skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If nothing else, surely we can empathize with being frustrated for ages and finally feeling seen.

I for one cannot. As a libertarian, I've long empathized with the concerns. I share many of the concerns. I've often tried to discuss how I was working to create solutions to their concerns of centralized control in the technology sphere, or that there are actually ways to prevent "GPS satellites tracking their phones" and not just resigned angst. None of it mattered. Because I wasn't just repeating their not-even-wrong talking points, I was othered and ignored regardless.

There is a severe lack of analysis going on in that red tribe, which is why they keep voting for politicians that superficially play to their egos while actually making their situation worse and worse. Trump is nothing new for them - he's from the same vein of looting elites they'll follow until they finally realize they've been had. The main difference is the degree to which Trump openly shits on American institutions and values, and it's a true tragedy for western civilization that four years was not enough for them to see it this time.
I thought contractors employed mostly by overseas affiliated staffing firms partnering with IS&T run the data centers, but what do I know. I actually don’t. But the wording is odd.

Super weird to take the effort to make the wording so needlessly specific so as to exclude for example government liaison personnel and contractors. Very nit picky of them, to borrow your words. It’s almost as if there’s a reason.
I am a member of a very small minority group, mch smaller then the LGBTQ+ community. I've been subjected to hardship all my life. I am being talked down to, patronised, and sometimes even manhandled, on a more or less daily basis. And I have never considered suicide because of that. If what you are saying is true, I take it as proof that mental illness seems to be high amongst the group you are mentioning. I lack empathy for such a victim mentality. In other, more concrete words: If there were a way to switch places, I'd take being a LGTBQ+ member over being 100% blind every day. Maybe something to reflect for you. The LGBTQ+ community has been to fucking loud in recent years that they seem to have totally forgotten that there are groups below them in the privilege pyramid. Those of us below them are listening in bewilderment.
celebrating saving some clicks vs entire livelihoods jobs and industries for actual people, is the kind of elite disconnect that Trump exploited to win
Like Tesla but bonkers
Other tools for parsing and analyzing binary data are listed here: https://github.com/dloss/binary-parsing
I agree completely. It was a fun listen a few years ago. One day I realized it was rarely ever fun or insightful anymore.

It's totally subjective but David Sacks lost me completely around the time Ukraine was invaded. That's roughly when I gave up on the podcast. He had major I'm Very Smart syndrome and it seemed almost hair-raisingly embarrassing that anyone took him seriously. To each their own, though. I know a lot of people respect his opinions.
Why don't they just write the meeting output to hls, then use the hls as input to the rest of their stuff?

Cheaper and more straightforward.

Their discussion of fragmentation shows they are clueless as to the details of the stack. All that shit is basically irrelevant.
You sound rational, but the actual implications of the policy execution are brutal. As a father of a girl I am inconsolable.

Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroom

https://apnews.com/article/pregnancy-emergency-care-abortion...

A pregnant teenager died after trying to get care in three visits to Texas emergency rooms

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/01/nevaeh-crain-death-t...
Internet is cooked. Shut it down!
It was fairly random, someone in my network had mentioned that Max was looking for people to take part in the project and I reached out. I was given a date and time slot and that was that.
API contracts are not free, and for things that were not decided to be an API and or a contract an absolute waste of time.

Of course I’m “breaking all contracts at once”, for most of them were never a contract to begin with, and the monorepo effectively discourages people from assuming random behaviors are in fact contracts, and that preserves my sanity and the sanity of the code base that now doesn’t suffer from the combinatorial explosion in complexity that happens when people want everything to be an API contract.
I don't think that's really solved. Facebook had lots of engagement pre-feed. Reddit has lots of engagement even without personalisation. It's still going to be problematic for lots of people.
They’re scraping video from VC services, so only have access to the frame buffer.
The only Battlezone I'd consider playing would be the wireframe vector graphic version from 1980, where you drive a tank with two joysticks controlling the left and right caterpillars, watch the radar, and first-person-shoot at shit that comes at you.
I've tried really hard to understand if she actually intends to be taken seriously. There's ... no possible way she can actually be serious about her performance, right? I've read various defenses, and she honestly seems to genuinely believe that's breakdancing, but to me it looks like she is purposely trolling using performance art. Even if she is serious, it looks so different from everything else I've seen (it was very popular when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s) that it's hard for her not to recognize the difference between what she does and what everybody else is doing.
What do you feel about the LDP loosing? Step in the right direction?
A lot of places have updated their curriculum or clinical guidance documents. Medicine is a slow moving beast, however, so change takes forever. A lot of AHA recommendations are woefully outdated. But everyone keeps doing the same thing because they are scared to not do what AHA recommends. I have 15 years as a medic, with 5 being as a training officer for a large capital city metro EMS system. Our clinical guidelines were probably updated 2017-18 with new placement guidance to start placing pads anterior-posterior. At first it was to facilitate automated CPR devices (Lucas) and CPR feedback puck placement. We noticed better resuscitation results, even when considering the CPR devices. Our medical director is extremely progressive and some short research later and consulting with Zoll, we moved to anterior posterior.

If you think of the traveling electrical power as a vector (pointing arrow), consider Anterior-Anterior vs Anterior-Posterior and draw a vector (arrow) between the pads. Which placement directs most of the power to the tissue of the heart? Anterior-Posterior does as the arrow goes directly through the ventricles, the area responsible for the VF/VT rhythm generation.

Once I learned how monitors, specifically Zoll, do rhythm analysis, and especially Zoll's Shock Conversion Estimator, I moved on and went back to school for engineering to help design products like these. It is all really cool stuff.
Unknown to whom?
I think that really depends on the type of game. If you've been playing World of Warcraft, odds are good you've been playing it for a decade and have invested thousands of hours in it. There are probably a million other players like you. And while they didn't 20 years ago when the game launched, the designers very clearly have that type of player, the permanent subscriber, in mind these days.

Battlezone is an online PvP game so the intended experience may be similar, I imagine it's intended to be an infinite time sink.
Be nice folks, we are all here to learn :)
I hope you're right and I hope I'm wrong. I don't think it'll be an outright repeal of the 22nd amendment, but it'll instead be some sort of cheeky way around it using "emergency powers" and gray areas in the courts, because we saw how easily the supreme Court will ignore precedent if it helps their guy. Or maybe it'll just be a subverted election and passing the torch to one of his buddies.

Or maybe it'll be a regular, peaceful transition of power in 4 years. But I absolutely wouldn't bet on that.
For public companies, market cap is the most important metric. So it’s the most substantial measure to me.
How would early puberty affect who you’re attracted to, or what you see your gender as?

I can tell you my attraction has been consistent before and after puberty. And trans friends speak of having gender dystopia at a very young age.
lol, probably because they have a propaganda leak.
>> it's better to limit what enemies are able to broadcast directly to our phones

> Unrelated question: How many enemy-manufactured products do you use daily? How many enemy products are in your home?

Ah, it's perfect, the enemy of the good. Greetings!
Not really, there's little to almost no difference in English literacy between Viet, Korea & China. Yet there's a big gap compare to Japan, the reason is either culture and economic incentive rather than because of the native script.

In Japanese TV, you can even see that for influencers (idols, singers, comedians) being bad in English is considered a cute "feature", this is uniquely apply to Japan.
Apple has the iPhone. It’s very concentrated in the iPhone. You can say services but services are powered by the iPhone as well.
are you seriously suggesting the parties bought a ridiculous $8B in ads?
Simple diversity doesn’t speak to a level of security. All the attacker needs is time to canvas these locations, identify the weakest and then exploit those.
Given an adversary with basically X$s, they can target Y election types.

Having a common system reduces the variety, but ensures that there is an equivalent amount of resources to deal with adversaries.

For what it’s worth, India which has the most complex election requirements by a mile, uses a single system. Entered as an example of how election services are better delivered using a single system.
appreciate you engaging in the discussion in good faith. This seems pretty “boring”, but i agree it’s definitely targeting advertising.
care to define "dark money" and provide any sources for these ridiculous broad claims?
Biden team is racing to get CHIPS Act money out the door
If this is really your perception, then you live in an incredibly well insulated bubble. If we are including media and pundits, I can assure you that the vitriol that has been coming from the right for well over a decade easily compares.
Evaluating the world model implicit in a generative model
Not true. Only the social media companies will be liable. It’s an important part of the legislation.
An interesting perception of Reddit is to analyze how many subreddits/threads contain hate/anger inducing topics or replies, and of how many accounts with 1m+ karma post inconsequential or random information constantly and consistently get thousands of upvotes per post.

I always try to keep a neutral understanding of topics, and I find that once my research involves exploring what others have found on reddit, it becomes weirdly easy to get sucked into addictive pits fueled by emotion. Certainly unfortunate since the name Reddit as a name translates to "read it", suggesting idea sharing of some sort.

I try to limit addictive features by disabling things like thumbnails, recommendations, or some cookies, but Reddit is the only social media platform where I've seriously considering just blocking it entirely.

Edit: typo
Same as alcohol. If you supply your kids with alcohol, or even have it at home and they get drunk without your knowledge, you'll be in trouble.
receiving a measly 4% of votes. she was elevated to the VP position above merit worthy individuals solely to placate identity politics, as Biden did extensively with other appointments as well
some amount of censorship is unavoidable. when nation state A is in control of the censorship, and designs that censorship to intentionally hurt nation state B, then nation state B has every right to ban the platform that nation state A is using to push it's agenda.
Need I remind you who runs Tesla? Tesla is already bonkers.
Why can't we have one PR, many repos?
> They seem to have lost faith in their own ability to innovate.

As they should. I mean they can, but they have to change course. All of Silicon Valley has tried to disenfranchise the power users. With excuses that most people don't want those things or how users are too dumb. But the power users are what drives the innovation. Sure, they're a small percentage, but they are the ones who come into your company and hit the ground running. They are the ones that will get to know the systems in and out. They do these things because they specifically want to accomplish things that the devices/software doesn't already do. In other words: innovation. But everyone (Google and Microsoft included) are building walled gardens. Pushing out access. So what do you do? You get the business team to innovate. So what do they come up with? "idk, make it smaller?" "these people are going wild over that gpt thing, let's integrate that!"

But here's the truth: there is no average user. Or rather, the average user is not representative of the distribution of users. If you build for average, you build for no one. It is hard to invent things, so use the power of scale. It is literally at your fingertips if you want it. Take advantage of the fact that you have a cash cow. That means you can take risks, that you can slow down and make sure you are doing things right. You're not going to die tomorrow if you don't ship, you can take on hard problems and *really* innovate. But you have to take off the chains. Yes, powerful tools are scary, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't use them.
No. US and Canada share a language and have historically intermingled their populations significantly. We're the same because we have largely similar daily lives as individuals, we have similar problems, and we're populated by people of similar origins. If, for example, conditions caused our paths to diverge, an extreme example would be the split between East and West Germany, then you would expect differing views. Even prior to modern media we were very similar peoples.
I'm not the target audience for this, given that I don't post gaming videos online or share them with friends, but I think it's very nice how Valve is continuously creating cool new stuff for the masses.

It's going to be an interesting time for developers playing with the new "events" API to find the right balance between too few and too many "events" to notify Steam about. Hope it won't carry too big a penalty for those not recording.
> Separate repos for each team means that when two teams own components that need to interact, they have to expose a "public" interface to the other team--which is the kind of disciplined engineering work that we should be striving for.

This pattern has its own set of problems. Strict ownerships separation creates strong dependencies and capacity constraints on the project organization. A single team is rarely able to deliver a complete feature, because it will mean changes in a couple of services. If you go with a model where teams are allowed to build features in "foreign" services, you will still come to the situation that the owning team doesn't feel that responsible for something they haven't built / don't really understand. You can tweak it, involve the owning team more etc. but it has trade-offs / friction.

The worst anti-pattern coming from this is "we have dependency on service X / team Y, but their code reviews are usually very long and pedantic, threatening our delivery. Can we do it locally in our service instead?" which results in people putting stuff where it doesn't belong, for organisational reasons.
I think there is a better argument for banning anyone under the age of 30 from voting than there is for anything as low as a limit of 60 for voting.
> R&D spending is basically a lie

Chips, for one, don’t research themselves: https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2023/03/apple-accelerates-...
Wow and 2007 was height of a boom.
Yes, I was about to say the same thing. The similarities of vocabulary and grammar among those languages make it easier for speakers of one language to learn another.

Also, it seems to be easier for people to learn another language when they already know two or three. As Europe is more multilingual than Japan, more Europeans have a head start at acquiring additional languages.

There may be other factors—stronger attachment to one’s native language and culture, resistance to seeming different from one’s peers—that make it harder for people of some nationalities to acquire foreign languages. But such claims are difficult to verify and can easily sink into superficial stereotypes, so I will be a cowardly academic and decline to take a position.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42055199
Does it? "Things are worth what people are willing to spend to get them" is a truism in capitalism and in reality.

I might be getting wooshed here.
a non-zero amount of censorship is unavoidable in a social media platform. when nation state A is in control of the censorship of social media platform Z, and designs the censorship of that platform to intentionally hurt nation state B by causing division amongst the citizens of nation state B, then nation state B has every right to ban social media platform Z.
I put in a submission to the committee for this issue[1]. The big issues from my point of view are widespread ID validation and the security and privacy consequences of that, definition of social media, lack of controls provided by social media websites, and further risks to centralisation (like ID providers requiring an app that can only run on an iOS or Google Play device).

Many of the ID verification services that have spun up over recent years like AU10TIX are private companies that don't have their users' interests at heart. It wouldn't surprise me if they become more involved with the so-called data economy (data broker ecosystem)—if they aren't already.

Meta itself causes harm to users of all ages with their algorithms (like suggested content on the feed) which can't really be turned off, and fueled the misinformation crisis which really took off a few years ago. The social media companies have done a good job of convincing the Australian government to overlook these harms.

1: https://roffey.au/static/submission-social-media-2024.pdf
Software developers are consider the D in R&D, much of it is just engineering salary cost since they are a tech company.
The American political and information ecosystem has a PH value inimical to such candidates.

Between the two party system, swing states, electoral colleges, and Media warfare - policy is irrelevant, and tribalism / vibes are what matter.

Essentially, your candidate could promise to import dissidents, be a tyrant, or contravene the values enshrined in the constitution - and it doesn’t matter.

So a candidate could promise a 4 day work week, but be part of the team with a more constrained media system, and they will lose.
Murdoch bought himself an American citizenship, problem solved. We've had that foreigner's propaganda dominante our politics for several decades now.
Those 8,461 hours were over five years, meaning he averaged more than four and a half hours a day.

I couldn't even imagine doing that for something I loved.
falcon is worth a look https://github.com/socketry/falcon
You are clearly not representative, as so isn't most of HN, of the average demographic that has to worry about their blue collar jobs (whether that be a real risk or not)
Perhaps not2b could "legally disclose lots of personal info on members of Congress/Parliament" in order to "get anti-regulation politicians on board". He could then present "real data protection laws that would apply equally to TikTok, Meta, Google, Apple and X."
a gpu is all you need if you’re one of two companies worldwide that makes them
Literally all the links provided were nbcnews.com. As far as I'm concerned there may as well be no evidence at all that Trump said it. They may be reliable on other topics but they aren't a credible source of reporting on what Trump says. Like I said, I followed up on that sort of thing in the 2010s and by now I'm happy to just ignore them as discredited.

As far as I'm aware Trump was running on deporting illegal immigrants. He's not planning on gassing anyone. Except maybe with all the hot air he blows, heh.
You can't post like this to HN, and we have to ban accounts that do. I certainly don't want to ban you, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> the average user is not representative of the distribution of users.

What does this mean? Just thinking about iPhones: As of September 2024, there are an estimated 1.382 billion active iPhone users worldwide, which is a 3.6% increase from the previous year. In the United States, there are over 150 million active iPhone users.
“ In my first and only 15 minutes of watching, Chamath’s confidence in making this false claim, coupled with his co-hosts’ complete lack of critical pushback, suggests to me that these kinds of mistakes happen often enough to where these guys’ content isn’t worth consuming.”

This is what I call “anti-credibility.” Where credibility increases the likelihood of belief in subsequent claims, anti-credibility increases the belief that subsequent claims are false. This is subtly distinct from decreasing the likelihood of belief, which would merely result in more skepticism: You say “A is true”, so folks think “A might not be true.” Anti-credibility means if you state “A is true” people think, “oh, A is false.”

This phenomenon has played a large role in politics and social movements over the past several years.
It's not the fault of the language, it's just the nature of infrastructure code that's been ported from terraform. With Pulumi C# you end up with multiple nested objects/dictionaries with a load of `new` object calls that just add noise to your codebase. There's also some pain points with some types being Input<T> which IDEs try to autocomplete when in reality you need to call `new T()`. Typescript permits structural typing that _feels_ a lot better to write and read within this context.

I use C# extensively for most other things I do, but this the one area where I prefer not to use it.
It’s not ageism so much as they are prejudiced against people not raising children.

We childless folk have had a quiet 25ish years and now the pendulum seems to be swinging back the other direction. I’ve noticed quite an uptick in memes about childless people being selfish monsters and taking away our voting rights is right in line with that.
Ask HN: Will you switch to FOSS following Trump's reelection?
I’m German and deeply integrated into the Apple ecosystem, using a MacBook and iPhone with all my files and data synced to iCloud. With Trump’s reelection as U.S. president, I worry the country might drift toward a surveillance dictatorship, one that even Apple’s advancements in encryption and privacy couldn’t counter.

So my question is: Is it time to cut ties with U.S. tech companies and finally switch to alternatives like Linux, Nextcloud, and others?
With screenshot and video recording built in for so many years, this kind of rolling recording is a natural fit. I suspect most gamers will ditch Nivdia ShadowPlay.
フィンランド人のプログラマーです。日本で２年ぐらい住みまして、英語のことや、日本のエリートのことは「植民地」って言われるのが初耳ですが…そう言われみれば、その通ですね。日本も確かに、言われた通、ユニークと特別なものではないです。もちろん、特別なところあるが、各国がそれぞれで様々な魅力や個性があります。

大変興味深いな書き込みでした。ありがとうございました。
It took longer than I would like to admit to realize it was time to leave WoW for good. A few increasingly long breaks, followed by brief periods of trying to “fall back in love” with it.

It wasn’t so much that I got burned out on the game. It just didn’t fit into my life the way it once had, but not for lack of time. A person’s relationship with a video game can be weirdly complex.
Why is market cap the most important metric? It does not exist in a void. Market cap + P/E or forward P/E, P/B, P/S, etc. are all metrics of high import.

Market cap is one piece of a complicated picture. On its own, you don't know too much.