skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Submissions that are voted to first page with, say, >20 votes, but have either no comments or a single comment. [...] These are relatively rare [...]

Curiously enough, there's one just like that on the frontpage now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39419195
Contrast the need to use flexbox with the ability to just specify bold or italic style, or for that matter use <b> or <i> tags. You basically get what you want every time. Nobody has to argue about whether the italicization is the right slope, and while you can select a particular font weight if you want to, bold is bold and is fine for basically everybody.

Hell, I would argue that centered table contents gave people what they wanted most of the time, and if it didn't you could fix it by adding more tables. Tables composed quite nicely and gave you something if you just laid down a table and some TDs.

Flexbox doesn't scale down the way tables do. I have to have both the container and elements inside that container and think about the ramifications of all of that. It's minimum level of complexity is a higher floor than most of the HTML specification.

That's not to say it's the wrong solution for the problem; I think a case can be made that the problem itself is irreducibly complicated. But that's why I say it feels like using an elephant gun relative to much of the rest of the spec; I have a "read my mind" option for bold and italic.
I don't know if I will, formally, title this as HN Outliers. It is more like a ranking. Using the outliers word alone has many different meanings.
As a manager you have a responsibility to communicate this to your team and give them resources to deal with the emotions (you, the manager, being one of the resources).

So sure, you have your own stuff to deal with - use the resources you have for that (eg your manager) but when it comes time to face your team, be a professional and don’t shut down in front of them. They need you too.

Source: I’ve been in management positions and had to deal with a bunch of layoffs and yes, the occasional outright actual death.
It's easy to write off some of these complaints as silly - a fair bit of them are distinct problems of the author's own making, or just gripes that the world has changed, but a few of them do seem to be large issues with far reaching consequences.

The attention span issue and the constant deluge of psychological torment in the form of doom and gloom are two that I recognize every day and have had to make deliberate and sometimes limiting choices in my life to intentionally avoid.
So you're saying that it is about the status quo, where living in a multi-unit dwelling means having to put up with terrible neighbors. This will not be as much of a problem if you own a condo, where the HOA is there to enact policies that deal with these issues as they arise.
WikiLLM: Inject facts into LLMs by editing parameters
Decades of poor leadership.
64 bit unsigned integer nanoseconds gets you out to 584 years (that's the year 2554 if you're using the Unix epoch). That's good enough for me to use universally for passing times around in the internals of my code. User input and output are going to and from that representation.

Half as many, of course, if you use a signed integer. If you don't need nanoseconds, then use microseconds and you get 292 thousand years to work with.

Integers are just a bit easier than floats for timestamps in my experience (e.g., comparing floats to one another is fraught and you'll be fighting this at every turn in your code).
But C doesn't statically link the standard library by default like Rust does.
It's a super weird phenomenon. These people (who are mostly not web developers) have enough of a technical understanding of how websites work to disable a huge part of the browser, that they think shouldn't be needed, and then complain about websites not working.

From a web developer's perspective, it doesn't make any sense to me because JS is just one part of the web standard. If you're not going to support it, then why do you expect any websites to work?

It's like if I deleted gcc from a linux machine and then tried to build a package, and then complained that it wasn't building, because "it shouldn't use C." Well, C is an expected part of the operating system and so the package author has decided to use it. You've broken your system.
> He said understanding is what humans do, not that only humans can do it. Stop arguing against a strawman.

Ok, so his argument is:

> Humans understand, models are deterministic functions

> Until you have a concrete definition of what understanding is you can't apply it to anything else

> Informal definitions of understanding by those who experience it aren't very useful at all.

Basically he says: "I don't accept you using the term 'understanding' until you provide a formal definition of it, which none of us has. I don't need such definition when I talk about people, because... I assume that they understand".

Which means: given two agents, I decide that I can apply the word "understanding" only to the human one, for no other reason that it is human, and simply refuse to apply it to non-humans, just because.

Clearly there is absolutely nothing that can convince this person that an AI understands- precisely because it's a machine. Put in front of a computer terminal with a real person on the other side- but being told it's a machine- he would refuse to call "understanding" whatever the human on the other side does. Which makes the entire discussion rather pointless, don't you think?
Yes, absolutely. Unless you're going to argue against the concept of transparency, anyway.
I think an invisible long press is just as (un)intuitive as the share sheet junk drawer.
I was living in 16 story building with 112 apartments and no parking besides curbside (~30 cars). Worst part there were around 10 such buildings close by. So you have to either adjust your schedule to get back early (or block someone and get out early) or park far away and wall 20 minutes. Wasn’t fun time.
Yes, generally. For example, recently David Tolnay shared the amount of burden Meta has when upgrading the compiler: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/19dtz5b/freebsd_discu...

> I estimate it's about ½ hour per 1 million lines, on average.

That being said, Rust for Linux isn't using stable Rust, so they have a higher burden than projects that do.
Excellent research. Clearly explains the problem, shows how the industry addresses it, and provides a solution. You’re hired!

And I never want to write time code ever again. I wonder how many DST bugs I have in the wild after 40 years of coding…
You think a single family home sitting on a 10 acre plot in the middle of Manhattan would be less expensive than an apartment in the same location?
>>The laws stem from the death of a Barnard College student killed by a falling piece of masonry in 1979.

Interesting timing given the recent article about somebody who died from falling bricks from their aging facade while sweeping their stoop[1].

The article didn't explain another wrinkle for old buildings that are designated as historical buildings with the NYC Landmark Preservation Commission[2]: any identified facade repairs must also be approved by LPC[3] which likely adds to the substantial burden on low(er)-income co-ops/condo corporations.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/13/nyregion/brooklyn-woman-b...

[2] https://www.nyc.gov/site/lpc/index.page

[3] https://www.nypap.org/preservation-history/new-york-city-lan...
This is what worries me. Once you can create your own army that doesn't sleep and doesn't question what you ask it to do. The ruling class will have no problem killing people in mass because who will stop them. In theory they wouldn't have to kill a lot of people to convince the majority of the population that its not worth fighting them. We're getting close to where we won't be able to turn back.
Yep, on the Eastern Front pocketing the enemy was hard. In the Pacific, with the complete naval and air supperiority the US had, it was as easy bypassing an island garrison and cut it off from supply.

The fortified islands that had to be taken were hard enough to crack.

I do agree with the benefit of doubt so. Notable exceptions are all those "rockstar" generals that were better at self promotijg PR than strategy and leading men in combat. McArthur would be a prime example of one of those.
Interesting point but would that really be relevant? If you have a hollow pit or one with an initiator in the center, you will be making two half-spheres, so you will be far away from the critical mass. And even if you are making a solid pit, I would have assumed that you are quite a bit away from the critical mass without neutron reflectors and the compression from the detonation.
I use photopea regularly with ghostery and uBlock origin (firefox), and have never had issues with images saving upside down.
> Let's say I want to make a little dashboard for a home server that I can view on my iPhone in full screen.

I don’t get this comment - why not just open the webpage in Safari? HTML / JS API do allow full screen.
Local homeowners are an incredibly powerful bloc and have successfully thwarted development and upzoning in myriads of communities. The idea of “outside agitators” coming in and having the power to change your community is a specious, pernicious myth. It also undercuts the principles of American democracy. If you want things to stay exactly the way they are, then you must fight for it, you cannot expect others to do it for you.
Yes, and Stephen Covey's idea of being principle centered is a good step into it with the same underlying tenants but less dogma.
If you do release builds, strip debug symbols and turn LTO from thin to full, do dependencies and the static stdlib still matter? You should be only paying for code that's called at that point.

At that point I suspect the biggest culprits are overuse of monomorphisation, and often just more stuff happening compared to equivalent C++ code because the language makes larger code bases more maintainable. I'd also count some niceties in that category like better string formatting or panic handling, which is an insignificant cost in any larger software but appears big in tiny hello-world type programs.
>they're fragile as shit.

Which part?

>data protocol is a fucking nightmare

How come? I’ve done many projects with type c and never felt that way. For basics (5v/1A) it’s just two resistors. For higher voltages I stick a pd controller that handles it.
I use Signal with a couple people but it’s not really set up for mass traction so I don’t expect it to become my primary messenger any time soon.

If I were to switch streaming services, Spotify would be dead last on my list, because they’re hypocritical — they pushed out third party devs building alternative players for paying users by deprecating libspotify, refuse to support interop with anything that’s not a Spotify Connect device (HomePod for example supports third party streaming, yet Spotify won’t use the APIs), have treated their users terribly with incessant AB tests and pushing content unrelated to music in their faces, and have spent a ridiculous amount of money trying to lock up and monetize what was previously the most democratic and available medium (podcasts).

At least Apple Music allows third party players and tries to support other ecosystems (Android + Chromecast).
No.

Said APIs can be restricted by the platform through entitlements, which are cryptographically locked APIs that must be granted access via Apple.

Sideloading may give you access to non-entitlement private APIs, or be able to use a vulnerability to give you access to those APIs without an entitlement.
> 8. It’s given stupid people unfiltered access to each other’s opinions

This is a big problem. Previously, 'the mob' only came into being when things got really bad. Now it is a constant (virtual) presence.
Or for those less enthused by organized religion, picking up any variety of philosophies that encourage making the most of your existence.
I was being specific when I chose an LLM product like ChatGPT, not LLMs generically. I do so because it is a product like ChatGPT that boils away the noise to the end user, for better or worse. That is, to grossly simplify my point, it provides a single answer / response, instead of a long list of potential garbage for which I must dig, ponder, assess etc.
One might perhaps say that what is probable

Is that men experience much that is improbable.

- Fragment of a lost play by Agathon, ca. 2,400 years ago, quoted in Aristotle's The Art of Rhetoric
Your ignorance is showing and it is precisely what is wrong with the current generation of academics.
I think the reasoning (whether correct or not) is that the constant vigilance (such that it is) prevents a torrent of facade from crumbling and falling; it wouldn't just be "an errant" piece.
Or poor it policies !!
For myself and 99.99% of other bikers out there who do use brakes, these headlights are still a massive problem. There's no world in which being completely blinded while riding at speed in traffic isn't a safety issue. Especially on a bike where it's up to you to anticipate and avoid careless drivers who will put thousands of pounds of vehicle into your path without a care for your life on a regular basis.

Also, if GP is indeed riding a fixed gear bike then they do have the ability to brake, it's just a different mechanism. Weird that they phrased it that way. Fixed gear bikes are more challenging to ride (kind of like a manual transmission vehicle) but are completely roadworthy in the hands of a competent rider.
There is no good reason that this kind of content would need any client-side logic. Not being able to view it with tools like w3m is an unnecessary limitation.

It’s also ironic that the one thing HTML was designed for, namely presenting static content, is now deemed unworkable without having to run custom client-side code.
> Regarding EU, you said that forcing websites to put UI dialogs asking for accepting cookies is a good consumer protection?

The EU did not require those cookie pop-ups. Websites could have used no cookie popups and let users go to the website settings (or an "allow cookies" checkbox in the top right corner of every normal page) to turn on cookies. Instead, websites added annoying cookie pop-ups to maliciously comply or added third-party cookie banners "on accident" because the not-lawyer website owners didn't realize that the GDPR didn't ask for cookie pop-ups.
I wonder if it increases smoking enough to cause more deaths than it prevents.
Why Talent Without Agency Won’t Take You Far in Life and Work
Not quite. Every Rust program will have some code path that may panic, and the default panic handler uses debug formatting, which uses dynamic dispatch, which prevents elimination of the rest of the printing machinery.

There’s panic_immediate_abort unstable setting that makes Rust panics crash as hard as a C segfault, and only then you can get rid of a good chunk of stdlib.
I don't think most people object to the App Store tax as a concept. They object to the idea that 30% is fair, and that there's no competitive market where different companies can set up different stores and compete on fees to determine what level of fees actually works in a competitive market.

I think 30% (with all the restrictions on top of that) is extortion. But I don't think Apple should have to accept 0% either.
Settle down. Most people aren't running or accessing things globally.

Local time is perfectly acceptable for a list of obvious reasons.
This is a unique requirement of OSHA ,the state of new yorks own safety rules, and liability protection. It will be cheaper to throw up scaffolding than to pay out a few million to tools and bricks that fall onto people below.
Yep! I hate those few weeks between PST and CET.
Step 1. A company lays off employees and shares the list.

Step 2. The list is shared on social media.

Step 3. A former employee that's on that list sues the company.
Now in fairness, some of these are fair; having to pass capchas is a pain. But more are self inflicted; nothing makes you hit reply. And some...

> I can remember a time when it was considered ungentlemanly to check the factual accuracy of a statement made by a drinking companion. You were just meant to counter their argument by presenting specious facts of your own.

Really? Your objection to technology is that people suddenly have to contend with accurate information!?
This is also not true. Netscape destroyed Netscape. For anyone around at the time, they know that Netscape was a heaping pile of shit on every single platform it ran on.

In comp.sys.*.advocacy groups back in the day, it was a point of nerd pride how well your platform could handle a Netscape crash.

Microsoft got into trouble because they forced OEMs to pay for Windows licenses for all of their computers sold whether or not they had Windows installed and they didn’t allow OEMs to install Netscape.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with entering new markets using the resources you have from your existing markets. Should Netflix never have entered the streaming business?

And it wasn’t Chrome, Firefox started chipping away at IEs dominance before Chrome.
All the meetings are hosed for about two weeks. This is a known issue for anyone working with time zones that don’t change together.
For context this is a weekend-edition light entertainment article for a "Life Unplugged" section.

This author mostly writes semi-humorous self-deprecating stuff for the "Life & Style" section of the paper, so don't take it too seriously: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/timdowling

Not that we can't have a serious conversation about the topics of course.
I think that ship sailed with the invention of radio and TV.

Heck, that ship sailed with the invention of the printing press (tabloids).
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. I'm not the one making the claims.
Good luck with your impotent rage. "That's idiotic!" is not the kind of response that will net any productive conversation.
I see the problem as us with our puny brains and relatively weak incentives against big companies with a small army of PhDs and huge incentives.
I work at a company where the offshore developers are both cheaper and far stronger than the FTE's.

AI is coming for those FTE's. It's nowhere near replacing the good ones but we have such a glut of shitty developers in this industry and AI is absolutely coming for them.
Genealogy value: Awesome for locating defunct places - the ones missing from gen sites' known-locations (when you which area. ex:county).
This is also pretty good advice for game design/development too. With the added benefit that if you make the first level/area/battle last, then you'll have enough experience with the setup to make a really strong first impression.

But yeah, I do this for both writing and programming, at least to some degree.
Yes, with a control vector per user-persona pair.

In the blog, they start with a fixed number of personas (happy, sad, baseline) and then use PCA to figure out the control vectors for each persona. You could easily do this for each distinct user-persona (provided you can come up with the data).
Ok, cool?

I don't think that was the issue at hand.
Wow, didn’t see that coming…. (lol)

Hopefully, the dataset will be pirated and released into the de-facto public domain, since it was always considered by the users to be a commons, not an intellectual slave farm.
Uber Serves 40M Qps from Online Storage Using an Integrated Cache
> If the comments and posts are artwork, or music, would that also be legitimate usage by reddit according to their Terms of Service?

I don't see why they wouldn't be.

In any case, I'll be spending this week scrambling my old comments & probably deleting my submissions. Reddit's sufficiently user hostile at this point that I can find other places to entertain myself online.
Technology and (Dis)Empowerment: A Call to Technologists
blaming the author when systems are designed to hit every dopamine and weak spot is not a fair fight.
Well the US did follow up by also banning the exports of the A800/H800 models tailored to precisely comply with the earlier sanctions, so presumably the intent was to stop export of GA100/GH100 silicon altogether and they didn't anticipate Nvidia rules-lawyering the sanctions by reconfiguring it.
What's to pirate? Anyone can crawl reddit now, right?
good article.
And we're just getting started. Hold on, the next hill's a doozy!
I don't think I'm going to change your mind since you're fairly convinced of the ideological / purity standpoints. But folks have tried that stuff for years. It didn't scale, or end up maintainable. So they invented systems to try and help, like BEM or less.

I don't understand why you think this is like "building a boat to cross a puddle". Folks have struggled with this since the dawn of the web. It's hard.

Most of us aren't crossing puddles, we're trying to cross oceans with gigantic diverse teams.
For those not swayed by the clickbaity title, here's a ChatGPT summary (prompt: "Summarize this article in 10 sentences or less, and focus on what changed in Dixon):

"Following the exposure of a staggering $54 million embezzlement by comptroller Rita Crundwell, Dixon, Illinois, underwent profound changes to prevent future fraud. The city, reeling from the largest municipal fraud in U.S. history, sought to rebuild trust and strengthen governance. It accomplished this by overhauling its government structure, introducing more transparency and professional management. These reforms included redesigning the city's form of government in 2015, which led to the election of new city council members and the former Tea Party activist Liandro Arellano, Jr. as mayor. Additionally, the recovery of approximately $40 million through the auctioning of Crundwell’s assets and lawsuit settlements facilitated significant infrastructural improvements. Streets were smoothed, public facilities renovated, and financial health restored as Dixon paid down $21 million in debt before making new investments. These efforts have not only improved Dixon's fiscal outlook but also contributed to a cultural and economic revival, positioning the city as an example of resilience and proactive governance in the face of profound betrayal."
This is as stupid as saying people aren’t traffic.
Yes, and a few others.

Copper is the weirdest one, as its essentiality is widely accepted, autopsies show its reduced concentrations in dementia, yet it's regulated as a toxic metal anyway.

The cause of this deception is a mystery to me.
Wow, this really proves my point. Are you assuming government only exists for the benefit of corporations?

No, the EU is not acting this way because they want an "EU Apple". Nobody over here has the illusion of any such mega corporation ever coming out of the EU. The IT industry we once had was killed mostly by price dumping from China in the late 2000ies.

Those mega-corporations are solely coming from non-free regions. If there is someone right now starting to massively take away market share from US mega corporations, then it's Chinese mega corporations.

The EU are doing this because they wish to protect the basic rights of their citizens. Well, and they are not purely doing this out of their own - a small number of hacker activist for the last couple of years have sued pretty much all EU institutions to make them enforce the laws we have here.

I would recommend you check out the very first three words of the US constitution again. Spoiler Alert: It's not "We the oligarchs" :)
your facts: billionaires not sitting on billions. My facts: homelesness exists.

Also moving money from your left hand to your right is not circulation. It should "trickle down". Wonder where I heard this.
Do you recognize these data problems?
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