skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the closest, albeit boring, analogy to the situation is you go through the traditional staffed register at a busy time. The tally comes out a little lower than you were expecting. Since it's not higher, you pay and get out of the way. In the parking lot, you look over your receipt and see that one item out of many didn't get scanned. Now you have the choice of either just accepting the benefit from the mistake, or spending your life waiting in line again simply to redo their job better than they did it themselves. IMO it's foolish to correct their mistake by harming yourself instead.

I've also corrected cashiers on the spot, especially for more significant errors. I once had a cashier ring up a manual 20% off coupon as 80% off ($20 vs $80 final price). Going through with that transaction could reasonably be called dishonest, despite it being perfectly legal.
Composer Is Not a Builder
I never said Walmart invented the space. They did innovate in the space however and have used it at a scale that had not remotely been seen before.

I entirely disagree with your premise that Walmart's primary leverage against the large brands is their scale. The reason I was so specific on pressure on brands, is because that's where Walmart has the weakest position versus the core brands in cases of segment dominance. Kraft for example is an extraordinarily large and powerful supplier at what they do. Without the very cheap, near zero margin version of their Great Value competing products, Walmart has few good options for applying pressure to a supplier the size of Kraft that dominates so many spaces. There are no replacement products that can blanket fill up their thousands of stores coast to coast and always meet demand as the sole supplier. You can't get that kind of supply & guarantee from small mom & pop labels that are heavily regional.
Really great explanation. This is more a way of finding an opinionated (smug?) minority who believe they know better than the crowd.

Sometimes experts could be right, but other times wrong. Vaccines/climate change/current politics could all have a strong effect here and still be wrong.
A Bibliometric Analysis of Bitcoin Scientific Production
I actually built something like this a few months ago. I called it “OSSassin” (like the game[1]) so devs could sign up & get a unique ID/url to ping with the idea that everyone participating would then try to secretly, and not maliciously, “assassinate” the packages that have agreed to participate by sneaking in code to ping their endpoint. Just as a fun/friendly game to help identify potential vulnerabilities. It has a leaderboard for “kills” but it’s currently empty because I never released it. While I’ve got some experience using packages, I’m still pretty new at software development & have never really been involved maintaining any packages. So I guess what I’m saying is I’m not entirely confident the way I built it made sense until I just saw your comment. I also wanted to add GitHub OAuth as a way to verify/limit who was participating but I never got around to it.

I’m on my phone at the moment but if you (or anyone else) has the knowledge/interest in taking a look at what I’ve done I’d love to release it with a partner.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin_(game)
Im the executive who oversees all of UI/UX, Product, QA, Devops, and Engineering. This is one of the core aspects of my job hence its my job to care and puts me the fair position of giving a top down view of such issues.

edit: wow down voted into oblivion over this... I came for a reasonable debate. Its super clear now why "rude" people rule and all the passive aggressive do is down vote me over a reply.
Global food system discards 46M tonnes of fish each year
On the other hand, how would you communicate uncertainty in the context of a binary question?
I trust these people to manage software packages:
https://nm.debian.org/public/people/dm_all

They “only” manage ~18K packages, but those 18K do a lot more than NPM:

https://people.debian.org/~corsac/

perhaps number of packages is the wrong metric.
> This is the opposite of the previous statement.

Not really. I didn't say in the first statement that a specific coordinate system was used. In most systems, it doesn't matter how you choose your coordinate system, as long as the basis is orthogonal, treating the coordinates independently of each other will work.
Comparisons in C++20
The details.
Show HN: Memorize Terminal Commands
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20503194
I use a couple. One for sending my home ETA in the evening. Another for extracting URLs out of plain text. I made this mainly for visiting links in people's HN profiles.
You also have to have appropriate licensure at that power output.
The incumbent solution (ICE) gets 500 miles of range on a 5 minute charge with 5 year old storage, when it is 5 degrees F. You can wave your "subjective" wand and dismiss this, but new solutions are always compared to the current one.

Here's an example of what happens when the reality of the insufficient range of a Tesla kicks in:

https://jalopnik.com/german-environmental-minister-returned-...

I think it would be great if EVs would be successful, but don't tell me they're equivalent when they are not. By the time my ICE is down to the range of an EV, it's time for me to fill up again. The short range of the EVs is just unacceptable.

I'd be totally willing to buy an equivalent EV, but the current crop of them are not equivalent, and they cost a lot more.
There is certainly that (basically sexual selection) but there's also the more generalized natural selection where, for example, foraging and hunting solo are both much more difficult to do successfully, so you inherit a social drive along the lines of "I feel anxious or depressed when I'm totally alone," and/or "I care how these other people around me feel and what they think of me."
This makes sense to me. If you're an expert you are comparing yourself to other experts in your field. On the other hand, if you know anything about a topic but only interact with people who know nothing at all about it, you would rate yourself highly.

For example, I read a lot about modern physics but am not a physicist. I would give myself an above average understanding but would likely fail an exam.
I totally agree with you. Those are _hard_ tools, and if on top of it you have the attitude of "I am just going to learn this for this class because the teacher told me too", you are definitely going to dislike it.

I think you are spot on with the intrinsic interest.
US company selling weaponized BlueKeep exploit
Instagram Intellectuals. Some folks want to show off their hot bods, expensive cars, and exotic trips. Others want to show off just how smart they are with a superficial recognition of a pattern, a concept, a thing they know, but not an actual discussion.

I'm as guilty as any. How does one learn to "shut up" other than through sheer force of will?
Check your history on that. Climate was much more temperate in egypt 2000 years ago
If you enjoy this sort of thing and you’re ever passing through the city of London I would highly recommend stopping the Bloomberg offices and visiting the Temple of Mithras. A Roman historian friend of mine took me on a tour of the temple with the British Roman Society when it first opened. He was very impressed and told me it was one of the most faithful and high quality sites that he’s visited anywhere; including Italy. Pity they threw the original temple columns into the Thames when they first found it after the Blitz.

Entrance is free and right next to Bank tube station. Though I think you need to book in advance (unless you have friends working in the Bloomberg building).

_edit: a word_
I'm not sure either, but: cloud=someone else's computer, cloud-native=living on someone else's computer, semantic=meaning of things, semantic-search=Find the meaning of something. Maybe it can explain what it self is.
For those interested in playing around PyCom (MicroPython devices) are great. As an example the LoPy 4 supports LoRa, Sigfox, Bluetooth and Wifi.

https://pycom.io/product/lopy4/
Some variety of this is in fact the classical reply to Anselm's version of the ontological argument. A contemporary of Anselm's, Gaunilo, published a satirical proof that a maximally excellent lost island must exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaunilo_of_Marmoutiers#The_%22...
Fun article that I've seen posted around:

http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%2...
Some kind of compromise indeed. Because the ideal shape is triangular (like some of the best modern ballpoint pens are).
You might also enjoy https://functionalprogramming.slack.com/
Sad to hear. I have a border collie and it’s amazing how much he trained himself. What’s especially interesting is selective obedience (also common in trained dogs like service animals). He almost always knows what you’re saying, but only listens when he wants too.
Sorry, I am multi-tasking, and that poorly. I will look up some of the references, the names that seem to be coming to mind (looking over my RSS feeds) are Kuppy from Adventures in Capitalism, Chris Martensen from Peak Prosperity, Simon Black of Sovereign Man, Charles Hugh Smith of Of Two Minds, I think less-doom-prone authors on fee.org and mises.org. It is highly likely a biased list, I seem to have been gravitating towards the overall message of decay/decline, helped along by the citations of urban areas not doing too well in various places throughout the US. I live very rural along the northern coast of California, so more selection-bias there, as well.

Yes on my debauchery reference, QE, TARP, increasing debt (temporary removal of the debt ceiling - oh boy), increasing obligations incurring more debt (social programs, retirements and benefits), the general idea of borrowing from our future to live for today that seems to be the current m.o. And now apparently little in the way of an anchor for US currency (or other central bank nations, for that matter) since removal from the Gold standard, and recently the demise of Bretton Woods as other nations seek ways around being forced to use US currency.

This leads me to conclude that we are on the down-slope of Charles Hugh Smith's S curve: https://www.oftwominds.com/blogmar19/empires-collapse3-19.ht...

Have to run, cooking (experimental tomatillos, tomatoes, and Cilantro sauce) as well as doing some remote tech support.
> "how can you be against the death penalty, but pro-abortion" - but then, the opposite stance makes just as little sense.

Where's the inconsistency in the opposite stance, supporting death for murderers and opposing it for the innocent unborn?

That's not my personal position but it seems perfectly reasonable to treat those two groups differently.
I would agree with you and say you can even go further on how people avoid approachable tools. People were asking for something "easier" than HyperCard. Customizing software, rather than learning and programming. Something like HyperStudio "Express" instead of HyperCard. I'm guessing this is why wizards (in Word) also became popular. Though they were meant to teach people concepts, but people ended up using them to avoid learning concepts.

16:38 of this video gives more details of that time when companies started dumbing down things to fulfill customer demand: https://youtu.be/9nd9DwCdQR0?t=998

(The presenters are associated with VPRI, Alan Kay's institute.)
This is awesome, thank you!!
Well done! I am inspired. Dependent types are the future, and so are you :-).
> How an animal lover’s hobby of recording himself feeding stray cats exemplifies the glory of the anonymous web.

There's nothing in this article to indicate being an animal lover. Cat lover, maybe...
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3293657.
This was a great thing to learn as SCP seems to perform poorly when you have many small files. Thank you!
Practice silence if you are not creating valuable conversation. Pointing out intellectual fallacies ends such discourse, and doesn't accomplish anything but that.
Whenever this makes top of HN, it remains one of the most contentiously misunderstood pieces of formal logic -- much like some of Gödel's other famous results. The proof is basically a formalizing of Anselm's Ontological Argument[1]. The proof doesn't "prove" there is a God, it just shows that the argument, written in S5[2] (a type of modal logic), is correct -- more specifically, that if the premises are true, then the conclusion follows.

Alvin Plantinga also did a lot of work refining these kinds of modal ontological arguments in the 70s and 80s; of note is his famous "victorious" ontological argument[3] -- still hotly cited to this day. Modal logic, for the uninitiated, essentially adds two new operators to the "usual" logical operators we might have seen in college (negation, implication, conjunction, disjunction, quantifiers):

Necessity: ◻P -- P is true in all worlds
Possibility: ◇Q -- Q is true in some (or no) worlds

It's a very fun and surprising type of logic! A very intuitive result (and one of the first you'd learn) is what happens when you negate a necessary proposition.

~◻P -- P cannot be true in any world!

What Gödel's proof shows is that God -- as defined by the premises (basically, as maximally "everything positive") -- is necessary; which is why his last line includes a ◻. I don't want to get too bogged down, so this was purposefully a very surface-level comment. If I piqued your interest, I strongly suggest you check out some of the linked resources!

The historical context is also very interesting. It was somewhat unknown how valid Anselm's argument was, and it took almost a millennium before we could satisfactorily formalize the ontological argument (although many non-modal and Aristotelian proofs had been written).

What does it mean for non-logicians? Well, if you buy the premises (which is key!), it shows that it's not irrational to believe in God (as defined by the argument). Again, it doesn't prove the existence of God, but it does show that the logic of the argument makes sense.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontological-arguments/#St...

[2] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-modal-origins/

[3] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontological-arguments/#Pl...
Programming time and time zones is difficult
> your little soapbox rant on purebreds

I'm soo sorry if my obvious point was over your fucking head. Here's an article for the more enlightened members who might actually be interested in alleviating the suffering of dogs--which are freakin awesome animals.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/although-purebred...
I wonder if Nathaniel Bowditch was an inspiration for Heinlein's 1953 novel Starman Jones. It seems quite possible, given his Navy career.
You are not a lawyer, because if you were, you would be aware that there is case law establishing that just because you don't charge for it, doesn't mean you aren't providing an implied warranty and aren't taking implied liability.

There is absolutely zero chance that you can put malware into an open source project, give it away, and then when sued, stand up and say, "It was free, what do people expect?"

You can call me pretentious until night turns back into day, and maybe I am, but the thing we're discussing is a matter of law, and it there are nuänces above and beyond what random people on the Internet would like to believe about how giving software away works.

(edited to add a pretentious diæresis)
Does the U.S. have the curse of being first? Europe got to largely rebuild their rail from scratch after WWII whereas U.S. rail has been where it is for a very long time.
NB, those aren't "enthusiasts", the S&SWRWC is an industry association.
haha. my dog is trained to only sit and wait, but I’ve got this nagging feeling he understands almost anything I tell him and just chooses to ignore me most of the time.
A lot of those packages are going to be versions months or sometimes years behind the latest version.

I'm not convinced this is a model that can work for programming libraries.
This is not a package namespacing issue. This is not a technical issue. It is mechanically no more difficult to change from "@shinn/purescript" to "@whatever/purescript" than it is to change from "purescript" to "purescript-whatever", except that in the common cases (where no disputed community moves have occurred without a corresponding name change) everyone has to include an author. The author can still "give away" or sell package names; a lot the value is not in holding the name, but having the existing installed base and mindshare.

These are the social issues associated with a hostile fork.
So the manufacturer was just re-selling stuff from Amazon?
His comment is a suggestion to read the linked article, which takes the position that Drexler wasn't simply too optimistic in his futurism, but willfully misleading about the technology. Everyone loves a good story, and Drexler was happy to sell one.
Also questioning how they standardized this. I just got a 20 out of 50 and probably should have gotten a 5 out of 50. If you're not a super-fake optimist then the questionnaire is going to think you are the poster-child for burnout.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20529001
The word is "usury".

> Originally, usury meant the charging of interest of any kind and, in some Christian societies and even today in many Islamic societies, charging any interest at all was considered usury. Some of the earliest known condemnations of usury come from the Vedic texts of India. Similar condemnations are found in religious texts from Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury
Two charged with ‘terrorism’ over Bulgaria’s biggest data breach
8. Have insurance that requires a car be stored in a locked garage, but live in an apartment without a garage.
I doubt it. When you made Hypercard stacks you did it in Hypercard. When you make websites, you make them in ... not a web browser.
The specificity would imply so.
Great engineers make everyone around them better. Bad engineers put down their co-workers and dismiss them as incompetent.

Almost every great engineer I have worked around has been nice, patient and relaxed. Because they know you can catch far more flys with honey than with vinegar.
Show:

* give an architecture walk thru

* give a directory walk-thru

* show the hot modules. something like

git log --pretty=format: --name-only | sort | uniq -c | sort -rg | head -10

* if can generate a dag of module dependency, that would help

* walk thru of the test cases

hands on:

* Ask them to add log messages at strategic places (find needle in haystack)

* Add new test cases in areas with low/no coverage

both are very low risk ways to get familiar with the code base
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Compiling pypy is memory intensive, I don't believe it can be done in 2GB which is where most of the really affordable ARM devices seem to cap out.
Yeah I probably should've refined it. Actually now I'm thinking about it and there's probably even a qualitative difference between "attention" 1.0 and "attention" 2.0. To use a metaphor, it's kind of like artisanal attention vs. mass-produced attention.

1.0: One or two people find your site organically and engage with it on a deep level (because maybe there's nothing else out there for that particular interest).

2.0: You're hoping thousands of people see it and click "like."

So I'm using the mass-production analogy to capture the fact that there's more of it, an abundance of it, yet each one individually is less special or lower quality (but good enough), and mediated by a machine.

You can buy 20 sweaters at the store, all identical, all knitted in minutes by a machine, vs. having your grandma slave away over one sweater for two weeks of evenings. The machine-made sweaters are more precise and excellent in the technical sense, and there are more of them, while the grandma one is more special and one-of-a-kind, and has flaws, and has "flaws."

(The part that didn't change is that people still need sweaters.)
I highly recommend the author's podcast: The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe [1].

[1] https://www.theskepticsguide.org/
It really is striking to see. I've worked across East and South East Asia. Outside of the office context, you really do slow down in hot climates. I mean in all aspects.

When I first moved to Thailand, the first thing that went was my sense of fashion - - it was just too hot to care, and I was soon in shorts and flip flips like the locals. And during midday, if you are outside, there is a general listlessness in the air. The heat is oppressive.

Such economies are losing a huge amount of productivity amongst their blue collar class because it's just too damned hot to do anything.

It sounds silly when said, but air conditioned and affordable undergarments would be a game changer for the planet.
1) Give the poor enough money that housing will be affordable.

2) Subsidise housing directly.

3) Change regulations so building affordable housing will be profitable.

There's nothing fancy or unusual about housing. The poor might struggle to afford food, so we give them money (eg, via EITC) so they can afford food, we give them food directly (in the form of vouchers, such as food stamps) so that they have food, and we use industrial policy to ensure that food will be cheap and available, so they can afford food.

This works pretty well! Food is very cheap in the US, to the extent that many people suggest we've gone too far and made it too cheap and available.

Note that at no point does "invest city pensions funds in a slush fund to make loans to people wanting to build artisanal dairies" come up, because that's actually not going to solve the problem.
Modal logic adds two new operators: ◻ -- necessity; and ◇ -- possibility. For example, a triangle's angles necessarily add up to 180, but it's merely a possibility that it will rain tomorrow.

That's all there is to it, but things can get very complex when you start adding negations and the other logical connectives.
I worry sometimes about the actual effects of exercise on our health, and the legitimacy of these studies. It's impossible to detach these studies from the confounding factors - if your health declines (for any reason), you will stop exercising. I feel like we have to take any studies that use correlations with a grain of salt.

How do you study the effects of exercise when there are such massive confounding variables?
Consider checking out some other videos on Numberphile/Computerphile channels. They work with many great minds.
How hard would it be to port HyperCard to Qt? No reason we can't have it back.
I'm no economist, but shouldn't it work nicely to just print money and pay it out equally to all citizens? Why hasn't anyone tried this yet?
The iShares one is actually cheaper (TER of 0.07% vs. 0.09%) but it seems its tracking difference is worse (for the last years), so it seems the SPDR performs better. However, you can also buy the Vanguard S&P 500 UCITS ETF in Europe, which has also has a TER of 0.07% but an even better tracking difference than SPDR.

I don't think liqudity is a problem for such huge funds.
https://github.com/projecthorus/wenet is an example of using a RFM98W lora module with a raspberry pi/RTLSDR reciever (albeit at 115kbaud in FSK mode, but 50mW of tx power gets ranges of over 100km)
Crazy, it reminds me of those Apocalyptic films where certain signs means a major evolution.
I still use it sometimes (and still supported in win10 believe it or not)!
So the use cases for this project must also be extremely rare?
It was really a thing that could, theoretically, have taken the course of Director or Flash. You can imagine a parallel universe where that happened and my guess is the final result would have been the same.
That's not lora modulated. My example was.
Isn't Linus Torvalds a pretty strong counter-example to this?
Japan uses standard gauge and has much bigger earthquakes than California.
In general, it's assumed that it's better for society if you consume later rather than now. Risk-free investment returns are how we incentivize that.