skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There should be some way of doing language detection to detect the relative quality of 'flaming' going on.

So the highest quality 'flame wars' can remain untouched, but downranking everything else below that bar probably makes sense.
what i mean is that the right to freedom of association does not protect you from your obligation to avoid a conflict of interest. by rule of law, conflict of interest trumps freedom of association.

it restricts your freedom of association only as much the rule of law already does.

with demand i mean a potential law that demands that representatives be independent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscience_vote
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Worst case you’ve learned something new or had fun.

I am yet to regret a single instance when I regretted sharing unfinished, scrappy work:

https://untested.sonnet.io/Share+your+unfinished%2C+scrappy+...

One approach I really liked was the 2/2/2 rule:

2 hours for a poc → does this even make sense?

2 days for a prototype to share with friends

2 weeks to build something useful (paid if your goal is to charge for it)

You can leave the process at any stage. Each stage teaches you something new.
Ha, I almost mentioned Google, having been through a code red myself, but it felt like a reach so I went elsewise with my comment! I believe it’s safe to assume google pulled it from emergency response given that their approach to incident management inherits heavily from ICS.
It's not just synthetic chemicals. Humanity already can't undo the nuke test fallout layer and the lead from gasoline layer future archeologists will marvel at: "What arrogant dopes, leaving a mark on the entire planet out of negligence."
My parents did a fantastic job of raising me. However, at the time that I was a child being raised, I didn't take notes about the things they were doing that worked so well. I was just a kid, and had only the vaguest notion at the time that I might someday be a parent myself. I had no mind about me to study how I was being parented.

Now I wish I had a more detailed memory. I have many memories of my childhood of course, but I don't remember the little things that my parents were doing "behind the scenes" to make it all work.
I asked this exact question in an Ask HN post a couple of years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29532676

That thread actually changed my mind on the issue. You say "We should be able as a community to discuss conterversial subjects somehow." Well, guess what, we're not, or at least we're not without a great amount of care. Stories like the submitted one, which may be factually accurate but clearly have a political axe to grind are absolutely not going to lead to anything but a shitstorm of useless discussion.
Can someone give me a quick intro to what the "kid in the Omelas Hole" means? I started reading the article and it made zero sense. I tried googling but all I got was that article again.
I'd much rather they consult open source people about open source needs, rather than try to guess. IME, you need to talk to the people on the front lines. In fact, unless I talk to people I know best, even family members, I don't really know.
New Super Secret Surveillance Court Covering Old Super Secret Surveillance Court
The concept of color contrast isn't niche, but building your color palette around the WCAG contrast algorithm kind of is. It's useful for checking boxes if you're required to do WCAG audits, but is neither necessary nor sufficient to ensure actual users with disabilities are able to read your text.

For example, #F00 text on an #000 background passes WCAG AA, but will be unreadable for users with a common form of color blindness: https://accessibility.psu.edu/color/colorvisiondetails/
Even tech is doing mostly fine. Layoff chatter is going to continue for Q1 but it'll settle down.

The real problem is that the haute precariat who work in the media are being battered by attention spans and ad blockers and ineffective paywalls and bad-news-burnout from the last few years. They're the ones that are most loudly dooming because they're mad that they are overwhelmingly children of the affluent who are doing worse than their parents. It's not like that for almost the entire rest of the country, but these people set the tone by setting the assumption. "Of course the economy is bad, my friend from Yale got laid off from her legal job at Google! Of course the economy is bad, my comedian friend from Choate has to move back in with their parents!" etc etc.
You can start by imagining how traumatic is it to have a huge team of armed men break into your home and violently restrain you or a loved one. If you've been SWATted you don't know why these people are there. Heck even if you recognize they're SWAT, you're not going to have any clue if they really are or of they're people posing as SWAT to kidnap you for ransom or worse.

Also that SWAT team isn't just going to come in, realize you're not armed, and laugh at the situation before letting you go. For all they know, you are as dangerous as the person who called in said and were just putting on an act when you saw the SWAT team roll up. So now you're at least going to deal with questioning which is going to be extremely difficult to deal with in a state of panic and confusion.

And no, it's very unlikely that the SWAT team would be held responsible for anything. Police have too much protection against that. To spin it for them, they were operating in good faith on the assumption that they needed to raid the house in the manner they did otherwise people would die.
Well, I don't really use Youtube, so ...
JamesCheng wants to pay 0 USD to have this issue fixed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Om...
In Soviet Russia, bird names you!
2018 – What Is the Last Question?
eComStation is/was licensed to continue OS/2 development and support.
Ask HN: Best open source Copilot alternative in VSCode?
We have privy, Mutable.ai, hwt.dev, Tabnine, Codeium, Cody, FauxPilot, Tabby, Bito, CodeGeeX, AskCodi,Blackbox AI...you name it

What are your experiences?
Brave Search usually put Reddit Posts on top. Furthermore the Reddit post answer are now visible right in the search engine, so no need for the Reddit tracking. The only issue is you can only see OP title Post and answers, but not OP full question.
iPhones don’t :(
Guided by the pinball map...
The driver - still unknown to me
I struggle to think of an actual scenario where selling this data would translate to specific harms. The data 23&Me collects isn't really genomics, it's a microarray with a very limited relationship to actual health outcomes.
I agree: when you've stopped learning.
I gave up on getting audio passthrough to work reliably and just send PCM over HDMI. I don't think there are downsides to this, unless my computer is somehow worse at decoding DTS than my AV receiver?
The winning play is the SALT or Charity dodge: pay taxes to an authority who returns a lot more of it to you in benefits than the other authority does.
Conspiracy Theory: The proliferation of honeypots is due to secret government contracts attempting to corrupt the usefulness of Shodan and the like.
Ah wow, I just found some audio recordings of this guy's "swat" calls

https://soundcloud.com/user-233140213/torswats-call-1

https://soundcloud.com/user-233140213/torswats-call-2

https://soundcloud.com/user-233140213/torswats-call-3

from https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7z8be/torswats-computer-gen...
It's from an Ursula K. LeGuin short story, "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas".

You can read it here: https://shsdavisapes.pbworks.com/f/Omelas.pdf

It has a wiki article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ones_Who_Walk_Away_from_Om...
https://openwireless.org (supported by EFF)
> The pro-RTO don't talk about why is outsourcing perfectly ok but not WFH?

It isn't that companies want RTO at all costs -- if they can lower labor costs by at least 30% then executives seem to get over their antipathy for remote work quickly.

Whereas in my experience, most of the employees who wanted to work remotely expected comparable salaries and employment benefits to what they earned when they were in the office. Ultimately most of them ended up complying with the RTO mandate without even demanding a raise.
Just like tech goes through cycles and everything old is new again (Corba to XML to JSON to gRPC), maybe morals are too on a cycle. In tech the typical time constant is for the young gen to burn and churn. In morals it is a few generations (as grandparents influence it)

Maybe the cycle will bring back social shame again, which to me is at a historical low. And we'll again have manners manuals with content copied from 1924. Politeness, saying please and thank you, waiting for adults to finish before interrupting, doing house chores, no shouting, etc.
My cynical take is that the young founder phenomenon is because the young folk haven't seen enough to know when they are getting screwed over, so the VCs are able to keep more control for less money when working with inexperienced talent.
> If a company is after an experienced person then they want someone who can come up to speed with their codebase quickly. This means they do not want to spend time training someone in the languages and preferably the frameworks used.

I think there's more to it than this - companies want new hires to approximately align on culture things. If I'm a Go shop I don't want someone to endlessly whine about how Rust or Elixir or whatever is better and vice versa
Caching is generally way harder to get right than a lot of people probably think. Having delved into building caching systems that get the behavior and needs of the system just right, it took way more effort and research than I thought it would. You start with something simple and by the time you have chased down all the edge cases and tuned the cache behavior to your situation it is often not so simple after all.
Nix 2.20 Released
My experience even in older cars (where bumps more likely affect your control efforts) is that you also need fixed perches near the important controls. Then, you can rest part of your hand on this perch while aiming fingers to the controls.

I think avionics soft buttons are usually arranged this way, and one can imagine similar touch interfaces that would focus on the edges of screens with robust bezels of some kind.

Your body and arm might be shifting around due to the shaking of the cabin. Your hand is stabilized relative to the buttons or knobs near the perch, so you can aim precisely.

What you don't want under shaky situations are controls way out in the middle of a field of controls where you need to aim precisely and have no perch for your hand. Even worse would be the kind of consumer touch UX with drag or other gestures where you could accidentally input some high magnitude command because a cabin movement pushed your free-aiming hand across the screen...
> Are we being too sensitive, vindictive, projecting remorse? One look at tech Twitter (and deleted tweets) and we'd want to cancel them all. What good is that going to bring, other than create an inescapable and ever shrinking echo chamber?

It's simply nonsensical to think that there are two extremes of discourse, "echo chamber" and "people can feel free to voice threats," which are in opposition.

> It is a big deal only if Garry was consistently inflammatory. Otherwise, it can be safely relegated to careless jibe by a drunkard.

People on the business end of a threat certainly have a different perspective on what can be "safely relegated" to the "don't worry" category. There's nothing wrong with taking into account the perspective of those being threatened when determining whether something like this is a "big deal," as the parent poster presumably did, and as the law does.

> It isn't normal for anyone else, of course. As for Garry, he is heavily invested in SF politics.

How unique he is. It's hard to imagine a reality where lots of people are heavily invested in politics and behave foolishly because of it. That would be an alternate reality that is difficult to imagine.
Vegas doesn't have a lot of arcades. Outside of the PHoF there's two in reasonable driving distance and neither of them focus on pinball machines. One is pretty much only rhythm games.
It's just a different kind of environmental requirement.

It's useful for some people to have recognisable sounds going on while they work, so they have something to latch their focus if they lose it for a second. Whether that be music, or every seinfeld episode on a shuffled loop on the TV.

I have found it useful in the past to listen through every song I have on shuffle while I read, which was nice when I took a few-seconds break every couple of pages and came across a song I wouldn't have picked out otherwise. Alt-tabbing out of a podcast or something completely wrecks my focus on both for some reason though.
The substantial number of 'businesses' – probably the vast majority – see some trades of goods and services happen, but never accrue anything that the government would try to tax. Colloquially, they 'lose money'. What do you consider those entities if not businesses?
> IMO this happens because fundamentally people have "The reddit mental model" about how moderation works here, as if moderation is some privileged, limited position. It's just wrong.

Partially, but I think these are all symptoms for a more fundamental root cause: HN is just comprised of too many emotional, passionate users with fundamentally differing beliefs.

The usual song and dance with flagging goes something like the following with cryptocurrency:

1. User posts cryptocurrency article

2. People who passionately hate cryptocurrency start adding in emotional comments about how they hate it.

3. People who want to fight this passionate hate respond in kind.

4. The thread turns into a giant argument where nobody is willing to concede anything and everyone is just shouting at each other.

5. Either the flamewar detector kicks in (as it should) or everyone not in the thread tires of the shouting and flags it.

That's fine but regrettable when limited to some topics like crypto. But it's happening with social media company earnings reports, layoff posts, RTO discussions, posts about Musk, autonomous vehicles, and on and on.

dang (and the mod team?) are doing great work, but this is despite the feeling I have that HN is barely being held together into a cohesive community, and I'm struggling to even use the word "community" here. I feel the temperature of discussions has gotten a lot hotter here than it used to be and some basic work I've done with sentiment classifiers on comments here mirrors my perspective.

I just don't think a single community can handle so many passionate, opposed groups. It bubbles up by proxy in these sorts of flagging wars where so many articles get bumped off the page due to the inability of the community to discuss it well. Maybe the solution is to just discuss software as some people really want, but even then you get massive flamewars over things like Rust async. Even with interesting topics like VR posts, the overall temperature of the comments here is high enough that I've stopped bothering to comment as much as I used to.
I thought of creating something similar for flagged comments, way too many people are flagging things because it doesn't suit their narrative
He probably had fun with this one and expects (or hopes!) it to become irrelevant after YouTube for VisionOS comes out. We’ll see.
I've heard of at least one isp that is IPv6 only and tells customers to use whois to find someone to help them with sites that don't work.
SSH, fileserver, occasionally game servers.

The internet is supposed to be peer-to-peer, and I shouldn't need third-parties in between my computers, or between my friends and me. Switching to IPv6 breaks the peer-to-peer nature of the internet.
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Ask HN: Hearing Loss Due to Stress?
Hello Everybody, last year exactly this day I once woke up and found out that my left ear is clogged and It seemed that something is inside my ear that doesn’t let the sounds go through my brain. Also after that I’ve got a constant high-freq sound in my left ear, the TINNITUS! I had sudden sensorineural hearing loss.

Story: I was in a stressful situation and constant pressure about 6 months. My body alerts me in different ways but I ignore them which unfortunately resulted in hearing loss although I’m not sure 100% that this is related to the stress but I think it’s the case. I went to the ENT he prescribed me Prednisone but no luck! I’ve tried magnesium, zinc and b12 but none of the improved my hearing.

I want to know has anybody there which has the same experience? What’s the cause that stress had in my hearing? What should I do?
Following the model set by the likes of Jim Carrey, Robert De Niro, etc.

It's high time we do recognize this as unacceptable speech.
What accessibility issues does the streamlit library have?
Even the highest karma users can lose their flagging privileges, temporarily or perhaps even permanently, if they do it enough times within a time window or if abuse is detected. So from what I understand that issue should be taken care of.
Re non-UTF8 inputs, more could be said (resolve root encoding conversion issues with iconv), but see: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/201751/replace-non-...
So I understand the complaint that perhaps there's evidence that things currently classified as autism might be genetically or otherwise differentiable.

However to my mind that simply strengthens the need to have some sort of computerized system for measuring population samples. Removing human subjectivity from the equation will only give us more hard data to identify exactly what correlates with what.

Moreover I think somewhere in your logic you're making this assumption that autism rates can't be going up by a factor of 10+. I think there's no reason to assume that, we've seen other biological conditions (some even covariate with autism such as allergies) increase and let's just take nearsightedness as an example that has grown more than 10x.

In essence, I think it's entirely plausible that autism rates have gone up and tiktok merely happens to be informing people who have very mild symptoms of what's happening -- and to prove or disprove that hypothesis we'd want tests not administered by a biased human.
>How can you control that, though? Are people responsible for the mental state of all their followers?

No. There is an extent, however, to which leaders are responsible for the actions of their followers.

They know what audience they're speaking to.

>Or do they have to ensure that every utterance is so milquetoast that no action would ever come of it?

False dichotomy.

They have to not encourage their followers to commit violence against others.

The entire point of someone engaging in this would be plausible deniability; the ambiguity is a part of it.

>I'd have less of an issue if these rules

Which rules? It's not like we're discussing legislation here.

We're discussing a concept.

>a politically neutral fashion

Oh, how curious. Do you seem to imply that certain political groups are more likely to be accused of inciting violence against individuals or groups?

Perhaps with a documented track record of spikes in violence following public statements?

Hmmm.
I've gotten a /64 delegation from my cable ISP for almost a decade. There were some hiccups at first, but it's been working for a while now, to the point where I recognize issues with IPv4 as when my wife tells me "only Google and Netflix work"
Show HN: Generate silly movie trailers with AI
This is a toy project I've been hacking on, and it's a bit rough around the edges, but I'd love for people to try it out! https://aitrailers.xyz

Some examples of videos people have generated:

* An action movie starring a corgi: https://aitrailers.xyz/examples/paws-of-power
* A children's movie about a mischievous monkey: https://aitrailers.xyz/examples/cheeky-monkey
* And a "thriller" my friend Mark generated about how he lost one of his Airpods in a tissue box: https://aitrailers.xyz/examples/marks-lost-earbud

So far it's been fun to see what people have come up with, but the quality of the output varies quite a bit... I'd love to get any feedback on the app so far, and also curious if anyone has any advice on the following:

* What is the best way to improve character consistency across images? (I currently just try to construct each image prompt such that a vivid visual description of the main character and the overall aesthetic is the same across images, but I've had limited success with this.)
* Have any other tools caught up to GPT-4 and DALL-E for things like this? (I've tinkered with some models on Replicate, but nothing is quite as good as OpenAI's APIs as far as I can tell.)
* Are there any good "wrappers" for ffmpeg? I'm currently using a combination of ffmpeg and moviepy, but it surprises me that there isn't an "easier" way to generate videos. (Ffmpeg is super powerful, but it’s API is a bit unintuitive)
You know there are actual network engineers who've like, written IPv6 RFCs here right?
I have bookmarked and will post something if I get my Everdrive64 ordered.
Even with a broken wheel I was able to steer to a safe side of the road. It's scary to think of how the Tesla or any electric car with drive by wire would react in that scenario.
Looks cool, I like it, but given AIs propensity to outright lie to us (hallucinate), what steps are being taken to verify the facts of the summaries it is giving?
No, it's pretty much the only appropriate response to edgyquant's demand that we do the impossible.
You should ask a doctor.
>ICJ is the world's highest court, and genocide cases are very rare. Their verdict, without any question, has "international significance". It's by far the most significant development in months

The verdict had a thread with over fifteen hundred comments and was on the front page most of the day. Others were presumably down ranked as they were dupes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39143043
What's going on with that page? I haven't check thr code but it drops my frame rate through the floor.
Bless your mess !
I treat my life as a series of independent variables… much like HN comments where sometimes sticking the snappy retort in regarding a brilliant but flawed individual might jolt someone out of their hero worship, but point taken
It's at least neat to see they're considering the possibility of adding Internet Archive links to replace the cache ones, but as Jason Scott said on Mastodon earlier, that could end up overloading the Archive even more than usual given how much traffic Google gets.

Regardless, it's a shame to see it go, and I'm very skeptical of the official reasoning for it too. Yeah, they decided to remove it because pages are less likely to go down now? Really?

> But it was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn't depend on a page loading. These days, things have greatly improved.

Hmm, I really doubt it. Feels more like someone at Google wanted to save resources or improve metrics.
Interesting, whenever the discussion comes up to rename things, I propose that we should do the reverse: name things after animals. Instead of "George H.W. Bush Library Center" we could call it "Albatross Library Center". Obviously, naming things after animals leads to much less discussion. We can even choose fitting names (e.g., Gentoo Linux).
That species is now renamed to snow-digging owl.