skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Office jargon in particular fulfills a social signalling role rather than a clear communication role. It's intended to tell upper management: "I'm one of you guys, please look kindly upon me and maybe promote me!" But there's a dynamic similar to that of "U" English vs. "non-U English"[0], as upper management is more likely to say things like "Just get the fucking thing shipped. Our business depends on it."

[0] It turns out that in England, upper-class aspirants are likely to use posher phrases and idioms than actual upper-class people, as the latter are aware of their own and others' social status and have no need for verbal affectations to communicate it. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English
I realized a long time ago that lack of information isn’t the problem. We’re basically living in a Brave New World now; most people are too distracted to realize they’re being poisoned and would only accept it if the very institutions doing it told them they were doing it. But IMO it’s more of an emotional thing - once you realize it it’s hard to go back to the comfy world of “actually the bureaucrats and shareholders are looking out for my well-being”.
That's why I prefer test frameworks that make parametrised tests so easy that they become the default.

Kotest and Spock are such frameworks.
You’re correct, it’s not sustainable. But that also means the OP thinks anyone who doesn’t contribute to sustainable model (>=3 children) is an awful person.

Well, 2 is not sustainable on average right now, because we’re below replacement level, so we need to get the average up to like 3, then back down to 2.1 if we want somewhat same amount of people like right now.

Either way, judging people with their ability, want, or need to have children is kinda stupid. I have dear friends who are single, couples with no kids, couples with multiple kids and etc. Actively saying one choice is bad is the reason why some people might actually not want to be around those people. Let people make their own choices, and what they think is right to them.

Again, I’m saying this as a person who is planning to have children.
>owners already go in once a year to a mechanic for a state vehicle inspection

...for some states in some areas of the state:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_Unit...
It looks like that method was known by 1880, if I read https://archive.org/details/indispensablebic00stur/page/14/m... correctly ('The "indispensable" bicyclist's handbook; a complete cyclopaedia on the subject') correctly:

> The Centaur Crank is first screwed up to a shoulder on the axle with right and left-handed threads, so that the pressure of the foot tends to make it all the more secure ; whilst, to prevent its loosening by “ back-pedalling,” a slightly tapered conical pin is driven through both crank and axle, and secured with a nut.
Brussels' meddling with our phone chargers is a sign big tech has failed
If there's one thing our capitalist society has taught me it's that people are always willing to endure a crappier product. I'm not sure we've found the bottom yet...
Wouldn't this throw hydration errors if your SSR HTML does not exactly match your client side HTML?
Just put a propagation delay on the information, like the physical world. Human socialization is evolved to handle the physical world.
Amen. My son's backpack is light as a feather.

I remember carrying my bag full, and still carrying books and notebooks in my arms. It was horrible and I'd end up digging through them to find things, not need it all ... not fun or efficient.
Join the military! :D

I'm a product of department of defense school system. My parents were lower class, I received a world class education. My mom taught me to read and count before kindergarten, mostly via playing card games with her. I was in NC at that time, and they thought I was a savant!

Overall, my experience was good, some bullying of course, but at that time administrators held the ultimate key which was we will first tell your parents, and then subsequently your parents commanding officer, which would result in work disciplinary action. When I lived in Japan, there were a couple kids that were bad enough to get that to trigger. Stupid stuff like huffing air freshener, or just beating the hell out of people.

My short stint in NJ public school was ok, but it lacked the rigor/structure of the DoDDs school. I ended up at a good engineering university, but had a good amount of debt.

In Philadelphia, public schools are essentially DMZs, with private schools for kids that want to do things with their lives. This sounds harsh, but our tax system reflects this, as well as our disrepair of public school buildings (lead, abestos).

My Dad gave up his best years to the military and his body suffered, but it was certainly not for nothing. He retired at 42, with a pension after 20y in USMC. Healthcare is taken care of.

It's hard to say whether it is the escalating cost of schools which are commodifying it "It's so expensive I shouldn't have to xyz", leading to low parental involvement (maybe that is normal?), or continuous concierge service for helicopter parents as well. My friend who is a teacher has an entire class of students exploiting the IEP system to get extra time on exams, less choices in multiple choice, less reading, landscape rather than portrait tests (yes this is real), and other things that absolutely blow up her ability to be efficient at anything in the class room. I'm sure there is an argument to be made in favor of this, but it cannot operate in this way. At her school (Allentown, PA) the inmates are running the asylum due to administrators treating parents as "customers" and the parents as "the service provider". It is a sad state of affairs. In my world, parents ALWAYS sided with the teacher no matter what, which meant you had no chance at causing a problem in that way.

I don't know if there is a good solution on the horizon. I think the overwork of parents, combined with the exploitation of the school for better marks is a sick system. Only private systems seem to be able to surf this in a meaningful way because they can remove bad actors.

cite: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/us/schools-pandemic-defen...
I really liked it and added a variable speed argument: https://github.com/santinic/audiblez/pull/4
One can hope @ein0p!!
I agree that weight should be a factor, but it needs to be nonlinear. Very light vehicles do not damage roads, while heavier vehicles cause disproportionately more damage. A car causes some minimal amount of damage that adds up over time, but a car twice as heavy causes more than twice as much damage and thus should pay more than twice as much per mile. And because cargo trucks weigh significantly more when laden than when empty, it needs to be based on either the weight when laden or on the actual weight at the time.
> That application was submitted in March 2024 and is on track for approval in December 2026

Huh? Is this something where there's multiple incremental steps in the process, and that date is just the final approval stamp, or does it actually just take more than 1.5 years?
That's what first came to mind as well.

For those not familiar / context, NewsRadio, Negotiation, S2E8 1995:

<https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0660208/quotes/>

<https://breezewiki.pussthecat.org/newsradio/wiki/Negotiation>
Calvin and Hobbes - January 25, 1993 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25

Calvin: I like to verb words.

Hobbes: What?

Calvin: I like to verb words I take nouns and adjectives and use them as verbs. Remember When "Access" was a thing? Now it's something you do. It got verbed.

Calvin: Verbing weirds language.

Hobbes: Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding.
Lots of American social media are banned here by the Russian government (all for the same reason of protecting citizens from foreign avdersaries), and we just use VPN. We're used to it, and if a service is popular (like Instagram), it's practically impossible to ban it. Monetization provided by the service is replaced by embedding sponsors' videos directly in the video (and getting money directly from the sponsor without third parties), or by selling merchendize to fans.

I wonder how many Americans will just use VPN? Is it common to use VPN in the US? Here, almost everyone uses it now. A few weeks ago they suddenly banned Viber for some reason and I barely noticed it.
From the thread and related discussions, Cloudflare's reasons probably had nothing to do with bandwidth used. I also recently signed up for Cloudflare and pushed 20 TB per month on their free plan, I specifically asked Cloudflare if this was okay and they said yes. YMMV
Q3 2024 Top domains:

youtube.com 151.7M

gofundme.com 110.3M

media1.tenor.co 97.1M

tiktok.com 92.6M

cbsnews.com 84.7M

people.com 84.7M

today.com 80.4M

usatoday.com 77.9M

variety.com 77M

tmz.com 75.6M

dailymail.co.uk 72.2M

si.com 67.7M

nypost.com 63.5M

abcnews.go.com 62.9M

reuters.com 62M

amazon.com 60.2M

eonline.com 59.4M

zillow.com 55.7M

cnn.com 55.1M

businessinsider.com 54.9M

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Q3 2024 Top pages:

NBC Olympics & Paralympics 132.4M

LADbible 123M

ESPN 122.9M

ABC News 104.8M

UNILAD 104.5M

Dad Jokes 99.6M

People 97.8M

Eddie Gallagher - Navy SEAL Chief 94.8M

SportsCenter 94.7M

NBC Sports 93.9M

CinemaBlend 93.3M

Troab 91.8M

Today Show 90.9M

Memezar 90.9M

ESPN FC 90.7M

Entertainment Tonight 89.7M

Lessons Learned In Life 89.1M

Chefclub Network 88.4M

Team USA 87.9M

Netflix 87.8M
> I dropped out simply because I found school insufferably boring and an almost complete waste of time.

That's having a bigger vision. Never fear, you are already well accounted for.
Pat-Tastrophe: How We Hacked Virtuals' $4.6B Agentic AI Ecosystem
The bar had been set that low, huh?

She kept trying and failing.
No monopolies were broken up. Marketplaces continue to freely compete against vendors.

The next administration will quickly reverse anything she's set in motion.
"Trivial" in software means easy. So "non-trivial" just means not easy. As such whether or not something actually is trivial or not will vary person to person.
Interesting. This is actually a pretty nice middleground. If books were designed more like a binder of notebooks, perhaps by chapter, it would solve the weight issue while still allowing for all the things people love about paper books.
Right idea, wrong time. The number of people with phones and data plans capable of recording, uploading, and viewing good quality video is near 100% now.
I'm not asking to be treated or trusted like an authority. I'm just asking not to treat people, when sharing a lived experience shared with others (making this n>1), is told that their experience is "half baked". My lived experience is by definition my objective reality.

Arguing with me that I could not possibly have experienced a cause and effect because some people didn't hold enough large enough placebo controlled double blind studies (I say this because double blind studies have studied this exact phenomenon, and triggered the retraction of some of these dyes in other countries) is just insulting after a while.

We know so little about nutrition and how different individuals process different nutrients that the scientific consensus on healthy food habits, weight loss, etc have shifted dramatically over the years. We are facing an obesity epidemic in the US. A little humility would be nice in the face of what clearly is not working for the majority of the population.

I mean, it's just food dye for God's sake, what's the "scientific" argument that foods must contain artificial colors?
wrong. it's not any more correct than 1. that's the key part of an "equivalence" class is that the elements are "equivalent"
Chick-Fil-A Lemonade Depends on Robots Squeezing Millions of Lemons
I am not in the EU. There's two accounts - FB and Insta. The same email was given to both.
The tech hiring market is pretty turbulent now, indeed.

Regarding Europe as a preference, this data is based on users from 120+ countries. For many developers outside of the US, relocation itself might be a goal. I'd say that from the perspective of the user group we surveyed, Canada was ranked even higher than the US for moving to.
Being able to flip through a physical book is so much better UX.
I'm fine with this, based on the simple principle of Turnabout Is Fair Play.

China already bans practically all the popular US social media apps and similar apps/websites. I'm for free trade, but it ought to be fair trade too, as in, roughly similar/equal policies. If another country bans X imports from your own, it's hardly unfair to respond in kind.
> who's going to pick up on that and store it in a database (and at what point)

LLM might, if prompted to look at it, or if there was a defining moment that could invoke such change. It won't pick on a very subtle change, but then most people reading a story wouldn't either - this is more of the kind of stuff fans read into a story when trying to patch potential continuity issues.

> What if a player extemporaneously gives a monologue about their grief at losing a parent? Will the entire story be stored? Will it be processed into structured chunks to be referenced later? Will the LLM just shove "lost a father" into a database?

The scale depends on the design, but I'd say yes, shoving "lost a father" into a database so it pops up in context is a good first step, the next step would be to ensure the entry looks more like "mentioned they continue to grieve after loss of their father <time ago>", followed by a single-sentence summary of their monologue.

Personally, I had some degree of success with configuring LLM (Claude 3.5 Sonnet) for advising on some personal topics across multiple conversations - the system prompt contains notes in <user_background> and <user_goals> tag-delimited blocks, and instructions to monitor the conversation for important information relevant to those notes, and, if found, to adjust those notes accordingly (achieved by having it emit updates in another magic tag, and me manually apply them to the system prompt).

> Given current limitations I don't see how you design a system that won't forget important details, particularly across many sessions.

It's not possible. Fortunately, it's not needed. Humans forget important details all the time, too - but this is fine, because in storytelling, the audience is only aware of the paths you took, not of the countless other possibilities you missed or decided not to take. Same with LLMs (and larger systems using LLMs as components) - as long as they keep track of some details, and don't miss the biggest, most important ones, they'll do the job just fine.

(And if they miss some trivia you actually care about, I can imagine a system in which you could ask about it, and it'll do what the writers and fans always do - retcon the story on the fly.)
UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
My daughter has a chromebook for school. As a device, it's actually pretty nice and the administration aspects of it are fantastic. It can be wiped and re-imaged easily, her "files" are all stored on the network, and it's snappy. Except for PDF viewing.

When it comes to PDFs, it sometimes really struggles. I think that the device can handle them, but I'm pretty sure that the PDFs themselves are often a collection of scanned images and not text. Once she has more than a few tabs open, it takes longer and longer to switch between them and she ends up using a desktop to complete her work.

In this case, the school provides the tools for her to do her assignments but we have the means to provide better ones at home and not every child will have this advantage.

Personally, I can read data sheets all day on a monitor but I absolutely can not do the same with fiction. I either need a paper book or a Kindle, and I don't know why that is. Perhaps it's because I am looking ahead and not down?
> Who needs food when you have 4nm chips.

Who needs logic and reason when you have false dichotomy?
Carrying weight from books is good for you. Takes care of your physical fitness and mental fitness.
This always seemed like a bad idea to me. I got done high school right before laptops were provided in schools all over the place. I never had one.

Are kids actually able to just get on social media on these things? I figured they would be super restricted.
This is a fast reactor. That is, a reactor in which the neutrons, instead of being moderated down to thermal energies, remain at high energy.

The fission cross section for such energetic neutrons is much lower than for thermal neutrons. Therefore, there has to be a much greater density of fissionable material in the reactor core.

The lack of a moderator also means rearrangement of the core in an accident is potentially much more dangerous. If the fuel itself rearranges to become more compact, say by melting and flowing, the reactivity could increase. This is not possible in (say) a light water reactor, where such a rearrangement would reduce reactivity.

The nightmare scenario for any fast reactor, warned about by Edward Teller in 1967, is a rearrangement that causes the core to become supercritical on prompt neutrons alone (that is, on only the neutrons released promptly at the moment of fission, not on those + the delayed neutrons emitted by some fission products as they decay). A fast prompt supercritical configuration could potentially explode with great violence, greater than Chernobyl. An atomic bomb is a prompt fast supercritical system.

I will want to see how the NRC does or does not license their design, a process that has just started. I will not be surprised if their approach ends up being unlicensable in the US because safety cannot be assured by analysis under accident conditions.
Because JSON is explicitly meant for machines only?
Ask HN: Do technical interviewers feel guilty about their hard questions?
One might expect this, especially for those trying to identify candidates with high inherited intelligence, in an age of AI where such intelligence might be less important.
Perhaps it was a little snarky - it was intended with good humour to point out how drastically far away the suggestion was.

Wikipedia is nothing like what this is for adding information in the way the comment says. Particularly because one of the very key points about this sheet is that you can copy it and add information. It's explicitly for that and Wikipedia absolutely does not offer the ease of use of filling in forms and adding your information on the go.
Less training than someone like Google that has ~everything and are pouring billions into research.

I don't think anyone apart from a FAANG-like corp really stands a chance in keeping up with SOTA.
Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza
I meant you're making it manifest that all roads are toll roads.

I like your GPS-based toll system idea. Different roads could have different toll rates that are displayed on your device, including a meter for how much you owe, and all jurisdictions can get their money. Fueled up in one state and drove through an intervening state en route to another? They can get their money. Heck, you can do it on a county level. You can fluctuate the toll rate to effect congestion pricing.

There's a lot you can do with this idea!
Move aside, BMI: There's a better way to define obesity, commission finds
And yet we want kids to get exercise in some way... When I was a kid we walked to and from school with 40lb packs, uphill. Both ways.
Not free speech. INHO its about free assembly. 140M of us assembled there, and now that meeting place is being distroyed, and we are being dispersed, without any actual harm being in evidence. If the government can do that here, it can do it anywhere.
I believe that is a reference to the treatment of Uyghurs in China.
> having autocratic private institutions having undue cultural power is proving to be worse for our culture than anything a foreign country has done to us

Dogs kill more Americans than lions, but that doesn't mean that we should be letting people have lions as pets.

I'd personally be happy to see something like Australia's recent restriction of teen use of social media in the US, but bringing that up now is just a whataboutism.
Not a perfect solution, but you could just use Steam to load games from GOG on Linux though. Thereby getting "the best of both worlds".
I have yet to stumble upon any major issue doing this.
Right. This was announced back in 2023.[1] Somehow it showed up in India Defense Review recently.

It's for preschoolers. The announced goal was to "completely end digital learning for children under age 6".

[1] https://apnews.com/article/sweden-digital-education-backlash...
China's High-Tech Spherical Security Robot Enhances Policing in Crowded Streets [video]
My favorite part: “The crosswords are fun, simple, and perfect for sharing on social media once you complete them.”
Kafka Transactions Explained
Maybe that's part of the reason why "strider" bikes are becoming a lot more common for toddlers to learn how to ride a bike. They're effectively what the OP describes, a bike with no pedals that you run and then balance on.
There is no single "just simply" though. All communication is based on an (inherently fallible) estimate of the recipient's mental-state, priorities, and knowledge-base.

For example, "I would like one head of lettuce" is a kind of jargon-lite for "I would like one portion of the fully-grown plant known as lettuce which is found above-ground as a connected unit in nature." Which one leads to a "simpler" exchange will depend on your assumptions about the recipient.
They're really trying to juice the usage numbers
I'm a fan of SMSL products https://www.smsl-audio.com/

My desk setup is their AD-18 driving L/R bookshelf speakers and a compact subwoofer via its dedicated sub output. I love all the input options including traditional analog, toslink, BT/NFC, USB for high-res: https://www.smsl-audio.com/portal/product/detail/id/566.html
> It's just that they can't be useful (i.e., designed to optimize for some profitable metric) without causing harm.

That's not the pattern I've seen, as close as you are to it.

I've seen lots of platforms be wildly useful. Digg was good for a while; StumpleUpon, Pinterest, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Reddit and even Facebook all had periods at the start where they added real value to people's lives.

At some point they start to "optimize for some profitable metric" - and quickly become heinous.

The problem isn't the algorithm; it's that it gets twisted toward profit. And that's basically a tautology - once you start trying to suck money out of the equation for yourself, that juice has to come from somewhere.

I can envision a platform that isn't based on profit being far more useful than harmful - if it can only ward off the manipulations of the yacht class.
I know of one format that serde's system doesn't support well. D-Bus requires empty arrays to be aligned according to the type of their element, but serde's system has no way to tell the serializer any metadata about the type of an array element apart from giving it the array element to serialize. All the serializer gets to know that an array has started and then ended; it doesn't know anything about the element alignment unless it receives at least one element.

There is a sort of workaround - preload into the serializer what it is expected to serialize, eg by passing in the D-Bus signature string in the serializer ctor. But a) this is a somewhat unclean solution because everything other than arrays is redundant information that the serializer already gets from the serde::Serialize impl, and b) it's manual work for the user to have to specify this and easy to make a mistake and have the two get out of sync.

In my D-Bus library I decided to have my own Serializer setup as a workaround. serde's Deserializer setup still works though so that's not a problem.
Is it not enough to know that the federal regulatory agencies are captured? Why wouldn’t they poison you if it increases their bottom line and they can get away with it?