skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree.

The phrase "doing one's own research" has been co-opted by people doing conspiracy-windowshopping. It's designed to get lazy people stuck in the muck while sending them on a Shawshank-Redemption-style crawl through the sewers of the Internet... Only those who can cut through the bull — pun slightly intended — make it to the other side.

You have to start trusting people at some point. Researchers and scientists have proven to be trustworthy, if (IFF!) the right incentives system is in place. (Edit: and talking heads, of course; my claim is that John Oliver and his team of researchers and writers is more trustworthy due to the effort that they put into making things as accurate as possible, while funny as well... All while elevating the quality of newscasters by showing attribution to what they are saying and connecting the dots on why it is relevant to the viewers).

But we are living at an awkward stage of civilization: the very rich are backing political leaders who make a religion out of economic systems and don't view them as useful tools to balance development and inequality.
The big firms just need to be big and known. There value delivered isn’t in the PowerPoint explaining that cutting costs and increasing revenue will increase profits. The value added is that companies buy a stamp from a famous firm when they deliver staff cuts, reorganizations or other controversial news.
As such it doesn’t really hurt to go for scale. They’re a standards org for headcount reduction.
The "good old boys" stereotype is a stereotype for a reason: it doesn't actually happen in meaningful numbers.

If you get paid well, have good benefits, and can't get fired arbitrarily (union still allows for firing based on performance), it turns out your workers will be happier and more productive.

Also, if labor costs (paying a decent wage) tank a massive jet company, they already had many other problems under the hood. Your argument is also proven to be false, because Airbus (heavily unionized) has been eating Boeing's lunch for years since they didn't greedily spin-off everything nor slacked on quality control for the shareholders for short-term gain.
You're not allowed to solve anything in the US in a way that causes already rich people to make slightly less profit. All other options will get explored but never that one.
> Once it gets suitably high, the pending payments into it are reversed back to the fans

So basically: you're screwed.

> Besides, art is supposed to be transformative, not status-quo preserving.

Blah-blah-blah. I would really love to belong to a collective that puts my music right next to CSAM. Fans would really appreciate it. So now you have to have an enforcement mechanism, like voting. What if somebody hacks enough keys to take over the voting? Have even more privileged members?

That's the thing: the real-world complexity has to deal with all kinds of edge cases. And we have a legal system for that, with several thousand years of legacy in it.
There doesn't appear to be a technical reason, it appears to just be a default configuration setting that was a holdover from Mozilla's imposed limits when Firefox Send was still around.

https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1bwqxit/is_ther...
I have a small story about McKinsey from friend of mine in the Indian Bureaucracy from about 10-12 years ago.

McKinsey was doing some work for their dept. I asked him what they did. He said, "McKinsey asked us for lots of information. Then they put it into a dossier and gave it back to us."
As a side note, you can also simulate various network problems in the linux kernel via tc: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/network-failures-simulation
Truly React is one of the most versatile frontend tools.
With some caveats, I also successfully used whatsapp over matrix although that required to have whatsapp running on a separate device.
> "Leaned behavior" to me means that they previously saw other, non-baboon, groups rob tourists in the same way, which seems unlikely?

It might mean that to you, but that's absolutely not what I meant to convey.
Define gouging.
There is nobody left, old enough, to remember that the last project with that consulting firm failed.
Nope. The price of something is somewhere between the cost of production and what the market will bear (with exceptions not relevant here). The well-to-do in the USA will bear high prices, and The State doesn't care about the rest. This is a bit of agi-prop for the health insurance industry. The graphs go up on the right: good; and down: bad. Arrrrr!!! There MIGHT be content, but that is not the message.
And btw the "(a primer)" in the tag line is (according to this linguist) setting you up to think you're stupid if you don't get it.
24yrs if anyone is too lazy to read
Congrats on the release to the Svelte Team!
"certain other distinct features" <- there's the rub.

I wouldn't bid without a discovery session and clearly defined scope and granular requirements.
I would imagine the intent behind this would be that the attacker has indirect control over the timeout. E.g. a check password input which delays you in between attempts doubling the length of time you have to wait in between each failed attempt. With this bug in place, the attacker would simply wait all the timeouts until the timeout exceeded 25 days at which point they could brute force the password check back to back.
> Good heavens. How were we meant to know that?

It’s literally referenced in the comment that poster is replying to. It would have been less work to just pay attention.
If only you did your own research on how John Oliver does his research.
I've chalked the holes in my yard up to squirrels either burying or searching for nuts. Hm.
Being told that customers won't buy your airplanes unless you build them in your union shop must sting for management there.
Drone Innovations Are Changing Warfare
Really loved the 'about' page

https://www.talem.org/about
"The whale was discovered wrapped around the bow of a tanker that had accidentally killed him back in 1998. KOBO’s carcass was eventually towed to shore and dissected for research and educational purposes."
When we lived in the bay area we had a sun room that was all floor to ceiling windows. Occasionally we would hear scratching late at night and go in to check. Mobs of raccoons! Sometimes 20+ would be peaking inside and checking around the perimeter of the house. I remember taking some cool high ISO black and white film photos one night.
> No CSS required to make the horizontal bar disappear

It's literally one line in userChrome.css:

#TabsToolbar { display: none }

Is one line in userChrome.css worse than one line in user.js (where other Firefox customizations are made)?
Yeah I'm the same. I think of program code more like like an idea expressed in a language, not like a space. So in the same way I don't visualize anything in particular when I have a conversation, I don't when I program either.
Yuck. They carry raccoon roundworm aka baylisascaris procyonis.

Wait till you find out all the crazy diseases that humans can carry.
Ghost Leg, Amidakuji
I don't agree React is good for game development, and I also am surprised by the title of this blog post compared to what you actually built.

To be clear, the entire video is adding a textbox overlay to a non-React game. The actual game is not driven by React at all, it's driven by "kaplay" as you can see imported here: https://github.com/JSLegendDev/react-kaplay/blob/5ee7d69ac86... and all the sprites and controls are set up independent of React https://github.com/JSLegendDev/react-kaplay/blob/5ee7d69ac86...

React is very challenging to use with game development, and probably not worth it. This blog post doesn't get into the reasons you would actually want to choose React for gamedev, so there's nothing to refute. But before you choose React, consider:

- React is fundamentally inappropriate for a 60fps game, both because of the need for re-creating immutable data every frame causing a lot more GC, which will slow down your game, and because the component render process is always slower than imperative mutation. So you have to bail out of React, and forego immutability, to get performance. Both react-three-fiber and react-spring sidestep React rendering entirely to get 60fps!

- Think about what goes into a game. The content is probably 100% dynamic. Making a React component is easy when you're hard coding the contents, or have limited branching (like if the user is logged in). In a game, displaying components is purely dynamic based on state. So you'll need one or more components that do something like

{currentLevelObjects.map(obj => obj.type === 'player' ? <Player ... /> : obj.type === 'wall' ? <Wall ... />}

and React clearly offers no benefit here. For the record, most react-three-fiber demos are static scenes with hard coded components. If you want an actually fully dynamic game, based on the output of a level editor, you're going to be in trouble. And god help you if you need to consider building a level editor as well! Building a level editor and asset pipeline will take up 90% of your efforts, you'll build a bad one, and give up eventually.
> If you don’t confirm that people are on the right page doing the right thing for the right reasons

Based on this comment I think you would appreciate Every Page Is Page One a lot. The basic idea is that people can and will land on any random page of your docs site, so every page needs to quickly ground them and make it super easy for them decide whether they're on the right path or no. That's where the book title is coming from. Literally any page of your site might be page one for a user.
It was a really interesting place to work at a Software Engineer. It made me understand the business. It made me understand that doing the right thing isn't valued. You do the thing that has the shortest ROI.

It also made me realize that it is horrible to build software with people who expect short term deliveries like the usual McKinsey engagement. People who expect that the automation of an Excel file takes the same time as getting a BA to do it.

I am now in a full time engineering position. I don't talk to clients anymore.

What I miss the most is coming into contact with people with a huge variety of backgrounds.

Which surprisingly were the people with who I had to spent the most amount of time explaining how software works.

Maybe I'm bad at it? Who knows. But I learned a lot, and I'm happy where I'm at now, so any bitterness would be misplaced.

Not to mention they paid for my GC.
You should read about the popes in medieval times. Point being, everything you wrote is about humans, not about americans. And having religion changed nothing. Who knows what those people believed inside their minds, but outward they had religion, and outward is all we can see for anyone.

> stupid societies full of stupid people should and do inevitably collapse

No society endures forever it seems (maybe I'm misinformed?), but no society is immune to stupidity, so I'm not sure your statement about stupid societies actually has meaning. Collapse is certain, the causes less so.

I take solace in the fact that either nuclear annihilation or some kind of climate disaster, seems inevitable, but also nobody's fault in particular. We could avoid it if we weren't human. But I'm not sure that I want that. The good would likely be gone with the bad.

Maybe the cokroaches will manage better, or the robots, but maybe the Fermi paradox solution is that life always evolves to be too greedy for it's own good.
They should be limited to give assistance up to 25 kph, but many are illegally modified. It is a problem though, so they are working on new regulations for that.
I don’t do that kind of thing but for what it’s worth The value of coming in and listening to what smart people are saying and then telling the C Suite to actually do it is hugely valuable when the organization is otherwise paralyzed by bureaucracy.
Don’t forget <https://sterling-archermedes.github.io/>.
"but merchants can almost always force an authorization that cannot be blocked."

This is not true. They cant override a limit or bill a vCC that you disabled.
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Not sure how exactly React became so standard, but I'd assume it was a combination of the backing of Facebook and the frustration with performance and developer UX of Angular, which was most popular at that time.

In our case, we had started a large project with Vue because most of our small team was familiar with it, but our tech lead decided to pivot to React because we had so much trouble hiring for Vue development in our city.
Flecs – A fast entity component system (ECS) for C and C++
It's time for a modern synthesis kernel (2019)
I checked, there is a membership to access the full content.

I see what you did there.
How about Ex United States of America.
Good question. I don't know. It likely depends on the airline's policies.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20337231
Also see this and note who the OP is: https://gothamgal.com/2024/10/journalism-vs-media/
Yes, you got me, I‘m German. German is even worse when it comes to the letter c. Chemie vs. Choreografie… and I know there are lunatics who pronounce it „Kemie“, but still.

For non German speaker, both words start with „ch“, one is commonly pronounced softly like „shemie“ while the other one is pronounced like a „k“ - similar to the English choreography. Even in English „chemistry“ is pronounced similar with „k“.
If we woke up one day to discover that the skeleton was mercilessly destroyed, I think we already have our suspect :p

All jokes aside, this got me curious to look for the definition of "oil", a word used to describe stuff extracted from plants, rocks and, apparently, animals too.

It turns out that for a liquid to be classified as oil, according to Merriam Webster, it needs to be "flammable", "not dissolve in water" and "greasy".

What's greasy, you ask? Well, it's smeared in... "oily matter".
After reading all above, i am convinced that the three of us are saying the same. The only difference is our definition of 'narrative', a term pksitioned somewhere on the long gray area between religion and a suggestion.
Isn’t barbicide the blue liquid that I look at while getting my haircut?
I'd extend this to suggest vanilla JavaScript, HTML, and CSS is a great choice for recreational game development even if you aren't using React:

- Extremely forgiving syntax, great for quickly hacking around with concepts

- Shareable for effectively free via static sites to any modern device

- Live-reloading tools are ubiquitous

- HTML/CSS provides a significantly better styling & layout framework than any OpenGL UI toolkit
Again, no it does not. When someone buys a new RPi, it was already made. The cost of making it was already sunk. Buying it gives the company that made it more money, and encourages them to make more.

If you buy a used RPi, it gives money to someone who buys new computers, and encourages them to buy more. It stimulates demand for the production of hardware, just like buying new stimulates the production of new hardware, even though the hardware you bought had already been built.

Yes, it is to a much lesser extent than buying new, but it certainly isn’t zero. And again, it only works on a small individual level.

It is a good thing to do, but it does not zero out the cost of producing (or running) the hardware.
“Thank you for bringing me joy”
Crude oil saved the whales from extinction.

Kerosene, refined from crude oil, was at least as good as whale oil for lamps. It was also cheaper, so that was the end of the whaling industry. There were pathetic advertisements from the whale oil people of that time arguing for 'pure' whale oil over 'impure' substitutes. However kerosene was so obviously a better deal consumers switched with lightning speed anyway.

As an aside, gasoline was a waste product of the crude oil refining process that produced kerosene. That meant very cheap fuel for the internal combustion engine which was starting its climb up the technology s-curve at the same time.
I watch his TED talk once a year about the psychology of evil and make me aware of the seven rules that he has established.

7 Processes that Grease the Slippery Slope of Evil

1. Mindlessly taking the first small step.

2. Dehumanization of others.

3. De-individuation of self (anonymity).

4. Diffusion of personal responsibility.

5. Blind obedience to authority

6. Uncritical conformity to group norms

7. Passive tolerance of evil through inaction or indifference

https://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_the_psychology_of_...
>Not to mention they paid for my GC.

What does GC mean in this context?
> There is no model that can create facutal accuracy.

Factual accuracy is not binary, it is a matter of degrees. Obviously training on content that is more factually correct will result in more factually correct next tokens. This is a pretty fundamental aspect of LLM's.

> Afaik, all the current models are trained on this corpus.

Then apologies for being so blunt, but you know wrong. There is a tremendous amount of work that goes on by the LLM companies in verifying, sanitizing, and structuring the training corpuses, using a wide array of techniques. The are absolutely not just throwing in blogspam and hoping for the best.
I hope the workers reject and continue the strike, forcing Boeing into bankruptcy will be a very good thing for the country even if it leaves investors and banks unhappy.
Making chips with open tools and TinyTapeout [video]
Why would I want to extend the language syntax as part of normal execution?
> The collision happened because the sun was in the Tesla driver's eyes, so the Tesla driver was not charged, said Raul Garcia, public information officer for the department.

Am I missing something or is this the gross miscarriage of justice that it sounds like? The driver could afford a $40k vehicle but not $20 polarized shades from Amazon? Negligence is negligence.
The US spends more on healthcare than arms.

You could argue for lower defense spending, but there’s a hard lower limit (which is unknown) and if you cross that threshold, the world changes for the worse very quickly.

The rules-based order is underpinned by tanks and planes and nukes. Diplomacy is a layer of abstraction over violence and potential violence.
https://www.mersenne.org/primenet/ suggests 127 PFlop/s average over the last month, which would put it in the top 10 on https://top500.org/lists/top500/2024/06/

I used a random estimate online for computing cost which had 5.6e17 Flops per dollar on A100s gives about a dollar every 4.4 seconds or ~$7 million per year.

Sadly, I do not vouch for the correctness of any part of this, though I did try.
SPE was fraud, he told the guards to act like "tough guards" and then said publicly “the guards were given no specific instruction or training on how to be guards," which is what made it probably the most famous psychology study of all time.

https://gen.medium.com/the-lifespan-of-a-lie-d869212b1f62

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/6/14/17464516/st...
Prefix any command with a space and bash won't append to the history.
The Basque History of the World by Mark Kurlansky (book/audiobook) is excellent on this topic. The Basque, according to current evidence, invented whaling, and were culturally central to its interweaving with human history. The book tells the tale with rigour and flare.
> worthwhile to give them your credit card info

Bandcamp didn't even accept people's credit card info (maybe it's changed in recent years and they have more payment options now). They outsourced payment processing to PayPal.

Most small shopping sites in USA don't handle their own payments due to regulations.
I didn't find this article especially compelling. It basically says, "Don't use React for the game dev specific aspects of development. Instead, use it for the UI since that's what React excels at."

I don't find that to be especially insightful because there's clear parity between a game's UI and a website. In contrast, the actual game rendering logic has the potential to ask far more of React than it's capable of giving.

A couple of years ago I tried building a 2D ant colony sim using React+PixiJS. (https://github.com/MeoMix/antfarm) It didn't go great because React's reconciler became a performance bottleneck very quickly, even with everything memoized, and the GC caused stuttering which was difficult to mitigate when React wants to work with immutable objects rather than mutating existing state. The latter is easy enough to work around, but trying to avoid instantiating strings, etc. just felt like I was working against my tools a bit.

That said, new versions of React and PixiJS have come out since I last tried and it's possible that those performance enhancements + subdividing my grid and doing smarter updates would allow me to continue on for a while, but, at the time, I didn't feel like I was getting the dev experience I wanted out of React for a canvas-driven simulation.

All that said, I absolutely find the idea of declarative, reactive game development quite appealing and if your game doesn't ask much of performance then the trade-offs for getting that could very well be worth it.
Jailbreak is a cat and mouse game, which you shouldn't have to play if buying something so expensive.

The best thing to do is to not buy it in the first place.
Green card
Predicting Weight Loss with Machine Learning
I've provided all the necessary information to piece it together without explicitly telling you.

That was not an accident.
Hebron is not part of Israel & is not governed by Israel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebron_Governorate

Also, and I don't want to take a position here, my advocacy is for learning as much about the history and current state of affairs as possible in order to form an informed position, because not only is there fog of war going on right now, but there is a decades long conflict with lots of narratives and propaganda.

I say that to offer a counter narrative in pursuit of objectivity: if you ask an Israeli, there are many areas in the West Bank that are deemed "no go zones" for for Jews, but there are none that apply to non-Jews.

And as for the security and the "check points", those are applied equally to everyone who is there, regardless of citizenship or ethnicity or any other considerations. So even if it's a shitty situation, it's not targeted at any specific ethnic group.

So given that a) Israel does not govern Hebron and b) the security check points are not specific to any ethnic group, how is Hebron a data point that supports the "apartheid" charge?
For sure! Just a real frustrating aspect of change in enterprise.
'Pedestrian' in this context seems pretty misleading

"Two vehicles collided on the freeway, blocking the left lane. A Toyota 4Runner stopped, and two people got out to help with traffic control. A red Tesla Model Y then hit the 4Runner and one of the people who exited from it. "

edit: Parent article was changed... I was referring to the title of the NPR article.
True.

I was more thinking about an exaggerated example, people who simply convince themselfs that they are happy (LSD-like happy), it will not advance others and also not themselves in the long run.
Ask HN: Book Club?
I was wondering if anyone would like to join a book club for “The Dream Machine” by M. Mitchell Waldrop. It is about the life of computing visionary JCR Licklider. It has been a really great read so far - Lick’s life intersects with every important person to the start of computing. I was thinking we could meet every couple weeks on a dedicated Discord server to discuss chapters. Please send me an email or reply to this message if you are interested.

ruffian_doses0v@icloud.com
McKinsey is not a part of the Big 4. The Big 4 refers to the big four auditing firms.
It must be lonely being the only person in the world defending Boeing management