skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got into University of Michigan which I think is T25. I would not have gotten into an Ivy. But I'm just saying that based on my experience for a large number of people, their high school extracurriculars are "fake" in that they have little actual interest in them and that they are an overweighted admissions signal.
I'm with you, but unless the brush stores the data on itself, which appliance should receive those data in a typical home?
I'm sure the rise of smartphones had as much to do with that as anything.
At its peak, WoW had 12M players; Pokemon Go had 4x that many daily actives at its peak.
If you stop trusting companies after they've done one bad thing, which companies do you feel like you can trust?
> Polling shows that a large % of Trump voters wouldn't vote for him if convicted

That surprised me. Turns out most trump voters would still vote for trump if he were convicted of a crime (and even if he were sentenced to prison for a crime), but 46% said they wouldn't which is still a large percentage.
Using Solid Queue in Development with Docker and on Heroku
TIL that having more daily active users than they've ever had is a "slowly sinking ship."

Most businesses would literally kill for the kind of "slowly sinking ship" where they're making tons of profits from their decades-old primary business that is somehow even more popular now than it was when it was actually cool.
Weed makes you paranoid. Who'da thunk.
This comment is being downvoted, however it seems sensible to me? Can someone who is downvoting offer a counter argument instead?
I think that's two ways of saying the same thing - that NetBox isn't integrated into anything which forces it into being the source of truth. It's just a place updates sometimes get sent to.

This was my main problem with NetBox as well.
> If our industrial and economic requirements and private property laws prevent us from maintaining a planet we can live on, what fucking good are they?

I share the same view with you. But we are the minority, just FYI. I've expressed these sentiments in public and every single time I've been labeled a tree hugging commie.

This event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Western_North_America_hea... radicalized me.
Twitter is among the top three websites that has organized my life over the past fifteen years or so. It's now totally collapsed.

I like having a place to post little things. I like keeping up with other people posting little things.

It isn't Twitter, but we don't have Twitter anymore, so. Just kinda giving things a go. I don't think we really can have "twitter" anymore, those days are past.

But yeah, that's just BlueSky. AT isn't geared towards a specific thing, like it is not a social networking protocol. It's kind of like if RSS was Git, if I squint.
"Labeling AI-Generated Images on Facebook, Instagram and Threads" - https://about.fb.com/news/2024/02/labeling-ai-generated-imag...
Well, once you've allowed hundreds of thousands of people to build houses there, which ones are you going to burn? Seriously, do something and they won't burn today. Do nothing and they burn. All over the pacific northwest there are millions of people who live in forested areas, which will burn without fire control.

You can do burns when things are wetter, but how many $Bs are you going to be liable for? Or you can just make the insurance unattainable.
They were lawyers, they aren't still practicing attorneys representing clients.
I mean, yeah... if you have a certain type of anxiety (maybe a little paranoia for example) then cannabis will very often exaggerate that feeling. You can very well get stuck on it. I've told new cannabis users this for quite some time.

Many people who end up in the hospital because of cannabis convince themselves they're dying, but really they're having what's closer to a bad trip. Edibles are especially prone to this because people often are impatient and end up eating too much because they don't think it's working.

Many drugs (including alcohol!) are multipliers. People need to be especially careful if they have preexisting mental illnesses, especially if they've ever experienced psychosis.

A lot of people blame poor behavior on whatever they took, but that's always a little bit of a personality tell because often they're just talking about lowered inhibitions. If that makes you a total asshole, then maybe consider why... because drugs aren't giving you new personality traits.
True but let's not pretend the logging industry has a long and rich history of good conservationism.

They are there ( obviously ) for the money, and clear cutting everything and "investing" by planting huge areas of mono cultures is anything but "less damaging"

Also, most of the timber doesn't actually burn during these fires, most get cut and sold as it's perfectly good wood if you don't let them rot in 1-2 years.

As always and anything, the virtue is in the middle. A good system where these companies can cut tree and be economical viable but also rules that keep the biodiversity alive and well. A long and not-corrupt department.. That's why these things are so difficult.
I feel this way about most of the standardized tests. I took the LSAT on a whim which no prep and scored 95th percentile. The whole thing was completely reasonable and mostly tested basic logical reasoning and vocabulary/reading comprehension. At the time, there was a short essay component which was entirely about the ability to express whatever thoughts you were supposed to express clearly.

The thing about these tests is that they are all perfectly reasonable. The main reason people have a test with them is they also tend to identify people who _probably_ should not be in college at all and that is not a message anyone wants to accept needs to be sent.
Does visionOS have an API that allows apps to play “fullscreen” (full-FOV) 3D video?
> Potemkin unicorn.

Thank you for putting these two words together, they're perfect.
Sorry for the typo of calling "OneRep" "OpenRep" (I wrote it twice). I can't edit my post anymore but just wanted to clarify that it is OneRep.

https://onerep.com/
> we see a flippant comment consume tons and tons of replies, because we tend to think of laws like code. Absolutist, and if the absolutes are wrong, we'll patch.

To be fair, this resembles a lot of lawmaking, too.

> Apple decided to implement a maliciously compliant solution, and it's immediately obvious to all concerned they didn't fulfill the spirit of their obligations, and there will be consequences

Agree.
I absolutely trust my future self to go back and look at the files.

I do not think I would have started this practice without knowing this about myself.

I do wish I made more of an effort to leave these notes. I have in my archive chat logs from various messaging services and there is contextual headspace which clearly has changed over the years without me really knowing it. For example: I had a conversation back in 2006 where it sounded like I thought very positively of Apple as a company. I have no recollection of thinking positively of Apple back then, and certainly not since.
Most "Twitter alternatives" don't deal with the fundamental, sensation-seeking oriented flaws in the medium and just turn out to be Twitter with more perpetually upset losers.

It's disappointing, because a lot of work has gone into these. Especially Mastodon and Pleroma.
I contributed improved ipset support to this project. As far as I know, it’s one of the few off-the-shelf DNS servers that can insert result records into Linux ipsets to enable domain-based firewall policy. I run it on OpenWRT and use the ipset support to open the default drop firewall from my “smart” projector on my IoT subnet to NetFlix and YouTube. It sets the ipset entry expiry to the DNS TTL. Now, the only way for the machine to connect to the internet is to resolve a whitelisted domain and it can only access while the record is fresh. I haven’t encountered any issues so far. I take it that some Chinese users use this same functionality to selectively VPN domains to evade GFW.
I wonder if this could help regular (non-lawyer) people understand legal documents they run into in everyday life. Things like software license agreements, terms of service, privacy policies, release of liability forms, deposit agreements, apartment leases, and rental car agreements.

Many people don't even try to read these because they're too long and you wouldn't necessarily understand what it means even if you did read it.

What if, before you signed something, you could have an LLM review it, summarize the key points, and flag anything unusual about it compared to similar kinds of documents? That seems better than not reading it at all.
Here's a possibly more interesting take on this: instead of do-thing.py, imagine if there was thing.py, which processed all that complex CLI options, and as output produced a linear shell script, with each line invoking some atomic operation, and a comment explaining which options contributed to that particular line.
This already works with Crypto, something like Hedera is dirt cheap (1/100 of a cent) and fast and scales really well. Wallets are easy to connect, but the disconnect to regular $$$ is still a bit too big for the regular surfin' user.
All sounds very plausible, but where are the effects of this? We should be seeing many people holding mortgages at HSBC not able to pay. Are there no public stats showing how many lack of payments being made to HSBC? Is HSBC going to hold on to these properties taking massive losses? For how long? It has definitely helped the run up of prices here. It will also help the collapse of prices as well, either that or the collapse of HSBC. Maybe the effects take a very long time to manifest. Lets hope it's not too long :)
That's a good rule, pity about the name.

If we could go back in time and make it stdin, stdout, and stdext (because UNIX so six letters, but standard_extra, or standard_extended), we might have a prayer of getting people to follow that convention.

But it's called stderr, so devs think, quite reasonably, that it should be used for error reporting, and conversely, if it isn't an error, it goes in stdout.

But I agree with you that this is the better way to structure a program. You might confuse more people with it, but they'll be able to do more useful things with its output, so that's a win.
To me this argument sounds like “I don’t have time for hobby projects, so I’m going to treat this professional one as a hobby”.

I always start a professional project with technologies I am intimately familiar with - have used myself, or have theoretical knowledge of and access to someone with real experience.

There has never been a new shiny library/technology that would have saved more than 10% of the project time, in retrospect. But there have been many who would have cost 100% more.
I'm not a fan of long reads myself. But I'm thankful for the the accompanying audio version--I listen to it at 1.7x or so, so it's bearable.

I sometimes employ AI summarizers that are on the internet. I haven't settled on which works best.
I had misremembered these as a single comic, but you can't have everything:

https://i0.wp.com/www.litterboxcomics.com/wp-content/uploads...

https://i0.wp.com/www.litterboxcomics.com/wp-content/uploads...
We're building exactly this for contract analysis: upload a contract, review the common "levers to pull", make sure there's nothing unique/exceptional, and escalate to a real lawyer if you have complex questions you don't trust with an LLM.

In our research, we found out that most everyone has the same questions: (1) "what does my contract say?", (2) "is that standard?", and (3) "is there anything I can/should negotiate here?"

Most people don't want an intense, detailed negotiation over a lease, or a SaaS agreement, or an employment contract... they just want a normal contract that says normal things, and maybe it would be nice if 1 or 2 of the common levers were pulled in their direction.

Between the structure of the document and the overlap in language between iterations of the same document (i.e. literal copy/pasting for 99% of the document), contracts are almost an ideal use-case for LLMs! (The exception is directionality - LLMs are great at learning correlations like "company, employee, paid biweekly," but bad at discerning that it's super weird if the _employee_ is paying the _company_)
Absolutely correct. Unfortunately and surprisingly the supposedly educated users of HN are overwhelmingly anti-capitalists somehow, your opinion and mine are decidedly in the minority recently, and that is itself fascinating to me, as I can only conclude the education system is completely broken and failing to teach both basic economics which consists of facts and is scientific and also history. I liken it to teaching creationism over evolution, preferring fantasy over reality.
> their excuse was that Matrix didn't have account migration

Neither does BlueSky… or if they do “have” it, it’s never been used because there is still only one server.
These two things are connected: if something is easier to use, it is more likely that the others you want using the thing are going to be on there. Doesn't mean they will be, of course.
> Easy: Apple explicitly forbids this. You cannot charge iOS users more than other users.

Wondering how that stands up legally. Wasn't there a long litigation about this in the context of credit cards, that the banks eventually lost? Merchants are allowed to charge more for credit card use.
You mean manpage? Yes.
It doesn't really balance it all that much. I still get jitters from green tea.
If China supported Russia the war would have been over by now. There is a reason Russia has to buy weapons from North Korea and Iran when China would have been able to provide much more.

China has actually supported Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen's Houthis more than they have supported Russia's war on Ukraine. When Saudi Arabia's F-15s started getting their wings blown off by by Iranian SAMs fired by Houthis it was Chinese drones that started hitting Houthi positions in Yemen.

For some reason there is little awareness about the close Saudi-China alliance here in the West.
Time to don your programming socks, then
Considering the venue and the rules around same I'll try to be as indirect but on point as possible.

Free speech is a cherished right, but like other great power, comes with great responsibility. It has been abused over several decades to brainwash a significant portion of the population that their desire for a king is normal and right.

I don't have a solution to this problem but it vexes me that any conversation about the topic today is impossible because "absolutists" refuse to acknowledge that any problem exists with their ideology.
That is quite a niche thing to be angry about...
The problem with allowing porn in the app store is that it is very hard to monitor. If apple allows a porn app that accidentally does something illegal, it also opens up the app store in terms of liability. Everything from payments using stolen credit cards to illegal content is just a headache for them that they don't want to take.
My father in law gets super paranoid and anxious on weed and LSD but he will never admit it because he wants people to believe that he's completely chill
I think you are misunderstanding me. When I say say "collective action requires individual action" I mean things like this:

- A union is not a piece of paper, it is a group of people who individually joined, and then as individuals participated in the collective strikes for improved labour conditions. Early movements included significant violence against these individuals who often kept on fighting.

- An abolitionist movement is not an abstract concept, it contained multitudes of individuals willing to fight for a cause and route slaves to safety and lasting change. Many died doing the right thing.

- Women's suffrage was not just an idea, it required many individual women and men to stand up and take action. Narges Mohammadi chose individual responsibility for her cause and so do many others, and they are paying a heavy price.

- Marriage equality for LGBTQ+ is currently happening around the world because individuals take collective action, often with significant sacrifices and death brought on these minorities.

The power of collective action comes from the multiplication of individuals, not just the sum of them.
What do I have backwards? How could any of those questions be answered without public records?

It's fine that you have found some negative scenarios, but any changes to this practice must address what would be lost!
Yep, greedy bank managers are willing to take any business they can grab. Many loan officers earn like 500k and up.
I'd guess that it makes it better at first, worse in the long run. Depression and anxiety are known Cannabis withdrawal symptoms, so it seems like drinking to cure a hangover. There's a great Huberman episode on Canabis/THC.
Dude. This is too much. My fridge is capable of being connected to the internet, so is my oven, garage door opener and my dishwasher. WHY? These things have worked so well without this crap. I wish manufacturers would stop this insanity.
From my perspective, I'd put it in any comment mentioning Optery or criticizing competitors. People often read one comment; they don't read all your comments and your profile.

It also adds some credibility: You actually know what you're talking about in regard to this kind of service.
Banks these days often don’t hold on to those mortgages though. They can repackage them as securities like MBS and sell them to entities like pension funds. This type of thing is exactly how the GFC started
I'll have to look into that. It still won't let me use the F word, for example. It'll give me pretty much any other possible word as an alternative, no matter how hard I try. But this may be because I do most of my regular typing by swiping. I see that I can type in 'fuck' manually and it won't try to replace it.

I'm right at the edge of turning off autocorrect altogether, just because it has a habit of changing previous words, not just the one I'm typing. If I only ever talked with very generic English this might be okay, but when I'm using subject matter lingo it fails utterly and becomes a tremendous nuisance to try and convince it to leave that text alone. Sometimes even deleting the correction and re-typing what you want doesn't stop the behavior.
If you think Spotify has only done one bad thing, you're delusional.

There's mountains of evidence that shows how they regularly fleece artists. Just last week this site hosted a story that researched how they're now using AI to generate fake music to avoid paying artists even further.

They pay a fortune to Joe Rogan, a man who is willfully destroying the country by spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories.

This company is responsible for so, so much damage.
Can we agree that legacy admission should be completely done away with? The only people I think would be opposed would be the managers of the endowments and fundraising (and legacy beneficiaries, who are smaller in number).

None of that changes what the poster you were replying to was getting at. The opposition to standardized testing was entirely due to the performance of _some_ minorities and entirely political.
Very nice and well executed. Would love to be able to zoom in a bit.
Also, HSBC is selling off all of its consumer banking in Canada largely as a result of the gov't fines and tattered reputation among Canadians.
>There is great certainty in the knowledge that a train will derail given certain conditions.
>
> There is immense imprecision and a fundemental inability to predict where the cut glass vase in the dining car will come to rest.

That's the root of the communications problem. What we know, to your analogy, is that a train wheel is incorrectly attached and will fall off at some point.

What predictions are stating -- in media communicated to the general public from (and not just trash journalism; popular science journals, figures like Al Gore) -- is where the vase will land, when we don't even know where the train will derail.

Climate change deniers cite failed prediction after failed prediction. They couldn't do that if the predictions had error bars.

People can handle uncertainty just fine. However, if you tell someone a train is crashing in 100 meters over and over, they'll start to ignore you after a kilometer or two of failed predictions. If it derails 5 kilometers out, it's the boy who cried wolf.

We are pretty close to complete certainty that Bad Stuff will happen, but we grossly overstate the certainty of which specific bad things will happen and when.

> Those that demand certainty wrt small details fail to understand the physics of the big picture.

All I'm demanding is that

* we say "climate change" instead of "global warming;"

* include error bars;

* talk about impacts in terms of something other than degrees temperature rise; and

* stop fixating on degrees C as the sole metric.

Seriously. Watch Tucker Carlson at some point on the topic, or any similar commentator. 90% of what they say is correct, which is part of the reason it works so well. It's based on people on the left exaggerating for impact, simplifying, or using imprecise language. Al Gore sat us back 20 years with "An Inconvenient Truth."
Not every toothbrush user has a server at home and the skills to attach to it. I would even say that most of those users had no idea what they enabled when they activated their toothbrushes. And let's not forget about vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, washing machines, coffee makers and the other zillions of "smart" personal data channeling smart appliances. I'd dare a survey, how many HN people actually work on exactly these technologies, how many read these words, and how many actually care?
They pioneered very little. Viola pioneered client side scripting, stylesheets and more. Netscape popularized a number of things, thanks to heaps of cash that let them market heavily, and in the process overtaking a bunch of competitors, and snuffing out many of them. They did have a great browser that was best for a period of a few years, but it's not like there weren't plenty of alternatives either out or right around the corner when they launched.

Fully agree with you they would not have survived long if the AOL sale hadn't happened.
Just the other day I read that "to shanghai" is to kidnap or trick someone into working for you. I immediately thought of HSBC.
I agree. However the key point in climate change messaging is informing people that this affects themselves, their kids, and their grandkids.
The ratio of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in water molecules.

Both elements have two abundant and stable isotopes: one heavier and one lighter.

The quotient of the heavier isotopes in land ice is a linear function of the temperature, because it takes more energy to evaporate the heavier isotopes from icean water.
How does that work if it's the atmosphere that is heating from man made global warming?
Opening Up GitButler
> PlayStation is a games console, it's a purpose-specific device

Why isn't the iPhone a smartphone, a purpose-specific device?

> there needs to be regulation there as well, but not the same regulation as for general-purpose computing devices like the iPhone or Android

This shifts the game from defining what Apple can and cannot do to what a general-purpose computing device is. And that's the point. That's why this framing is great if you're Apple. A specific discussion regarding tangible outcomes morphs into an arcane debate over jargon and philosophy.
Isn’t literally every startup business plan based on the idea that it’s going to get big?
I live in a place with a huge national forest just to the west, so for me it is a real concern.

The speed with which this fire ripped through was no joke, as an example:

https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/awbrey-hall-fire-20-...

And the city got lucky because the wind was out of the NW, rather than from the west, which might have driven it straight into the city.