82mhz.net/posts/2023/11/why-whatsapp-is-making-me-an...)

And he’s right: If we don’t want to participate in instant messaging, all we can do on our smartphones is switching wifi- and mobile-data off completely, preventing us from e.g. surfing the world wide web on these devices at the same time. That’s bollocks, isn’t it?! Let us make instant messaging great again!

I have put together a feature request for Signal that I hereby publish for public review/ reuse/ boosting and whatever. If you like the idea, please request this feature from the Signal Foundation or your favourite messenger, whatever that is.. Let us boost this massively - to finally send hundreds or thousands of identical or similar feature request towards the Signal Foundation and other messenger developers.

Here’s the draft:

Feature Request - Status Options for Signal Messenger

Dear Signal Team,

I would like to propose the implementation of customizable status options, allowing users to set their availability as “Away,” “Not Available,” or “Offline.” This feature, common in traditional instant messenger software like ICQ, holds several benefits:

User Flexibility: Provides users with control over how they appear to contacts, offering flexibility in conveying their availability without sending explicit messages.

Enhanced Communication: Reduces miscommunication by allowing users to convey non-verbal cues about their activity or unavailability.

Mental Health Benefits: Alleviates the pressure to respond immediately, contributing to a healthier and more mindful use of the Signal platform.

Public Reputation Enhancement: Positions Signal as a user-centric platform, sparking positive discussions within the tech community and beyond. Public awareness generated through discussions about this feature can serve as effective marketing, drawing attention to Signal’s unique qualities.

(For the sake of transparency: I used ChatGPT to bootstrap this.)

If you like that idea, please boost it. Maybe we can make instant messaging great again!
How about we also fix the fact that doing something legal outside job time can somehow result in you losing your job?

With the amount of distribution the internet enables, it needs to get fixed.
Environmentalists seem to have a penchant for terrorism. Look at the Weather Underground for example.

Also worth remembering that Mandela seems to have been big on "necklacing" which is the practice of throwing people (one of the first victims being a woman) in a stack of tires and lighting the tires on fire, suffocating them in the process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklacing
I think we're saying the same thing

that would be great, but i didn't have that impression.

statements like people do it all the time and you asking who is encouraging anyone made it look like you didn't agree. in particular the claim that people do it all the time is often used as an excuse to allow such behavior to continue.

i am not angry at you. i am sorry if it looks like that. i am however angry at the attitude that because such behavior is common and it should be tolerated. which is how i interpreted your response.

if i misread that, i apologize.
Indeed, it's the opposite in that Apple is pretty much forcing developers to not switch. And that's exactly the problem, because the regulations call for Apple to permit App Store competition on iOS in practice, not just to create a set of sham terms they know nobody can accept and pretend it solved the problem.
"Research has consistently found lower cognitive ability to be related to increased risk for violent and other antisocial behaviour" [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3404054/
I am incredibly curious how this would fare politically in today's climate.
Maybe because SOLID is overrated / overhyped marketing term which somehow made it to academy despite being far from actual computer science / software engineering fundamentals?

We just cant stand acting as if that random list of principles created by Java's OOP mind was some source of truth for software modeling.

We're just tired of seeing bilionth discussion about how to understand SOLID

You probably don't see people arguing against CAP theorem because it is not some arbitrary collection of ideas (not even fully authored by SOLID author) which composes fancy mnemonic

>There was already a backlash against DRY code occurring before "AI" assistants hit the market, sadly.

As everything else - DRY can be abused too and people backlash against acting as those things were flawless when they arent.
The first time I heard it was on "trailer park boys" as a "Rickyism" so I suspect it would sneak into more people's vocabulary that way. No idea which came first.
Interestingly, due to the promiscuous mating behavior of female bonobos, a male cannot be sure which offspring are his. As a result, the entirety of parental care in bonobos is assumed by the mothers.

It is also worth noting that while they aren't monogamous, Females are still selective, mating primarily with high status males with more to offer.
Similar to the French Foreign Legion where one can request citizenship through naturalization after 3 years of service[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Foreign_Legion
A good guess but that's not what I was thinking of...

My example was all the above except the chip was centerfold in the middle of the magazine. Not on the cover...

I'm surprised this happened more than once however.
I’ve found that there is a noticeable correlation between high HN karma and just poor behavior in general. Many of the least insightful and most nitpicky replies I’ve ever received were from people with karma > 10k.

I wonder about why this is.
While this might well be correct, the argument is missing that academic qualifications conditional on growing up in the US (as supposed to in Afghanistan) are still a proxy for potentially useful skills. In other words, some of the enemies might have had comparable academic qualifications had they grown up in the US.
Godwin's Law never accounted for the fact that we would need to deal with actual Nazis ever again.

Even Godwin, himself, acknowledges that if the comparison fits, it's perfectly fine.
Find Out What It Takes to Calculate Just Six Digits of Pi
it's crazy how amazing it is sometimes for certain things, including comments (and including my somewhat pithy style of comment prose), and how incredible and thorough the wastes of time when it autosuggests some function that is plausible, defined, but yet has some weird semantics such that it subtly ruins my life until i audit every line of code i've written (well, "written", i suppose). i finally disabled it, but doing so _did_ make me kind of sad-- it is nice for the easy things to be made 25x easier, but, for programming, not at the expense of making the hard stuff 5x harder (note i didn't say 10x, nor 100x. 5x). it's not that it's that far away from being truly transformative, it's just that the edge cases are really, really rough because for it to be truly useful you have to trust it pretty much completely & implicitly, and i've just gotten snakebitten in the most devious ways a handful of times. an absolute monster of / victim of the pareto principle, except it makes the "90%" stuff 1.5x easier and the "10%" stuff 5x harder (yes, i know i haven't been using my "k%"s rigorously) (and for those keeping score at home, that adds up to making work 10% harder net, which i'd say is about right in my personal experience).

highlights: "the ai" and i collaboratively came up with a new programming language involving defining a new tag type in YAML that lets one copy/paste from other (named) fragments of the same document (as in: `!ref /path/to/thing to copy`) (the turing completeness comes from self-referential / self-semi-overlapping references (e.g. "!ref /name/array[0:10]`) where one of the elements thus referred-to is, itself, a "!ref" to said array).

lowlights: as already alluded to, using very plausible, semi-deprecated API functions that either don't do what you think they do, or simply don't work the way one would think they do. this problem is magnified by googling for said API functions only to find cached / old versions of API docs from a century ago that further convince you that things are ok. nowadays, every time i get any google result for a doc page i do a little ritual to ensure they are for the most recent version of the library, because it is absolutely insane how many times i've been bitten by this, and how hard.
It sounds like Facebook Marketplace. I bought counterfeit AirPods Max. They showed up as legitimate in the phone so I thought they were good, but they were fake. Before I realized what happened the seller blocked me, which apparently prevents leaving feedback. I contacted Facebook about the fraud that went into a black hole.

I had found someone else scammed by the same seller and I was annoyed enough to go to the police. The police called it a civil matter and refused to do anything. Obviously I didn’t have the seller’s real name so I couldn’t pursue that angle. I saw from another Facebook account that the seller is still hawking counterfeit goods. So, I guess that’s effectively legal.
> How did he encode what the neighboring countries are?

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria#/media/File:Syria_(ortho...

That map of the globe is what we use as the front of the card

He sees that and knows the answer is Syria.

But because we also do that for the other countries around it, he knows Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, etc. He knows where that country is, in context of its neighbors.

We have some little mnemonics to remember things like, "I packed my bags in Pakistan. After that, Afghanistan. Then Iraaaan all the way til I hit a rock in Iraq."
Indeed these things are an abomination. I regularly find half consumed vapes at intersections where they have clearly been accidentally dropped and abandoned by cyclists. I have a nice collection of perfectly good lithium batteries.
I thought one of the eligibility requirements to be recruited was either US citizenship or permanent residence.[1]

[1] https://www.goarmy.com/how-to-join/requirements.html
Obviously porting Doom to run on smaller and smaller devices is impressive, but I wonder if anyone has completed Doom on one of these ports? That I’d love to see!
Speech about people needs to be truthful if possible, and also limited to the domain in which those people are salient. Free speech is bad when it means Joe Blow across the street is wrongfully called a pedophilic arsonist on the front page of the New York Times. And it's still kind of crappy when Bo Jellow's actual theft of $50 in Missouri is shamed in Europe.

Twitter has mass play. It's effectively a worldwide public forum. There should be limits to what speech occurs on it, if only to keep the signal-to-noise ratio down so that genuinely important speech is less drowned out.

> I wouldn't want someone posting fake nudes (or any photos for that matter) of me online, but I'm not sure if I have a right to stop them.

It depends on where you live what the law allows.

> though I would hope that most would take issue with the idea of further limiting free speech based on new technologies that we don't have direct control over

People have been asking for limits on public posting of even non-fake "revenge" porn for years.

Edit:

> can I simply develop a new form of distribution and claim that we now need to further limit free speech in response? That feels like a dangerous backdoor to attack constitutional rights without going through the courts or congress.

You can claim this while only positing a new form of distribution. Talking about policies and the limits of freedoms is one of the fundamental freedoms necessary to a well functioning democracy or republic. It's no attack, as the speech does not create law, or even policy, only the courts or congress or duly appointed regulators (pre-Chevron overturning[1]) can do that.

[1] - https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/01/supreme-court-likely-to-d...
How about people like it? I do. At least more than the idea of switching to something else. Nothing about it annoys me enough that I would like to switch. I’m quite content.
> it wrote out the long list of like 40 columns to be selected for me

It seems like the process of reviewing its generated code to make sure all 40 columns are there and then either re-doing this or manually going through that list whenever the schema changes would take longer than just writing the script? And now you're asking your code reviewers to the same both boring-and-slow manual check on the commit rather than just reviewing the three lines of the script?
I disagree, as does the DOD. Smarter troops do their jobs better, such as better accuracy and faster trainability, and making better inferences. This is what the AFQT , ASVB shows based on decades of data among hundreds of thousands of recruits. Less intelligent recruits are a burden, which is why they are not recruited except during shortages during war time, and only sparingly.

Even if no GED/diploma req., they still must pass the AFQT and related tests
Are those damages less than the money that Apple would make by imposing these terms? There are lots of potential use cases like an F-Droid equivalent which cannot be shipped on iOS with these current terms, but the actual commercial damages are fairly minimal if this were to go to court since stores like F-Droid are not run for profit.
> at some point I expect to finally see the "blending" of analog/digital chips that allow for a wide range of voltages

The irony is that the developments which made dirt-cheap MCUs possible have at the same time basically ruled this out.

Digital logic is almost trivial to scale down. With Moore's Law the compute core itself is indeed becoming basically free. However, IO does not scale down: modern chips have far fewer analog pins, far lower current limits, lower voltages, and are increasingly sensitive to ESD & over-voltage events.

An ATmega32u4 from 2008 is designed to operate on 5V, can handle 40mA per pin, and has 13 analog pins. It's rather sturdy and can take quite a beating. On the other hand, the RP2040 from 2022 runs on 1.1V, although IO is 3.3V. It can only handle 12mA per pin, which a chip total of 50mA. It has only 4 analog pins, which lack a lot of protection present on the digital pins. Basically, you'll damage it if you look at it funny.

I think it's best summarized by a somewhat-recent change in the USB 2.0 specification: originally the data pins were supposed to handle a 24-hour short to 5V without any issues. This requirement was dropped because such a short is incredibly rare in practice, and dropping that single requirement led to 16% reduction in silicon area for the transceiver and a 3x standby power reduction.

In today's world of ever-shrinking transistors, dealing with (relatively) high voltages and analog voltages is getting more and more expensive.
I don't like these. They can be mistaken to users as an indicator of what moving the "lever" to the other side of the toggle button will actuate - effectively reversing the user's intent of the button as compared to what the buttons do.
Yes, I mean, just look at Norway! Or the USA! Or Saudi Arabia! All constantly on the brink of political collapse!
I think they're smart enough to stop at: "press this and we'll take your money and tell your friends you're cool."
some people prefer the convenience of a disposable device

I don't understand this. Instead of plugging it into a charger, they'd rather go to the store to buy another, or more likely order online and wait for it to be delivered?
No better way to teach immigrants about the warlike nature of Americans than putting them through four years of combat in a forever war somewhere in the middle east or asia.
God I would love that. Are you kidding? I've always hoped I'd get to inherit one. A codebase where each component "vendors" all its dependencies so you can fearlessly make changes and not affect anything else.

You're describing heaven for a maintenance programmer -- I'm only looking at the codebase because there's a bug in some component, I likely even have a stack trace. If can just read what that bit of code does top to bottom, fix the error in just that component, write a test and ship I'll send the original author chocolates.
It's a tradition as old as Socrates.
I ended up purchasing a Bangle.js 2. Its definitely not in the same class as any of the premium watches but its very inexpensive, open - source and hackable.

To be fair, my list of necessary features was very short:
- display the time
- display mobile notifications
- display weather
this is true, but even these results show that vast majority, even at the lowest level of ability, don't commit violent crimes.
> Spaced repetition is a method where the subject is asked to remember a certain fact with the time intervals increasing each time the fact is presented or said.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
Flooding your military with people who have no conception of the values and history that underpin your society seems like a really bad idea to me.

I do like the idea of military service as a route to citizenship though. But literally just signing people up at the border seems way too problematic and dangerous.
Oil in the ground isn’t rotting, but it is finite so the logic isn’t so obvious. Especially because new local drilling has minimal impact on wholesale prices.

If you expect future prices to spike then the wise choice is to avoid drilling until you can maximize gains.

If you expect future prices to remain unchanged then the wise choice is to avoid harming your local environment and have other countries despoil their own.

Only if you expect future prices will tank does drilling become a good idea.
Hey! Author here. Would you mind giving an example?
If we're putting in plugs, I'll nominate the comically jolly and rather catchy "I've No More Fucks To Give" from Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8Rsretl-qQ I find myself humming it far more often that I really should.
This couldn't be more wrong
Good for us, as now Russia or Iran, what would use their gas export income to finance either genocidal wars or international terrorism will not get the same amount of money.

I would be incredibly stupid to reduce US gas sales.
For most things that a person would do outside their job I completely agree (general caveats for the likes of spokespeople, etcetera).
We've been there for about a decade now. Single-use paper transit tickets equipped with an RFID-capable microcontroller are quite common now.
I hope someone who replaces their car every 10 years isn’t just sending the old one to the compactor when they’re done with it

For one, 10 years is a perfectly good used car for somebody, and for two with large EV battery packs we’d expect some lithium recycling effort

Disposable vapes don’t have either of those going for them, batteries go straight in the trash after one charge cycle
In German, "Softwareentwickler" (software developer) is the male form, so for a long time, any job ad would say "Softwareentwickler/in" (short for "Softwareentwickler oder Softwareentwicklerin") to cover both forms. Nowadays, you can't do that either because that'd exclude people who don't identify with either gender, so I guess this is the workaround they use now to not get sued into oblivion even before interviewing the first candidate.
Levy is not regarded as a serious person. He once quoted a made up philosopher and has some dubious interests. In the french speaking world most people treat him as a joke.

https://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1963338,0...
Hello, this does not apply to me but I'd like to say my 2 cent regardless:

Your boss cannot be your friend (or vice versa). It simply does not work out well, you can't be a leader while being friends with your followers, so I expect everyone who worked for their friends will most likely describe it as a miserable experience.