skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still think of Walter as the creator of Empire, who later went on to create D.

The FM synthesis Hall of the Mountain King will be burned into my memories forever.
What information gain is there in most of the "interactivity" that is afforded by social media?
This seems odd. If you need certain fees and line items explained to you, why not ask your lender? Surely you have a loan officer that can explain every item and why it is there.

If you don’t like some of the costs, go with another lender, or negotiate those with your loan officer.

I’m not sure what this tool is offering that individuals don’t already have.
> Strawberry DNA is made up of 8 sets of chromosomes, compared to human DNA which only has 2 [sets]. Practically this means that a strawberry [cell] contains 4 times more DNA than [a cell of] a person or most other living things.

Hold the heck up, even after steel-manning this with the bracketed additions it's still nonsense: The amount of DNA per set is not the same!

Let's see... if human cells have 3,000 million base pairs* with 2 copies, and a (cultivated) strawberry cell has 830 million base pairs with 8 copies... The strawberry is only slightly ahead, nowhere near "four times".
A quick look at the Bluesky homepage having never been there before tells me that it's just another Reddit without the r/conservative part.
I need this for my own product (www.paiger.co) to showcase the traffic we deliver in an easy way. Would you be willing to sell me the code but with a license that limits it's use to our reporting only and a non-compete with what you're doing? Would save me the development work and I'd happily pay for it.
The tool they're asking for already exists. That's what I don't get. Document versioning has been part of MS Office for ten years. If they're not using that why would they bother with Git for normies? They're dinosaurs refusing to learn. If they refuse to learn a check box in MS Word why should I trust that they're learning about their specialization?

I shouldn't.
I don't know how anyone could stand to work at Chamberlain. Getting rid of the previous HomeKit integration they supported, basically for no good reason other than greed, is corporate brained idiocy.
Making an argument that fascists are taking over the world may indeed be what gp doesn’t like.

But gp (and yourself, presumably) not liking it doesn’t make it untrue, and certainly doesn’t mean the argument should be censored.
If everyone thought, as you assert, that an individual vote does not matter, then they would not vote; therefore both the quantitative and qualitative meaning/value of the "votes" (plural) would change too. They are inextricably bound; you are just viewing things through a statistical lens but that is not the only one that is valid. Grow up. Your attitude is poison and if more people thought like you we would have lost democracy long ago.

Furthermore the act you describe of taking the time to vote based on the issues, even when a particular candidate or proposition goes against the voter's normal worldivew, is not irrational, it is doing one's civic duty to be informed. The vote is the inflecion point at which that civic duty materializes most clearly; but it is part of a larger, always-ongoin process in which the citizens and the state are in a dialogue with each other; and the citizens are in dialgue with other citizens.

If there were no impetus to vote, then the dialogue itself becomes somewhat irrelevant; therefore the voting is what anchors the abastract to the concrete world of here-and-now. Your again, extremely small-minded, view of the world can not account for this.
Maybe they're quantum chimpanzees
You're right. I just haven't gotten around to figuring out the document type automatically even though it should be straightforward to implement.

There are many reasons the document will fail processing, it's usually because the wrong document type was selected or the original pdf from the lender has been modified. Sometimes, users upload a document they received which is just random text in a pdf they received as a pre-offer from a mortgage broker or lender.
I think this kind of decentralization is going to have problems once people start attacking it. It's going to be really hard for you to filter out spam in your free time. Or even misclassification if there's no scalable way to report false positives back to you.
Here's the chat, for those who are interested:

https://archive.is/CXjlp
Corollas can easily go 90mph, so can a Prius, so can a dodge neon.

Even eco-shitboxes in the US have 160 hp. Sure, they get 0-60 times of 10 seconds, but I don't think there's been a car model in the US that cannot reach 100mph in decades
It is a problem with most modern cars, and it is actually for safety reasons. These beams have to support the entire weight of the car in case it flips over in order to protect the occupants.
New Brunswick premier calls on Canada to investigate mysterious brain illness
Personally I prefer cli over tui, but you can just toss something like this in a `.gdbinit`:

tui new-layout default regs 1 {-horizontal src 1 asm 1} 2 status 0 cmd 1
tui layout default
tui enable
I built an expandable solar roof for my Tesla
This will only stop when we collectively refuse to participate in such theather plays, until then, welcome to what is ultimately a programming casting show with internal audience seating on their theather chairs for the audition.
Why did people rub snow on frozen feet? (2017)
If you use Apple CarPlay, any garage door opener you have will appear on your dashboard when you are close to it. No subscription, no need for device to have internet access. Not exactly the same as it's not using hardware in your car and you'll need your phone, but this works nicely for me.
> I try to filter out political tweets.

> Seriously!? But don't you realize that ${political.outrage.tweet.792305}??
Here's a modern commercial fishing net: [1] The net itself isn't that heavy per unit area; it's just big.
The top support line of the net is a string of floats, like pool lane markers, but larger.
They're fishing for herring, not the Great White Whale.

Anti-submarine nets are far, far heavier.[2]

MESH ROPES: - flexible steel galvanized wire rope

This is a single strand, flexible steel galvanized wire rope consisting of 70 wires and 21 hemp yarns. It is one-inch in diameter, has a breaking strength of 98,280 pounds and is internally lubricated and protected against the action of salt water by saturating the fiber cores with a preservative composition. It weighs 1.8 pounds per running foot and is supplied on reels carrying 3,000 feet of wire and weighing 5,000 pounds packed for shipment.

The top support line of a submarine net looks like a bridge cable. The floats are the size of cars or larger.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_CP6VtgDVc

[2] https://maritime.org/doc/netsandbooms/index.php
Cool! is it possible to support structural search like ast-grep[1]? ast-grep has some interactive mode but it is nothing near Scooter.

1: https://ast-grep.github.io/
I tried thinking about Electron apps but I ran out of RAM.
+1, ratgdo is amazing.

A bit of fiddling to get it properly flashed and configured, and ever since it's worked flawlessly with HA.

MyQ is nice, especially with the account management and easy door status viewing from your smartphone anywhere at any time. But I'm not up for the enshittified exorbitant rent-seeking subscription fee and needlessly closed API interface.
Now I'm wondering all kinds of things about their brain. Are they capable of forming memories, and would they retain those memories after a freeze/thaw cycle?

Effectively they're dead when they freeze. I'm assuming there's no brain activity.. Which means when they thaw they're being restored to life. I wonder if any other animals experience this
Hyrum's Law in Golang
I mean it's a fun computer to write drivers for. You will be that dude if you make it all work and share with community
No... your existence is proof that hospitals and medical care are not necessary to have a growing population. It's not proof against a rapidly falling fertility rate. How many times must I say I agree with you on some points before you'll actually engage?
The Tesla Model Y is a two ton SUV with the performance of a Porsche 911. The base RWD model is fast and the Performance model is stupidly fast. I don't think anyone would be particularly surprised to learn that Porsche drivers get into a lot of fatal accidents.
Have you ever tried to hire developers? I have, many times. It's shocking how incapable most people with a history of working as senior developers for 10+ years are at basic programming questions. I'm talking about stuff at the level of Fizz Buzz, or barely more difficult, being solved in a language of their choice with ample time.

Through all of the technical interviews I've run on behalf of multiple companies, I've become convinced that our industry is full of imposters. A terrifying number of people who are employed as developers cannot code, beyond making tiny edits to existing code, or slinging StackOverflow answers and AI generated content around. They cannot think for themselves. They rely heavily on their coworkers to make any substantial progress. If anything, modern AIs have made these people more difficult to spot. I've found these imposters within the companies I've worked for too, and if it's not possible to move them to a non-technical role where they can be productive, then it's best to fire them. If that isn't possible, then keep them out of the way of any critical work, but know that they'll continue to be a drag on their team, and will decrease the moral of those on their team who have to keep covering for them.

Once I even worked on a team (as a junior) where only 3 members out of ~16 even knew the language that was exclusively used for the job. The remaining team members accomplished nothing every day. Those stand-up meetings were painful. Drawn out to 45+ minutes of standing in a circle while the unproductive team members found new ways to explain why they haven't made progress. Then I'd see them return to their desks, and not even open their IDEs for weeks at a time. They seemed to keep their jobs because their boss didn't want to fire them, and it cost him nothing personally to keep them around, offering them a sort of corporate welfare. Perhaps having such a large team even helped him politically, but it's unclear if he cared about that since he also spent almost all of his time slacking off, playing games in the break room, while the 3 productive team members carried the rest of the team.
If you had clicked through to the article before writing your comment, you would know that the stat being compared is "fatal crash rate per billion miles driven", and that the fatal crash rate for Teslas is 2.0x the national average
Because they aren't familiar with or enthusiastic about the code I give them, they could be about code they have written. It's the classic "describe one time you did something poorly/well"-question, but with code. I want to see them critique some code, or explain what's so great, or why it ended up the way it is.

Reasoning about a problem i have (even showing some code) is also a good part of an interview. But it's my side of the field. I just found it's much better to move the interview to the interviewee's side of the turf, because they are more comfortable there.
Linux VR Adventures Wiki
New buzzword for old thing alert.
> Not that I'm complaining. I'm happy to pick up people that are good at computers but wouldn't be able to pass that hurdle, and probably wouldn't hire anyone that has.

You're looking for people who feel like they can't be bothered to learn some of the science and fundamentals of their craft? And you'd actively oppose hiring people who have the determination to go the extra mile? You'd actually discriminate against people who know how to use basic data structures and algorithms, and have that enriched landscape of knowledge to apply to problems that might come up?

Fortunately for you, there are lots of these people available to hire who felt like they are too good to put in the work.

I'm not saying that the data structures and algorithms knowledge is needed to do most software engineering jobs on a daily basis. But for lots of jobs, hiring people with a demonstrated willingness to dive in deep and learn things that aren't necessarily easy or fun actually can be a very good thing, because a lot of engineering problems require a similarly difficult dive into some aspect of specialized domain knowledge.
I agree largely with what you wrote but have a small disagreement. I don't actually think the character count has that big of an effect. I've seen plenty of self-righteous posts on places like here (HN) and the LessWrong forums that just use more words to do the same thing.

I think the kind of person that's energized to comment online generally feels more strongly about the issue than most lurkers. This means that online conversations are dominated by the most passionate, most invested, and often least interested in impartiality. This post [1] comes to mind.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...
Beware of enshittification though: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yoursel...
Because they think they're getting treats for it, from the humans.

I don't think they see any value in computer tasks other than getting treats.
The U.S. Presidential election and its outcome on November 5th was the inflection point for the significant migration from X to Bluesky, as a) many were staying on Twitter/X only for the real-time news and discussion about the election results which ended up not being that interesting due to the Trump sweep and b) the results in favor of Trump will give Elon more power and make Twitter/X more insufferable.
I've integrated draw.io into our Confluence. We can now create inline diagrams right in the page being edited. Resulted in higher quality documentation, with a lot more diagrams for even mundane things. I generally work in pictures, so it's great for me.

But I do agree, excalidraw is great. I recon its an importan skill to be able to confidently and quickly whip up a diagram while in a call. I worked with an engineer who preferred MS Paint, but he was really good at it, and it resulted in him explaining tricky concepts really elegantly.
> It feels like Twitter becoming a monoculture

My belief is that there's some very real reasons for that!

First, incendiary posts seem to get boosted by the algorithm. It's good for engagement, which keeps people online and hooked, which feeds more ads, and is good for the business. Elon and his CEO of the company know this.

Second, the more you look at the replies, the more you find people who are weirdly into Elon Musk. They'll bring him up even in a thread where he's not mentioned and the topic isn't about him. "Thank god Elon saved free speech!" or something rather. Just profoundly weird stuff that I can't help but feel is designed to stroke his ego. Again, I believe the algorithm is intentionally boosting these things. It also serves to create a cult of personality. He's not just the site owner, but he's its "savior".

Lastly, the company is clearly in trouble financially. Revenue is down substantially by all accounts, and there's a very high valuation to live up to. They want to get people to pay money, look at ads, and keep them coming back again and again for more. Being community-first and focused on people having the kind of good time they want in their communities just doesn't align with those very difficult business constraints.
People seem to like it?
https://archive.today/HtmVV
Alternatively - can you "embed" dashboards you create on the agency package?
The people watching were familiar to the chimps, so desire to please or pride may have overcome fear of failure.

It was also only 6 chimps and the experiments were run over many years. I bet replication is going to be troublesome.
You’re right that people can write hateful, divisive and othering content with many words. The trouble with the short content platforms is that you can’t do anything else.
Quite literally selling points
Bluesky app is becoming a fine React Native exemplar, and it's been a blast watching former Facebook React guy Dan Abramov, now working at Bluesky, start using Native for the first time. https://bsky.app/profile/danabra.mov
There's plenty of right wing posters on Twitter now. They get boosted even. The reason they weren't visible prior to boosting is that they only communicate in death threats, misspelled slurs and the laughing emoji.

(Far-leftists esp. tankies also communicate mainly in death threats, but in a much more literary way where they accuse you of misreading a theorist from 1840 first.)
Instead of .gliim I would have gone with .glm
The `#modify` thing looks pretty cool, but I can't help but think how a compiler/ide is supposed to analyze the body of such function and provide suggestions. Rust macros have a similar issue, but it's offsetted by the fact that generics are pretty powerful too and can be fully analyzed by the compiler.
I'd love to hear about your recovery journey.. it seems like quite the gravity-well to have escaped from. Would you consider writing a blog post or sharing here?
As a follow up on the descendant study from China, your link shows that children with a mother that experienced childhood famine have an average BMI that is higher by ~1. Children with fathers who experienced childhood famine actually have a lower BMI. This study doesn't control for the obvious cultural and behavioral implications of a parent living through the famines, although epigenetic connections have been proposed elsewhere [0]

Here [1] is another study from China That shows that simply having an obese parent is the single biggest factor in a developing childhood obesity, and nearly doubles the obesity risk.

I didnt bother digging up a study, but this link[2] says that in the USA, a child with 1 obese parent has a 50% chance of being obese (absolute, not increased hazard ratio!) If both parents are obese, a child has an 80% chance of being obese!

This makes a lot of intuitive sense to me. I would expect the modeled behavior, status, household food, and parenting to have a huge impact on children. This naturally overshadows the interesting but tiny impact of epigenetic transmission.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8648067/

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s12199-021-009...

https://www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org/conditions/obesity#:~:t....
More info: https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/behind-the-scenes-of-...
> They said that the hardest part was studying for the system design portion because they did not have experience with system design

Your friend is not alone, and I don't understand what separates us. Even when I was early career, system design was my favorite.

My biggest issue is performance anxiety when there's a concrete problem to solve that I've never seen before, so coding sessions are absolute hell. Inability to focus, forgetting approaches I've known forever, etc.

Ask me to do system design though, and it's generally freeform, I can talk about different approaches, deep dive on the fly, and draw a nice diagram or many nice diagrams, and interviewers love me and think I'm smart. I've had interviewers who were suspicious after my bad coding performance try to nail me on esoteric implementation details but because I have actual, hard-earned experience I can pretty much explain any approach in my niche and then tell you all the tradeoffs. I can also quickly code up examples, etc. Never had a bad feedback on this portion.

Something about the complete detachment of the coding problem from real life is such a huge mental block and I am continuing to fight it 15 years into my career, after dozens of similar interviews.
The most crucial decision when joining Mastodon is choosing the most friendly instance. I have a strong interest in interacting with cybersecurity professionals, so infosec.exchange was perfect for me, either browsing subscribed or local posts. Browsing all is something I do only when I'm bored, because many posts are not what I'd like to see. You can always migrate your account if you want.

https://instances.social/

That being said, BlueSky is simpler and easier because there's no real federation yet, and even if they have a "Discovery" algorithm, you get many options to control what you want to see. It's feels great, like Twitter before their 2012(ish?) IPO.
Enjoy it while it's all just "jokes". Eliminating departments that cut into Elon Musk's bottom line is the reason he's found his way into the White House with hundreds of billions of dollars to throw around to so many starving cats hungry for bribes and kickbacks like cat chow
> I think the definition of hate and extremism has been warped to encompass things that aren't either of those things.

The definitions of hate and extremism are inherently tied to personal values. Many people perceive much of the speech on X as hateful and extremist because it directly contradicts their core values, not because they're arbitrarily expanding those definitions.

> You can talk to the people at your table in a restaurant, and it doesn't matter if the table beside you is talking about something you disagree with. The food tastes the same.

This analogy only works if everyone abides by a social contract. that’s often not the case on X. It’s like if the people at the next table overheard you, didn’t like what you said, and decided to come over and spit in your food. That’s the experience many people have on X.
There are _huge_ differences. Compare HN to Xitter et al:

- Barrier to entry is higher and participation is tiered by karma

- Moderation and community participation guidelines are heavier-handed and more defined

- You can't embed media or have a profile picture

- There's virtually no advertising anywhere

- You can't delete posts after a few hours which means no way to nuke your presence after the fact

- No hashtags

- Far less algorithmic manipulation of user attention (infinite scrolling, per-user algorithmic feed, etc)

- Encouragement of longer-form discussion because of a lack of (at this point historical, from what I understand) character limits on posts

- Likes/upvote counts aren't visible to other users

- No official app with telemetry and push notifications; in fact, no notifications _period_ for things like replies

- No friend or follow mechanism

My taco comment stands. Both a sandwich and a taco comprise flat, oblong starches with ingredients in the middle. One or two people have called them the same. In practice virtually nobody would confuse the two or substitute one for the other. People are migrating from Xitter to Bluesky but almost none are migrating to HN.
We’ve had them in office before, plus plenty of public statements over the last 10 years.

It’s not exactly baseless speculation. People have things to base their guesses on.
"[X] searches spike after [X] election"

Journalism, Ladies and Gentlemen.
> From 2016 to 2018 an average of 19,158 fatalities resulted from roadway departures, which is 51 percent of all traffic fatalities in the United States.

https://highways.dot.gov/safety/RwD
> Online communities have existed for over four decades now and we still haven't solved these problems.

The beautiful thing about digital graffiti is that you can remove it instantly, and return to an unmarred environment. As long as such tools are provided to each person, those who enjoy graffiti can leave it in place too. Win-Win.

We do need a new vision, with people embracing and promoting digital maturity. Both in a reduction of trolling, and in a stronger resilience against it. Because not everything that is objectionable, is graffiti. You should not hate your neighbor because he has a different political sign on his front yard during election season. We have to stop equating everything that is objectionable, as a catastrophic, intolerable insult.
Migrating from BrowserView to WebContentsView
Sweet CRISPR Tomatoes May Be Coming to a Supermarket Near You
This isn't tenable because you need to do moderation and spam filtering, which require centralization.