skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This idea – that meaning is replaced by intensification – helps me understand a lot about the world today.

I don't see much difference to the "old world" either. Yellow journalism existed in the 1800s. We just do it in a more modern format.
"Excuse the mess. Most unfortunate. A diode blew in one of the life support computers. When we came to revive our cleaning staff, we discovered they'd been dead for thirty thousand years. Who's going to clear away the bodies? That's what no-one seems to have an answer for."
Is this where that saying about not laughing at the circus after serving in the (Soviet) Army came from?
You think they care one iota about what you think? Until there is some consequence (ie. people that pledge to respect your rights challenge them in an election and they win) then they will continue enacting this trash without a care. Most of these politicians are so old they probably don't even understand what they are voting on.
This actually happened to me a few years ago when I closed my consulting company. My bad, I know. My domain was taken over by someone in Vietnam. Back then, he was actually able to see my old emails via the Google Apps. Grandfathered free Apps accounts was a big part of the value proposition. He demanded $500 to delete my emails and docs. I offered $50 for his trouble since I recognized that I was at least partially at fault but he refused. To his bad luck, one of my main clients was Google itself. I reported him via my internal connections and the next day got the following email: "Oh my G-d, all forty of the domains I bought got Google Apps cancelled".
WhatsApp is opened everyday by hundreds of millions of people. It's already installed on every-phone. The fatigue to open up a frequently used app is smaller than a rarely used app.
Companies generally don’t reuse emails. If you come back, you can sometimes get your old email and access to your old enabled services.

I know when interns were at Amazon and left, their accounts were disabled. But when they came back, they got their old accounts back and the related Slack users
Given that there may be a 25% chance that China invades Taiwan by 2030, having the ability to package SOTA chips in the US by 2027 seems "soon enough".
I'm not interested in policing thought crimes,just real ones.
Matt Should Resign (2010)
Ah, the old "if you have nothing to hide you should let us surveil and search you as much as we want" argument.
You could always do that before in most instances just by watching for the yellow on the cross street too. Though I think the green is often slightly delayed relative to the pedestrian light, precisely to ensure the car cannot win that race legally
There's a proposal to redo a playground in San Mateo's central park—bids have come in around $16M.

https://www.cityofsanmateo.org/4142/Central-Park-Playground-...

It's a nice playground design for sure, but it's kind of amazing to consider what could be built privately for the same amount. You could literally build a palace on a giant estate with fancy landscaping, a swimming pool, tennis courts, movie theater, etc.

Of course there are reasons why public projects are more expensive, but it does seem pretty crazy on the surface.
bad hire doesn't necessarily mean bad/stupid/incompetent person, it just means bad hire. might not be a fit for the role, might not be a fit for the company. for example, i freely admit i was a bad hire at Google because i got demotivated by big corporate/political bullshit getting in my way, it just wasn't for me. then i went to a 20 startup and, in the words of the CEO, "saved the company" and scaled it to 200 people

and no i didn't make up 20%, Gartner did a study on it. and most people with management/hiring experience report the same.
What percent of companies using A/B testing do you think know what the Texas Sharpshooter is and how to identify it, let alone what epsilon is or what it means?
Then it seems reasonable to charge people who live in those suburbs more.

I think they key sticking points are 1) Why isnt aggregate claim data good enough for this purpose? 2) Do we prefer erroneous risk estimation from bad personal profiles over erroneous risk estimation from group averages.
i use yubikey every day on linux version of ff, after a year of going back and forth with microsoft works fine with ms365; github worked out of the box, ...
That would require the person having an actual argument instead of being a contrarian shill.
> go straight to Costco

No way, I value my time tyvm.

At locations near me, I swear one spouse goes in to shop for 2h while the other waits in line for gas for as much of that 2h as they can.
If you have a lot of technical churn, and only test perf on Chromium, then you could certainly claim that the result is "unintentional", but it's almost guaranteed based on that circumstance.
> Have you ever thought of why?

I have. Here is why in person interaction works better for me. I learn a lot from someone's body language and multiple subtle cues - eye contact, fidgeting, arms and hands, direction in which toes are pointing etc.

They tell me if someone is not telling the truth, or under stress, or is uncomfortable. Then I can coax further details out of them using appropriate means. And most of the times, people want to share a lot of uncomfortable details but have a big mental block preventing them. As a manager, I can also observe the body language of my team members when they interact with each other and identify the dynamics. Whether they are getting along well or whether they have issues with each other.

None of this is available on Zoom. "Hey how is it going?" "Good" is not going to tell me really if you are struggling with something and are not able to share your problems. "What do you think about the new guy on our team?" "He is good" doesn't tell me what you really think of the new guy.

After talking about this to dozens of people, whose job it is to deal with other people, I have realized that this is a widely shared problem. Luckily, the decision makers about RTO are also the ones whose job involves dealing with people.
If it’s work that I can set the hourly or project rate on I’ll take it. I mean I don’t ask or judge if the work is offered. But I guess I will find out if I am inheriting a half baked project suddenly given to me because all the wage workers were fired.
Reversible Computing (2016) [video] (youtube.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16007128

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVmZTGeIwnc

DonHopkins on Dec 26, 2017 | next [–]

Billiard Ball cellular automata, proposed and studied by Edward Fredkin and Tommaso Toffoli, are one interesting type of reversible computer. The Ising spin model of ferromagnetism is another reversible cellular automata technique.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiard-ball_computer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_cellular_automaton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ising_model

If billiard balls aren't creepy enough for you, live soldier crabs of the species Mictyris guinotae can be used in place of the billiard balls.

https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/04/resear...

https://www.wired.com/2012/04/soldier-crabs/

http://www.complex-systems.com/abstracts/v20_i02_a02.html

Robust Soldier Crab Ball Gate

Yukio-Pegio Gunji, Yuta Nishiyama. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kobe University, Kobe 657-8501, Japan.

Andrew Adamatzky. Unconventional Computing Centre. University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom.

Abstract

Soldier crabs Mictyris guinotae exhibit pronounced swarming behavior. Swarms of the crabs are tolerant of perturbations. In computer models and laboratory experiments we demonstrate that swarms of soldier crabs can implement logical gates when placed in a geometrically constrained environment.
It's not orthogonal because you made no attempt to make it clear whether were you were talking about sex or gender, which are not the same.

Being "a wife to start a family" requires a person with female sex, and is typically associated with female gender. But that association is not required, and has not been so across all human cultures and all time.
He's also running for president: https://twitter.com/MrBeast/status/1809562216015827256

He Tweets a lot of simplistic stuff (see: https://x.com/MrBeast/status/1811014883317530846), gets likes, and moves on. Ultimately, he has one goal, and that's making videos. Anything else is just him tweeting ill-informed things.
No, the claim is just that it’s harder to read and verify existing code than to write new code. Depending on the level of certainty you want, verifying code is much more expensive than writing code, which is why there are so many bugs and why PR review is, imo, practically worthless.

Switching the job of programming from designing and writing code to reading and verifying code isn’t a good trade-off in terms of making programming easier. And my first speei node with AI tools has done nothing to change my mind on this point.
They should just choose RocketLab: https://x.com/Peter_J_Beck/status/1876834824100401519
And I also mentioned those. Not sure what your goal is here.
MIT or BSD are pretty close and they don't have the problems of public domain that is not recognized in some countries.
> Well, an entity indistinguishable from most LLMs (at least when it comes to hallucinations) will soon be in charge of the US, so that Leadership is pretty much guaranteed, it seems...

Please keep flamebait, including partisan flamebait, off HN. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

The link is helpful thank you!
>> Legally having the right of way doesn't make you any less dead when the driver who's got three other drivers to pay attention to doesn't see you.

>Also, and I know this is unpopular, but maybe you shouldn't dress like that if you don't want the attention.

in driver's ed you're taught to "drive defensively" i think the same applies to pedestrians. Don't just step into the road when the walk sign comes on, have some situational awareness and protect yourself.
It is Probably just fine for the next 10 years. Chromecast audio are working great for me with my 70’s receiver and modern mini amp and Bluetooth speakers with line in.
I think the problem is here in the doc:

I have worked with a few of these downstream providers to look for a solution. There is a documented unique user identifier (the sub claim) that could theoretically prevent this issue, but in practice, it's unreliable ... According to a staff engineer at a major tech company: “The sub claim changes in about 0.04% of logins from Log in with Google. For us, that's hundreds of users last week”.

The real solution is to use the sub claim, and not hd/email. If sub is unreliable, let's fix that. That said, I'm surprised sub is documented as unreliable here; I wonder if there is perhaps something else going on. I've done a lot of work with oauth and I haven't found sub to be so mutable, but then again, who knows maybe I just missed it?

And yeah, lapsed domains => domain takeover => email takeover and impersonation will always be a baseline problem, independent of oauth.
I think this may be just due to unfamiliarity. Like, if that mess you shared was written as follows:

{
start: makeForkexecConstructor(["…/bin/ntpd", "-n", "-c", "/…/…-ntpd.conf", "-u", "ntpd", "-g"]),
logFile: "/var/log/ntpd.log"
}

this wouldn't bat an eye. Even though I've never used Guile, just familiarity with Elisp makes that example pretty straightforward. Lisp-adjacent people would all pretty quickly grok this I presume.

And I think it's also hard to claim that one is better than the other. I personally have gotten my feet wet with Guix and I would love the time to become more familiar it.
morale is also adversely affected by people having obvious underperformers on their team that they have to work around, so pick your poison
Best feature is how much I customize in about:config
AI Agents Development Platforms
Personal Finance App
I intend to launch a startup in the personal finance sector, harnessing the latest GenAI developments. As an early adopter of personal finance apps, having used them since 2015 when Aditya Birla introduced the My Universe app in India, I now utilize the Rocket Money app, though I am not maximizing the full potential of GenAI.
Do you guys thinks it’s good idea ? Specially for low to mid income family of US household who are missing out opportunities due to lack of financial literacy
Do you guys thinks it’s a good idea ?
Stats:
Stats:
1. In 2024, $243 billion was lost countrywide of the average American losing $1,015 owing to ignorance of finance.
2. In 2022, credit card issuers charged over $14 billion in late fees alone, which represented more than 10% of the $130 billion they charged in total interest and fees.
https://www.financialeducatorscouncil.org/financial.../
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/.../cfpb-bans-
I'm a China dove and I'd favor full-throated defense of Taiwan in any invasion (much more so than Ukraine) regardless of chips.
without freespeech we wouldn't have had the gay movement when we did.

you should put freespeech above of a lot of things, weigh it much higher than you think and i'm sad to see liberal friends ignorant to US history.

on top of that, your premise suggests billionaires should be recalcitrant forces and billionaires should go along with the masses. most of the them made their money1 seeing opportunities no one else did and executing on them. they are more likely to have an 'edge' in seeing the future even if we removed their fortunes.

to be in the top 5% of global income you need to make more 30k a year. you are likely part of the rich. eat the rich etc. should i listen to you?

1. https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/billionaires-self-made
It really also depends on the country and lots of other factors.
https://xcancel.com/MrBeast/status/1879224239485808811
Closing the Western European offices, possibly. The Eastern ones still provide a lot of value for money and much less pushback.
it makes sense that if average tenure at a company is 3-5 years then some percentage yearly firing will cull people who have 'quiet quit' and havent fully quit yet
Interesting thing here is blinking red for pedestrians before it turns solid red, indicating that you should finish crossing.

In Poland blinking green has the same meaning.

In Berlin and Sydney green for pedestrians is very short and basically lets you enter the crossing. But red doesn't mean you shouldn't be on the crossing. You can take as much time as you need to finish crossing. It feels way better from pedestrian perspective when compared to Polish system where green means you are safe, blinking green means you need to run for your life and red means that drivers can legally run you over and you are about die (they can't but that's how it feels).
> There’s definitely roles which have to be in person, and those people should come to office.

For Eng Mangers to do their job effectively, they need engineers in office too. I discussed that in detail in a sibling comment to your parent one.
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he cannot afford it
> Well, that doesn't look like you are really open to any discussion on this, since you're dismissing anything that's said about this as "nonsense" and you are calling anyone who brings up the examples you just mentioned "right-wing crisis actors" by default

I'm calling the nonsense claims nonsense.

> So, what do you say about this video? It's less than 1.5 minutes and I think it is a good example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hghBAcxEMzM

It's a good example of grifting, yes. We have an ad by the LA fire department where a high positioned person at it talks about diversity. Considering the high amounts of incidents between police and minorities, and high distrust of officials, having the fire department be diverse and representative of the population it serves is a good idea, no? That being said, that must happen with regards to what their job is. No point in hiring someone who can't do the job. And you'll notice that in the ad (or at least the cut this youtuber has chosen to use for engagement, who knows if it's representative or not) the person doesn't say they'll hire anyone or will have a quota. There's a very dumb and aggressive attempt at a dismissal/joke/I don't even know what about a potentially sexist reaction to the above ("can she carry me"). I personally trust the fire department or medic will be able to do their job regardless of their gender or skin colour or whatever. If they're indeed hiring incompetent people because of quotas or any other reason I'd want to know, but neither the ad, nor the youtuber make that claim.

So yes, thank you for illustrating my point. There's a bunch of outrage about "DEI" and quotas and what not, but when you look at the substance, it's nothing.

> And that's what really pisses off the average guy. It is perfectly fine to have certain statements and to want to raise awareness of specific issues. The main demographic for these computer games is straight white men. So it makes sense to try to insert your views about this in a game if they are your target audience. But that needs to be done properly and in an intelligent manner.

While it's true that that's the main demographic, maybe game publishers are trying to add others as well? Increase their target demographic if you will.

> Just adding one white dude option into a mix of overly diverse characters, also making them visually very unappealing to not follow traditional beauty standards and then telling the average dude to "Acknowledge their privileged position" is not an intelligent way to handle this

You're mixing a lead's personal opinion with what the game's options are. I personally don't consider the characters being ugly to be a game stopper (and I'm not alone, I don't think anyone complained about Travis looking like he did in GTAV), but I can see how that can be a problem for some.
That can and should be done without phoning home. It's the invasion of privacy that's the issue, not the safety feature itself.
I've come accustomed to deleting cookies on browser close. The first ~10 or so YouTube page requests, the sidebar of recommended videos is pretty good. After that, as you said, it gets way too muddled. I think a good plugin for YouTube would be to always delete cookies before opening a video so that you're getting as close to a pure vanilla recommended feed as possible.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I was a guest in communities where people said they had problems with homeless people on a regular basis.

You are free to not believe it. I for the moment believe my eyes and ears.
Semi related. Mazda won't let me utilize remote starting the car unless I opt into connected services and the MyMazda app.

The TOS for both services disclose selling my driving information to 3rd parties including insurance companies and law enforcement.

So I'm effectively being punished by Mazda for not submitting to their data harvesting scam.
This is an exceptionally good question to identify people who have actually used a technology for real. I've used merely the second part ("what gripes do you have about X") in interviews successfully for nearly two decades.

If you've used a tool long enough, you've identified warts and misfeatures. And you will have opinions about them.
Advanced lithography is like if a mystery cult were real: Secret knowledge only understood by the most learned initiates, tightly-guarded process, etching symbols that do things...
>but we don't have identity figured out quite yet

Can you explain further?
( btw, your overall analysis is spot on)
Right. You post it on social media to the exact same reason you would post it in the newspaper.

And you would have to understand socialization if you wanted to know why people published life events to the newspaper - births, deaths, graduations, marriages, etc.

Not everything in the world is for your bestest friends. It’s OK to not have close friends.
https://www.financialeducatorscouncil.org/financial-illitera...
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-bans-...
You don't have to be an expert, but knowing the basics of Lisp helps. The full definition of the example "ntpd" service is clear to read.

> the actual guile scheme documentation didn't seem to explain that syntax at all

It does, here: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Expressi...

It's a basic concept of Lisp. Everything is evaluated, unless quoted. Code is data is code!
The comments are almost overwhelmingly negative towards the article, yet the article seems (in hindsight) pretty accurate.

> the non-automattic core devs would be able to fork WordPress as it is GPL. Lets cross that bridge when & if it arises. I doubt it will and hope it doesn’t.

> I honestly don’t think there’s a conflict of interests here.

> of course it’s possible for Matt to do as he wishes, but he’s not exactly going to start charging to use WordPress and make billions.
a perfect one doesn't, but you would be just as crazy to think that no market place exists either.

Insurance companies do in fact compete on rates.
Guile has been the scripting language of choice for GNU before the Internet was called Internet. It hasn't even been disliked, it's been simply ignored, for the most part.
Got it, that's good to know, thanks! I've added the domains in the AI spam / low effort section to our list of user reports for review.
What you are describing has a major sampling bias: most pedestrian fatalities will be at large intersections with many lanes crossing each other. Those intersections are on busy streets where drivers are going fast and where there are an insane number of conflict points. Yes, they're invariably controlled by a signal, but that's because a four-way stop is totally out of the question. The signal didn't cause the fatalities, it was necessary to install it because of the same factors that lead to fatalities.

Using that data doesn't remotely begin to predict what happens when you take a small four-way stop and add a signal to control it. Adding a signal does not create new conflict points, it does not increase the speed limit on the road, all it does is control the intersection in a more aggressive way.
Most companies, if not nearly all of them, are just really bad at hiring above "entry-level" in general. The practice of pushing hiring through HR teams and recruiters often leads to the job posting being weird catch-all abstractions because a huge funnel brings in lots of resumes, which makes the HR teams look busy.

Really, postings should be astoundingly specific --- literally, "This is exactly what we are looking for and the problem we want to solve. Prove to us you can solve that problem." Generalist hiring teams are usually unable to get that specific, which is why personal references and recommendations are very valuable. The number of applicants you get should be a good sign that your posting is too general or just right. Positions above the junior level should have significantly less applicants. If not, then you can probably simply hire a junior level.
> The speed limit is a LIMIT not a requirement. And don’t start me with "you’re dangerous driving so slow" lol.

There are many places that have minimum speed limits as well.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Misty Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38820305 - Dec 2023 (47 comments)

Creator of JSON Unveils New Programming Language 'Misty' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38680087 - Dec 2023 (6 comments)

Doug Crockford's new programming language – Misty - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38620026 - Dec 2023 (3 comments)

Misty: Programing Language from the Creator of JSON - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114122 - Nov 2023 (3 comments)
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This is not really passive income. What he's describing is running your own one-person business. That's about as far from passive as you can get.

Actual passive income is living off the returns and royalties from assets, doing nothing but managing those assets (or maybe not even doing that).