skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I only have 2 dogs now but I miss the absolute chaos of having 2 cats flying around the house. My dogs don't do ANYTHING all day long unless I prompt it. Like, they don't play with one another unless I start throwing the ball to them then they'll wrassle around and burn some energy. If I don't do that they literally will just sleep all day.

I want a cat so bad i'm on so many cat subreddits. But I HATE litterboxes and I don't know if one will fight my dogs.

Cats will zoom around all day long. Such fun chaotic energy.

I can't imagine a baby I'll pass I'll keep cats and dogs
What is also sad about a lack of any standard or education is when this leads to generational perpetuation of poor habits. You might not even realize you are continuing generational traumas, you might just think this is how you were raised and this is fine, or maybe it even subliminally impacts you and you don't even consider your own biases and how they are affecting others.
yes! good point. Edit: I changed my GP comment to say "link" instead of "ID".
I dunno man lead was pretty great at a bunch of stuff so by your logic we should use it again, just like asbestos
Maybe replacing the steering column, a 6lb steel shaft, with drive by wire at a cost 10lbs of rare earth magnets,
50lbs of copper, 10 computer chips, many position sensors, and 150k lines of code was a bad idea.
> On iOS, the ability to prevent (say) the use of social media after 10pm is very useful. What would you, as someone who "cares about your child" do instead?

Have your child hand you their phone at 10PM before they go to bed? Why do they need a phone on their person 24/7?
I suspect it's the latter, although I fail to even wrap my head around how the heck fundamental technological advances even happen. I mean you have people far removes from commercialization that pour a lot of time, money, knowledge and material into making this obscure little facet a tiiiny bit better. How do you even get to know what to improve, what needs improving, what _can_ be improved? How the heck do you even get funding for something so so very speculative?
Do you suggest that we abolish the teaching of math and english entirely, because some schools have issues (which are largely correlated with economically disadvantaged neighborhoods)?

Should we shut down all the schools? I don't really understand how the nihilism in these replies makes any sense.
Without citation, I believe that 50%+ of US healthcare is already paid for by a government agency (whether veteran, indigency, etc).

...might as well unlink it to employers for the minority =/
Julia's articles are always excellent. I've always had great results teaching people that compiled code doesn't keep secrets by demoing `strings`.
Is it really true that primarily American right-wingers are behind attempts to deregulate AI? What is the rationale for the political demographics on either side of this fight?
The thing is, you're not even wrong. The six foot rule was based on what the best understanding of the experts was at the time, and probably saved thousands of lives. Just like forced masking up probably saved tens of thousands of lives. Both were great examples of science, which readily admits to tuning when new evidence comes into play.

However, because there's a right wing cult around Donald Trump, whose fortunes were hurt by the pandemic, the six foot rule and masking and vaccines are set up as straw men and attacked by a gigantic and well funded and organized horde of proxies, including the #1 media network in the US. It goes something like this: because a particular individual got COVID, that's proof that vaccines are not 100% effective and so They Lied To Us For Nefarious Purposes. Or because this particular individual stood 6 feet away and still got COVID, that's evidence that Fauci Is In A Conspiracy With The Chinese. Or because this particular individual survived COVID, it's just a cold. Or because masks are not 100% effective when not worn securely, they are not effective. And on and on.

So it's not unreasonable or unlikely that you heard a thing about bad science and six feet of social distance or whatever. But hearing a thing, and the thing being true from foundational motivations of actual science, are very different right now.
I don't think PR would work for the US, at least in its most common(?) form where people vote for parties and each party has a list of candidates.

A big problem with Gerrymandering is that it favors extremists. When a district is competitive, a candidate must appeal broadly to people of various political positions. When a district is artificially created to cater to party X, a candidate only has to be selected by party X, because then they're practically guaranteed to win. Thus candidates who are more loyal to party X is more likely to be elected, regardless of how they're viewed by the general population.

PR has the same problem - someone who's at #1 position of Party X's list is as good as elected, and the position is determined by internal party politics. Thus, the top positions will be filled by those who always toe the party line and never compromise.
Really? Because I would think refineries/wells start shutting down the second their profit goes negative.
Whether or not we’re able to discuss controversial subjects, a topic’s controversy doesn’t imply importance or relevance.

It seems to me that the quality of any public discussion tends to increase when it’s relevant to the expertise in the room, and decrease when it involves people’s casual reads of complicated stuff about which they have vague but emotionally-charged impressions. HN folks have great, nuanced discussions about a wide range of technical questions, but we’re much less likely to collectively know what we’re talking about in questions of the latest hot-button political mudslinging.

There are communities that are good for that kind of discussion, but that’s not what we come here to do. And for this place to stay good at what it does do, it can’t afford to drown out the signal with the noise of emotive bickering.

The site guidelines do, I think, an incredible job of articulating what sustains the tenor here.

But at the end of the day, how best to capture “the vibes” about whether we collectively think a topic is tired or doesn’t fit here? It seems like HN does it just like a good dinner party host would: Change the subject when your guests—that is, the people with a strong track record of positive contributions—indicate that they’re weary of it. After all, we’ve got plenty of things to talk about that we do agree would be fruitful.
Probably because if they bring that tone to enough topics, eventually they will be right. Though also probably not for the reasons they think (e.g. they say a post will be removed because it discusses a controversial topic when in reality it was removed because it was just plain garbage content).
> provably secure systems in use somewhere...

There are. Check out sel4 and dependent type systems.
You're especially correct when it comes to the Jews: they actively discourage converts. They don't believe that their deity condemns people for believing wrong, and Judaism is a duty rather than a reward.

They are also, unsurprisingly, by far the smallest of the three groups you mention. But if you're trying to understand the impact of religion, you should also look outside of the Abrahamic faiths. They do comprise about half the religious believers in the world, but you're missing a lot of people if you exclude the Hindus and Buddhists.

There are also a great many Shintoists, Sikhs, Jains, etc. Each religion is comparatively small, but they represent a very wide diversity of what "religion" can mean.

The Christians and Muslims do seek converts and do think that people who don't convert are punished. (Depending on sect; there's a wide variety of approaches.) A lot of people outside those religions would see that as self-serving, but it does hold a certain internal logic: "God wants everybody to be this religion to avoid whatever punishment, and sent me to make sure it happens."

That's not a particularly compelling argument to me, but it does attract billions of adherents, so it's can't be dismissed trivially.
>LLM stories

Does that mean stories about LLMs or by LLMs?

Serious question.

I am one of the (few? many?) people (devs) who haven't look into LLMs or even tried out ChatGPT yet :), except to make jokes about it here once in a while.
Instead of giving people the bird, they take the bird away from people.
Very cool and awesome stuff! Keeping track of cloud sprawl/spend can get super stressful, esp if you are mutli-cloud! Excited to see what you all continue to ship!!
A tricky thing with raising kids is that, in the same situation, different kids may react differently: a "incidental" challenge will be detrimental here, but in the long run (decade/s) beneficial there. I'm not sure that this can be predicted easily.

Furthermore, predicting the effect at scale, in the long run, feels impossible. An unregulated parenting education feels reasonable: let them make mistakes, and progressively grow from there, over a few generations.

Let alone the difficulty of finding a common ground, especially on something involving strong emotional ties. It was probably easier in the past, when religions/states were stronger, because, for better or for worse, they provided a way to unify people.
3-SAT is at least as hard as SAT, or SAT ≤p 3-SAT. We know this because we can translate arbitrary SAT instances into 3-SAT in polynomial time. 3-SAT is in NP because we can check a candidate solution in polynomial time by plugging in the values and evaluating.

More accurate than “an NP-complete subset of SAT” would be to say that SAT is polynomial-time reducible to 3-SAT or that we can solve SAT in terms of 3-SAT.

Combining both of these, each is reducible to the other. In some sense, they are the same problem. 3-SAT imposes just enough structure to force it into NP-complete. 2-SAT is in P.
Absolutely. We review the list of stories that set off that software penalty and restore the ones that are clearly not flamewars. No doubt we miss a few, and also - not everyone interprets these things the same way. But if you (or anyone) notice a case of a good thread plummeting off the front page, you can always get us to take a look by emailing hn@ycombinator.com.
Had 50 million dollars but I,,, spent it all...
Microsoft Edge Sucks Up Chrome Data Without Permission
> The contrast is likely due to the different religions William and Temujin practiced.

This was my initial gut reaction as well, but then I remembered the incredible violence and devastation that Christian Europeans brought upon themselves and others over the last 1500 years. How many of those kings, popes, and other leaders expressed similar regret on their deathbeds?
Wtf are you talking about? He’s literally telling us and has mentioned in the community many times that flagging quickly crushes a story.

I’ve seen it happen when I’ve flagged stories so either there is a vast conspiracy of moderators that receive pages when I flag things so they can downrank… or maybe dang isn’t lying about something that should be super obvious as a community self policing mechanism.
I have no idea. I created it as an experiment. It's fairly active despite being a few months old. We'll see what happens.
Is it? The reference I found quickly suggests that PTFE needs to be heated a bit above 530F before it starts to cause problems, and that’s not a normal cooking temperature for basically any purpose other than pizza.

Unfortunately, most stoves do no adequately control temperature, and it’s easy to reach that temperature by accident.
User flags, once they've accumulated above a certain threshold, have a downranking effect. Pretty sure this is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
Over 2 percent of the US's electricity generation now goes to Bitcoin
> There's no IDE that can detect Postgres coding errors, no refactoring support, no Git integration

JetBrains DataGrip does all of that.
We have a copy of this.

We gave someone a free account to archive this and when they finished we chflag -R schg'd the directory so it is immutable.

We are not publishing this - there is no web or anonymous access to an rsync.net account - but if you're reading this in 2035, know that we have a copy of this.

Related: If you are involved in any way in preserving/archiving usenet, please be in touch. We will give you whatever (storage) resources you require.
When I read article headlines like this... It just makes me want to buy some Meta stock. It's not like Quest 3 is a dud, it's a great device. And it is not a given that Vision Pro will be a hit. So that makes me think someone wants to spin a narrative and is trying damn' hard to sell it.
OsmAnd has this feature
It could be fun to use this data to build a visualization of new games rolling out to locations across the world.
I'm not sure we are talking about the same thing. I'm talking about Soviet Republics (SSR) post WW2 e.g. the occupied territories that were not in RSFSR.

These "autonomous" republics were anything but autonomous. They were autonomous within the very strict framework provided by Russia. Puppet states would be the closest description, but even then not fully accurate. On top of this there was no need for Russian help to "create" these fake republics. Nations were completely capable to create their own governance like was for example the case with Ukraine. All what Russians did was to use the cover of communism to continue their imperialist ambitions.

RSFSR contained ASSR (Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics) and these had even less autonomy. Most of these nations should have also been given the opportunity to have statehood as they wanted.

If you were talking about ASSR before WW2 that were transformed into SSR then again, see the previous point.
fiverr has been recommended to me, but my first impression is that it doesn't look any different than upwork.

how much time do you spend on applying for projects?
Rent seeking is literally not that though. The word has a definition, and if there's one thing you can't really accuse those corporations of is to basically just extract value without any investment of their own. It's the total opposite, just look at head counts, the amount of money getting spent etc. That alone is basically the opposite of rent seeking, where we expect to see wealth extraction for minimum investment/productivity(and thus, headcount)/cost

More to the point, rent seeking involves taking money for something that provides no additional value in return, usually because you have a monopoly on something that isn't related to the service you charge for.

For example, you own the land so you charge for passage, without building a road or giving back anything or investing any of that money back to create wealth. That makes almost 0 sense for most software corporations. Sure, they might not be profitable but SaaS is basically the opposite since you get the service or a value out of the service directly, and if you don't, there's no reason to pay for it .

I can't think of a lot of cases where a SaaS product is more or less "forced" on you to the point where you continue paying for something that doesn't provide you value. Rent seeking isn't profit seeking.
The high-cost suppliers in countries where cartels are illegal do. Which is why fracking busts and booms in the US as prices change around the world for other reasons. But there's enough places in the world where oil flows with minimal effort to sustain low prices in a world where demand is decreasing.
> In many ways, the reason front end developers moved to SPAs was that they could better control their own tooling in ways that are difficult in the traditional web application frameworks.

Partially, but let’s not pretend our field is more rigorous than it actually is. Most it was following fads: the cool kids at some big tech companies were building HUGE apps with tons of logic as SPAs and a lot of people wanted to say “us too!” without considering how similar their apps are or comparing staffing. The natural arc I’ve seen is that teams who didn’t pick an SPA for solid technical requirements end up delivering results which are no better at considerably slower speed because they’re supporting a lot of non-domain complexity and still end of changing their backends in lock-step with the front end. That tends not to leave time for things like accessibility or performance.
You’ve just cited a link for a CCP backed political party which just lost the election by a sizeable amount.
> alter the score on a story

It's cool that you set up your own instance, but do you see no problem with covertly altering the score of a story?

Such secrecy leads to oversized, over-trusted forums, and is what this post seeks to address.
I saw a theoretical calculation many years ago saying that bitcoin mining would eventually use 7% of the world's electricity. I laughed at it then, but take it more seriously now. Electricity in the US is expensive, so if it's using 2% here, it must be using more in some other parts of the world.
> If you use Open Source software commercially, you are now liable if the software misbehaves. Thus, you have an incentive to make sure the software is correct.

As a software developer at a non-tech firm, I can gaurantee this means we will not be able to use any open source software. If we are granted an exception, it will be such that we must maintain a private version of the open source software.

This is simply a no-go for many companies of all sizes. The risk associated here is not something many (any?) legal department will be willing to take on.
>So halving demand is more likely to reduce prices.

1) Halve demand

2) Price plummets

3) Sources shut off

4) Prices climb again, _but at lower volume_

Plastification requires $x/barrel oil _at insane volume_ to work.
Exactly. And that holds regardless of how drunk I might be, fwiw.
I think this makes sense, but it's a pretty big nerf for the "Historian" card in Wingspan (2 points per bird named after a person). ;)
I don't believe they fixed a safety issue though.

They replaced a brake icon with a "P" inside it with the word "PARK". To me those indicate two different things. The first is obviously the parking brake. Most would think that "PARK" refers to an automatic transmission, which a Tesla doesn't have...

To me this is an example of red tape making things worse.
We do teach people parenting. The action is called parenting.

I teach my kids how to parent by practicing it. I learned how to parent my children by observing my boomer parents, and doing the opposite in nearly every circumstance.
They're hosting it somewhere?
Found it <https://colorcolor.in/>
COVID stories are dreadful because there is a very low average level of applicable domain knowledge for COVID discussions.

In plain English, not enough people actually know what they are talking about to create an informative and educational discussion. So they all just end up as a pointless exercise in all the worst aspects of forum flame wars.

HN is at its best when people with lots of relevant experience and knowledge come into the discussion. Then the rest of us can learn new facts, tools, perspectives, etc.

There’s a long list of topics where that is just not available in the existing audience. So there are a lot of topics that, while interesting, are just not a good investment of everyone’s time here.
Nobody has said that, try reading my comment better:

"Colonisation always goes hand in hand with genetic extermination of the natives"

I'm saying that when people start proposing and planning colonisation of a foreign country, genetic extermination usually follows.

Edit: I think I see what confused you. I wrote "it's happening right now" not referring to Japan, but referring to humanity at large.
It was a serious question. Amazon sells some really nasty, toxic products outside of established brand names.

> Some of the samples tested by the Zero Mercury Working Group contained as much as 65,000 ppm of mercury – an astounding 65,000 times the legal limit of 1 ppm set by the Food and Drug Administration.

https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2022/03/dange...

> Amazon Japan K.K. and the two companies in Gifu and Saitama prefectures sold key chains and compasses containing tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, without reporting it to the NRA, in violation of the radiation hazard prevention law, the NRA said.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/09/20/business/nuclea...
Lock picks are just some metal wire, but are illegal unless your a locksmith to carry around.
What is the difference between lye (dangerous), sand (not dangerous unless it suffocates things or gets crushed and inhaled), water (can cause flooding or drowning, otherwise harmless), and sodium bicarbonate (quite basic, generally harmless), and hydrazine (mutagenic, highly toxic, highly flammable)?

All of these have hazards in specific circumstances, and huge benefits in others. All are chemicals.

All are well known and characterized. Many other compounds are too new for that level of knowledge and characterization. They are chemicals too.

If we allow someone to make new chemicals (it’s hard to stop, frankly!), either we say ‘no, not until they are fully understood and characterized’, or ‘yes, unless we learn it’s too hazardous’.

Saying no first is a bit of a catch-22 since how are you going learn anything and characterize the dangers if you don’t make and use it a bunch?

If you say ‘yes, unless we learn it’s too dangerous’ then we learn a huge amount quite quickly - but inevitably have something too dangerous causing problems.

It’s a fundamentally conservative vs liberal development strategy debate.
No, I use a lot of Cloudflare products (the domain is registered through Cloudflare, the site is proxied and protected by Cloudflare, I use Cloudflare's free Web Analytics), but I am not using Workers for this.

The HN source base is a monolithic Arc program and Arc is in Racket/Scheme. To use Workers I would have had to get Racket working on Wasm which I simply haven't tried. Also news.arc does a bunch of file system access and I'd have to rewrite that to use Workers KV or something. So, I decided to use lots of Cloudflare and run the Arc code on a VPS I've had for many years. The whole thing is running in a screen session which I can hop into and be in the REPL when I want.
Recall is the correct choice of word here, but Ars' coverage of Tesla issues is incredibly disappointing because one of their writers really makes it clear in his articles that he loathes Tesla, at the expense of even pretending to be remotely neutral.

Continuing to write headlines on recalls like this does not do anyone favors though.

Tesla owners aren't impacted. They'll get an update.

Everyone else hears there's a recall for a car they don't own and won't care.

A cohort of online users will happily click and comment about their hatred of a car company that, quite frankly, nobody cares to hear about except other people who like commenting on this stuff.

All the while, the "recall" term keeps getting thrown out in headlines in a context that isn't life-or-death safety-critical, lessening it's impact on actual life-or-death safety concerns..

It is 2024 and a distinction is desperately needed.

The same type of advisory used for a defective steering mechanism that could cause serious injury/death should not be in the same grouping as a patch for a lousy UI decision that will likely be fixed as an OTA update in a couple weeks.
Often it's not even curiosity, it's wanting to solve a problem instead of "doing work" at your "assigned role".

If you want to actually improve something on your organization, you'll have to solve lots and lots of problems that nobody owns. If you insist, well, congratulations, you are now a generalist.

I'm pretty sure what the GP is calling "discipline" is an euphemism for "passive obedience".