skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "eau" is common in words derived or taken directly from the French (e.g. "beautiful")...
There are really two separate but related things here. Communes didn't work, but many of the ideas from that movement are still useful. The people involved with or sympathetic to that movement exposed just how wasteful rampant consumerism is, for example. There are many, many practical ways to reduce consumption, most of which are still widely ignored, even by so-called progressives.

The second, related part of using the internet as a way to organize people was also co-opted by the very organizations that benefit from continued consumerism, and that had more of a debilitating effect on the internet that the "eternal September" tech types like to complain about. The tipping point was somewhere in the late 90s or early 00s. That has led to the current godawful web we have today, with probably over 98% of the packets being sent for purposes of surveillance or ad-serving.

So, maybe it seems futile to some, but for someone like me who has living memories of the time before computers were common and relatives who died with basic tools of life that were more than 50 years old, it's worth discussing at least.
> why not just look at it like an indicator that the overall economy might be becoming less healthy?

Because it isn’t. We have other indicators for that and GDP growth is one of them. Median wages are affected by so many factors that they invalidate such conclusions. Also, wages aren’t the only money available for spending, there‘s capital income too.
Wage stagnation that comes attached to increase productivity could be offset by a shorter work week.

I mean if you are ~2.5 times more productive but the wage can't increase due to other reasons, why not take different actions to consider employee happiness just just employer profits?
See https://codeforall.org/
Practical intelligence is clearly multidimensional, and there's no reason why someone who scores well on one dimension should also score well on the others.

Any suggestion that talent-for-math = general-intelligence is actually rather dumb. Ditto for assumptions about poor math skills, which can easily be a product of poor teaching rather than unusually low native ability.

If IQ tests measure anything, it's raw mental speed and memory - useful traits, but not nearly enough to draw a bounding box around general intelligence, which also includes abilities such as intuitive modelling, creative originality, and informal inference.

As the cliche goes, smart people can do stupid things in at least some situations.

Raw high IQ is just as likely to get you to wrong conclusions quickly as it is to give you useful predictions. If your modelling skills don't give you a good working model of the situation you're in, you're going to have a bad time.

Outside of core STEM, modelling depends on social and cultural experience and contextual training. If you don't have those, you're going to be handicapped even if you have a stratospheric IQ.
Can we have a bit more of a descriptive title? All people know without clicking the link is it's something to do with crabs and something to do with philosophy
There is also a possibility what something is wrong with healthcare in USA, don't you think? Like, say, people not going to doctors because they cannot afford it. And when they finally go, it's already too late?
Like obesity not adding to the health of the population.
Etc. etc.
And are people really starving in Cuba?
Experiments, growth engineering, and exposing company secrets through your API
SQL gives the developer an option to build a front end of some sort, though, which might be able to get the ease of use to a similar level to that of Excel.
I wonder - could this be used to ensure attention?

Add some randomly generated sentences to a text that students need to learn and then ask them to identify these sentences in the text.
Wait until future civilizations start digging up Startbucks's
You know that Cuban people live longer than American, right? How do you explain that if people are healthier in the US than in Cuba.

I personally would rather prefer live an average life in Cuba than in the US (and I visited both).
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Well, does not chat yet. But that will come. Even this was much easier said than done. I'm talking about my Amazon Alexa skill "Talking Machine" (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NHLFKPW/ref=syps).

Say facts. Then ask. Get precise answers. The precision is the crux of the matter. Say, John will arrive. Ok. Who will arrive? John. Who had arrived? Hmm. Who will be arriving? Uh-oh. Will Sophia arrive? Sorry. I mean no statistical or keyword based judgement to generate the answer. Precise meaning only. We normally think that way i.e. recognize the subtleties and NLU should mimic it closely, so I think. Also, no breaching of basics. John came tomorrow. Uh-oh.

Thinking of applications beyond the game of trying to trick it, I believe it can power a search engine with more accurate results.

Do you find this promising?
Wow, they’re like biological versions of diatomaceous earth, except they are burrowing to get at bee fat.
Interesting deadlock situation in MySQL and its solution
what can be used to crawl through defendant's records to exonerate them can also be used for other purposes so care will always need to be taken with expanding processes such as this.

that out of the way, long term it would be best to standardize how this information is stored, categorized, and shared, so that exoneration in one locality can be more easily implemented in another.
It should be far more open and lightweight than java.

Linking to native libraries isn't desirable - you don't want to leak your native vulnerabilities into your web browser.

If you have the source however (as you mentioned), using Clang to compile to WASM should be a viable approach.
> it can be written in a text editor

Are there programming languages that we don’t use as targets that can’t be written in a text editor? I’m not sure what you mean here. I can write Rust, C, C++, Python, Swift, .Net, etc etc in a text editor with no more difficulty than JS?

> it doesn't require knowledge of a second language, toolchain and compiler. A lot of javascript is still hand written.

Have you not seen the borderline arcane processes and quantity of tooling involved in “compiling” and bundling JS applications? It’s nightmarish and far more convoluted than literally any other language I’ve dealt with.

> Also, deprecating JS would mean deprecating functionality most of the web itself.

Oh no, what a pity, large chunks of bloated websites will go away. I’m sure we’ll all miss them greatly, they made such a great difference to our lives. /s

> No one is going to rewrite all existing javascript in Rust or C or whatever and compile it to WASM.

You don’t have to write it in whatever low-level language, I’m sure any number of higher level languages will get support. Also, we dropped flash pretty hard and fast, and I distinctly, distinctly remember a huge number of websites being entirely flash.

It’s maybe not going to go away entirely, but it will hopefully cease to become as popular as it is now.
Any context on what this is supposed to be...? I can vaguely read PHP, but the code does not appear to be doing anything of much substance.

At first I thought it was something to do with a second revision of GUID Partition Tables.
In the Summer of 1985 (when I should have been outside chasing girls) I wrote a COBOL interpreter in C64 BASIC as the college I was at was still using punched cards and sending them offsite to be run overnight.

That was interesting.
This is like using a hammer to mend everything around you.
What about Achill-henge? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achill-henge

:D
I don't get it. Is it a parody? A copy of an existing website? An attempt to see how many people will sign up without reading the URL or page? An actual startup with an "ironic" URL?
Stayed at Disney this summer. Visited a gift shop /store for some milk and the Disney employee asked me if I noticed the music. Confused I was like "uhhh sure", she excitedly told me they just updated the music and it was clearly making her day.
> This makes me wonder what someone with less computer experience would do, ie if you're not a former computer professional.

One would simply make bread the same way as it has been done for 1000 years!

Humans can understand ratios, write stuff down, plan for the future, etc all without org-mode in emacs, databases, and sometimes without even a calculator.
The tweets that go with this: https://twitter.com/moyix/status/1096255984866082816
CD-Rs are not so bad if you don't write them at maximum speed (you'll still need to store them in a dark place / case). It is pretty well reported that writing at maximum speed causes higher initial error rate and worse longevity, yet most people don't even seem to consider the possibility to reduce speed.
Hi Dang,

Fair enough, I will try and reduce my comments on this topic but people are asking me questions often with lots of personal attacks in there and I am trying to answer the questions.

I am seriously trying to understand how my comment is not mostly civil or substantive or how they are crossing into flamewar which is defined as:

"A flame war is a series of flame posts or messages in a thread that are considered derogatory in nature or are completely off-topic. Often these flames are posted for the sole purpose of offending or upsetting other users."

That's not at all my intention quite the contrary. I am trying to get balance into the very one-sided nature of this debate which is easily verified by looking at the claims of the posted articles/essays.

I am totally fine with being in the minority when it comes to what I think is substantive but I frankly do not see how it's not civil any more than some of the comments I get which doesn't get treated or told off or downvoted into oblivion.
Context: https://blog.openai.com/better-language-models/
Oh, so the former is not actually making any claims about being beautiful? Please...

Just tell me what it does. I'll decide if it's beautiful.
> If the median worker isn't responsible for the increased productivity, are they entitled to a share of the work of other people?

I usually turn this question around: as a programmer, I'm responsible for a greater share of productivity than some people in different functions who are paid less. However, I do not work harder, do not sacrifice more, do not hate my job more - more likely the opposite, even. Why am I entitled to a larger share of profits than other people?

(I understand that the system generally "works better" this way. However, since we're talking about being entitled to something, I wonder if there's a moral argument that can be made.)
Still better than Wordpress core.
1. the numbers are government healthcare expenditure, not private healthcare expenditure

Sure, but what percentage of that government expenditure is going to private health care providers? And how has that number changed over time?
What happened exactly? Nobody's arguing that Indian planes crossed the LoC. But did they really bomb all the terrorist camps? Were the terrorists really killed? Were there really no civilian casualties? How do we know? In fact, how do they know? No source outside Indian media hasn't confirmed these details. Not just that, the Indian media itself hasn't provided evidence to back these claims
It wasn't "already known" because it wasn't true. Otherwise a correction wouldn't have been given hours later.
> Maybe it’s naive, but I’ve often thought law itself should be spelled out in code

Any formal system can either be consistent or complete - not both. Therefore, you will always need an oversight to check for most individual legal cases.
Anecdotal satire from the 60's is a really low quality source.
> A DOM interop spec is underway, which will allow access into the WASM target from JavaScript. It will not allow access from WASM to the DOM, because that is insecure.

More insecure than allowing arbitrary JS like we do now? I wouldn’t be surprised if we do get a WASM DOM API, maybe it won’t start as an official spec, but it’ll eventually happen.
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You just have to ride that fine line between oppressing people enough to enjoy cheap living, and oppressing them so much they decide to rise up and stick a pitchfork in your eye.
Out of interest i did a very rough calculation of what inflation-adjusted numbers might look like. I pulled 4% per year inflation out of my ear, and came up with:

38.552 €bn * 1.04^(2016-2002)
=>
66.76 €bn

..which is uncannily close to your numbers. Inflation probably wasn't exactly 4% YoY, but if it is, then in real Euros, the expenditure per population has decreased.
It’s a text generation algorithm. It’s not meant to be real code, just look like it. This is the infamous “too dangerous to release” GPT-2 making this code.
You'd have to test interrogators' interrogators ad infinitum then.
Exactly, 20 to 30% lower. So like gas(fuel for cars) a lot of people going via Luxembourg taking summer holiday take the opportunity to stock up.
You can tear my 120 character line width from my cold dead hands.
There are some interesting papers turning up if you google „pubmed infrared sunburn“. One of these: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00373376
Low-income earners probably don't have much capital income that they could spend on the local economy.
I first came across Petzold this weekend while watching a talk by Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin on the future of programming. Martin was discussing Turing's paper "On Computable Numbers" and recommended reading it and Petzold's "Annotated Turing". I currently have Petzold's book on my "to-buy" list so am glad to see it spoken of highly.
People are starving in the U.S. of A. as well. And healthcare is nearly inaccessible to them. And what they can get, some law makers want to take away or make even harder to get.
The average worker today produces far more in an hour than the average worker from the '70s did in the same time. And while I get that the increase is not uniform across all workers I am sure it is an increase.

What is the reason for keeping wage tied to time rather than productivity or work, other than a quest for ever increasing profits? And if the wage can't be increased why not decrease the time? This way the worker gets a reduction in time for the same wage and the employer still gets a hefty productivity increase over a few decades ago for the same wage.

I see some countries have actually kept wage and productivity tied to each other and it doesn't look like it was detrimental to the economy.

I'd appreciate dissenting opinions in a more productive format like counterarguments rather than a wave of downvotes.
So, you don't take into account inflation, not GDP per capita grow, not population ageing, but the take-away should be the same.
I’d love to see real stats on that. All I ever see is the statement that there’s this huge problem in the US. Yet, when I travel I see tons of people without teeth, starving in the street, etc. It’s anecdotal, but I cannot imagine these countries are equivalent.

I’ve even seen the claim healthcare is super good outside the United stares. Although it costs more, the US had a top notch system for medical care. They can see a doctor in minutes, get open heart surgery, and go home for <$8000 within a week, with a high chance of survival. The only requirement is insurance, which the vast majority of people have. It’s the insurance part that gets people upset, the health care is not.

Further, Longer life expectancy means little by itself doesn’t mean much. What if a group is predisposed to disease via their genetics? Is that country not counting deaths of children, are the mothers less likely to carry to term, etc? Even if you controlled for everything, you’d also need good records are kept (something I doubt on Cuba).

My point is a lot of time this data is so fuzzy, it’s meaningless. Give me 100 stats and I can mess with the weights until Spain is #1 or #50 easily in healthcare. There needs to be lots of care to make solid claims and I don’t think that was done here, I think they wanted viewership.
Well, I have a very similar environment, but I use KDE instead of xmonad and therefore have a much more consumer-oriented desktop at first sight. In addition, I hide my tmux and vim in yakuake, so that I have access to them at any time via a hotkey (F12).

When you look at my monitor you see just a clean, normal desktop with a few Firefox windows (1-3) and maybe a dolphin in the taskbar, not realizing there are a bunch of shell sessions hidden behind a hotkey ;-)
This isn't too hard in some languages and I prefer it, but there are other languages (like C#) where class names are long and descriptive (e.g. ImmutableSortedDictionary) and it becomes harder to read instead of easier.
Uh, his suggestion is a newpaper, magazine or other forms of publications these journalists work for. Except if you subscribe to the publication instead of the journalist, you get the benefit of the publication's editors.
>I dont know if law can be reduced to code, and it should ideally be intelligible and accessible to the average person, it seems?

Pick One:

(a) There is only black and white - Laws are simple

(b) There are many shades of grey - Laws are complex

You can't have:

(c) There are many shades of grey - Laws are simple
Hey HN I've added some new features including a prompt wrapper object to wrap the UI components together. Please check it out:

https://github.com/Mckinsey666/bullet/blob/master/DOCUMENTAT...
If I wanted to develop my own app for android (personal use) what would I need to learn? Java? HTML5?
I'm wondering what's the topic of the business?
Combine this sort of thing with Google's "chrome manifest v3" proposal, and ad blockers are mostly dead.
Algorithmic justice is one of those problems where techies think that by applying algorithms and techniques du jour will somehow solve the problem. Unfortunately law is so complex nowadays that it is ridden with internal contradictions. Formalizing law would only reveal these. To change the system, a massive reduction of complexity of law would be required before any math could be applied on it with some success. But then if we simplified the law to make it comprehensible to mortals again, who would need any algorithms at all?

Relevant quote from Tony Hoare. s/software design/law/

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
I fully expect that as the 'traditional' internet becomes increasingly monopolised, locked down and regionally fragmented, solutions similar to Othernet [0] will become more common. Personally I can't wait to be able to select between a multitude of networks all serving different content and services.

[0] - https://othernet.is/
The modern equivalent of "let them eat cake."
btw thanks to lars512 for the advice.
Wow, AIX support! nice!
An if you liked that, you will probably love this:

"Computational Logic: Memories of the Past and Challenges for the Future" (John Alan Robinson)

http://www.computational-logic.org/iccl/downloads/Robinson-C...
Until the populace learns how to improve their chances of getting released

As long as that correlates with behavior we want to see from the populace; https://xkcd.com/810/
Sadly it seems it currently can't deal with rotated monitors ;-( I really do love my vertical 24" monitor with full screen terminal.
Shall we also discuss how much of other people's work capital is 'entitled' to?

E.g Uber's executives are very well compensated, and are nothing but middle-men. Middle-men that are easily replaced, as demonstrated by the Uber clones in cities that banned Uber.
Sway has too many bleeding edge dependencies last time I checked, so it’s hard to get built and running on a “conventional” desktop-oriented desktop like Ubuntu.

The author has iirc even actively discouraged Ubuntu and Debian from packaging it, because he doesn’t want distro users creating bug reports on older versions (ie noise) for bugs already fixed in git master.

Once sway lands for regular distro-users, I’ll be there. For now I’ll stick to i3.
Looks like I got the answer. I definitely will not be happy. Thank you and everybody else in this thread.
Yeah, he didn't explain that part well. Bakers typically have ingredients in terms of ratios with respect (usually) to the mass of the main flour. There could be up to a dozen ingredients (sometimes just 3) with time and temperature sensitive processes. A typical small artisinal bakery will have a repertoire of a couple dozen baked goods. It's a fair amount of stuff to keep track of especially when you throw planning/scheduling into the mix.

One doesn't need anything more than a notebook (a paper notebook that is) to do this stuff, but to each his own.
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It's one of the direction explored by status.im (full disclosure I work there) with tools such as visibility stake and tribute to talk
I suppose the irony criticizing an article because the author admits to not reading all of their source material, then admitting you didn't read the whole article is lost on you.
My personal experience is very contradictionary to that statement. Handoptimizing a slow PEG parser, but still using PEG gave me 10% performance increase. Handwriting it on low level libraries, but in the same high level language, gave me a 50,000% performance increase on the average file it had to parse.

Task at hand wasn't a programming language though, but more like YAML with only one level of nesting and a lot of quoted strings (which were the bottleneck for PEG in my case).
Which phrase? That the future is "unevenly distributed"?

It's from a well-known Gibson quote. Using it the way a3n did is the hacker equivalent of a literary reference, easily recognisible to the well read.

Although in this case, it's simple enough to understand just by reading. Disengage google. Engage self.
Reminds me somewhat of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_spinning

...and now I hope that searching for code in the future won't become polluted by such spam.
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"Coincidentally", the chrome manifest v3 proposal makes blocking via heuristics pretty damn hard.
> Formalizing law would only reveal these.

Which would identify easy targets for lawsuits against the government and cases which would overturn convictions and lead to the massive reduction in complexity that you seek.
Since it goes through a reverse proxy, wouldn't it not leak personal data the way using it directly would? If using GA directly, the browser uses my google-session data which GA can track between sites/domains. But here the proxy only gets the unique session for this proxy, so it doesn't know who I am. Or?
Left and right does nothing, up and down just changes it from maximised to non-maximised.
The team are focusing their effort on supporting TypeScript in ESLint. This feels like a good thing.
You are right about that, I lived in Trier, a German town next to the border to Luxembourg. A lot of people in the area went there just to fill their tanks (gas is around 20 cent less per liter) and stock up on cigarettes and coffee.
Because business formation is pretty risky and, to me, seems to be getting riskier as you have to compete with global players in almost every market.
That was a giant logical leep pretty early in, I had to stop reading. He says his father was in the military which allows him to claim some kind of inherited expertise. That's not how it works. Making sweeping generalizations about uniform of the day when he isn't even familiar with that term is absurd. Tangential pathologic mental processes are going on here.
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