skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doing other things in the proposal is no argument against having an attribute((cleanup)) compatible syntax for the part that overlaps.

Also, the defer syntax they're proposing seems nicer in terms of syntactic sugar (no need for a stub function), but at the same time the semantics seem ... weird. Having it tied to a variable makes more sense, and sidesteps a whole bunch of weird situations (like loops with defer statements).
> Economics is about as hard as any other modern applied science.

That still doesn't mean that it's indecipherable by brilliant people in other field of studies nor that the core parts are particularly hard.

> because of the fundamental upheaval the field of study went through in the early 20th century

Rather it became hegemonic and unimaginative and only caters to the status quo.

> whose people you would deprive of agency and deride as "cheap labor"

Please, that is the cheapest trick in the book and just dishonest. Posh accent "Oh, so you think the poor can't take care of themselves? How arrogant!".

The fact remains that much of the global norths current abundance is only enabled by the cheap labour and resources of the global south.

> Ecologists are right now scrambling to find explanations for a number of emerging phenomena.

This is just false equivalence and pointless to respond to. There's no vast pools of ecologist who's entire salary depends on some derivative to pan out or similar.
On the Importance of Ownership
One characteristic of great teams is that its members assume ownership by default. A strong sense of ownership means that the individual deeply cares about and feels responsible for doing a good job for their customers, their team or their company. Owners don't assume someone else is there to catch the ball, they go for it. That is their default behavior.
I'm honestly surprised Dubsmash is still around. I did a Dubsmash for a team-building thing four years ago and never looked at it again.
This is a fine response that provides real insight into how you see the problem and opportunity costs, and not typical CEO empty rhetoric. Good luck with your platform.
> the German Autobahn

Since this meme comes up a lot: About two thirds of the Autobahn network do have speed limits, ranging between 80-130 km/h (50-80 mph). In fact, one of the arguments for a general 130 km/h speed limit is that it would reduce the rate of speed limit changes, thus making traffic flow smoother overall.
Not sure I'd call that a benefit, honestly.
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When content ranking is done algorithmically, the inevitable consequence is that you have people that game the system. I don't have a solid idea on what a sustainable alternative would be, but I believe that we need to move to a search engine which is human-curated. Maybe an implementation is a search engine where you can whitelist sites. That, in combination with crowdsourced lists of sites or content could be one solution.
> I think this article is using "Gentrifying" as a synonym for "ruining" here?

It sounds like they mean "gentrifying" in the conventional sense: quirky, cool neighborhood changes so only newly-arrived wealthy people can afford to live there, and the previous residents are forced out. The quirky, cool character leaves with them, and what's left is a bunch of Starbucks, Whole Foods, and Yoga studios, just like everywhere else.

> Alas, such rejoicing was premature. Instead of delivering us a more useful and trustworthy internet, all the “Your Money or Your Life” update did was homogenize the internet even further—and drive many of its most precarious workers into even more dire financial straits. Once-popular sites like Livestrong, whose articles were mainly written by generalist staff writers and freelancers, had to dramatically cull their lineups. A simple story about how to get rid of blackheads—the kind of quick piece that every low level content jockey has written a dozen times—now must bear the name of a Real Live Doctor to have any chance of ranking. That doctor has to have a Googleable work history, preferably an extensive one. Once the article is done, it has to be updated on a regular basis, regardless of whether there’s been a massive breakthrough in anti-blackhead technology. Above all, the article has to be “great content,” in the words of Google. What they mean by this is not exactly clear, though the company has provided 175 pages’ worth of vague hints.

> For the average internet user, this SEO arms race has made the internet both less interesting and less usable. When we want to discover whether blueberries are poisonous for cats, we have to sort through hundreds of words answering irrelevant questions like “what are the health benefits of blueberries” and “can cats eat vegetables.” When we get frustrated and try the next result down, we’re greeted by a story that looks and reads much the same as the one we just abandoned (the standard formula now is LARGE HEADER – a few paragraphs of text and a bulleted list – LARGE HEADER – a few paragraphs of text and a numbered list, ad infinitum). Here’s a quote from a doctor that feels like it was cut-and-pasted from a different interview; there are some citations from scientific studies presented largely bereft of context. Hooray for the illusion of clarity. Hooray for the death of creativity.
It is the same light as for errors from the vapor pressure sensor. That i can say. As for every other fault i dont know.
When you're selling a securitized asset, you need to show the quality of that asset. You can't just pull together a pile of shit and call it AAA (Yes, 2008 was a thing, and wrong, but lets not assume here that Lambda is borderline to committing fraud).

If the ISAs don't perform, then Lambda will (likely) have no future in selling them. Do you really think they're risking their future cash flow in order to bundle up as much bullshit as they can right now?
Singalong: She broke the whoooole world, with her change, he broke the whole wide world, with his change, they broke the whole world with their chaaaaange!

I'm sure its stressful right now. But someday, these engineers will look back and retell the stories about how it happened and the lessons they learned. Hopefully with a laugh.
First Americans Receive Covid-19 Vaccinations
+10 It's the simplest, most compelling DDD content I've read lately. True gem and I'm looking forward too, but he won't push the content to us, we'll rather RSS subscribe. I already contacted the author/publisher.
Yes, completely usable. I've been using these monitors exclusively for all of my tasks for the past 6 months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pevlmk5kQs&t=1409s
this analysis is not that impressive. it is flat out lazy to take huge, disparate groups and act like having a kid or not is a variable we can causally use to evaluate, well, anything. and let's not kid ourselves, it starts at the title (does having children /make/ people happy), and contains some weak tea "statistically signifcant" analysis without anything else that markedly affects happiness - income, location, ...

it's just: here's a graph, here's a significance test, here's a narrative. no attempts or tests to try and evaluate while controlling for any other things e.g. income.

don't let this analysis influence your thinking too much.
Not even wrong: predicting tech
Had a chance to look at an n-Able / n-Central installation this morning. Turns out that the "Probe" component (installed on machines in remote networks to act as a centralized data collector within that network) does use the affected Orion DLL, but the version appears to be older than the malicious version.

If this hadn't been spotted sooner I wonder if the affected component would have ended up being bundled into n-Able and being shipped that way too.
I wonder if the solution is a human curated Index. Rather than scanning as much of the internet as possible, manually add domains based on perceived value and usefulness in search results. Personally I'd be happy to use a search without including Livestrong, Pinterest, and USA Today in it's results.
IBM Research details big advances in compute architecture and analog AI
The English internet is pretty bad. If, like me, you have the superpower of another language, which is spoken by a few millions so that enough websites exists in it, yet it is such a minuscule market compared to the popular languages you get to enjoy some of the remains of the older internet where search engines weren’t gamed as aggressively.

Though I’m sure things will get worse for these languages as well.

In a way, any ranking of value invites people to attack it constantly. The harder it is to attack it, the more value one gets from succeeding. Until the market incentives changes (and how could they? I would love to know), things will stay as bad as they are or worsen.
I feel like this has more to do with F1’s popularity than DIRT. F1 2020 actually improved their simulation aspects too. Guess it’s off to iRacing for F1 simulation. I can see the FIFA-ization of the next few F1 games turning me off.
I guess what sets people off was that he was being super in-your-face and creepy.

I did street photography for a while and a lot of it was about approaching people nicely and asking, or surreptitiously taking photos. I try to observe photography laws and made sure any photos of private buildings were taken from a public street, although I did get asked by the security guard at a mall to please move to the public sidewalk one time when I walked onto a parking lot to get the shot I wanted.

As I understand the laws in California at the time, photos taken from public property do not need releases from the property owners nor from people unless you intend to use the photos commercially, although I did not explicitly research the laws myself.
It's easier to afford bigger salaries for seniors if you don't have to carry the budget burden of unproductive juniors
It's a luxury product and I'm pretty sure their market is restaurants. Since freshly harvested just tastes better, now good restaurant must source produce locally so are limited by seasons.

This opens the possibility of "farm" to plate under a few hours for what is out of season.
Impersonating a Property Owner to Paint Cookie Monster
>So what?

Many plasticizers mimic the function of hormones like estrogen. Would you like to dose yourself with unregulated amounts of hormone analogs and hope it all works out?
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> v.reddit has never worked for me but I chalked it up to noscript/firefox/old-reddit idiosyncrasies.

same for me
Oh, they are demonically worse.
Looks like they are using a blanket stop word list - "I, the, and" etc. Also looks like diacritical folding has been done for accent characters.
What exactly is wrong with it? They’re still heavily incented to get their students hired. If all they’re selling is F tier contracts then eventually they’ll dry up. They clearly need to continue pumping out students capable of repaying those loans.

This simply gives them a way to tap into the cash they would get in the future, just a few years earlier. And if there’s a 3rd party that wants to take on that risk I see no issue with it.
Sweden did not need lockdown because, like Asia, people there were more disciplined. Numbers show road traffic dropped significantly during the first semester : people stayed home without being ordered to. Some culture will never do that by themselves.

Youngers are less affected but some absolutely do need hospitalization. Reality is not as black or white as you're making it.

The situation is like that in Poland ... and the solution is geronticide ?
Indeed. The fact that CNN's article is titled "...TikTok rival..." highlights the difference in market penetration between the two.
Notice the audience in question: men of low desirability (rural, low income, disabled, etc). Its to help the party avoid the problems with too many men due to the one child policy.

Its what "Harmonious Society" requires as per the leader Hu Jintao.
Corporate malfeasance with corporate malfeasance.

How are they not comparable? The incentives are not aligned: corporate profit vs the commons.
This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I think junior salaries need to come down a little bit (or senior salaries need to go up). When I was a Junior, I was making about 75% of a Senior role. There was no way I was worth 75% of a senior role. Better to have a true Junior role with lower salary, lower bar to entry, and more mentorship.
Of course it will, markets already ignore gdp. It's for guiding government policy, like gdp.
My respect for privacy went up when I went through my first litigation. I then saw a few other people go through litigation, and learned more about the legal system.

It turned out that when people are trying to cast doubt on you, frame you, or otherwise are in a fight with you, knowledge IS power.

There's a misconception that you need to do something wrong to be punished:

* In a civil suit, a judge determines who is more likely to be right, and that can be based on gut feelings, circumstantial evidence, or fabricated stuff.

* Criminal law suits have a higher bar, but at the end of the day, the policeman and prosecutor get evaluated based on whether they threw someone in jail, not whether they threw the right person in jail. To do that, they need to convince a jury.

* Even if you're not throw in jail, a 2-year criminal investigation which costs you $200k in legal fees and eats up all of your mental cycles can leave you financially and emotionally debilitated. All that takes is some government employee having enough to be convinced there's something worth investigating.

* Al Capone went to prison for tax evasion. Our legal code is long enough we ALL break laws we don't know about. If a prosecutor or policeman believe you deserve to be in prison, they'll work really hard to do that.

An email where you misphrase yourself, a record of where you were on some date, or otherwise can all come back to haunt you, even when you've done nothing wrong. It's better to keep that stuff private.

Disclaimer: I've never personally been through a criminal investigation or prosecution. I've been through a couple civil cases. I was threatened with a criminal prosecution once unless I ceded ground in a business transaction. I didn't do what the other party threatened to accuse me of (and they knew it), but:

1. Evidence was enough messy evidence that I think they could have gotten a criminal investigation going.

2. Threatening criminal prosecution as leverage is extortion. I didn't know how far the other party would go. Would they fabricate evidence?

I spoke to a very good lawyer. Their opinion was that this would never make it to court -- even with if the other party faked evidence -- but that the time and cost of handling a criminal investigation would far outweigh any upsides. They advised me to fold. I folded. In retrospect, I'm glad I did.
I'll often find myself in a situation where I'm evaluating two competing products that I don't know much about. For example the other day, it was Logstash vs. Fluentd.

What I've noticed compared to even 5 years ago, is that almost all the Google searches on a topic like that are content marketing. Which isn't wholly bad, at least I'm glad that marketing dollars are being spent on somewhat informative blog content instead of wild parties at trade shows.

But still, I don't really find these content marketing pages terribly informative. They all tend to come off as the same type of bland, inoffensive corporate-y just-the-facts ma'am. "Logstash supports [X]. Fluentd supports [Y]. They're both good in separate ways. By the way our SaaS product [Q] integrates with both."

That's not what I want. I want to know where the bodies are buried. I want to see flame wars, pig-headed opinions, comments saying "lolz, doing that is retarded". Content marketing, in addition to pushing its own agenda, is never going to give you that kind of opinion, because offending people is bad for business. But I want to see honest takes, even if flawed and opinionated.

So all too often with these types of searches, I'll just reflexively append "Fluentd vs. Logstash Reddit" or "Fluentd vs. Logstash HackerNews" because at least I feel like you're likely to get an honest discussion.
> Software people not philosophers promulgated the nonsense idea that "algorithms can't be biased", so I think software people need plenty of help understanding what an algorithm is, with help from philosophy and humanity.

(E: throwaway894345's comment is of much higher quality than mine.)

Very few serious software engineers -- and virtually zero computer scientists -- have ever held this opinion. It's an extreme minority view. And, I know a few philosophers who also repeat this nonsense.

Those that do hold this view IME are almost always folks who are invested in a personal politics that is congruent with dismissing concerns about bias. Without exception, IME, they're also knee-jerk antagonistic toward other ideas about bias that don't involve computers (eg they're the first ones to complain about implicit bias training). These people also tend to be the annoyingly pedantic type ("bias has a technical meaning in statistics!" sort of thing).

In other words, they're politically invested, and no amount of input from philosophers -- or technicians/scientists -- is going to change their strongly held personal politic beliefs.

Again, anyone who has spent a moment around philosophers knows that they are just humans who are not immune from the exact same problem.
Which tool do you use to follow users on HN?
That's the thing: a master would beat you without taking a lot of your pieces. They'll play for position, rather than material advantage. Your pieces will be less of a threat, and won't be guarding the squares they need to guard. Taking material would just slow them down.

They might even just let you take pieces, since you don't know what pieces are involved in the attack and which aren't. There's even a name for it: "pawn munching". It's not a compliment.
If you'd prefer to read one of a million articles that lay out what you suggest (most say we need more data), then I suggest you google the topic. I'd imagine more people will do just that, thanks to this piece!

I personally have done that reading and so was already familiar with micro plastics. However, I had never had a good sense of the quantity until these photos visualized it. I hope this "In Pictures" article introduces more people to this subject because most people aren't aware of this being a potential issue.

(The person down thread who noted this piece uses upper limits without noting it has a valid critique.)
They'd rather avoid the blame hitting them
I played a version of this in school and found it a bit simple (while still fun) after a while. My optimal (and often successful) strategy was to make plausible moves (announce cards I have but play something different) and play with as little emotional reaction as possible.

A truly challenging manipulation game, in my opinion, is Among Us, because you can freely question people and potentially have to come up with a plausible lie on the spot.
Robert Baer's excellent book See No Evil gives a fairly detailed account of what it's like to be an intelligence officer (in his case for the CIA) - you are basically identifying people who have useful information and then persuading them to do that, by whatever means necessary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_No_Evil_(Baer_book)
Capitalism can't be ended, it just a word for what people do when they are free to generate and exchange value.
No I'm just wondering how much philosophy has drawn from common practical low brow stuff to course-correct and grow in the right direction. What came first, empirical philosophers or the recognition that mundane experiential stuff is useful?

I'm just arguing against a sort of waterfall model of philosophers sitting on top of the totem pole and passing down to us what to do. Perhaps that's a straw man though, but some people do seem to think that before Aristotle gave us logic we couldn't follow complex arguments. Indeed, I think it's rather that they formalized already existing argument structures they observed in the agora etc. For sure the abstract tools also turned out to be useful and abstraction is how we got to the moon, not through taller ladders etc.

I think it's hard to deny there is a bitter elitist tinge to philosophers that they don't get enough credit, but it's definitely a larger topic than what fits in a comment.
Wasn't Reddit in severe money troubles, to the point where they were struggling to find good engineers?
Interestingly, DuckDuckGo did not have this problem. I got multiple different sources all saying "cats can eat blueberries".
the way to control a country that is already problematic is to simply support violent crime and gang activity in that country.

that is a huge part of what we call 'guerilla' warfare and proxy war. all military outfits need money and drugs and selling slaves or anything else illegal is the best way to finance already illegal operations using military level of violence.
violence begets violence.
Tell bikes they cannot ride through crosswalks, that they must walk as a pedestrian would. That is very common but universally ignored. Heck, tell bikes they have to obey stop signs, also universal but ignored. Bikes hate limitations exactly as much as any other vehicle.
Its a terrible thing to see companies failing to compete or in this case fix their shit then arrive at the conclusion buying up smaller companies will solve their problems. The SV mindset with deep pockets is a problem.
This is a big, necessary idea.

Advertising is turning into a paperclip maximizing machine that tends to grow relative to total market.

As we get efficient with other parts of the economy and "grow the pie", mind-share remains zero-sum.

Without something changing, advertising will tend to eat all the productivity gains so we can show more ads to people. This is insidious and benefits no one.
>I just don't want someone walking in while I'm using the commode

Door is not the only way to solve this issue.

The question can be asked, why would someone walk in if they can see you using the commode ?