skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the thing:

> Misinformation about COVID being the most prescient and recent example for most people probably, propaganda from all sides that continues radicalization and polarization, and also tons of harassment campaigns arranged across sites and services too numerous to name, the most vile content you can think of in whatever stripe comes to mind for you, etc. etc., Section 230 prevents any of the websites that are caught distributing it from being held liable. And I cannot envision a situation where being held legally culpable for such material would not directly incentivize, and with ZEAL, those tech monoliths to get the shit under control.

Disinformation is not illegal. Even if platforms had joint liability for disinformation, that liability is...zero. There is nothing in US law that prohibits disinformation. Rather, there is a Constitutional right to speak without state sanction, e.g. the First Amendment.

Likewise: the vast majority of harassment (as in > 99.9%) does not rise to the level of illegal conduct, and where it does, the cases are fact intensive and the relief is almost certainly injunctive, which is to say, if you prove to a court that certain conduct is illegal harassment, the best you can hope for is that the judge will order the harasser to cease.

Which is to say: the two kinds of content you worry about the platforms carrying, for which you think shared liability will present some remedy, are legal to carry and there is no liability, shared or otherwise, for hosting it.

For avoidance of doubt, I am profoundly concerned about both harassment and disinformation... And also getting rid of CDA 230 will not create a legal obligation on the platforms to do anything about either.
Do you have a blog post or something for the coffee process?
You would be surprised how many people expect 40/5 to equal 32/4
Damaging Microsoft VS Code extensions could cause damage for users
This guy is really misrepresenting the numbers. Take this gem:

> Gartner research released in early May found that 36% of senior-level job seekers who have received an RTO mandate from their current employer are leaving their jobs as a result

Versus the actual Gartner report:

“Gartner HR Research Finds One-Third of Executives Given a Return-to-Office Mandate Plan to Leave Their Employer”
https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024-05-0...

Last time I checked, “senior-level” is not synonymous with “executive”.
I've been under the impression that getting into robotics has never been easier. For the past 10-15 years, high-schools have had easy access to things like Lego mindstorms, etc.

Small microcontrollers and computers like Arduino, Raspberry Pi has made development much easier, as you're no longer stuck with writing Assembly or C to get something working, and there are tons of modules that are easy to interface against.

Back when I started out playing with robots, as part of my microcontroller and control engineering classes, we were stuck with writing ASM. Same with components, like motor controllers, sensor networks, and what not. Lots of vero and perfboard, lots of soldering.
Thanks for turning me on to ThisOldTony! Im 4 videos deep this morning already.
The difference is that everyone knows about hallucinations, so an LLM never can be trusted by default, they still trusted it blindly.
I would actually agree with that, notwithstanding what I have written. I still think the learning curve can be steeper in that case and actually more fun.
The excel model sees reduction in operating costs and not the long-tail of reduced productivity
On a related note, many economists argue public free parking should not exist. People should have to pay the real cost of providing it, which includes maintenance, but also the opportunity cost of not using that land for something else. Therefore larger spaces should cost more.
I see your point, and maybe you're right, but I do think formatting tools are materially different. You can define correctness for a formatting tool and they're understood to be about enforcing a consistent style. That doesn't apply to code more generally where there's more open to interpretation, other "style" to consider, program behaviour, etc.

Also I would say that automatic formatters weren't popular until the mid 2010s from what I've experienced, despite being technically possible since pretty much the advent of programming. I even remember having to push hard for adoption of them in ~2018. Even if the AI tools were at the level (and they're definitely not yet, any of them), it could easily take a decade for it to become the norm or for it to be mandated.
>I wonder if this had to do with the fact that in modern society, we often have to go through great mental loops to convince ourselves that our jobs are meaningful.

Especially since a lot of them are not.

It's often corporations acting as middlemen and extracting value like parasites, bussiness making bullshit for conspicuous consumption, modern mega-bloated bureaucracy and busy work
This kind of stuff is so funny to me, because it's ignorant of every other store nearby.

You know what I did in Seattle a few months ago? I walked into a Target and they had everything locked up behind cabinets. The entire place looked like it was ransacked, with most of the shelves empty.

I went next door to the Safeway and the HMart. Literally not even a block away, and nothing was locked up, the shelves were stocked and everything was fine. That Target wasn't even in a high crime neighborhood; it was just mismanaged to shit.
You trust no humans, ever? Sounds like a pretty depressing life. The best experiences come from vulnerability and trust.
If you think that the FDA is more of a hindrance than an help, then I guess I have nothing else to say.
That’s an opinion. There are other opinions. Like I said, progress is a function of how quickly the old guard dies out (1.8M folks over the age of 55 die every year in the US). Mental models are rigid, humans are emotion driven, etc.

EDIT: @gedy Appreciate the ground truth, thanks for sharing.
Stop assuming that these people are competent. I've been in the c-suite meetings where these things are decided and it boils down to "In my day the office was good enough for me, so it will be good enough for everyone else too".
Here are some:
1) https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
2) https://www.nber.org/papers/w28731
3) https://scholar.harvard.edu/eharrington/publications/working...
The problem is more what they will do rather than what they have done¹. So to rephrase your question: “How does one prove they WILL NOT do something?”

The answer is that we can never be sure, but Adobe could increase trust in their statements by making them binding in some way. E.g. By making a legally-binding promise, one opens themselves to legal repercussions when breaking that promise, thus they are less likely do to so².

¹ Yes, Adobe is a shady company with a history of bad behaviour, but the context for the current outrage is the new terms of service.

² Yes, there’s nuance, but that’s not important for a hypothetical.
Start developing AI. It is the simplest thing that might work. You will probably start off doing it poorly, but you don't need permission, a professor or an employer. Good luck.
You have fewer options without redundancy, no matter how ineffective the backup site is. The odds of getting many humans to collaborate on reaching a second planet is also greater than the odds of getting all humans to collaborate on saving this one (which, to be clear, is absolutely no chance at all).
In my humble opinion, we should consider the future and what we might be giving up in the pursuit of... what exactly?

Wouldn't it be ironic if, the machine woke up and simply said, "YAGNI, humanity is awesome" and then terminated it's own program.
I would argue that the quality of conversation drops and flamewars increase because HN is discouraging long-term engagement with an article.

Threading, new-only, relevant context displayed systems without point systems but with personal killfiles encourage discussion and viewing other participants as people.

What HN has makes only a relative handful of high-frequency commentators visible as people; everyone else is marginalized.
Or Google's autocorrect randomly decided to capitalize a word on me. It's gotten really quite terrible
> If people use the words in a certain way, then that is an acceptable way to use the words.

Of course, and luckily for us the original link explicitly states that no-till is being used in the farming sense, so we know exactly what certain way the words are being used. No-till in farming comes with a precise definition.

Even if you are right that there is some alternative reality in gardening where tillage commonly means something completely different, that clearly doesn't apply here. In farming, aeration before seeding/planting would not be considered a no-till practice. Such an act would normally fall under what is known as minimum tillage.

> I simply believe language is not prescriptivist.

Ironically, the thread went off the rails only because you tried to prescribe an alternative, incompatible, definition onto the communication that had already taken place. Credit to you for at least recognizing the error of your ways, even if you do seem to want to sweep the initial confusion under the rug for some reason.
> What would happen if you turned in some psych work that was robust in its method, but without explicit references to theory?

It would get rejected. I actually replicated a really interesting negative finding (around optimism and health) multiple times with a good design, and couldn't get it published as I didn't have an explanation for why this happened (i do now, but have been in the private sector for well over a decade at this point).

> it deference to some preferred school of thought that needs to sign off on your work, or is it more that you need to signal that you know lots of theory?

Always seemed like physics envy to me at least.
>If you think: -only 1% of people are happy, they are happy because they are lucky, every happy person is a propagandist, you need immediate recalibration of your worldview. You only live once, and you ought to be happy.*

The universe doesn't give a fuck, and having one life is not a guarantee or a contract to anything, much less "hapiness" (itself ill-defined).
What's "ZBB"?
https://www.ramseysolutions.com/retirement/the-national-stud...

Social mobility is not the same thing. Internal-vs-external locus of control is probably pretty correlated between parents and kids for reasons of both nature and nurture. The point is that what successful parents pass down to their kids is not cash, but attitudes that are highly adaptive to making fat stacks.
I think it is common, especially early in a career, that it is more important to approach people proactively. There is a barrier to asking for help. It can be quite challenging if you are new and maybe a bit shy (not uncommon, as we know, in the STEM field) to get the most out of it. Just sharing my experience, not saying it's impossible.
I'm not the author but anything like this is likely done with a wildcard DNS entry. So basically *.at.hn points to a server app. This app can then see which domain was requested and do whatever it wants with this string, like treat it as a username.
The Oslo transit system is so good
That’s not going to happen because AI will be trained to exhibit whichever traits keep us more engaged. Just like social media. A human-mimicking AI will beat a more robot-like AI any day on that metric. And it starts with really simple things: sub-100 millisecond responses and the ability to instantly interrupt the AI as it is talking. From there we go on to open-mindedness etc …
9pt == 12px on the web. You can check that in Web Inspector in computed styles.

Alternatively:

1px = (1/96)in
1pt = (1/72)in = (1/72)*(96/72)*(72/96)in = (96/72)*(1/96)in = (4/3)*1px = (4/3)px
9pt = 9*1pt = 9*(4/3)px = 12px

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Values_...
I'm getting Internal server error 34. Which is one I'd never seen before. ;)
... wake me up when Microsoft's CoPilot works (at all) more than 70% of the time and when it can answer questions that involve putting things in order.
In Cloudflare (for example) you can put in:

example.com -> 1.2.3.4
*.example.com -> CNAME example.com
Fundamentals of web development by randy connolly
If you have it please email it to me.
this tool is mentioned in the second post of the linked thread.
I think maybe you're misunderstanding what masking is. Masking isn't just not being an asshole. I'll give you some examples.

My face is usually flat, and my tone is usually monotone. Most people modulate their face and their tone naturally and don't have to think about it. When I socialize, I have to think about my face and my tone constantly. Yes everyone is doing this at some level, but for autistic people it takes as much effort as the thing the socializing is meant to accomplish, so that part cannot be enjoyed or suffers as a result of the intentional masking.

Another example is I have echolalia, which means sometimes I have an involuntary urge to repeat things that I heard earlier. I also have various tics where I move my body in wild ways that tend to make people uncomfortable or look at me in strange ways if I do them in public. When I'm socializing, I suppress (mask) all of these urges. I'm sure that most people suppress urges to move their body and make noises in public, but not in a way that autistic people suppress these urges -- again it comes down to it being a conscious effort that causes discomfort. I would compare it to having to sneeze for an entire meeting; all you are going to think about is having to sneeze, and the disruption you will cause if you sneeze and everyone will look at you. But it's not a simple sneeze, it's an action that everyone will talk about and gossip about later, something that will ostracize you.

Another thing I do when masking is more like mirroring. I'm constantly monitoring the situation to figure out how to respond, since I can't use the content of people's words I have to use contextual cues to figure out the appropriate way to respond. For instance I can know a joke is being told by the way someone is telling it, but I might not be able to tell you why it's funny based on the content. Still, I can laugh at the joke but I'm not laughing because I found it humorous, I'm laughing because I discerned the appropriate social place to laugh. And yes people laugh at jokes they don't understand all the time, but for me this extends to everything. I don't know when people are being mean to me, or flirting with me, or scamming me in real time. It takes days, sometimes years of reflection for me to figure out the actual social context of a situation I've been in.

I'm sure all this is true for many people, as I can't imagine socializing is easy for anyone. I do see people who can effortlessly talk with anyone and everyone, and I wonder how they do it, and if they face the same kinds of struggles as me when they go home and decompress. Do they stay awake all night replaying every social interaction from the night before? Do they have to spend days recharging before they can go socialize again? I don't know. But for me it's true to a degree where it makes me never want to go outside again. And that's what makes it a disorder instead of just a quirk or something everyone does.
I love that these sorts of things exist. If I had the room and the time I would buy one without hesitation, but I have neither.
Equally, stop assuming that their intent is good. Unless we have internal details, we can argue either way, but assuming anything at all seems wrong. Just as likely as they're just stupid, it feels as likely they're doing it to reduce costs/headcount.
My first thought was 'that old relic on ARM?'?

No, not the middleware for building scalable multi-tier client/server applications in heterogeneous distributed environments [1]. Phew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuxedo_(software)
Preparing for the (non-existent?) future of work (2022) [pdf]
PaRappa the Rapper 2 (PS2) decompilation project
What is a PC compiler in this context? MSVC?
These guys rebrand Clevo hardware for laptops, (or at least they used to).
The article makes it sound like they are designing the laptops themselves.
Which is usually how it is presented, and I think it is a bit misleading.

Several other Linux computer companies use Clevo as well.

A lot of those machines get great reviews and satisfied customers.
I am not saying that Clevo is bad, I am just stating that they
rebrand.

"""The Tuxedo Stellaris 15 Gen4 is a very powerful desktop replacement gaming laptop designed by Clevo. """
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tuxedo-launches-liquid-coo...
When I refresh I get

> Internal Server Error 34

Cool idea though, will try again later.
Thanks for the Ice recommendation, just moved over from Bartender.
I've definitely seen this with Targets, but I have a lot more confidence in Walmart's ability to tolerate a decent amount of shrinkage in order to avoid customer inconvenience. When I see a Walmart acting this way I get worried.
Now if only there was actually a great office and not a shitty open space...
do those junior extremely motivated people who are doing the impactful work want to work in the office?

Much more so than the senior people I find. Post Covid, as soon as we were first allowed back to the office if we wanted, I observed that the under 30s were the first to return.
> You simultaneously feel like you're too burned out to be able to do some entirely new thing, if you can even muster the energy to engage in the switching process (e.g. job hunting, etc.), and the familiarity of the thing that's burning you out brings its own kind of perverse comfort.

This describes an average Monday. Though I would not describe it as comfort but as continuous eternal pain you try very hard to ignore.
Why do the negative ions not make it into orbit, but the positive ones do? A neutrally charged universe would not favor one over the other.
Yes these licenses are common, but the dual licensing with essentially the same effect as a single license seems fishy and suggests there might be something hidden. Just my two cents.
I did some digging on this where I work, because I thought I was starting to taste tinfoil.

Six out of eight of the board members are involved with companies located not just in the same state but clustered around the same area. Three of these companies have buildings in the same business park. All these companies have inflicted similar RTO mandates on their employees.

I went through our financial statements -- commercial leases were set to expire this year, they've renewed them for another thirteen (!) years and committed $100M to office space improvements. They've frozen hiring, they're cutting costs wherever they can, but they found it reasonable to dump $25M each quarter on leasing costs?

Whenever something like this is "difficult to comprehend" as the article obediently avoids scratching the surface, my first guess is that someone's making money off it. Is it board members with real-estate investments? Is it organized crime? Is it Blackrock and Vanguard (majority shareholders btw)? At this point, why not all three?
There is no evidence that WFH preference reflects on employee value or productivity in any way.
Exactly

Human psychology is wild, when employees do something unusual, it is always presumed that it’s because they are stupid or lazy

When executives do something unusual, it’s rarely assumed that they’ve lost touch with reality and factory floor. Responsibility never seems to land on them in personal and individual capacity
There’s also ARIA [1]. I actually think the one linked above seems more interesting. At the same time, doesn’t seem all that different from just rolling your own solution.

[1] https://github.com/lifan0127/ai-research-assistant
Well, there are also the polls and official stats putting depression, unhappiness, and loneliness, at record levels...

Here's major depression - and that's as diagnosed and treated:

"An estimated 21.0 million adults in the United States had at least one major depressive episode. This number represented 8.3% of all U.S. adults"
Unfortunately, when people call their os Linux, they typically are referring to its kernel. I wish there was a better term to distinguish Linux distros from the kernel.
Are any competitive GPU architectures any better? I don't think nVidia, AMD, Intel, nor PowerVR openly publish the internals of their graphics products either.
I did. And I always hated the "until it is right" instructions.

A thermometer is a key tool which was not used when I grew up. I even commented to an aunt that my mother was a better cook because she did not use one for her roast. I have since learned my lesson.

It is a golden kitchen tool. You can up your baking game by using it. Understand proofing temperatures and time. And now our Rye bread comes out perfectly every time as we know to pull it at 97 C.

Cooking is not hard. But good cooking can be achieved without years of learned intuition.
This is a ridiculous position to take.

You can't simply resolve all kinds of arguments and disagreements before going to bed. Sure, if you have a minor disagreements you might be able to make amends but other issues will take time to be processed and discussed at a more opportune time.

More to it, one might be tempted to quickly attempt to solve the issue with this line of thinking but failing to address the root cause, thus ending up even causing more damage later on as recurring disagreements appear.

Emotions aren't binary.
In-House Software Development vs. Outsourcing
This is how some of it spreads.

But excel models of operating costs have stronger staying power than CEO fads, at least from my experience.
Does this not work with upper case letters?
I only get "Internal Server Error 34".
probably zero based budgeting
Just 4 days a 6 hours, same pay, but fewer stupid meetings
"Our most important work happens during on the back of napkin meetings" has been said unironicly
That's a cool idea, I like it. Will check it out when it's up and running again.

If this slips of the first page, I hope you get to resub when things are a little more stable.
There's already a Yandex browser, there's no need for a Firefox knock-off.

> Would tech saavy people trust the Russian knock off?

No one with a single brain cell uses the Yandex web browser. It's akin to giving the Russian authorities full access to your entire web presence.

> But the non-tech saavy?

For those Firefox has never existed. Most people in Russia use: Yandex web browser, Opera or Google Chrome.

> From this, if we assume Mozilla is doing what it can to protect users (which may or may not be the case), it would be better to comply but Russians get official builds of Firefox than being banned and the Russian government replacing Firefox with their own build.

Mozilla loses nothing from not complying but gains reputation and trust of not sharing the bed with Putin.
I think this is just a Walmart thing. I saw the same thing in a Canadian mountain resort town and it made me laugh out loud.
Who owns the Moon? A new space race means it could be up for grabs
> companies keep claiming that retention is a top concern when times are good.

Fixed that for you. When times are good it is hard to find people and so they care about them. However the real test is when times are not good. If retention was a concern it will show up when times are bad - but it doesn't so we know that it isn't a real concern.

Of course if it is a concern management has a much harder job. They can no longer hire as many people in the good times as they would then have to let good people go. Much easier to give them a cheap foosball table or something that makes it look like they care without making their job hard.
No worry, we all do that here and there. ;)
Why not communism? Seems pretty appealing.
Apple Platform Security Crash Course
A more complete answer here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-politics-...