skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The scale makes no sense.

Sentiment of forum posts is not an absolute value, you can't compare it against, for example, conversations in a pub, or talks between friends, etc.

I think they should have normalized the numbers around the average, so to have a relative measurement of the various topics.
Disney headquarters should be picketed for this, large scale boycotts etc are the only fair response.

In a sane world, companies who sell products to consumers should be terrified of ever being caught doing something as disgusting as this.

But our actual standards are far lower than we would like to admit.
> The Pixel 9 might be a good device comparatively, but I would be more surprised if people were too hyped about it.

Would you be surprised if a post about the new iPhone would look like this looks here?
A dash.
> No, trying to financially engineer incentives to make all of those things magically happen would not have worked. They tried that with broadband rollout and healthcare and got middling results, at best. Public/private partnerships are a fool's gold standard and it's time to stop getting burned by that scam.

Public/private partnerships are an entirely different thing. There you still have the government dictating what should happen, even if the thing they require is inefficient or miserable, and then you invite a corrupt government contractor that satisfies none of the prerequisites for a competitive market to back their armored car up to the government's vault and suck out all the money.

A carbon tax does not involve any government contractors. You burn carbon, you pay tax. People avoid burning carbon to avoid paying the tax. All of the tax money goes back to the citizens; everybody gets a check cut in the same amount. The imperative is to eliminate space for corruption by leaving no exceptions to the tax and no discretion in where the money goes.

> We wanted the government to get directly involved.

You are implicitly asking for the thing you say you don't like.

In order to install solar panels, the government would have to buy land to put them on, and then buy solar panels. These things come from private sellers. But the government's purchasing process is thoroughly corrupt, so now you're buying solar panels and concrete and transformers from whoever's cronies have the in with the administration. You can't avoid this by trying to say "we'll make our own solar panels then" because for that you'd have to buy semiconductor wafers and fabrication equipment etc. The inputs ultimately have to come from somewhere and the somewhere is going to capture the government.

This is exactly what happened with the WPA and NASA. The term "boondoggle" was coined for the WPA's corruption and inefficiency. Around 90% of NASA's funding goes to government contractors. This is Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, etc. And it's not a new thing:

https://www.gao.gov/assets/hr-93-11.pdf

At the height of the New Deal in 1936, total federal spending, even adjusted for both population growth and inflation to 2024 dollars, was less than $500B. (In unadjusted 1936 dollars it was $8.2B). The current federal budget is over $6T -- right now it's more than twelve times as much in real dollars per capita than it was at the height of the New Deal. The "massive scale" you wanted is more than already happening, but it's not working, because the government doesn't spend money efficiently. It siphons it into the coffers of the connected.
Honestly I think this is fine, especially how they've done it. Most CLAs seem to require copyright assignment, but theirs does not. Outside contributors keep their copyright, but grant the company a license to (more or less) do whatever they want with it.

I think we're at a bit of a crossroads here. Enough (smaller) companies have been bitten by the likes of Amazon monetizing their code and crushing the original developers' monetization strategy. So we see some companies turning to non-F/OSS "source available" type licenses instead. This is bad for the open source community as a whole.

IMO, AGPL+commercial is a fine compromise, and companies need to be certain that if they take contributions from the community, that they can still sell commercial licenses for the whole product, including the contributions, without issues in the future. Requiring contributors to assign copyright is one simple way to do that, but I think the path this company has chosen is a lot nicer in letting contributors keep ownership over their contributions.

For a piece of software where the expectation is that the company is going to be doing 90% of the work, and outside contributions will be relatively small, this seems entirely fair to me.
It's not harder than any other job, but it's harder than many. Teaching, especially in middle and high school, is not as technically difficult as say many developer roles, but it is far more difficult when it comes to organization, emotional resilience, multitasking, and managing people.

It requires you to not only keep 20+ twelve year olds from devolving into chaos, but to also teach them things many of them could care less about. Then, you need take into account the laws surrounding your choices both in and outside the school and your representation in front of administration and parents. In the age of cell phones any slip up will likely end up being online and possibly in the news.

Imagine, as a developer, if you every possible small mistake you made had the potential to find its way to Twitter or Reddit? What if you had to manage 20 different, but similar projects? You had to time your bathroom breaks because you can't go whenever you want. That your lunches were consumed with professional development sessions, emergency parent meetings, kids that need your help, etc... That every few months you had to meet with every single customer to give them an update and hear back how much your work is amazing or sucks? Oh, and you have to do it over a period of 10 hours sitting in a crappy hard plastic chair.

Put aside the fact that you have little agency to affect any real change, are potentially subject to verbal or even physical abuse you can do nothing about. Then there are the shootings...

Teaching is much harder than most jobs where you can stare at a monitor and post throwaways on Hackernews. Technically harder, no, it's not physics (unless you're teaching physics), but it's still a difficult field.
Experienced SW wants to make decisions, autonomy, and is more expensive. The world only wants to get the bloody software somehow working cheaply.
Twitter started irreversibly feeding users’ data into its “Grok” AI technology in May 2024, without ever informing them or asking for their consent.

https://noyb.eu/en/twitters-ai-plans-hit-9-more-gdpr-complai...
No, not on every comment, only when I see a relevant story.

By the way, feel free to read this blog post of mine explaining why the virtual frosted glass is a creative solution to the out-of-mind, out-of-sight problem that plagues remote work and causes CEOs to talk like in this story:

https://open.substack.com/pub/meetingglass/p/how-virtual-fro...
Ordinary developers are effectively just construction workers with a bit more creative freedom.

In al critical systems they are just one part of a chain and all their work has to be verified/validated by at least a few additional actors.

A policeman can just decide to randomly murder someone (and often face no repercussions). While a construction worker or a software developer can cause significant harm as well they almost never have near complete autonomy.
Yes. Thank you for correcting my faulty attribution.
Ah no, their argument is because she signed up for a one-month free trial of Disney+ in 2019, she agreed to arbitration for her death in 2023. So by their metric it doesn't matter if you cancel, you're still bound to that if you visit Disney IRL.
When I have time I will do my usual test "Realistic looking wizards bowling!" and see how it goes. So far I have had fairly disappointing results.
> As for what this means for human life ever establishing a foothold on the planet: not much. The water is probably far too deep for potential colonists to ever tap into.

Haven't they heard of The Boring Company? Colonists arriving on Starship can drill for the water and refill the oceans by 2029, or the next year at the latest. With a million people on Mars by 2044 and a genius inventor to sort the problems out, should be easy.
What's the alternative to ads? I pay for YouTube premium, and I just mute the sponsor segment ads in videos. I get good information and entertainment from those video creators, so I would like them to get paid to continue doing it.
Yep, I've had to disable it. Not impressed.

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/328432356
> I’m no longer limited to using those annoying clip-on sunglasses, over my (former) Rx glasses.

On the subject of clip-on sunglasses, nowadays some brands are offering prescription glasses that work with magnetic sunglasses covers. The sunglasses cover seats flush to the prescription glasses, and just make the package marginally thicker. They really look like you are using regular sunglasses when moutned on. I am also a contact lense user, specifically on days I might use cycling sunglasses, but those magnetic sunglasses are my goto solution for everyday use. Mine are from the Afflelou Magic collection.

Here is an ad showing how it looks and works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa-80ezvni4

The good thing with those magnetic sunglasses is they don't have arms so they take very little room in a pocket or a bag and they are inexpensive so you can keep spare everywhere: house, car, office, backpack...

The only downside I could find is when you are driving a motorbike you have to think about putting your helmet visor down before you reach a certain speed, around 55-60mph (might be lower on windy days) otherwise your sunglasses might fly away. The magnet is simply not strong enough. But my main helmet has its own internal sun visor
Don't a lot of the linters run externally via language servers? I'm pretty sure the rust linters are rust-native for example.
Companies will still be able to at least try and drag things out while the other party runs out of money. Precedent doesn’t change that.
Fortunately we already have Anthropic etc so this new release isn't really relevant or useful
The Netherlands doesn't pump water from beneath the crust! Groundwater is included in the larger freshwater sphere. Water in the mantle would be an additional sphere (not sure if it's freshwater or saltwater).
AI will solve this AI fatigue too! Introducing AI Relaxation and Restoration Center where you will get reeducation in loving AI!
There is no perfect solution. However, factories are much more controlled environments than restaurant kitchens, so your odds are much better. Plus, these days, they require foods to have labels for potential allergens for things like using the same facility that makes other foods with those allergens (i.e. even if the product doesn't have $allergen, if other products made there do, they warn you).

So if I had a condition like this, I'd feel much safer with factory-made foods/ingredients than with food from any restaurant.
The 'X' logo is just a bird shot dead by an arrow
I do not think it is different. I actually see that as an opportunity to learn an important lesson in human behaviour.

If I was the parent of the teen, I would tell them its just stupid shit people say online, and worse some people are like that in real life too. If you were face to face in just about any setting most of them probably would not think or dare say these things. Its just criminal jeering. Dont give it any consideration." And that would probably be the end of it. Maybe they are still upset for a bit, but kids cry and dont want to go on their first day of school, but they must go to school. You either learn now when you are young or learn later when you are an adult and It will be much harder.

If your parents/friends dont somehow guide you through that you are in for a difficult life regardless of whether some random person sends mean unicode at you.

You cant change the world. Go look at the grafiti people used to write in Pompeii 2000 years ago. https://kashgar.com.au/blogs/history/the-bawdy-graffiti-of-p...
This type of behaviour isnt going anywhere. Dont open your feelings to it.
As a customer or various web things I have just learned that google is not to be trusted with anything important: they’ll either kill it in a year or make it shitty enough to make me do work twice (once for adopting and once for moving away).

But hey, let’s blame it on workers that want to work from home.
you can use something like bitwarden. Make sure you keep track of those backup codes though
Can confirm. My last good finding was a unauthed and blind SQLi.
Are you e.g. paying for Google one? I only ask because when I became a real customer I found the process a bit more solid than freemium.

You would hope your address book and some smarts could make a user specific greylist time delay on the spam, but I can also believe their email engine at scale struggles to apply this meaningfully.
Maybe people resent losing their jobs to machines?
No, you can't be 100% sure, but factories are much more controlled environments than restaurant kitchens.
Mostly because we are an immensely ignorant industry jealously guarding what little scraps of knowledge we gleam.

Theoretical computer science results get ignored for decades, until people like Carmack randomly sit down and read a book. (The rest of the world then gets to read about it years later in a biography, and it's still revolutionary since nobosy else sat down to read a book in the meantime.)

A lot of institutions know how to write efficient, safe software, but at best will talk about it in a blog post, their experience will never filter down into classes to teach the next generation.

And because that's not bad enough, we try to suffocate every possible problem with "more headcount", since that's easier than actually figuring out what your core problem is.
Well, there are real drawbacks to remote work. It hinders creativity and practically limits exchange between workers. Whether it's still worth it for the company or whether they can mitigate the downsites is another question but there definitely are downsites.
I don't get it. Can't you just block the senders?
You are selectively ignoring the features of passkeys that don't fit your chosen conclusion. Yes of course passkeys come with some lock-in risk. Most technologies do. But compared to the status quo they give us new freedoms and less lock-in.

We don't live in world of memorable passwords ("abc123") or post-it notes or even password managers. That world has long been replaced by a dependence on SIM cards, big tech OTP apps, proprietary banking apps and worst of all social logins. And all of it is tied to oppressive mobile platforms.

You portray passkeys as another brick in the big tech lock-in wall. I totally disagree with that. Anything that frees us from dependence on mobile platforms and phone numbers is a net win.
It depends on which typescript toolset you use, but generally speaking you're probably riding on mix of C++ and Javascript if you're using VSC. VSC itself uses C++ in it's core components since that is how electron works. Similarly the language server and tooling for both Typescript and Node are build with C++. If you're fancy and use Bun you're running on Zig. Eslint itself runs on Javascript, but the parser it uses feeds it something called an abstract syntax tree, and different parsers will do this differently.

So the relatively simple answer would be no, it would not be faster with C# (or Go which would likely have a similar speed to C#).
Kill button on kamikadze FPV drone could be your biggest problem if it flying towards your position.
I created automated descision suppport systems in asset based finance. For daily needs you get customer financials and other risk data from both official national sources and the likes of Dunn and Bradstreet, Graydon etc. The choice of providers depends on both the customer and deal risk/size. While the "api"'s to these providers might be clunky (putting structured request file on an ftp server and polling for a response), the data is structured (enough) to process.

Deals that are exceptional enough get assigned to a risk officer that deals with it as a case (sidenote: they use a lott of selfmade Excel, VB and low-code tools as they never get IT priority for these cases). There is not enough uniformity as well as a decreased tolerance for inaccuracy in those to warrant extensive automation.
The hardest thing about selling something is making people aware or it's existence. So it's not really a bad bad thing.

Said that, if i see that thing everywhere i can probably find a cheaper thing with the same quality because the marketing budget must be HUGE and these 10% discount codes give 10% to you and 10%the the creator so i can find a code 20% somewhere.
If I had to guess working with parsing xml is more complicated than traditional code.

Can’t find the links but one of the reasons I’ve seen people move away from xml has been due to the speed in parsing when compared to json or csv.
What hardware?
Portray
Point taken, I would be surprised since the hype for Apple is indeed quite disproportional.
Is there a good place to find redshift data and distance estimates for many galaxies?
Possibly the first nagware I ever used. Some variants of xargs can do some of what parallel does, if the nag annoys you. I am unsure how smooth the parallelism is in that model and they differ on argument quoting norms so it's not a simple drop in replacement necessarily.
Funny because I mostly use my contact lenses when cycling. PHotochromatic lenses are where its at if you encounter varying degrees of lightness, like going from direct sunlight to under the shade of a forest. And I prefer using clear cycling glasses over contact lenses than my regular prescription glasses even when riding by night as they have more coverage and protection.
I'm not saying it's a myth, I'd say my position is -

1. It's plausible that some humans somewhere might have used it, however
2. It's unlikely any group of humans used this for a meaningful amount of their caloric intake

The point of my previous comment was that I find it interesting that it seems to have taken an oversized mindshare in people's beliefs around the evolution of humans. I'm interested in why that might be. I suspect because it has a slightly unexpected twist that while we're not fantastic at running, we are (allegedly) good at long-distance running.
“Learning the API” is not deployment.
> These days, TypeScript is effectively nothing more than a high-powered linter.

That's a bad take - typescript enables tooling like refactoring/navigation/completion that goes far above a linter. Development tools are just better with typescript vs JS.
A hypothetical good AI would have reviewed the experimental design and pointed out the misconception
You can change your email address.

You can try unsubscribing. Search for bulk unsubscribe tools.

20 million spam emails a day seems like an exaggeration. I get 10-20 a day to my GMail account, which I've had since the service started, and published online in multiple places.
Just as a counterpoint, in Europe the requirement is to specify nutrition data per 100 g of "usable" product. Some products are e.g. intended to be added to water before consumption, then the nutrition is for that final form, not for the concentrate that you actually buy.

But it's really practical, it makes it dead easy to e.g. compare calories, sugar, fat and so on between e.g. milk and apple sauce (to take random example from the breakfast table this morning).
> also have monopolies over a certain kind of power

But they don’t. Or at least these are completely different types of ‘monopolies’ that don’t necessarily have that much in common

> Freedom of speech and press are part of the first amendment in the US for a reason

It only applies to the government though. If taken to the extreme limiting the rights of a social network/other tech platform to spread missinformation or propaganda is a violation of their freedom of speech that’s not clearly compatible with the first amendment.
the reaction is wrong. it shouldnt be "oh no, jobs are being removed" but "nice, less work more automatization, let's make sure we all benefit through less work and not only the rich with more profits"
What is your argument? Android is one of the most successful software projects of all time. It seems easily monetizable.
> doesn't support it.

This is ridiculous.

One of the benefits of Fastmail for me was the ability to prepay and be not bothered if the payment would be processed in time, works at all or whatever.

FM had a couple of stumbles for me in the last years (including shadow banning the account without any feedback at all), guess this would be the last nail for it.

Sad.
It is an amazing idea… for the late 2010s/pandemic job market. Nowadays most companies are just waiting for the perfect candidate to fall from the sky, so I’m curious to see how much non-spam submissions you end up collecting.
Now I am curious which products have '0g sugar', but still contain lactose. Here in NL, they normally explicitly add 'lactose' warnings to products.
What does irreversibly mean in this context? It seems like negative connotations are implied, but I feel like it's like irreversibly baking a cake.
No, there is further action necessary. If you want any kind of decent performance, you need to run it with an appropriate GPU. This is not true of spaCy, which makes spaCy easier to deploy.
Just to make you aware, they added pseudo SponsorBlock on TY Premium.

If you "skip" 10 seconds on a sponsored segment a "skip to next part button" will appear on screen to the end of the sponsored segment (it does not use chapters and it does not appear 100% of times)
There is zero reason to use async without await, unless I’m missing something.

The number of await calls in your codebase should always be greater than the number of async modifiers.
You're not a cosmologist, are you? I'm not anymore either, but when I was in grad school, everyone agreed that LCDM is probably wrong. Most researchers pretty much wanted it to be wrong. All they did was try something different (quintessence, bigravity, modified gravity, f(R) theories, Horndeski gravity, phantom dark energy, chameleon cosmologies, coupled dark matter, etc. etc), but nothing fit the data as well as LCDM. When new data came in, and it pointed yet again at LCDM, it was considered a disappointment.

Now the Euclid satellite has been launched, which I remember being the big hope that it will give us data that will finally enable us to tell which LCDM alternative could replace LCDM as the standard model of cosmology. You won't even get funding for such a mission unless you make a case for how it can improve our understanding of the universe. "We hope it will confirm our currently accepted view" will not get you one cent.

So I'm not sure where you get the confidence that nothing different is being tried and that professional scientists wouldn't have an ounce of sense. I find it a bit disrespectful actually.

I invite you to read the introduction (and introduction of part 1) of this review paper of the science behind the Euclid mission: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.00180

It's understandable to laymen, co-authored by reputable, leading scientists in the field (disclaimer: I'm on the author list) and I hope that after reading it you would revise your opinion.

Here is a short excerpt:

> The simplest explanation, Einstein’s famous cosmological constant, is still currently acceptable from
the observational point of view, but is not the only one, nor necessarily the most satisfying, as we
will argue.