skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Force” is a pretty strong word, it was barely a shove. Just enough to give themselves a head start running away.

People call it “toxic empathy” not because empathy is inherently wrong, but because it leads to people such as yourself minimizing the use of force in a crime (which you admit this was) while showing selective empathy only for the perpetrator and not their future victims.

> Being tried as a child when you’re 17 is by no means a “given”.

> I do not in any way agree that I created a “worse” situation than a child being sent to prison.

These both sounds like you’re rationalizing an emotive decision, post hoc.

> I think it is extremely naive to think that sending someone to an American prison will create anything but a worse felon. This isn’t Norway, American prisons are purely punitive.

They likely would’ve negotiated a plea for a misdemeanor and treatment on a first offense, in the US. Even first time lower felonies result in supervised probation and mandatory treatment, eg, the recommended outcome for drug felonies.

Again, you seem to be focusing entirely on your feelings — without an honest account of either the likely outcome of prosecution, the criminal’s future (having normalized violent robberies), or their future victims.

This is why it’s called “toxic empathy”: because you’re soothing your own feelings without engaging in rational analysis nor true empathy, eg, by understanding that sometimes criminals turn their lives around because they’re punished or that future victims deserve your care also.
That's the thing. They aren't taking offense to mean-spiritedness directed at the person being referred to that way, except in cases where that person actually does have such an intellectual disability. And such language is normally directed at people of ordinary intelligence, to call them out for failing to think things through when they're perfectly capable of it.

There are, and should be, contexts where insulting people is socially acceptable and where such insults should not be censored. And no matter what words you use (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/euphemism_treadmill), it's fundamentally impossible to get rid of the idea that a lack of (demonstrated) intelligence is inherently negative.

(It's noteworthy to me that the same activists don't seem to be able to identify any terms denoting lack of physical strength that are inherently offensive - except insofar as they invoke gender stereotypes. Why should it be any less objectionable to call someone a "weakling", for example?)
> the final group fired up, they decided they wanted to drive. And the primary system rewarded them.

I've been an outside observer of US politics for many decades, I'd characterize what happened not so much as the primary system rewarding them but more as a consummate grifter and snakeoil carpetbagger fooling them into thinking they've won.

They got fired up, they got the candidate they voted for, I'm not sure the expected rewards will follow as hoped and expected.
Debates about the technical merits aside...the alternative to not allowing people to build their own nice little corner of a legacy codebase is not a bunch of devs building a consistent codebase. It's devs not wanting to touch the codebase at all.

Working on an old shitty codebase is one thing. Being told you have to add to the shit is soul crushing.
The Biden administration, maybe due to looking at aggregate statistics, would insist the economy was doing well. People on the ground could not (and cannot) afford healthcare, education, food, and housing, even working 2+ jobs.

Why didn't Biden do something immediately, effectively, and very publicly about the coordinated pricing on rentals? It would be just, good policy, very important to citizens and opportunity and the economy, and great politics. He would be their champion. Instead the RealPage lawsuit has been out of the news so long that I didn't know if it was still alive until today, and only after the election, with a couple weeks remaining, does Biden sue the landlords.

I've met many people who complain but none I've asked have even heard of RealPage or their scheme. The greatest power is controlling what people know. With the Internet, you can fool all the people all the time.
.. from lawdictionary.org :

> 2 : any of the circumstances of a case that exist or are alleged to exist in reality
: a thing whose actual occurrence or existence is to be determined by the evidence presented at trial see also finding of fact at finding, judicial notice question of fact at question, trier of fact compare law, opinion
Maybe, but my life feels better by going for run for 30 minutes or to the gym, or spending time with my kid and/or partner rather than clicking one button on a web page for 30 minutes straight.
That is certainly possible, I don't know yet. But what I have noticed is that it is only past 40 that I started doing things that matter, and I learned to recognize things that do not need doing or that should not be done.

This goes across the spectrum: from knowing what to do (and more importantly what NOT to spend time on) to build a business that earns money, to avoiding jumping onto the latest and greatest JavaScript framework.

Incidentally, one amusing side effect is that I tend to disagree with >90% of HN commenters and often regret posting my comments, because I get downvoted or criticized into oblivion. I might of course be wrong. But then again, when I look at the depressing comments even in this discussion, or at comments from people worrying about their job, securing income, etc, and compare this to my situation, which I've ended up in by following my own compass — I stop worrying, take a deep breath and continue to do my thing :-)
> Does HN have any healthy gatekeeping mechanisms aside from its (ugly) UI to keep it high quality?

Yes, the mods.
I’d recommend learning at least basic piano first.

If you spend at least an hour each day on focused learning and practice, you could probably be writing basic music in a year.

Pianote.com is where I got started, but now I’m learning on my own.

Also learn to transcribe melodies by ear as you go. Start with Happy Birthday and keep practicing.
The majority of big business is built on varying degrees of fraud, bribery, nepotism, anti-competitive behaviour, etc.

It's just how business is done. If you don't get a leg up on your competitors, they'll get one up on you.
Record-retention laws in 3, 2, …
I don't think we can attribute causality to the decline in Berkeley any more or less than we can attribute causality to the increase in comparison cities. If it was causal in Berkeley, it was causal in SF and Oakland. (Whose rates actually went up by like 20%? But at some point that gets cut down to 4%, I'm not sure why.)

And still: Among low income households only. We don't know what the effect was on the whole population.

Anyway, I'm sympathetic to the idea that sugar taxes work, just being critical of this particular study and your claim which is stronger than the actual study outcome.
In the final analysis, I don't think it matters. The former leads to the latter. The same is true of things like attempts to keep the LGB, but toss the T. The T follows from the LGB. The LGB already presupposes all that is needed to infer the T. You would be drawing an artificial line in the sand otherwise. It's ad hoc and doesn't work.

One common error people make is that they think they can pick and choose beliefs and positions a la carte and expect them to remain stable as fixed parameters of the environment. But that's not how ideas work. They aren't static in this way. Rather, they function much like presuppositions that, over time, are worked out, dialectically, if you will. Society is like a machine that works out the consequences of ideas over time.

So, I always find it amusing when anyone appeals to some fondly remembered status quo that held in a prior decade, believing that all one needs to do is return to that status quo "verbatim" and all will be well, as if these things were just a matter of arranging the furniture a certain way. You can't roll back the clock, and if you could, you would only recreate a similar development that led to the undesirable state of affairs in the first place.

This isn't an argument for some kind of Big P progessivism, or against tradition, only an account of how cultures develop over time. In our case, by understanding the tensions and contradictions within the liberalism tradition, we can come to explain why Western societies have moved in a certain direction over the last 200 years. Heck, we can go back further to the influence of Luther, or even further to Ockham, without whose ideas liberalism would arguably not exist.
Has anyone tried a speed run yet? Would be awesome if there was a leaderboard! I've done it twice now, I can see myself watching YouTube videos on people sharing strategies on the best sequence of upgrades to buy.
Power tech can transmit electricity through glass to the outdoors
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42627574
Has anyone tried a speed run yet? Would be awesome if there was a leaderboard! I've done it twice now, I can see myself watching YouTube videos on people sharing strategies on the best sequence of upgrades to buy.

Update: The answer is yes of course! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42613699
Yea, this is why I think it's an intractable problem that cannot be approached from the device level, and needs to be more of a user-driven movement and more about spreading awareness. However, that doesn't make for sexy privacy selling service products, who mostly sell products that delete your data every couple of months and then it re-appears because the upstream sources just keep pumping the data into the well. It isn't a thing anyone really would usually care about either, until they are impacted by it, and as much as I care about this I can attest to it - I have got ads that led me to some really good products or creators I still enjoy. Just as many if not more times though I've gotten scammed or manipulated, and that's the part of the awareness that I think needs to be spread.

Tackling this from a technical level, to me, at this point seems infeasible. Feel free to inbox my email if you have any more thoughts about this, this is something that is difficult to discuss in such public forums.

I will just leave this - to me, people place undue faith in adblockers and extensions. That fixes only a part of the problem. You're also placing a lot of trust in your browser (not to mention the extension). If I really, truly want to determine who you are - from the perspective of a data miner - I can trivially hide all backend requests behind a proxy that you will never know about, and your adblocker will never know about. It provides a false sense of security that a lot of otherwise technical people hide behind.
That's why you get problems around 10Gbps, but simple 10Gbps optics and afaik all 1Gbps or slower optics don't use the "fancy" kind of signal processing because it wasn't needed. Their lower cut-off frequency should be around 100kHz.
> I see nothing in your links that supports those conclusions.

I'd start with chapter 5.2.1.7 go from there.

> but this too is a complex topic (see e.g. https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/09/08/acc-entry-should-trans... ).

You can either force a trans kid to develop the wrong kind of secondary sex characteristics. With all trauma and painful corrective procedures that will follow later in life, or you can let them take a pill a day which will halt it until they're old enough to make that decision. That really doesn't seem difficult to me.

> Also, the link you're responding to isn't a "study", but rather a position document from the NHS

I know but it's still based on the cass report, which claims to be a study.
I rarely have to search more than once or twice for a topic, and find the result in the top few links on bing.

But I'm mostly searching for tech stuff. Local content, or answering questions, google is better.
The relevant Trump administration won't even begin existing for another 13 days yet, that doesn't seem like a big issue. :p
They are in some countries. The sugar tax in the UK quickly led to many places only selling non sugar variants or charging a premium for the sugared versions.
When I bought mine the FE was $500 more. Only reason to get it is better cooling and size which were not factors for me.
This is the way. You absolutely can turn shit codebases into something nicer and faster, and this is best done by people who know the system, and maybe even more important, knows the operational context the system exists in.

I once came into an old codebase like this as a junior, thinking I can start again. And I was gently but firmly told by my boss that it wouldn't work, this software is crucial to operations that support all our revenue, and while it can be improved it has to keep working. And we improved the hell out of it.
YC's take on Solo Founders?(See below.)
I understand this varies case by case, but I’m curious why YC places such a strong emphasis on having at least two co-founders. From my experience (I could be wrong), it seems like a very strong preference.

I’ve built the MVP, getting strong signs of problem validation, and am close to securing POCs one mid- and one large-sized B2B customer. In this context, do I still need to worry about co-founder risks like mismatches or conflicts?

While I know a team would help offload tasks, I’m unsure if a co-founder is essential. I’ve explored my network but haven’t found the right fit, and bringing in a stranger feels too risky. Why not start hiring a team instead of risking a mismatch with a co-founder? A hiring mistake is fixable, but a wrong co-founder could be a much bigger problem.

I’d really appreciate help understanding what I might be missing. I deeply respect YC and have benefited greatly from their advice, but I’m struggling to align with this point. If any partners are reading this, thank you for everything you’ve done for the startup ecosystem!
This is great! I'm wondering if there's anything on the roadmap for multiplayer support?
ahh, there's a lot of scenarios here.

in my scenario, those people were gone.
This is how I formatted my resume using Pandoc to generate a word document from a Markdown file. Having everything in Markdown also made it easy to quickly create customized resumes by reordering specific sections or lists in a section as well as tracking changes in Git.
It's not exactly an administration that actually releases much info, even if they say they're going to do so they don't.

If he doesn't like the uncertainty, he could just say what his plan is clearly rather than ramble about it randomly.
My own experience is the exact opposite. Out of all the times in my life I can recall ever having heard the word "retarded" used, I cannot think of any reason to suspect that any of them were meant as anything other than a synonym for "idiotic".

Which, of course, also referred to clinical mental disability at some point in history. As did "moronic", "imbecilic" and others. But nowadays they're really all just strong forms of "stupid".

Even in contexts where generic insults directed at people are not tolerated, it should be acceptable to recognize stupid ideas as such.
Related Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer' (571 points, 20 hours ago, 453 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42619139
literally what I wanted to do as an opinionated junior
Are they claiming that since they own the Java trademark that they can own the JavaScript trademark?
This is so true, and I'm in fact going through this right now. One of my semi-technical friends followed an online tutorial and created a stock tracker web app, almost entirely using ChatGPT. It is a pretty good achievement (in the context of someone who isn't a programmer and started from scratch), and I'm encouraging him to keep going down this path and developing his skills. He is however convinced that he can launch this app and make millions, and is even considering quitting his job to do it full time. There is zero chance it is going to get any kind of traction, and I keep telling him that, but he is too enamored by all the "influencers" on LinkedIn/X telling him that he is basically a 10x engineer now.
Waymo driverless robotaxi sends airport passenger spinning in circles
Similar to the article's author, I also once got laid off shortly after being hired; three months in my case. I was promised they were on a growth track to nine-figure revenue. One month of down subscription growth, the CEO panicked, and I was gone.

I still get mad thinking about it.
Thanks! I'm sick and couldn't bring myself to do the wavelength calculation. Your comment helped my thoughts. I think people working on microwave equipment (frequency counters, ...) work in Hz.That's probably why they used the term.
the irony in calling someone "extremely naive" while talking about a 17 year old getting prison time for snatching a phone. on top of the rest of the posts
I can only speak for myself, but... It's not the concept of advertising I'm against. It's the data collection that could easily be used for nefarious purposes. We can look at history in the last 100 years to find many examples how data like this can be abused. And for those of us in the US, the politics are getting pretty spicy, so the threat is worth taking seriously.
You know what, I went back and checked it and apparently it does work now. Not sure why I thought otherwise.

It's too late to edit my original post :(
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42629120
A latency improvement would be to have digitCountThresholds be indexed by the lzcnt, instead of the result of the other LUT. Increases the size of that lookup table from 160B to 512B though. Funnily enough I've had this approach in a local copy of Ryu when I was working on cutting it down for my purposes. Unfortunately whatever ended up public had cut this out too.

edit: some chat messages of me at [0]. Some previous unrelated discussion found at [1].

[0]: https://app.element.io/#/room/#bqn:matrix.org/$KKIK86x0tygAf... (arbitrarily capped at 18 digits because Ryu didn't need more)

[1]: https://github.com/ulfjack/ryu/issues/34
All these are part of a different mistake - lack of common culture amount the coders. It’s really really hard, and often antithetical to the politics of the org, but having a common area (email, actual physical meetings) between the “tech leads” - so that’s one in 8 to one in twenty devs, is vital.

Sharing code, ideas, good and bad etc is possible - but it requires deliberate effort
Just because you make exceptions doesn't mean everyone else does
I suspect the eventual goal is to get citizens to train their own AI avatars, and then those avatars will be used to market to the citizens, to do market research, product research, manipulate politicians, etc. Will you click through letting them do what they want with an AI simulation of you? It starts with a photo. The "next big thing" is agents they say, a personal AI that you train to do things for you. And which incidentally builds an AI simulation of you, the ultimate training data for large models. You are the (AI training) product.
Even if you’re generally suspicious of so called best practice/ design patterns / Martin Fowlerisms.. this is a time for the strangler approach. (Parent and siblings are already talking about the same idea without naming it.)

Rewrites from scratch never work with sufficiently large systems, and anyone that’s been involved with these things should be savvy enough to recognize this. The only question is around the exact definition of sufficiently large for a given context.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangler_fig_pattern
Naming opportunity: Shitty Images
> I’ve built the MVP, validated the problem, and am close to securing mid- and large-sized B2B customers.

Take a bigger step back - if you are this far along, why do you need YC?
I tried signing up for the free trial subscription, and am starting to regret it.

I successfully entered my credit card details (4 times), yet it still says I don't have an active subscription. So besides not being able to try this app, there is also no way to cancel my automatic payments, which starts on Jan 18.

After fixing this onboarding problem, I suggest making it possible to try without giving any personal information. (I expected the video player on the landing page to be functional, but I guess just the note section is.)

Also there are many typos on the site. Like "loged in as"
> The point is to besmirch their record with the bar association.

That effectively means nothing if every copyright lawyer eventually gets one.

In fact, I personally bet that it would be treated as a dividing mark between a newbie copyright lawyer & a professional copyright lawyer.
Remember when fizzbuzz was the gold standard in trick interview questions? And Joel was a revolutionary for advocating it? Things have certainly changed.
I once interviewed for a job where they admitted I was the only person in the pipeline. I was then rejected with a canned "This was a highly competitive process and we've decided to proceed with other candidates" email. Did not feel great.
And the one thing missing from the story.. decent shots of fireflies and glow worms doing their thing.
The pull over button is in fact on the screen.

According to his spokesperson, he wasn't aware of it.
Yeah 100%. Honestly style / technique / language consistency are implementation details, it helps with engineer fungibility and ramp up, but it also works against engineers applying local judgement. This is something to briefly consider when starting new services/features, but definitely not something to optimize for in an existing system.

On the other hand, data and logic consistency can be really important, but you still have to pick your battles because it's all tradeoffs. I've done a lot of work in pricing over the decades, and it tends to be an area where the logic is complex and you need consistency across surfaces owned by many teams, but at the same time it will interact with local features that you don't want to turn pricing libraries/services into god objects as you start bottlenecking all kinds of tangentially related projects. It's a very tricky balance to get right. My general rule of thumb is to anchor on user impact as the first order consideration, developer experience is important as a second order, but many engineers will over-index on things they are deeply familiar with and not be objective in their evaluation of the impact / cost to other teams who pay an interaction cost but are not experts in the domain.
Ah you’re right. I should’ve used The Adage of The Man With The Door Handle. Unusual story about a guy who was trapped in his home because he had to press down on a device to disengage a lock. Perhaps President Biden will issue an order against these terrible things.

Are door handles evil? Find out this weekend on Hacker News as it explores the concept of clicking “End Trip” on an app dispatched taxi ride that was embarked on by app.
"Frame generation (FG)" was not a feature in DLSS 2 - the subthread starter was speculating about MFG (of DLSS 4) having worse latency than FG (of DLSS 3), on the basis of more interpolated frames meaning being more frames behind.

To me this sounds not quite right, because while yes, you'll technically be more frames behind, those frames are also presented for a that much shorter period. There's no further detail available on this it seems however, so people have pivoted to the human equivalent of LLM hallucinations (non-sequiturs and making shit up then not being able to support it, but also being 100% convinced they are able to and are doing so).
Chairman and CEO of MoviePass' Parent Company Pleads Guilty to Securities Fraud
But it is a way to limit people to a fixed maximum number of children.

Say it's a requirement for an hour per day per child — no matter how many drugs Musk takes to stay awake, he can't have more than 24 kids.