skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm just a lowly computer technician

Comfortably working remotely, like I was, right?

That might explain why you can't sympathize with people who lost their jobs or businesses due to COVID restrictions and vaccine mandates.

I also think the protest was over the top, but it pales in comparison to what COVID did to people.
It's a terrible idea because in most countries, it's much more expensive to pay yourself as a freelance than operate a corporation than can easily reinvest profits into itself.

It's not even "hiring a firm like Appleby". It's "hiring an accountant". Paying $1-2k a year to save yourself hundreds of thousands in difference.

And yes if you're hoping to process payments on Stripe, you need to be banked, and the banked entity will undergo KYB. I have no idea why you're denying this. Is this some sort of gaslighting nonsense?
$20 of quarters, and $20 of dimes, both weigh exactly one pound.
Unfortunately, yes. Drugs are well-known to be the only product for which cash is an acceptable form of payment. The utility of hard currency really took a hit when all the hookers moved to Venmo.
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The only thing worse than being a pedantic asshole is being a wrong pedantic asshole.
Algorithms aren't inherently bad. An algorithm that keeps spam out of my email is pretty great if it works. An algorithm that presents a feed of things I actually want to see is also pretty great. I want to see life updates from my friends and family, especially media of their pets, but not sports, babies, or politics except from a couple people who write interesting things.

That's not a tall order for a recommendation algorithm with a huge supply of training data. It wouldn't even need a 50% hit rate to make something really useful that I would definitely check once or twice a day and post or comment several times a week if even a third of my real life social circle used it.

An algorithm that presents me a feed of things I sometimes can't look away from even though I don't really want to see them is harmful, like an addictive drug.
You lasted 10 minutes? I lasted about 30 seconds. Life is too short.
The Clock app in iOS works like this in timer mode. If you start a timer for 10 seconds, you'll see the 10 for half a second, then 9 through 1 for a second each, then 0 for half a second, then it beeps. In practice it's pretty stupid and not really useful, so I wish they'd fix it.

There's a reason why normal countdowns work the way they do. You care about the exact moment it hits zero, and with rounding you lose that.

Clocks are not 30 seconds late.
It won't work. I've done it.

What happens is it's usually done by a lazy teacher who has no idea what they're even teaching. Most kids won't be motivated to learn and watch from the videos.

I consider myself studious. When I was in that class, I watched all the video lessons and whatnot at home. Even then, I had a poor understanding of the material, and obviously the teacher was of no help.

Although not much better, a lecture is better of the two. Hands on learning in the best, but not necessarily possible with certain subjects.
I would suggest writing a FOSS solution to a proprietary software system. FOSS is the great equalizer. It's hard to compete with free.

EDIT: For concrete examples, see what the author complained about, there are some good pain points to attack.
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I think this misunderstands the sense in which 230 is at issue. It's not that 230 itself requires anything --- it's that its a law in place at the whim of lawmakers who granted it expecting a certain sort of behaviour. The relevant claim is, "if youtube doesn't behave more neutrally, expect one side of the political divide to elect people who will make it". This is how the intention of the law is currently read: that it will persist so long as platforms do, in effect, treat user content without editorial bias.

Perhaps my phrasing wasn't that clear. By "deem" I mean, unless the gov starts regulating youtube like a utility.

It seems fairly likely that this intention behind 230 will be codified soon, and an explicit notion of a "platform" (as in the DMA) will be introduced.

The idea that utilities, "platforms", and the like function in a way which requires 'equal treatment' is common across the law -- since they function much like states in the provision of universal services, or public spaces.

Thus the "well, actually!" objection to a narrow reading of the principle of free speech is really the one which misunderstand the principles at play and the evolving legal and social understanding of mass-participation online platforms.
What a waste of 30 seconds of my life reading that
I like that in the drawing of the men lifting the hotel, there's people in the hotel. I would be so pissed at them lol
Filtering out is a nice feature.

Highlighting each piece as such and teaching as what about it is bait, etc would make people stronger and more aware.
I was able to find a bug to get lots of clicks. Buy at least one bouncing DVD, open dev tools into responsive mode and make the screen width 52pixels (the lowest allowed). The DVDs will then bounce with each frame, racking up a bunch of points.
There's at least 15 in London, UK.
A GET request to `/users/delete?id=354` is dangerous. In particular, it is more vulnerable to a CSRF attack, since a form on another domain can just make a request to that endpoint, using the user's cookies.

It's possible to protect against this using various techniques, but they all add some complexity.

Also, the former is more semantically correct in terms of HTTP and REST.
If you had two rounding digital clocks, one with seconds and one without, they would switch to the next minute 29.5 seconds apart. Everyone would hate that.
I wrote this JS thing 9 years ago and it still runs in the browser

https://ericoporto.github.io/bgmJs/

Much simpler implementation, you can read the JS code that was manually written. There is a link to the repository in the page.
What better way to increase the hyperreality needed to sell products then to have you in the ad! But also this is HN, so someone needs tk lecture you on “what you mean” and also remind you it’s their product you used and signed up for and signed your rights away too so it’s YOUR fault, or some such pompous condescending trash. I say, lucky you! I say, embrace the future! I say, plaster my face on adult diaper ads and sell them to me. I say, slap my face on that TRT ad from my podcast that I listen to in my lonely apartment to feel a connection to the world while I write code that “matters”. It’s a beautiful world.
I'm sure people directly affected agree with you, but it's been downhill for this regime since the trucker protest. We are literally still talking about it, right now.

I cannot comprehend how it could be overwhelmingly supported.
I wasn't there, but the source is elon's father.
There's actually a lot of history (going back at least as far as 2007) that led to the current situation where the DMCA is not the process. In fairness to YouTube, they had significant legal pressure back in the day, including suits and credible threats thereof to go beyond the DMCA... which is exactly what they did.

We can speculate to if the current situation is the natural conclusion of those agreements with major IP holders, or if they simply got religion and now embrace those practices... but at least historically, it wasn't simply management discretion which started them on this path.

I don't dispute there are things they can, and should do, nor do I dispute that their current management of the problem sucks.... but it's not quite as simple as just taking a decision to abide by the DMCA as-is.
Isn't that like saying that a "competent" woodworker has to know how to use handtools first before trying to build anything with power tools?

What's the problem with starting from an elevated starting point?
It is the bias that being good at computing automatically gives you an advantage with somebody else’s algorithms. Or that they see you better as one of their own.

After being successful in IT one thinks one can approach arbitrary areas of snail mail life better than the rest, but it’s more complicated than that.

Having have the rare opportunity to fail in a way the author write about I can relate the feeling, but no Marc can unwind where we are and it needs solid ideologies to change the status quo. This not a green field anymore in many areas and particularly with who gets peoples’ attention.
> Why on earth would I care to get decoder rings for several different brands to cross shop?

Because products usually can't be compared spec-to-spec anyway. So even if you had to choose between Seasonic 800M and Corsair 800M, which might coincide on these specific criteria, how one company describes their product doesn't translate to how another company does. None of it would tell you which is the better product for you, which is ultimately what you want to know.

Consider CPU clock speeds, for example. The industry moved on from advertising MHz and GHz since they're not good indicators of performance. Consumers should also be aware of core count and types, cache size, power consumption, etc. Yet even if manufacturers embedded all of this information in their product names, CPUs from different manufacturers still wouldn't be comparable. So companies do their best to identify product lines internally, and give them somewhat consistent names.

I'm not saying that companies do a good job at this—most, in fact, make a mess out of it—, but I find that preferable to having obscure names like "Pro", "Plus", "Max", etc. with claims that it's simpler, when it's actually even more confusing than before.
People usually blame the country’s leader for any and all economic issues, whether fairly or not.
BTW, Honey was, not in fact stealing affiliate commissions.

Because if they were, that would have been a crime, and a tort, and at some point in the past 7 years you would have seen a class action lawsuit or criminal investigation over it. Hell, at the very least a short report about their business model being extremely risky. But even though the details of their business model have been public for 7 year...none of those things has happened. (What's the next counter argument guys? That prosecutors in 50 states and countries around the world are all in league with Honey? That absolutely every shortseller on Earth didn't want to make money? That thousands of supposedly aggrieved influencers in the most litigation-happy nation on earth all decided not to pursue any sort of litigation because they were all too embarrassed?)

Honey used its own affiliate codes because that is how it tracked purchases. Sales platforms generally don't provide multi-level affiliate reporting, so that is the only technical way they have to capture transaction-related data. Before the Paypal acquisition (and for some time after) they shared their commissions with marketing affiliates. Whether they still do or not depends on the particular arrangement the marketing affiliate makes with Honey, though based on their current website it appears that revenue sharing is now the exception to be negotiated and not the norm.

Seriously, honey is not the evil conspiracy you all think it is.
> ...Doordash was a better service before regulation, and in it's most heavily regulated areas has become both less accessible to aspiring workers and more expensive for customers...

Maybe you're not totally wrong...but that statement almost sounds like when a young person ventures off on their own to get their very first apartment...and has a job that allows them to afford only up to a maximum of USD$100 rent per month (I'm using low figure for ease)...but then this same person did not think to budget additional monthly costs like electricity, water, heating, etc...and of course blows way past their hard limit of $100/month....and then this same person cries that they didn't know about facts of life like paying for electricity, water, etc...or how businesses cry because they didn't think that they might have to conform with typical/normal regulations/costs of doing business and such...and that *that unexpected cost** is what is ruining them. ;-)
I wonder if Gov around the world will start investing into Undersea Internet Cable Infrastructure? The only way to protect its country from being cutting offline is to build multiple redundancy. Compare to most other infrastructure undersea cable is relatively cheap. Most part of the world ( may be apart from Africa ) are well connected already. Having additional capacity not only drives down the cost but also also provide the additional safety.

Basically the more the better.
Care to expand upon the issues you were running into with hypothesis? I'm genuinely curious as I may soon be evaluating whether to use it in a professional context.
No, I worked retail during the pandemic and now work on-site.

I do not sympathise with people who refuse vaccination because I had to serve them when they were at their worst.
> These are not ads, rather something that is generated natively by the platform, not leading anywhere else but the platform that the user is already on.

Is this post Advertising a product? Yes, it is advertising a MetaAI product. Just because it's not an external ad, doesn't mean it's not an ad. Hulu shows me adds for other Hulu shows. This is an ad despite me not leaving that streaming site.

What is an advertisement to you?
> A simple majority vote in any of Canada's 14 jurisdictions may suspend the core rights of the Charter

This is misleading. It also has to be in their juridsiction.

For example, alberta (25 years ago) tried to use the notwthstanding clause to ban gay marriage. It didn't work because it was out of their juridsiction.

> So a government that has 35% the popular vote can just suspend any right we have.

The notwithstanding clause only applies to some parts of the charter not all of it. It also doesn't apply to rights from other parts of the constitution.

It might also be possible for the federal government to disallow particularly egregious rights violation by provinces. I think its still an open question if fed still has power of reservation or disallowance or not.
You're talking about the way the world should be. Reality is different.

For instance, having graduated from Harvard is going to get you a fairly good job _regardless_ of their GPA.

Similarly, there is no objective way to measure "merit" that isn't unfair to _someone_ and also scales to dozens/hundreds/thousands of students. So people use GPA.

Life isn't fair.
It doesn't cost anything to create a simple limited company in Norway but you do have to declare the initial capital and say which bank account holds it and submit annual accounts with quarterly estimates. But that can be as little as 30 kNOK, about 3 kUSD. You can also register as a sole trader which has neither of those requirements but you are then personally liable for any debts.
The idea is to have fat backends and dumb clients. It’s definitely a different way of building things and not everyone’s cup of tea. For me, the biggest selling point is getting to write less JS.

Writing the bulk of the logic in Go, Python, Kotlin, Rust, or Zig is a huge plus, as I consider them better-designed languages with easier maintainability.
I've only ever lived in NE USA, but I have traveled, and I definitely don't think it's regional.

Generational though, sure.
See the proposed moveBefore API [1] which is meant to solve those issues at the platform level. In the meantime, htmx has their morphdom extension, which I’d say is a must when replacing any page content with interactive elements within. Aside from that one major gotcha, the main issues with htmx are the poor accessibility of the examples in the docs [2]. In particular seeing so much ARIA without the corresponding keyboard support.

[1] https://htmx.org/examples/move-before/
[2] https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/issues/1431
no doubt there was something small that i was missing, but i was doing a rapid, time-boxed experiment and didn't have time to get deeper into it, at the time
> These are not ads, rather something that is generated natively by the platform, not leading anywhere else but the platform that the user is already on

So if Instagram shows you ads about Meta AI, it doesn't count as ads because both are owned by Meta?
I think they're just saying it'd be hard to disprove the presence of Special Forces on the ground in Yemen, given that both NATO and Israel have cause to be there (Yemen being a declared belligerent to both). That discussion gets mired in speculation very quickly, so: I'm happy to stipulate that someone could be lurking outside the launcher site on the side of the Sana'a-Sa'da Highway waiting to plant explosives or whatever.

My point is just: Ansar Allah fields an army of roughly 200,000 (including the children). That army does not exist to fight Israel or the US (look at a map). What it's there to do is to take Marib, Taizz, and Aden, and to prevent the secession of South Yemen, which has become the stronghold of the ROYG-in-exile and hosts most of Yemen's extractive industry as well as its largest ports.

The basic idea of Khomeinism, which Ansar Allah proudly patterns itself on, is to institute a centralized authoritarian government managed by religious leaders while positioning the country against western imperialism (as a distraction from what's happening within the country). In Iran, this took the form of picking a gigantic fight with the US before losing a half million of its own people in a pointlessly prolonged fight with Iraq. In Yemen, it's a proclamation that Ansar Allah will liberate Palestine while murdering several hundred thousand Yemenis over the course of 12 years.

The current situation is pretty great for Iran. There's an open debate about how reliant Ansar Allah is on the IRGC QF, which creates some deniability. NATO is flying all sorts of stuff over and boating all sorts of stuff around Yemen, so Iran gets to use it as a playground for their new loitering munitions and anti-ship weapons, but with Yemenis pushing the buttons. If Ansar Allah actually managed to strike any kind of real blow against NATO or against Israel, my guess is that it would take less than a couple weeks for the aggrieved power to hit the Houthis so hard you'd need a HEPA filter to collect what would be left of Abdul-Malik al-Houthi.

Aside: for anybody not familiar with Socotra: it's an island out in the middle of the Arabian Sea, physically closer to Somalia than Yemen, notable mostly for being a sort of Galapagos of East Africa and a major tourist destination (even during the middle of the civil war, because it's not meaningfully integrated with Yemeni politics). Socotra does not matter.
They are an Instagram post that is shown to make you buy something, not because anyone you follow posted it. So, it's an ad. The fact that they're using your face in a Meta ad doesn't make it any different from any other ad.

You're probably thinking about this as not a problem from a privacy perspective, and you may be right that this is not technically a privacy issue. But it's still a huge problem from a psychological influence perspective. Ads are already extremely good at manipulating your psyche, adding the ability to show you personally in some wonderful situations that their product would apparently put you in is a whole other level in manipulation.

Plus, if this gets normalized, the next step is absolutely going to be to sell this as a new type of ad to other brands (assuming people end up interacting with such ads more).

Edit to say: thinking about it, I actually think it's a privacy violation even for a Meta ad. Giving them permission to use an image of my face to generate a better selfie doesn't give them permission to use it to serve me ads. The GDPR is pretty specific about this: when you opt into sharing personal data for a specific purpose, that has to be interpreted in a narrow sense, you can't arbitrarily broaden the scope.
> There isn't even a good way to tell Google calendar to always notify 1 minute before events

It's on the calendar settings. Settings for my calendars > Event Notifications. You can set 5 default notification options for all events created on that calendar.
i can connect all the data sources (salesforce, jira and zendesk) and give analyst agents on top of it in CRM interface, primarily for the leadership team. so you get insights + actionability + you don't have to juggle between 5 different apps
No, not to the extent that it was and is the case at FB. I think people who haven't worked at FB don't quite understand the degree to which PSC culture pervades the company. It's absolutely more intense than Google, Apple or Microsoft, though I'm not as sure about Amazon. Valve seems differently intense in a way that I think is a negative overall.

A bit pithy, but: The goal of most enterprises is to build useful goods and services for its customers. The goal of Meta is to evaluate its employees.
Bread machines exist. They produce acceptable bread. Do you train a good baker by giving them a bread machine? Can you even be a good baker if the only bread you've ever eaten is white loaves from a bread machine?

LLM are a tool that has to be guided by human experience. It's really hard to do that if you don't have experience outside LLMs.
Sartre said some things about how the opinions expressed externally by antisemites need not be internally consistent. I'm inclined to believe it applies to all fascists more broadly.

I think something that people fail to realize is that fascism is frequently a big-tent sort of movement. Like, the Nazis had everybody from the anti-Christian Thule society types all the way down to the purely self-interested who are literally only in it for the access to money and power (like Oskar Schindler, incidentally). Fascism is sort of remarkable for its permissiveness of heterodoxy in certain spheres, given how ideologically driven it is. But this can be understood by how personality driven it is. Insofar as there is a coherent philosophy at the heart of any fascist movement, it basically devolves down to "what does the person in charge believe?".

All of that said, I'm reminded frequently of the Wehrmacht soldiers who wept while committing genocide in Ukraine and Belarus. They wept for how awful and evil an act they were doing, but they kept doing it because they believed in the supremacy of Germany and Aryanism. That's really what I mean when I say a person with a consistent world view is more dangerous than a person without, because they can use it to convince themselves to do things they know to be evil.
HN was briefly called "Startup News".

I remember the popular prediction of software going service-based, probably delivered via a web browser or something like one in the late 1990s and being disturbed at the prospect of being unable to pirate things. How else was I going to get software as a broke teenager?