skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was looking to confirm a few suspicions, and got a diagnosis, celebration! To finally get an external stamp of what class one is playing in the great game of life.. The certainty reduced confusion. But after some time passed, I found that my mental models were better before I passed through and learning about from the authorities surrounding it than after. Truthfully, some things have to be experienced directly to be described. The describers looking from outside will never catch up. Harmful falsehoods will spread, primarily I find it laughingly absurd that autistic people should lack a theory of mind and that this is a "common notion". Some are realising it's bollocks, I found this paper (own submission): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39252690

But I guess, to play devils advocate, some sorts of people are too infrequent to contribute to a body of knowledge (and may not always be able to, or realise there is a difference) about their own type of being, most experts will be an outsider looking in and can't always get it exactly right. And I would've said the same thing about 99% of the population, if we flipped the pancake and the studied did the studying. I've genuinely asked myself, the same concept, don't they understand others? They can't put themselves in our heads? They can't because we're too infrequent and there's scarcely an opportunity to even find out there's a whole different island of experiencing life, and economically what is rare is expensive to accommodate, I certainly if I was born with a normal brain wouldn't stop in my tracks and analyse my neural functions and assume it could be different and weigh that in when reading other people, going to the low level sensory layers and philosophising if that was this other way how would I act and so on, it's too distracting, rare and expensive to think about I know lol.

This may seem like a lot of rambling about a barely related issue, but it's important because despite being 1% of people, autistic people have a very high compared suicide rate, suffering and so on. Generalising, meaning that the common knowledge psychological (or other fields concerning social stuff) concepts as created by the "normal experts" let's say, for all sorts of mental states or genetic or physical conditions not described by someone directly experiencing it themselves, this "common knowledge" may through it's authority and eventual long tail of flaws invite epistemic injustice and "othering". I only mentioned the example I've recently been bickering about to myself lol, I know just as little about eventual other epistemic injustices.
Yeah I always go to the source/project URL in the chrome store and IDEALLY it's a github repo with a bunch of contribs but I'm sure I've played loose with a few that had no other options.

I just had one big extension I use get bought by someone last week when it updated. I gotta dig through that now.. I used to hide that extension update popup screen but now I'm glad I didn't.
Bard generates photos now, finally
Yes but the agencies are typically hired by MPAA/RIAA-adjacent groups. They purport themselves to be pro-artist but are mostly serving the interest of (and are funded by) major labels/studios. CreativeFuture, IIPA, etc.
My reply will probably be lost in all the comments, but when they banned plastic bags here, many stores (Target, Safeway etc) introduced fairly thick plastic bags that they sell for 10c. The way they get around it is they label them as "reusable" - because they're quite sturdy/thick.

But other than being thicker and stiffer, they look just like the old plastic bags.

Most people I know don't know they're reusable (and probably don't care). So they use them as single use bags. It's only 10 cents.

Textbook case of unintended consequence of regulation.

Here's an example from WinCo:

https://peopleinparks.com/2019/02/07/dear-reusable-winco-bag...
A browser that doesn't support extensions unless they're installed as separate apps on the platform is not worthy of the name "browser"; it's a lock-in mechanism.
OSX is on the rise, too.

"2024-02": {
"Windows": 72.04,
"OS X": 15.81,
"Unknown": 6.05,
"Linux": 4.02,
"Chrome OS": 2.06,
"Other": 0.02
}
> It's a truism that if you're not the customer, you're the product.

Though, even if you are, paid products are often monetized in all the exact same ways. Why not.
What is wrong with the tried-and-true "alienation"? This seems like a continuation of trends that were happening long before computers came around.
He's Lost His Marriage, His Followers and His Lamborghini
Not multiple cursors, but XFCE lets you have two mice plugged in and one left handed and the other right handed.
I'm sorry, S3 insures your data in case of loss? How come they don't ask the value of what you're storing then?
Every few months I test to see if its still broken. It’s kind of hilarious seeing scrappy startup-esque triaging of longstanding known issues from the crown jewel desktop os of a three trillion dollar company.
My favorite resource on Thompson Sampling is <https://everyday-data-science.tigyog.app/a-b-testing>.

After learning about it, I went on to replace the UCT formula in MCTS with it and the results were... not much better, actually. But it made me understand both a little better.
3 of them do, 2 with a hand pointing and 1 with people pointing sticks at chalkboards.
Apple has hired people from Microsoft Windows's team or what?
I agree, I read the headline several times over without understanding.
Honestly if their new revenue share scheme stands up to the court I could see them taking 27% from PWAs as a possible future. It would be the only thing that spurs them to make it more robust.

I don’t agree with it at all to be perfectly clear. I’m only postulating that realistically the only way Apple takes PWAs to first class status is if they get a cut. Its rather unfortunate
True or false: An above average software developer that is good at debugging probably really is better at troubleshooting mechanical or medical problems than an average or below average mechanic or doctor?

So then the problem may be that average software developers overestimate their own ability ;)
I've heard this reactionary spiel my whole life—it's easy to be afraid. Terrible way to run a society, though.
That confuses the market with the product. Oil has been used for a long time too, but the modern oil market didn't exist until the last ~~150 years. If cork became a substitute for plastics, that would be a new market.
And most tech workers are doing classic "bullshit jobs" aka "dumb shit that doesn't matter". Too many of the others are doing work that is a net negative to the world. I'd be more passionate about collecting garbage bins than making kids depressed.
You don't understand current banking as its happening right now, simple as that. Also, you probably didn't read article since it clearly states it was a 'secret' transaction, most probably meaning bypassing all controls put in place.

I mean we still right now live in the world where just a very rough match for signature on a piece of crappy paper is enough to move millions if needed.
And you are cared for if you code for the web?
I would modify this slightly. We do experiment with humans; we just cannot do _certain kinds_ of experiments with humans because of ethical considerations. We constantly do clinic trials, which are essentially experiments with a high degree of controls and randomization.

I think probably the major challenge for the social sciences is the nature of the phenomena under study. Psychologists, sociologists, and economists aren't studying physical quantities that can easily be measured. Instead, they typically study abstract and intangible variables. Measuring these accurately is very difficult.
dygitopia works better I'd think
No that's sicp chapter 4 and 5.

Again I have no idea why no one talks about those. They are the most mind bending parts of the book.
It's a long stretch of the imagination to suggest that this will ever have macroscopically observable effects, and relativity doesn't generally admit any kind of "gravity drive" without exotic matter.
My point is they have broader allegiances than this one campaign.
Both are the right stuff.
Or also the fingers of those of us using a touchpad/nub.
When the bean-counters realise that an AI licence is cheaper, this will cease to ve a problem...
Didn't Ian Sommerville actually say in a blog post that he thought he
had "wasted his time". Very sad.

SE is an amazing aspiration, but I often think we've seen half a
century where it's impact has been negligible outside a handful of
high stakes safety critical systems (and not even there these days:
Boeing etc)
What do you mean by "tried-and-true alienation"?
One of the cartoon series I was watching got cancelled regardless of good reviews and considerable audience. It was just for a tax write off because merger between WarnerMedia and Discovery was happening at the time. The story is even more ridiculous because the original creator fought for 2 years to at least get to release a separate graphical novel to tie down the plot from a massive cliffhanger it was left with. He's covering that out of his own pocket, can't sell nor even advertise outside of the platform he owns (literally a wordpress.com website) and a bunch of other pretty insane requirements because of how tax write off works for media producers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Space#:~:text=The%20seri....
Yes, and as the next and next gets resolved over time browsers would be easier and faster to develop high quality products on enhancing the value of the web ecosystem.
> anyone in the US is taking an active part in the US military industrial complex.

Its annoying how this isn't that far off. Even big consumer facing companies will end up working for or supplying intelligence to the MIC.
I wish I'd read this article a few years ago. It would've saved me discovering the "just doesn't care about developers" the hard way, especially with SwiftUI (which Apple recommended to use, as if it was ready) and some of the APIs we needed. It's first surprising, and then concerning/infuriating.

I also could've forwarded the piece to non-developers.

I successfully did a fancy production-grade app, despite Apple, but after I told one of the non-developer co-founders how I'd been cursing to myself about Apple (e.g., buggy libraries and tools, bad/incomplete docs, poor API in some places, flaky developer-facing aspects of App Store, authoritarian and Kafkaesque processes around App Store), I got the impression he didn't understand. I'm guessing he assumed it was much like Apple consumer quality and vibe, as I would've, and a superficial look at a developer marketing page or demo video would also make it appear like that.
text-only version of the article: https://text.npr.org/685533353

One of the authors, Michaeleen Doucleff, also wrote a book called Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans. It's interesting, and has some useful points to think about while parenting. However, I felt that a lot of the concepts would be difficult to apply in the WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) society I live in. The author acknowledges this, of course.
> I was struggling with that day was to define six cloud storage buckets in Terraform...The kind of thing you’d do with a two-line nested loop in any general-purpose language

I understand this is just an example, but FYI the modern solution is to use CDKTF rather than HCL for Terraform.

That allows you to choose your favorite general purpose lang: Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, C#.
> increasingly frustrated with Apple’s approach and have switched to using Linux on my primary computer

That's what happened to me too. In my youth I grew up with a Macintosh, and it was a lovely machine, a marvel of design and technology. You could tell the creators were inspired, intelligent, artistic. They cared about the user, the person using the computer - which included programmers.

As the years went on, it seems Apple got consumed by a different kind of people, it gradually bacame another soul-less corporation with profit as its main motivation. They still make good(-looking) products, but riddled with user-hostile design and dark patterns. The iPhone is not a computer in the full sense of the term, it's an appliance where the user is just a consumer.

Eventually I gave up and switched to Linux, which I had been using off and on the entire time. It's not an artistic computing experience, but there is a fundamental respect for the user. The web is similar, despite the on-going enshittification, it feels like the original spirit has managed to live on and even thrive.
I find that developing with Electron is a much nicer experience than developing for Apple UIs. And I've written my share of iOS/iPad apps starting over 15 years ago.

The nice thing about the Web is that there usually is a library/framework that fits your needs (Electron, for example). For Apple, often there is no good library. Also SwiftUI is so buggy. React just works, and is conceptually simpler (folks, two-way data binding is a bad idea). Apple has this whole idea of making everything simpler for you, but are often making everything more cumbersome and difficult for you.
Lyten Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
When did you last evaluate it? I have been using ruff for advent of code (low stakes project) — last year it still felt a little beta-ish, this year it seemed more ready for prime time.
> Being present - Being in the Digitopian state usually means living on autopilot. Grabbing one thing after the other, trying to get through the day, distracting yourself at any negative emotion you face.

Yes, I've become aware that I am quite disconnected from "living in the moment" in a way that I was not when I was younger, a teenager.

I had begun to think that it was a result of getting older, taking on more responsibility (or just being more responsible, ha ha).

Losing my minimum wage job when I was in my teens, early 20's was not a huge deal. No mortgage but I did have rent — but if I couldn't make that there was probably a friend's mom's basement.

No kids then. No concerns about my health then. Friends to hang out with, commiserate with, bounce your problems off of.

It may still be "just growing up" but I suspect the degree to which I have supplanted the "running around" I did when I was young with browsing may be a big factor.

The author suggest meditation, walking, showering. I've showered daily since I was a teenager, started running daily (now walking) a decade ago.

Like flossing, meditation has come and gone with me. Perhaps I should do it regularly (and floss regularly).

Road trips seem to help me get back in touch with The Moment. No distractions...

Last Fall a high school friend and I rode the "Katy Trail" on our bikes for 6 days. Hauled camping gear, tents, stoves, water, food... It sucked right up until the moment we finished — and now I can't wait to do it again.

Reflecting on it, I think it recharged my soul and brought me back into The Moment for almost a week stretch.
The point that some people miss here is that it doesn't matter. If you are going to die from ALS in 2 years, are you going to feel satisfied when the FDA says "we won't let you try this; it probably won't cure you"?

Even if the FDA is this incredibly competent organization with no corruption, people should have a right to try to live. It's the most dystopian form of the nanny state mentality, IMO.
Along those lines: instead of banning plastic bags, or bottles, or straws, or whatever, why not simply ban plastic altogether? People managed to do without until the 1950s. Is there any use case for which there are no alternatives?
The point isn't that the original commenter doesn't like them, it's that this is a lobbying group. As such, they have no credibility on this topic. So, in any discussion involving them, everything they say needs to be looked at as a ploy in support of their agenda, because it is their job to do that. To treat their word the same as anyone else's on this topic would be very stupid.
> "trapped priors."

Very interesting. Never heard of that. Thank you. Looking now.
Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)
Correct, but HTML + JS + CSS is the standard we seem to have settled on, and having a globally accepted standard for anything is a unique and historic achievement, let alone for free, fast, and robust global distribution of Turing-complete computation and content delivery.

Now we can hope that those building blocks improve over time, but the current situation is so much better than it could have been.
yes but if there are less cars then there are less accidents. If there are less accidents then the insurance companies need less money to cover them and so the cost of insurance doesn't need to go up as this article suggests.

The article's solution to too many accidents is to raise rates but another solution is less accidents.
Sync was fixed as part of quantum.
As a resident of Texas, I’ve noticed that those also cost more in spite of the minimum wage remaining unchanged since the mid 00’s.
Mine are booked out forever because usable health insurance is far out of reach.
Windows introduced better mobile-style permissions and sandboxing with the APPX format in Windows 8. However the only incentives to use it was the ability to build UWP apps and accessing the Windows Store. Everyone rejected the Windows Store, so developer adoption is close to zero (and now those incentives are gone too)
> In contrast, the typical emotional inception theory appears almost ridiculous: the idea that mere exposure to appealing imagery associated with a product will inherently foster a positive association and drive purchase decisions.

I don't agree that this "appears almost ridiculous." When weighing two options that seem fairly equal, it seems that the style of advertising can possibly push it one direction or the other based on emotion.

When I'm picking a beer at the store, I have a different emotional impression of the different beers probably due to a wide variety of things (past experiences if any, coloring+style of labeling, etc.), but advertising imagery+content could possibly be one of those things, for me I know I am sometimes conscious of some of the advertising in that moment.

It would probably require some science to determine whether it does have an impact, how often and to what degree. But the author seems to want to discard a possible effect without any data.
There is popular demand (including from Adobe https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/430#iss..., https://crbug.com/40168998#comment62), which is arguably evidence against (2).

(Disclaimer: I’m a JPEG XL contributor.)
Threat actor is a more generic term that covers all kinds of attackers.

For example, it could be an insider who exploits existing privileges (no hacking involved). Or it could refer to a nation state or organised crime (not an individual).
In other words, detrimental processes are only for the worker bees.
The author is like a toddler that accuses his parent not caring when he doesn’t get his way. I mean what do you expect corporations that tries to make a good ecosystem for developers to do? They can’t satisfy every concern
I don't know if you're being sarcastic. There's a spectrum between developing for Lua (juggernaut is super friendly), Python (juggernaut is mostly friendly, even if 2->3 caused a lot of casualties), Go (in spite of the corporate backer, quite careful about not stomping) and Chrome.

Yes, there's always a counter-party. My point is it saves a lot of later grief to consider up front the counter-party you're entering into a relationship with. Their incentives and track record.
Because you seemingly never went to such a game looking forward to it, with bunch of friends, and just yelled and drank a lot of beers. Like going to pub but way more active.

I generally don't do it neither, but oh boy did you grow up in a plastic bubble? Such an experience is almost impossible to avoid literally anywhere in the world, and folks enjoy it tremendously.
How good is a doctor at the end of a 28-hour shift? (2017)
> The nice thing about the web is that while it’s no company’s favoured platform

It is effectively Google's favored platform. They effectively get to be the gatekeepers for what standards become accepted. They control the most widely used engine, and fund the only opposition so they have an incentive to avoid going against them. Just look at how everyone dropped the ball in the recent JPEG-XL vs WebP news.
I don’t think these systems will work against cheap, tiny drones or swarms of drones. eg. Russian ships vs Ukrainian boat drones.
Userscripts are underrated! I use them for all kinds of things, like fixing GitHub's useless landing page (taking me to my repositories instead), make the Mastodon "follow" button work (by hardcoding my instance's domain), block useless results from Google search results (stackshare and the like), redirect from the YouTube "short" view to the normal video video view, remove the stupid whitespace to the right of Gmail's scrollbar, etc.
Not proven? It's not even well defined. You can't prove anything meaningful about terms that can't even be defined.
Trying to start a flame war?
I've gotten a couple gel manicures recently, it's addicting once you start because it lasts a long time. I'm taking a break from it because it makes your nails brittle. They make special gloves you can wear that just expose your nails, ideally I was thinking the same technology in 3d projection mapping could be used to only expose the nailbed to uv ligt with hand tracking. It would increase the the cost of one of these uv curing devices by smartifying it but would prevent cancer...
> Why single out JPEG XL?

Hopefully it isn't singled out, and any prospective support for a new image format gets the same scrutiny.

The question is different for any image format that is already supported, because removing it breaks the web to the extent the format is being used. That's really an argument to be particularly careful about adding support for a new format: once it is widely available for a while it is almost impossible to remove. This is a one-way decision (unless it's barely used, in which case there wasn't a good reason to add it in the first place).
Tan is right... The SF supervisors policies and voting has literally resulted in many deaths.
We make sure that all important jobs are easy to do so that they can reliably get done. Hard unreliable jobs can thus never be as important as the easy ones, they are still important but never as important because we don't want to rely on unreliable work.

You can see that in software orgs as well, the easiest tasks are also the most important, like ensuring the site continues to run and handling breaking changes in dependencies, those tasks has to be done or your entire product is gone. But the highest paid engineers probably don't work on those things, instead they might look at adding more features or drafting new architecture, those tasks aren't as important but they are much harder to do so are better paid in general and you require higher skilled workers.

So in general the lower paid the more important their work is, because higher skilled tasks are harder and less reliably done so we try to not rely on them getting done. Think famous painter vs low paid icon designer, which work is more important? Goes for most things.
That only shows a kernel panic. An exploit would prevent the kernel from crashing.
Technically sites can prevent that by disallowing anything that looks like long baseXY-encoded blobs in their postable sections like pastebin does already.