skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am not entirely sure of this claim. My own experience with artisnal craftspersons is that they will tolerate higher levels of inefficiencies precisely because they are not operating at scale, and being artisnal makes their cost of revenue really really wonky.

To make a video that a human can recognize as showing local craftwork and cannot be replicated at a workshop in China for $50 is a ton of work. Like a ton. Many of these are multi-day or multi-week projects that involve numerous steps. Do they all need to be shown? Or just snippets? How many? How do you ensure that all the snippets are in the same location? Do you need to do this for every product or every product type? If you sell 400 variants per item do you need to cover all of them (if not someone will have a $1000 variation that is hand made and a $10 one that isn't)? Do you pay money for experts to review each video? If not then how do you know it's this seller's cutting board being made and not another, almost identical to most people, cutting board?

Maybe the key difference in our viewpoints is that I very much know that drop shippers aren't stupid or without resources. Their job and "passion" is to know Etsy and it's processes. Actual craftspeoples' job and passion is to make things. The more bureaucracy you add the more the drop shippers benefit because they know how to work through the bureaucracy better than non drop shippers. It's their sole job after all.
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We are already discussing this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40477166#40481115. No need to cross-discuss.
palestine would like a word with you.
> BTW war in Afghanistan wasn't illegal.

and why do you say that?
Nietzsche Schopenhauer and others reference Samkhya. It’s definitely had an influence but it’s definitely subterranean. Western philosophers all want to sound scientific and using old eastern phenomenology somehow undermines that.

So much eastern philosophy is just really good phenomenology, and some Japanese philosophers like Nishida tried to combine Husserl and Buddhism, but it’s the same thing, I think western phenomenologists have some sort of insecurity, so they implicitly condescend to the eastern thought.
My first thought was “yeah but there are also things you can not undo like sending e-mail” but then I remembered there is a really nice undo send button now (that works by delaying the send a bit).

Sure there are things you can not undo, sometimes you do want to permanently delete something, but maybe with a bit of thinking a undo is feasible more often then one might think :-)
Copilot and also Cursor are still often not great (UI wise) for asking certain types of exploratory questions so it's easier to put them into ChatGPT.
Yay math.
Thanks a lot !
I'm currently working on a better UI/UX for phone
> I mean, imagine if Brazilian intelligence backed a coup in Mexico, then built several military bases, intelligence bases and black sites across the country, then used them against US interests.

So you're saying the US would invade Mexico in that case?
having used ddg for more than 5 years, i'd only agree with your sentiments in the first year or so. at first, i'd just use the bangs feature and do real search on google using !g bang. but for past few years i am exclusively searching on ddg. the only exception being searching travel directions.

a lot of search people do can be done in domain-specific websites, which ddg bangs allow you to do with ease. i am surprised to see that people are driven enough to pay for search before fully making the most of ddg.
Unless you already went to jail for it? People do change over the timelines of an entire life.
which is also not normalized. A referee once told me that - in theory - football fields can be square. I think it was 80m x 80m since 80m is the minimum length and the maximum width. Correct me if I am wrong.
You think no opinion is valid unless it matches your own? I've never used TikTok in my life.
Mathematicians could do a better job of conveying their topics, but this is really not the case. Some things are just genuinely hard, and the research frontier in mathematics is one of these. If you could produce a 5-page proof of an important theorem that currently has a 100-page proof, you would be hailed as a hero.
Good ventilation is a must for Japanese homes because it's going to be a mold haven without it. Modern Japanese bathrooms in particular are designed to dry quickly. The bathroom ventilation system runs around the clock and they even have floors that drain the water and prevent puddles from staying forever.
I think it is less of a service than a disservice (I certainly didn't ask, want, or expect misinformation in my search engine results), so BSaaDS would be more appropriate.
At this point I’ve reined it in to be a tool. When it formed, it was so useful it became my primary method of communication. As I’ve progressed, it’s now a part of my tool bag I can call on.
I only learned English as a toddler, and it’s definitely my native language, but I came from having another native language first. I often wonder if that’s why my brain didn’t form an inner voice. I had to learn a new native language at a critical learning period, and I ended up somewhere half way.
I sometimes have a look at something but don’t pull the trigger yet, then come back multiple times to look at it again before I buy.

I wonder if that kind of behavior could mean that the real number is a bit higher. For example say 2% of visitors are buying a license but it is counted as 1% because people visiting without buying and then coming back later and buying are counted as different “unique visitors”.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31785281/

> Testosterone is often considered a critical regulator of aggressive behaviour. There is castration/replacement evidence that testosterone indeed drives aggression in some species, but causal evidence in humans is generally lacking and/or-for the few studies that have pharmacologically manipulated testosterone concentrations-inconsistent. […]

> Baseline testosterone shared a weak but significant association with aggression […] in men […] but not women […] Changes in T were positively correlated with aggression […] in men […] but not women […]. The causal effects of testosterone on human aggression were weaker yet, and not statistically significant […]

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33309817/

> The behavioral tendency to react aggressively increased in three studies out of four (at three months follow-up), whereas only one study out of five found angry emotions to increase (at seven months follow-up). In contrast, one out of three studies reported a decrease in hostility after initiation of testosterone therapy. The remaining studies found no change in aggressive behavior, anger or hostility during hormone therapy.

You're arguing that humans are not “blank slates”. I do not dispute this. I do dispute that it's as simplistic as you claim: the evidence that my quick PubMed search turned up is consistent with the idea that testosterone increases arousal in humans, and the effects of that depend on the person and how they believe they're expected to act.

This is the case with alcohol (which https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1403295/ and https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11469-020-00321-0 seem to support). People without the concept of a violent drunk tend to get happy and sleepy when taking alcohol, without exhibiting violent behaviour, whereas people who usually get violent when they're drunk will get violent even if they're not drunk, if they think they are. Does alcohol cause violence, in humans? Well… depends what you mean by those words – but it's true to say that it's cultural.
This is a correlation, not a causation. "People that struggle with problem solving also struggle with reading" is not the same as "not reading results in poor problem solving". The latter is not even begun to be proven in these case studies.
>If people are going to treat these things like they are forensic evidence

Are most kinds of forensic evidence actually any better?
I disagree.

Wikipedia's definition [1] is what I had in mind for language:

> Language is a structured system of communication that consists of grammar and vocabulary

Programming languages are structured, have grammars (often described formally using a grammar definition for some parser generator) and vocabulary (the set of functions and types you can use, possibly modules and package, basically), and they are used to communicate (with the machines, and with fellow developers).

The "file format specification" would be a (subset of) the specification of the language, not the language itself, and yes, a file format specification can describe a language (but I believe we only say this for stuff intended to be read and written by a human - so ZIP would not be a language, but HTML would be).

I do agree that programming languages and human languages are not the same thing, they have different characteristics, traits, use cases, behavior… and that's why this study compares them. And that's also why we need to make the distinction. And they also have common stuff, hence the same word. But even if you disagree that they have a relevant amount of common stuff, polysemy is a thing, so it's still "fine" to call English a language and C a language. Quotes around fine because I'm actually only describing what happens: we do call them both "language", that's a fact.

> I'd argue that biggest part of programming is

It might be, but the paper studies and focuses on programming languages, not the more general practice of programming (which is worth studying, but studies always have a (restricted) scope).

> remember the literate programming movement

Where's the confusion in / what's wrong this? Some think that it's better to narrate in code and we call that literate programming. I don't share the vision, but everything looks clear to me.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language
Seems to be just a few bad eggs that fuck it up for the rest of us. Everyone I know just wants to get along with their lives, deal with their own problems.
The voice doesn’t sound like her and the article shows there’s a fair amount of proof to back up the claim that it wasn’t meant to and that there was no attempt to imitate her.
I'm using Niagara Launcher on Android, really recommend it.
For me "banking software" would imply end user software you use for banking, either as a consumer or as a company. Not something to build upon.

> Matter of opinion.

Indeed, there's going to be different views on these things so let's leave it there.
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I predict that the stock will not react at all on Monday.
I’ve never used an android phone so I’m curious… isn’t the categorization of such notifications totally up to the developer? I don’t see any other way it could work unless the OS is doing some ML on the notifications.

If I’m an app developer I could just lie and say all my marketing trash notifications are actually time sensitive/important so that you’ll still receive them. Apple has a similar thing and it’s only a soft policy (that an app reviewer would have to catch) that prevents developers from abusing it.

If it really is up to the app developer to categorize their notifications so that you can disable categories, then it sounds like it’s just a simplified way of managing individual apps’ notification preferences, no? (Not that that’s a bad thing, I wish iOS had this.)
I don't think we can draw any conclusion from that campaign because multiple variables were changed simultaneously

The biggest ones in my mind, the ones my family had always played: they got rid of the game playing involved in buying during sales windows. This eliminated both the urgency to buy and the fun of feeling you were getting a deal other people weren't (this is all from memory I'm afraid)
I think this misses the tyranny we live under every day. What if I want the lift to stop between floors (see Being John Malkovich). Or one way streets. If I accidentally go up a one way street, I am forced to drive all along it to who knows where. Why can't I just steal money?

I think it is a matter of degrees of freedom, not loss of freedom.
Why would the feat of generating those returns only count if it was net of tax?
If you made $ 375 k trading, you probably have little use for Harvard, and what you have is a trading business, not a “newsletter business”. Congrats, in any case.
You honestly don't think they would? Mexican passports carelessly left at the site of a "terror attack" should provide all the cover they need.

More likely though, they'd destroy the country in a more surreptitious way, such as funding drug cartels and revolutionaries.
That sounds like the browser isn't doing video codec offload to me.
No. But i can teach you about the shittiness, tho.

The header line above your post has inert text (the "on:"), buttons (in-place action, like "flag") and links (takes you somewhere, like "parent"). They all look the same. You need to hover the mouse over them to see which areas are clickable, something which is not possible on touch interfaces at all.
I don't believe these systems are ready for mass, non-expert use. I spent 7 years as lead developer of one of the globally leading FR systems, and I've left the industry. It is fundamentally unsafe in the hands of ordinary people, ordinary people who are not scientifically and rationally discriminate in their day to day activities. Ordinary people treat FR like an AI Gawd, and the police are hopeless with it.

The straw that broke my camel's back was learning of the wide spread practice of police asking crime victims "what celebrity does the perpetrator look the most alike?" And then the police would put that celebrity's photo into their FR system and start harassing people in their city that look like the celebrity. So, mind numbingly stupid, I got angry at clients doing this, got barred from talking to clients, and soon there after quit the industry. The industry believes it is "not their problem".
Showering in the morning is a much cheaper option than retrofitting my home to support air conditioning.
Can you name the “at least one” jurisdiction? I’m curious where there’s a law saying you can’t reject service to, say, Nazis.

I’ve only known examples where you’re free to reject anyone for any or no reason as long as it’s not because they’re one of a very small list of protected groups.
not uncommon in fancy offices and apartment buildings where access is more tightly controlled.
The payout would have to be at least enough to both fund and cover the inconvenience of moving to a new neighborhood closer to stores you aren't yet banned from. Of course, that becomes impossible if the tech is widespread enough.
>> I wish I could place a link for reference right now but I’m using my phone and that’s no fun.

Isn't that really weird? I realise that most people experience the internet only through their phone browser and social media apps, where it's hard to do many of the common and simple things one can do on a computer, like pasting a link. How is it that those extremely fiddly interfaces have come to be the norm?
I used to work for one of the largest tech catalog companies in the US. The largest? Won’t say. Anyway we made about $30 per catalog and we sent 3 a month to millions of people. Our prices ended in 9s but I am not sure there was research behind it, just convention.
What is your goal?

Is this to satisfy your own creative / contributory impulses, help others, aid in specific areas, ???

What time commitment are you willing to make? How fixed or flexible should the schedule be, for both you and the volunteer activity?

Are you interested in a strictly volunteer situation, or something which might more resemble an intern / apprenticeship engagement with a transition to paid work on a part- or full-time basis?

What kinds of work / projects / organisations will you NOT work on?

Keep in mind that one engagement can often lead to another. For data analysis, specifically, there's often a three-way mismatch between analyst capabilities, client desires (both expressed and unexpressed), and actually viable value of available data. There's a certain romance in working for a naive or challenged client (e.g., many NGOs or community organisations) which tends to fade under the harsh light of reality (painfully constrained budgets, limits to the benefits of data analysis itself, etc.).

That said: reaching out to local organisations, educational institutions, government organisations, etc., might give some interesting leads. There are groups such as VolunteerMatch, though they tend overwhelmingly to be oriented to both nontechnical and often corporate-charity type engagements.

I'd strongly suggest looking into local continuing education through a community college or your region's equivalent. Both the course material and contacts should help concretise both your own goals and local opportunities.
Sure, there's a lot of valuable information and I often append my web searches with “reddit”.

But I no longer go to reddit to spend time there, without looking for specific information.
Was the $.99 price point really invented at a point in history before sales taxes came to be established? Round prices have never been convenient because it always come out to $1.07 1.08 1.09 something like that with a mix of state and local tax added
That's what you seem to think, when in reality your opinions are extremely controversial. I don't really need to argue about this. The downvotes and flags speak for themselves.
I love how many people add variations of "And be Correct" or "If you make a mistake correct yourself" as if that does anything. It is as likely to make a mistake the first time as it is the second time. People imagine that it will work like when they do it externally, but that not how it works at all.

When you tell it to try again after it makes a mistake you add knowledge to the current system and raise the chance of success, like asking him to try again after getting it right will raise the chance for a failed response.
> If you are using Google Docs, and you want to convert a file to Google Sheets, that likely requires several different microservices working in tandem to handle your request.

This discussion is about UX, but your comment shocked me. Seriously, converting a spreadsheet would be a single process if you ran it from your command line. It’s hard for me to imagine why I would invoke several microservices to perform this on a back end server.
And I can't zoom the page, either.
This is why I just use Grandma's rotary phone when ever I need a phone. She even takes messages, when I am not around so works out quite well.
Ethereum and Solana are exactly the same in reliability and security. But Solana is orders of magnitude faster and cheaper at the same time.

This wasn’t easily achieved by the way. It’s a heroic feat of engineering that shouldn’t be discounted.
I wrote a blog post[1] about JS frameworks and what led up to the current mess that's called front-end web development and how new developers are re-discovering "old" tech that's fun and simple.

* [1] https://primalskill.blog/a-brief-history-of-javascript-frame...
The imported files should really hurl their exported functions, and the importer needs to catch it into a variable.
There was indeed a CIA-backed uprising[0], and CIA bases were in Ukraine long before the 2022 Russian invasion.

[0] https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/04/30/...
The problem is the dumb ass users of FR think an FR Match has authority, AND the industry does not discourage that attitude, not at all.
please do, it was very annoying
I was quite early to computers (starting circa 1990 with an IBM XT clone). When GUIs first arrived, they felt massively liberating: they allowed you to discover the computer's functions (mainly through menus), rather than having to flip through the (actual, printed) manual.

Then around the mid 2000's, things started to change. GUIs became facades behind which functions were hidden away. All of a sudden, there was no single, logical way (such as browsing through menus) to discover something. You had to keep using the interface until you stumbled onto new functions (or the product team had to breathlessly announce them). And the scripting capabilities, even simple drag-and-drop composable automations, went away.

I can only assume that this is due to the ad-driven nature of computing today. Ads depend on human eyeballs. Scriptable, automate-able UIs reduce eyeballs. Uniform UIs with text labels (like the good old Windows 9x interface) reduce eyeballs. Ability to quickly open up an app, get what you want and get out, reduces eyeballs.

Paying for software doesn't help either. The moment you pay, you signal advertisers that you have purchasing power, and they will pay your product/service provider even more to get at you and your data. I doubt there will be any change until advertising is regulated in some manner.
I suppose the term language in the context of computing is widely accepted because it shares many properties with human language. Hence the common taxonomy in which both natural (human) languages and formal (programming) languages are different types of languages.
Google should have released a disableable feature leveraging Llms for whoever wanted to use it not shove it in their search results.
Perhaps Pichai needs to step down and allow a more capable CEO take over.
I believe that over time OpenAI will eat a considerate amount of Googles Search users. Search as we have known it for 25 years is becoming irrelevant because of LLMs and I don't think Google will be the one to counteract OpenAI. No search users no ad income. LMMs has totally removed the use for ads for revenue. Its amazing how well Microsoft and OpenAI has created a brand new way to interact with the Internet.

I actually believe that Google will not be around as we know it in 10-15 years. And I do think OpenAI and Microsoft is playing a major part of that.
I’m using a touch screen phone to read this. I have no problems.
"In ancient times" was intended as sarcasm, but labeling this as "Progress" made that point too subtly, I realize.
This is what IntelliJ does for Java. A problem is reported whenever you have a function that throws exceptions and isn’t caught in a caller anywhere in the project, and you can jump to implementation or calls easily.

However, exceptions that a function can throw are part of the function signature in Java unless they extend RuntimeException (and in that case your program won’t compile if you throw an exception without adding it to the signature). While the circumstances in Java make it much easier for IDEs to report uncaught exceptions, it’s a solvable problem for non-runtime exceptions using static analysis.

On the other hand, returning standardised Ok/Err-wrapped values seems like a simpler approach, both in terms of tooling support and developer convenience.
That's like saying we have run our of problems.
When I read the title, my immediate thought was "because 2s complement!"

Your explanation is more thorough.
This reminds me of the old joke at the florist’s shop: the business celebrating a re-opening got flowers spelling out “deep condolences” while they delivered one to the funeral that spelled out, “Best of luck in your new location!”
The best silver-lining of COVID was that, for a while, we'd normalized covering our faces in the presence of CCTV.

Unfortunately it didn't stick. If you wear a mask these days, you only stand out more.
UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring remote SWEs, PMs to automate construction compliance
... hovering over the elements?
I might be missing something obvious but what do you mean by “awake”?
You shouldn't use AI to write your tests
Any opinions/arguments that go against government narrative are going to be controversial - it doesn't mean such arguments should be dismissed out of hand.

FYI, you are breaking HN rules by talking about downvotes.