skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Users flagged that story. We didn't touch it or even see it. I've turned off the flags now.

I just wrote a long explanation of how we approach the question of flags on stories like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39161344. If you read that and still have a question that isn't answered there, I'd be happy to hear it.

If you do read it, you'll notice that one factor is whether there has been a major thread about the topic recently. That's important here because the current enormous thread isn't even 2 days old. HN can't handle a major discussion about this topic very often. So while I've turned off the flags, I don't think another story about this topic should be on the front page yet.

If it helps at all, before I saw your comment I was just responding (by email) to someone asking why https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39160743 was flagged, and I answered the same way: that is, (1) I turned off the flags, but also (2) explained why HN can't have another frontpage thread about this two days after the last one.

I know a pair of cases is a small sample but I hope it can count as a sign of how we try to be even-handed. I've learned the hard way that it's simply impossible to avoid perceptions and accusations of bias on divisive topics; even the most neutral moderation is going to generate such perceptions (actually it's worse than that—it's going to generate more). I'm not claiming to be at that level but I can tell you for sure that we do work hard at being even-handed.
My prompt to ChatGPT is to give me the 50 most common words for a given topic with translation and an example sentence (plus translation) in CSV format. Which quickly gives me a handful of usable flash cards.
Yeah android phones all have a 0 security mode and no one is saying Android devices are security nightmares.
I'm not part of them. But they do exist. Original Sin ™ is a powerful concept, for example see the eagle and the condor prophecy, a radical lefist group that seeks to use south Americans as leverage, taking selfies with them at the border and luring them north. https://blog.pachamama.org/the-eagle-and-the-condor-prophecy

https://preprints.apsanet.org/engage/api-gateway/apsa/assets...

The rise of asylum seekers is due to this cult which believes in many of these sins. I am just as alarmed that it exists. They are the same political activists who failed to stop the pipeline have put their efforts here. Those caravans are NOT organic.
No, I am implying that 14k articles were produced on the topic of Long COVID clearly differentiating it from "fibromyalgia". Which is a viewpoint only shared by a select few not even researching the condition.

These syndromes are best described by their respective pathogen: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01810-6

EDIT: Sorry, you were talking to someone else. Disregard this comment.
The amount of things I’m expected to be able to accomplish constantly increases. I get it, I’m becoming more senior, but at the same time, it’s kind of crazy that a single person can just be told to do the kind of things I’m told to do with the kind of deadlines I have. I can think of some takes I do by myself with code where a decade or two ago I’d be talking about hiring dozens of employees or contractors across the globe to physically enter a building and make a global business information system possible.

I think this is related to the productivity wage gap. I’m being paid lower than I was in 2018 adjusted for inflation and I’m far more capable, producing far more value for my employer. As my tools get more valuable my labor gets proportionally less valuable. (A certain historical figure predicted this end state of capitalism).

Here’s another take: I don’t give a fuck about the code quality at my company. I’m not paid extra to write good code. My bonus is based on basically nothing I can influence. If the whole company goes out of business on Monday I’ll enjoy my long weekend.
Once upon a time, they were the premiere spot for kid content. Now, they’re a distant third behind Disney+ and then Hulu.
We watch each other carefully.
Apple's friction eliminators want to get under your skin
Insect Vision – Entomology Animated
A parent is sharing their joy(!) of using Anki to help their child develop curiosity, feel a sense of accomplishment, and learn about the world.

And your response at someone else's joy is to swat it down and call it tedious and stupid?
https://github.com/nextauthjs/next-auth/issues/5647#issuecom...
I've noticed that much of the potential "efficiency gains" technology could afford us are taken up with more nagging instead (the other half go to administrator salaries).

For example, at a McDonald's automated ordering kiosks, they could have made them super efficient with a grid of popular combos like on the overhead menu signs. But instead they take up time asking you to donate money and to upsell you other stuff. Of course they don't care about efficiency because they don't care about customers time, it's free.

Or calling in to a call centre and hearing two minutes of recorded garbage about how covid, Ukraine, bla bla make them slow and inefficient and to consider using the useless website instead, before you can even start the process of trying to talk to a person.

Reviews are another example, automation, instead of making things faster just provides more time to shamelessly nag.
It is a good setting for running a game in, in the sense that it is an everything-setting where you can justify access to any planes. It produces a framework where you can throw ideas at the wall and they stick pretty well.

I don’t think this sort of flexibility indicates great writing in the literary sense. It is like a better thought out version of Marvel’s multiverse stuff: a really functional way of giving somebody working in a setting the latitude to select parts of that setting as needed. It is designed by an organization to achieve a goal for the game system, not to be great art.
The Subway and Honda product placement in Community was perfectly done. You almost question whether it was product placement at all.

https://i.redd.it/7izx4m9d0oy81.jpg

Also the Snapple product placement in 30 Rock.

https://youtu.be/tLovOweVuT4
Be Afraid of 'Great Execution'
It's not up to individuals to fix it. Your impact is nothing.

Cars matter very little in the big picture as well -- it's a distraction to blame the little people.

The vast majority of pollution is caused by industrial processes. The fix here is simple: regulate and enforce the regulation.

The main polluting countries are:

the USA: too afraid to do anything in case it affects their economy, political caste too corrupt to do what's needed.

Russia: doesn't give a shit, mostly see global warming as a way to get more influence, more usable land, and have such a little population density anyway they can afford to fuck some of it.

India: polluting as a result of too many people and trying to catch up economically, but might get their shit together like China did.

Saudi Arabia: has built their whole state on an unsustainable dependency on burning more than half of the oil they extract just for AC and water, and is completely fucked regardless.
Small, Private Tragedies
Your comment is dismissive, and unhelpful. I think if you were to maybe review the concept in a less shallow manner, you would see this is voluntary, for those already in country on parole anyways. If you think you can dismiss the concept by being disrespectful of your lack of depth I’d suggest you work on comprehension with logic puzzles or the like.

All of what I said requires effort, which is not guaranteed, they are options for the motivated, which is what we want those coming to this country to hold of personal value. Have a nice day though.
Thanks, I'll give it a go again!
This is what “freestanding” is for, FWIW. There are a variety of papers and implementations around this goal, which is generally to have a set of features of c++ the language and the standard library that can work entirely unhosted.

I realize people think of this as a difference between c and c++, but if you go to compile C code with a thread_local variable and throw -nostdlib you’re going to have a bad day. Same for atomics, sometimes complex numbers, floating point exceptions, even receiving arguments and other core language features require some crt code. Removing the runtime library guts the implementation regardless of your language. The question is, does your language provide ways to deal with this? Rust has core, c has alternate ad-hoc embedded libc implementations and a history of bootstrapping implementations long enough to have them be well understood, c++ has/will have free-standing.
Beyond the Drama: How to De-Escalate an Emotional Conversation at Work
Same price for all shows? prices? Should price depend on the number of episodes? What if you paid for a show but after the first two episodes decide it isn’t for you after all?

Subscription makes everything so much simpler for everyone involved.
Do they have oil? If so, we must stop the terrorists there.
“I want to wax the car today.”
“Oops, the hose is still broken from the winter. I’ll need to buy a new one at Home Depot.”
“But Home Depot is on the other side of the Tappan Zee bridge and getting there without my EZPass is miserable because of the tolls.”
“But, wait! I could borrow my neighbor’s EZPass…”
“Bob won’t lend me his EZPass until I return the mooshi pillow my son borrowed, though.”
“And we haven’t returned it because some of the stuffing fell out and we need to get some yak hair to restuff it.”

And the next thing you know, you’re at the zoo, shaving a yak, all so you can wax your car.
He was also quite vocal on this
https://archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYork...
Chef would rather tell line cook to make mayonnaise from scratch even though there is a giant tub on the next table.
As someone who firsthand saw the government response to gulf coast hurricanes in the 2000s-10s, the feds are absolutely not always able (or willing, or competently managed or resourced enough) to act quickly
You mean it is customary to place your mouth on beer tap and take a sip? Strange customs over there...
This is why I am concerned that really good AI tools (be it LLMs, or not), are only going to make people dumber over time. It is true that those people that are highly motivated will be digitally enhanced by LLMs, but the hard reality is that this does not encompass most people. Most people will do the least amount of work possible to solve a task. Rather than taking the time to understand and critically reason about the output of an LLM, these people will instead take it and run, only asking questions later [if at all].

And as we zoom out and think more farther into the future, I see it getting much worse. If AI is really doing all the "hard stuff", then the general human incentive to learn and do them at all quickly treads to 0. This isn't going to be everyone, I think some people will absolutely become "10x developers" or the equivalent for other domains. But all this will result in is more inequity, in my naïve view. The universe has a fundamental property that things move from higher energy states into lower ones. From a human POV, I think you could apply a similar idea, if the need to be smart quickly recedes, then in general we may degrade unaugmented human collective intelligence over time.

I don't know, maybe we'll figure something out to make it much easier to learn and ingest new concepts, but it seems more and more to me that the high obstacles for human brains learning things (with poor memory) is too big a bottleneck to overcome any time soon.
If the corporation does not explicitly state that Signal is an acceptable chat tool, but Signal can be successfully used, is the corporation responsible for messages passed by an employee over Signal?
People have different workflows, but mine is frequently, skim the documentation, make a prototype, refine code a bit, add tests, move stuff around, break stuff, rework code, study documentation, refactor a bit more, and then at that point I have enough understanding of the problem to go in at yank out 80% of my code and do it right.

If Copilot gives me working code in the prototype stage, good enough that I can just move on to the next thing, my understanding is never going to be good enough that I can go in and structure everything correctly. It will effectively allow me to skip 90% of my workflow, but pay the price. That's not to say that Copilot can't be extremely helpful during the final steps of development.

If those findings are correct, I can't say that I'm surprised. Bad code is written by poor understanding and Copilot can't have any understanding beyond what you provide it. It may write better code than the average programmer, but the result is no better than the input given. People are extremely focused on "prompt engineering", so why act surprised when a poor "prompt" in VScode yields a poor result?
Copyright law cares about what generated the material, because it protects certain rights of the creator of the work, and if you can't point to a human creator whose rights were violated (a machine or program has no legal rights) then no one has any exclusive rights to that work, it's outside the scope of copyright law, it's effectively "uncopyrightable". These rights can be transferred from the author to a corporation, for example, in employment contract or law; but a corporation can't simply claim them if they never existed in the first place.
History of Debian, Part 1
Empoweriing youth to fight the threat of misinformation and disinformation
For me, "weekend coding" was actually important to avoid burnout and preserve the fun of coding I had decades ago as teenager.

In a "professional context" this can be quite challenging.
I would stay away from Eagle. It's definitely a great tool, and it's used by a lot of small business hacker types like Sparkfun, but the licensing is a disaster since it was bought by Autodesk.
Daily game where you can guess a famous person.
I cannot vote for any of the top contributers to pollution.

In my country people aren't stupid and do embrace reasonable and managed use of natural resources, regardless of party.
Eh, so he built on other people's work like any other scientist. I can't see he would have Zuckerberg'd anything based on reading those discussions.
True. It feels like banks at least in the States have improved their systems around this in recent years. I remember having to call them and tell them I was going overseas and where to about a decade ago. Nowadays they have more sophisticated systems that rarely if ever block me. Usually the problem is on the receiving end of the payment now if anything. Most recent annoyance was trying to book LATAM in Peru a couple of years ago in soles and getting blocked from doing that by LATAM themselves after triggering some weird anti fraud system
I'm on the side of Israel, since to a certain extent I believe in "Might is Right". Don't challenge to a fight you can't win. But to large extent every claim that Israel makes to the land, the Palestinians could make. Hasan Parker kind of changed my opinion on this.

But currently the left sees Jewish people as high status white people, using their status to get away with bloody murder. And you can't be racist agains white people...so the claim.
The right is waiting for the rapture....and Israel will bring God back to earth ...or something crazy like that.

I personally think a practical approach needs to be taken.
Is it actually common to get burned out on coding or technology work itself, or is it just that we get burned out on agile and other corporate BS?
HTTP/1 doesn't have head of line blocking, only HTTP/2 does.
It's interesting how the economics of this play out. There are many shows that are available to buy per episode on iTunes, Amazon, YT, etc. Do they make more money than they might from licensing to streamers? There are perhaps network effects to being on a streaming platform but industry folks often complain about the low returns from being on streaming.
"This tech will only make people dumber over time" was also claimed about the Internet.
In his podcast, Michael Lewis described his job as finding the expert in a topic and then making their understanding legible to the reader. Going Infinite demonstrates the weakness of this approach, which is that he is entirely too credulous and sympathetic once he has picked his “expert”. I have enjoyed a lot of his writing, so I hope in the future he makes more space for changing his initial impression and critique of his subject, perhaps he can start by reading The Undoing Project by noted author Michael Lewis.
Process Spawning Performance in Rust
Will ChatGPT Soon Replace Editors?
For quick small boards, I don't think you can beat easyeda. They've got a built in community parts library which makes it super easy to whip something together. I made a little adapter to run RCA over ethernet and it took about 15min.
Apple has already talked about this during the Epic Games trial[1]:

> As Apple has notched the most successful sales of Mac computers in history, its head of software engineering, Craig Federighi, says attacks have risen as well. "Today, we have a level of malware on the Mac that we don't find acceptable,"

> Each week, Apple identifies a couple pieces of malware on its own or with help of third parties, Federighi added, and it uses built-in systems to automatically remove them from customers' computers. But still, the malware can infect hundreds of thousands of computers before Apple stamps it out. Since last May, Federighi said, there have been 130 types of Mac malware, and one of them alone infected 300,000 systems.

> Federighi said he believes Macs are still more secure than PCs, but he made clear that the Mac's facing a "significantly larger malware problem" than are iPhones , iPads and Apple's other devices. "It's an endless game of whack-a-mole."

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/apple-cites-significant-ma...
Do you still smoke? If not, how did you quit?

Quitting is an interesting grey area for cannabis; culturally and functionally people misusing the drug are able to do so indefinitely, usually not reaching the “rock bottom” emergency state that other drugs (hopefully) convince the user to seek treatment. So it feels like “just weed” isn’t serious enough to warrant a 30 day treatment center, but the behavior patterns can be so ingrained it can be hard to see breaking them without.
Isn't that something that you already can do in Prime, Apple TV and google movies?
Thanks for checking out and your comment! Yes, it will show start and end time, and automatically calculate how long did it take to finish task. Bug noted, thanks
I’m vaguely surprised not to see bettertouchtool yet. I am too used to three finger middle click on the touchpad and some other custom gestures to have anything else come first. Lots of others, but most covered already here.

How do people usually deal with the lack of middle click?
yes but in this case, we have actual research showing that the technology is degrading the quality of work.
Many pendulum clocks are capable of well under 1 ppm accuracy, which is better than many quartz oscillators. Here is a tour of clock precision by orders of magnitude:

http://leapsecond.com/ten/

Here is a world record setting pendulum clock from a few years ago:

http://leapsecond.com/pend/clockb/

Precision pendulum clocks are a very deep rabbit hole.
Regulatory capture. Why can't lenses be bought without a prescription?
One way of answering this question would be to consider why, for example, Native American children were punished at boarding schools for speaking their language instead of English, why US colonial rule of Hawai'i included bans on Hawai'ian language usage, why Britain published missives against the Welsh language, or why nationalists in Taiwan or communists in China have worked to suppress languages like Taiwanese or Cantonese in favor of Mandarin. Languages are often considered delimiting factors for whether a group should be considered autonomous, a marker of shared ethnic heritage, and as a bulwark against cultural assimilation. Because they are part of a community's history, the eradication or revitalization of a language is often linked to the eradication or revitalization of that group of people as a cultural and political entity, as in Welsh revitalization efforts or protests to retain Cantonese broadcasts. So there is a connection to whether a group can be considered as a distinct culture, with its own distinct political rights, that goes beyond the utilitarian aspect of language as a means of simply transmitting information.
Yea, it’s not to say it can’t be done.

Playing in financial services can be lucrative if done well. The catch is that there is always an existential risk associated with it, and so if it’s not the core business I think anyone should be very very cautious about how they approach it.

If the existential risk can be offloaded to a partner while some upside is retained, it’s probably a good idea.
This seems like the obvious and sensible thing to do. If this is too much for people, the next best thing is to just stick to one. For me this is Netflix, but the day they start showing ads at the price I'm paying, is the day my subscription count goes to zero.

I've had trials on all the others, and they just don't interest me. Some are actually bad, like Apple TV+'s interface and frankly boring content, or Amazon Prime's paid content inside an already paid for service. Netflix has always stood apart in terms of quality (in all areas), but it's already pricey.
Nice site, I will try and see if I can integrate it into my flow somehow and give it words and get back sentences to put in Anki
The sexy Egyptology scholars who dress like Indiana Jones
Besides pointing pentester tools like metasploit at yourself, there are some nice scanners out there. Examples in no particular order:

https://github.com/quay/clair

https://github.com/anchore/grype/

https://github.com/eliasgranderubio/dagda/

https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy

So then you set up something like a cron job to scan everything for you and email the results once a week or whatever if you don't want to monitor things actively.
Yea the thing with financial services is you’re good until you’re not.
Let's see...
14 days on call every 3 months.
3 releases a week.
All the normal review work. PRs, design, etc.
SCRUM meetings.
Meetings before the meetings.
Crazy deadlines which were arbitrarily given by someone in another group.
Being up late to make changes because the business deems it too risky to do it during regular business hours.
Endless performance testing, e2e testing which always generates defects that arent really defects but still need 30m of my time.
Upgrade this or that to the latest. version because xyz no longer supports what you have.
Endless security vulnerabilities that need to be upgraded.
Pipelines that need to be upgraded or fixed just to get a release.
Failing tests which need to be investigated.
Hundreds of configuration points which control process flows.
Never ending lower environment problems.
RTO.
Constant fear of being laid off.

Definitely no way anyone could be burnt out.

I actually want to work on my own projects during the weekends if I can. That somehow brings me happiness compared to what I work on at work, which is bogged down by external issues.
My personal projects I have no one to report status updates to, no one to tell me "I'm doing it wrong" no customers to support, freedom to mess up. Lol
HTTP/2 or /3 were never about optimizing bandwidth, but latency.