skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This userscript will be of use to you then
https://github.com/MostlyEmre/hn-anti-paywall
This makes a lot more sense in German than it does in English- it was likely translated directly.
People create it (possibly with AI generation) and have it liked and commented in part to try to game the metric of "lots of posts/activity on Linked in on {subject}" to make themselves appear more impressive when either applying for a position ("1000 applicants, here are the top 5% for activity in cyber security") or increase the likelihood of having a recruiter noticing them and including their resume in the batch that gets sent to some company.

The quality of the content is not of primary concern if there is too much content out there to be able to spend time evaluating it in an effort to differentiate between applicants.
Do antidepressants hijack people's reward systems so that they no longer enjoy things other than antidepressants?
This has always been the case in my experience, I didn't really see much change over the years to be honest.
Were conservative pundits outraged that you were pushing wokabulary?
Yes, but there is a big difference between filling in some survey you don't care about and registering a company, where you might be criminially liable for any mistakes. I make damn sure any filings related to my company are correct.
2 questions:

1. How does this perspective affect you today? Is it debilitating? Depressing? Affect your wellbeing and productivity?

2. What do you believe is the probability of what you say here? Estimate with a percentage.

Does the unknown associated to the percentage in #2 make the perspective rational and helpful?
Over 90% of the "7,168" languages they mention are slightly different dialects of common languages.

Arabic probably makes up 1/3 of those "7,168" languages.

I think the claim that there are "7,168" languages is a result of publish-or-perish.
I guess some people don't touch their food without a complete physico-chemical analysis, at the molecular level.

For myself, I would not be able to tell the difference between pasta (cooked by myself) with the sauce added before or after. I suspect this is true for many of those "the right way to <cook something>" advice.

The article even says they have "done the tests to prove" that pasta is better when mixed (and cooked) with the sauce before serving but clicking through to that link the "test" is one guy trying three different pasta dishes. That's one down, a few more billion sets of taste buds to go.
Not necessarily. Hypothetical example, but let's say I use some obscure tar command twice a month. That's too far apart for me to remember it, but often enough that it would annoy me to look it up every time. Chuck it into anki and I have a short time where I repeat it often enough so that it sticks and after that the time between repetitions quickly becomes far longer than the 14 day interval where I actually use the command.

And now I never have to look it up again :)
You can't cook tomato sauces for any significant time in cast iron unless your intention is to remove all the seasoning of the pan. So for the proposed recipe, cast iron doesn't really cut it.
Feels like a language with opaque enums and pattern matching could implement this kind of thing behind the scenes.
I wonder how this microbe influenced human morality. Is the moral idea that promiscuity is bad a vestige of some healthy recommendation to avoid multiple partner to not get or propagate syphilis?
A lot of cars also have remote starters that people use to precondition (warm up or cool down) their cars.
I thought that Rowhammer was a thing of the past. Out of curiosity I found code to test for this and ran it on some of my hosts. My old desktop - I7-4770K/DDR3 - was susceptible. My old server - Xeon X3460/DDR3+ECC - was not. I upgraded the desktop with components based on a Ryzen 7 7700X/DDR5. It tested not susceptible. I'm not sure if that's a result of RAM designed not to be susceptible or that (I think) DDR5 RAM uses modules with on die ECC.

I was not able to test any of my Raspberry Pis because the test code used some facility available on the AMD64 architecture that is not available on the ARM64 processors. The newer Pi 4B and 5 use modules with on die ECC.

It seems to me that ECC should prevent Rowhammer susceptibility. That should prevent it on server grade H/W for anything still in service and newer consumer systems.

I have no idea if Rowhammer affects other architectures than AMD64.
I really like glider on mobile, but only the old design. I've stopped updates because the new one wastes so much space :(

Luckily there isn't really a need for updates.
One tip for working with Anki: you will likely learn better - and review cards more regularly - if you write the cards yourself instead of using a preexisting deck.

Going through a course / textbook -> taking notes on paper -> adding key concepts as Anki flashcards -> reviewing them daily: extremely effective

Preexisting decks can work - I used one to successfully study for my Amateur Radio License - but that assumes a specific pool of questions you're memorizing, which isn’t how learning a subject typically works.
That would be a cool extension of the project.

I’ve always wanted a hands free version of Dualingo because if I’m driving or walking somewhere I don’t want to use my hands for obvious reasons.
1. 99.99999% of management have zero understanding of UX. So their view of UX is basically some designer making it "pretty".

2. Most UX design aren't probably taught. Especially Software User Interface.

3. A lot of Design in that era came from Web. And if we read this article we already know or could guess what web design were like.

4. It is my observation that Tech, or Silicon Valley historically speaking learns very little about history of their industry. Unlike many other discipline, things comes and goes like fashion industry. Combine with Hype machine and VC money. Apart from Politics or Finance there is no other industry that contains as much noise as Tech.

5. Conservatism ( Not politics ) is generally not well accepted. Finished Software is not appreciated. And if you cant improve, or remake something, there is no way you can move up the ladder. The fundamental of not doing anything hype or large changes is against Resume Driven Development model.
Try running on a treadmill. Very surreal experience at first, not much common with regular running, every sensory cell screaming WTF this is weird and I felt like some cartoon characters when they 'power up' for running.

What you can and should do is to tilt it a bit just to make it more like running, but its still far from regular experience. You body knows, and trust me its not 1 or 2 things that are out of place, its everything.

You can and will get used to it, but never ever it will feel like regular running.
The UK keeps promising to clean this up. But there is a vast ecosystem of lawyers, accounts, wealth managers etc who make a very nice living off helping kleptocrats and criminal hide their money. No doubt some of them pay lobbyists and/or make sizeable donation to polticial parties. So don't expect this gravy train to slow down any time soon.
I don't see it that different from working on open source software. I'm talking about what drives the creators, not the legality of it.
You can do something about this.

I got involved in climate advocacy in 2021. Since then I’ve successfully lobbied my local government to start an energy resources study, which will look at ways for my community to quickly transition to renewables. A small thing. But if we all do small things, it will add up!

Still though. My state, Arizona has really terrible people writing awful laws. This legislative session they’re proposing a 12.5% tax on purchasing solar if you’re not a utility, and a bunch of other regressive, anti-free market, pro-fossil fuel legislation [1]. We’re going to vote these people out of office this November and remove barriers to using our states abundant solar resources.

And since HN is a startup and technology forum, we need cheap utility scale energy storage as soon as we can get it. It exists, but solar+storage is just a bit too expensive for most regions of the country. If it does become cheaper than methane, that makes the move away from fossil fuels much easier. If you want to work on this, do it.

But also, citizens engagement is crucial. If you live in a regressive state like mine. It’s super important to get involved. If you live in a place that is going in the right direction, engage on the implementation details, there are so many ways good climate policy can get derailed in bureaucracies. There are a ton of groups that you can work with on this [2] [3] [4].

[1] https://legiscan.com/AZ/bill/HB2281/2024

[2] https://citizensclimatelobby.org/

[3] https://www.sierraclub.org/

[4] https://www.environmentalvoter.org/
So realistically is most of the climate talk you hear directly from scientists, or from reporters looking for clicks giving you their interpretation of the data?
Keep Your Identity Small - https://paulgraham.com/identity.html

Which begins with...

> I finally realized today why politics and religion yield such uniquely useless discussions.

> As a rule, any mention of religion on an online forum degenerates into a religious argument. Why? Why does this happen with religion and not with Javascript or baking or other topics people talk about on forums?

> What's different about religion is that people don't feel they need to have any particular expertise to have opinions about it. All they need is strongly held beliefs, and anyone can have those. No thread about Javascript will grow as fast as one about religion, because people feel they have to be over some threshold of expertise to post comments about that. But on religion everyone's an expert.

> Then it struck me: this is the problem with politics too. Politics, like religion, is a topic where there's no threshold of expertise for expressing an opinion. All you need is strong convictions.
You can put that card at the end of the deck now ;)
This is a factual statement. As it stands, the change isn't part of a larger trend even within Apple itself. It's isolated to a single niche platform that has specific UI constraints where the change actually makes sense. Apple hasn't applied this change to its other platforms, where it could become widespread and influence other vendors. Of course, it's entirely valid to argue that this might change in the future. But again, why resort to personal attacks against someone who's simply bringing important context to the discussion?
Care to elaborate for those not familiar with kiwifarms?
Very nice. Addresses the biggest issue on mobile which is the tap targets are tiny. Great job!
Euston station departure board replaced with massive advertisment screen
As a fellow Dane, you must also know how close our public healthcare is to crumbling, how long wait times are for care, our record highest cancer rate in the world of any nation, and a policy of treating only acute conditions (no cancer screenings deemed "unnecessary" etc.)

I have been misdiagnosed a number of times and was finally treated in the US for a major condition the doctors missed here in Denmark.

We get a number of privileges for our very high tax: childcare is cheap, education is free, and births cost us virtually nothing but let's not try and overstate the value of our system to theirs. Ours too is broken, it's just a matter of degrees and where.

Our middle-class, in return, gets taxed to high heaven while our income disparity between rich and poor continues to widen.
I get what you're saying. Although I find that referring to humanity as a collective, or using "we" as in "we are in this together" in discussions like these runs the risk of homogenising human societies into one, even though a large part of humanity's historical impacts on the environment has been heterogeneous (i.e., industrial revolution beginning in Western societies). You can find the same criticism surrounding the term "Anthropocene" in academic and general settings.

Countries such as Pakistan and Pacific island countries that have contributed the least to climate change are among the most impacted, which is why two questions (among many others) have loomed climate politics over the past 30 years: "Where does the liability fall?" (Ex: loss and damage fund) and "How can I, as a country, be in a better position within a global crisis?" (Ex: disagreement over the global warming potential of non-CO2 emissions due to different chosen time horizons between countries; GWP100 vs. GWP*; this greatly affects carbon accounting in agricultural countries that rely on cattle for instance)
Though I have seen a few instances of it happening, I don't see a widespread lack of square checkboxes. I think he's cherry-picking. But then I spend more time on the web than in mobile.

In general, I'm not worried about this. To the extent that it is confusing to users, and to the extent that confusion causes problems, it will be corrected in time. Nobody is incentivized to have bad UI if it costs them money. People on HN seem to think designers run everything, and that they spend most of the day trying to make things harder for users (out of native malice, or because it makes them feel smart). The reality is that in most places, designers actually want things to be better, and product choices are driven exclusively by money made by users successfully using your app. "We can't fix our bad UI because it will make our designers angry" is not something I have ever heard said at any company I've worked for.
Inessential complexity increases the workload of maintaining a system (like the climbing wall vs. stairs: can't maintain an upstairs floor unless you maintain the ability to use the climbing wall).

Bells and whistles, especially when it comes to making things perfectly tidy, tend to introduce a lot of rules for using and maintaining a system. For example, a color-coding system with too many colors to reasonably recall without daily practice from using the system: any interruption, such as a vacation or even a weekend, will disrupt in some way the ability to use and maintain the color-coding system.

Informal rules also accumulate over time, adding to the complexity of any given action. It doesn't take a major change to topple your flashcard system, but slow, accumulated changes have been enough to do so.
With due respect you're begging the question here. The hypothesis you linked to is just that - a hypothesis. And it simply fails when looking at the past where there was both high sports participation, no such thing as participation trophies (again generally speaking - I'm sure some event some where had them, but they were not even remotely normalized), and winners were recognized. It also fails to explain why athletes often come from backgrounds of struggle. Or why athletes when faced with stronger competition (such as moving from JV to varsity, high school to college, etc.) don't just suddenly give up, and so forth, and so on.

Ultimately I strongly disagree that participation trophies incentivize participation, as well as that merit trophies discourage it. It is plainly illogical. I'm certain I could dig through the study and find a way that their methodology could easily lead to false conclusions, but I'm not terribly interesting in doing so, and in any case such a thing would be highly unlikely to be persuasive anyhow - because we aren't arguing that study, but our own personal biases. And, like with just about everything, there's extensive evidence for whatever side you want to argue.
Computers will never need more than 640k of memory, so you can stop checking.

You don't know what the future holds and neither do I.
I think we likely both agree that the comments and upvote/downvote system here is used differently than Twitter.

For one thing, individual comments aren't algorithmically fed to us on the home page. For another, discussions here most often are just that, discussions. Assuming that my distaste for Twitter style likes/shares/comments and the culture built around it means I also dislike discussions is quite a leap.
Pokemon is an anime. Video games and the card game are derivatives of the anime.

I linked to the anime as an example of the writing to prove you wrong. The anime is childish and the games reflect that in the writing.

Maybe you're too young to know this. The anime just had its last episode 2023. It's been around for 25 years. Or maybe you're trolling. Pikachu is literally in that video. The information is quite obvious.
I don't try to claim it's easy in any way, but for me it is a thing to aspire for.

Nuance takes time and space. So does conveying context. Nonetheless, if there is a way to compress the core of the message into just seven words, I will try to do so. When it succeeds, it helps to hold attention long enough to actually deliver the more nuanced details.

Another commenter brought up the old-school journalists' pyramid rule. I'm very much aware that what I aim for is an extreme form of focusing on the sharp pointy end.
I'm now remembering The Knick when that guy gets cancer from his obsession with the x-ray machine.
I wish they had stayed under the radar. I paid $120 for Beeper back in 2022 because it provided one thing that was absolutely game-changing for me: the ability to access Apple Messages through the web. I use an iPhone, as do the vast majority of people I communicate with regularly. Our conversations are stuck in the locked Apple ecosystem.

But I spent my days (happily) using a Chrome OS computer that is (unfortunately) disallowed from running Android or Linux applications. I find it super annoying to have to use my phone for messages, especially if they're longer conversations. And when someone sends me a link, or I want to send them one, it is a tremendous hassle where I often have to e-mail it to myself.

Beeper fixed this perfectly. I could sign in on their (technically unsupported but has always worked fine for me) web version and do all my messaging from the broswer on my computer. It was all fine until they made a big splash and tickled the dragon. Now it's ruined for everyone.

I don't care that 99.9% of commenters on these Hacker News (and elsewhere) threads are just saying "why would anyone want this?" or "serves 'em right" or whatever. You don't have to understand it. It had a use case, I got a lot out of it, and I would gladly have paid an ongoing subscription.

P.S. Advice as to what I should just do instead of what I want to do is not desired.
Visual Studio had to wait for .NET Framework (not .NET Core) to be ported to ARM64 native.

Quite a part of Microsoft wanted to avoid doing that outright, so it took quite a while to happen.
I am working on a side project related to dataflow and would like to see some input. Is there a simple way to get into contact?
I knew it! The evil corporate overloads have been trying to kill us all of just for profit by selling delicious but cancerous pickles!
Like many people, I started using Anki for language learning, and it has been wildly useful for that. I'm always told that I have a good vocabulary, which was precisely my problem last time I tried to learn a language.

Since then, I've branched into many other topics. The latest one that I've started building out is all of the Paris métro lines and stops. The most useful thing ever? No, but I feel happy knowing that I have a better understanding of the system I'm using ever day.
SSR tools and flashcards are amazing for knowledge retention. When I started learning new language, my google sheet with words I wanted memorize grew to hundreds pretty quickly. I wanted the simplest possible app that would let me to import and repeat words from my list anytime I have even a few minutes to spare. And being a developer, of course I decided to write one myself. It’s a bit different than anki and obviously has less features (it’s a pet project after all) but the concept is pretty similar:
https://byheart.io/
> There are catastrophic predictions actually happening, sure some of them were wrong but the planet is in a pretty fucked up state right now.

Can you be more specific?
Not just videos. If you find something useful or enjoyable and want to ensure future access you need your own copy.
I take notes on paper while studying the subject, then when I'm done I put the essential concepts or whatever I want to memorize into cards in Anki via my computer (I usually avoid adding them on my phone, it's slower).

It is a slow process, but for getting new ideas to stick, I'm not sure that's a bad thing.

I don't usually bother with preexisting decks. If you’re building your own from your own study, it almost guarantees you actually understand what you're trying to memorize.
If so, the whole thing was a fraud.

I assume Mr. Carlin would have something to say about that.
And "making things" while we're at it, as Gates calls it. Right. I forgot about those :/
On my android home screen, the prime real estate formerly occupied by the weather app is now a permanent unremovable banner add saying "google assistant disabled, tap to continue." AFAIK there is no way to remove it without signing away more of my privacy. I can't substitute it for a normal widget that will tell me the local weather.

Google clearly doesn't consider assistant use to be "optional"
> Here in Russia we have ... Habr

just a practical question, Russian doesn't have a letter H (or rather, they unwisely decided to make it sound like N :) with the result that Hitler is called Gitler. Is Habr called Gabr? or more like Khabr with the X letter?
> The harm to society of people who need them not getting pain drugs far outweighs the pain to society of those who don’t need them abusing them.

I can see the argument here morally (and I agree with it), but in practice I know far more people negatively affected by drug addictions and drug addicts than I know people unable to get pain management medication they need. I imagine my experience may be typical, and so I am unsurprised the pendulum has swung so far.
And antidepressants are known to induce psychosis.

But just answer the question plainly. I really want to know.
Rowhammer is not architecture specific, since it's the DRAM rather than the CPU.

The paper linked in the patch references other works showing every defence at rowhammer can be bypassed somehow (I've not followed them all) - e.g. it specifically says that ECC and the like can be bypassed.
> 10 million air pollution deaths/year:

I hope you're not forgetting to factor in the positive effects of those 10 million people not being able to cause any more pollution </sarcasm>...

Before gasoline and gas people burned wood to stay warm, in houses with very primitive chimneys. Lots of people died from air pollution then, but maybe less because the populations were smaller.
Same with cars: if you take accidents per driven mile most cars are extremely safe compared to horse riding.
I don't think returning to the 1700's with the current world population is a viable option.
do banks / gov play along with this? they wont accept po boxes to send your cards / official docos
I feel your anguish.

However, you must realize that if you were living in 1924 instead of 2024, the outlook for humanity would be far more bleak. Penicillin wouldn't be invented for another four years, so bacteriological infections were lethal. Measles, mumps, or rubella had likely claimed the lives of your siblings or neighbors. And your life would be bracketed by the world paroxysm of war that you had just endured, and the paroxysm that was to come.

Compared to that life, we are free from disease, the food supply is more vast and diverse, and the technology is simply stunning.

But, in a particularly human way, we dig for misery and we are very good at finding it.

I don't know what to tell you, except maybe put the shovel down for a little while, if you can.
Bird calls is a great idea! I never thought of it, but it really does align with the medium.
I don't think there are going to be a large number of inexperienced Rust programmers. Inexperienced programmers write Javascript or Python, not Rust.