skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is more of a general criticism of dynamic typing than anything specific about Ruby, but If it's unclear from the code why is it so hard to put a binding.pry in there and inspect the object if you need to?

This is a lot slower and more tedious than just inspecting the documentation for a statically typed parameter and the cost of doing it over and over and over again adds up. Also there's no guarantee that whatever type you observe in your particular binding.pry experiment is the only one the function receives.

Of course people continue to build large & successful apps in Ruby. I'm just saying at a certain point it gets harder than it would be in other languages.
I don't disagree with healthcare - its a complete debacle. That said the US models actually pays for a lot of the leading edge R&D in healthcare while a lot of foreign countries get to ride along the cost curve by buying that same healthcare after the bleeding edge making their healthcare costs more manageable.
Any one know if this would fall under 13F reporting requirements? Asking for a friend :).
> I'm not a developer ... so I learn new things every day

Hopefully, that's true for developers, too!
What's your elevator pitch for why my organization should use CockroachDB Serverless vs. something like AWS Aurora Serverless, particularly if we're already relatively invested in the AWS ecosystem?
The futility of decision making research
In my country (Romania) all of the small planes I flied (about a dozen) had just 2 or 3 magnetic compasses. These planes are allowed to fly only on visual orientation conditions (weird local laws), so navigation is not a real concern.
> Remember: Onavo gave free VPN to users

IIRC, it wasn't just a free VPN, it also did extra compression of data like images to speed up site loading on mobile. This eventually stopped working when https became more popular.
Just to clarify, we're a funded startup and we've already had calls with them showcasing our platform. The goal is to get our SDK and tools in the hand of every UE developer out there.
Free maybe, but at least not funded as a settlement would have.
It is pretty well studied and lung cancer is one of the cheapest and quickest ways to die. A lot of smokers also drop dead from heart attacks.

Smokers do have higher healthcare costs when young, and miss more workdays, but in the US where government is paying social security and Medicare, smokers dip into the public coffers much less than their non-smoking peers.
You wouldn’t have an Oxford comma in a two item “list”. It’s for a series of three or more items.
This is Unix (unless you don’t count GNU as Unix which is technically true but nobody cares anymore).
Not as a writer, but as a programmer, I can't attest that it's not just a lack of internet - it's a lack of distractions.

When I was a kid without internet or a computer, I continually got distracted from my schoolwork by a book, Legos, or just staring off into space and daydreaming.

Now, as an adult, even when I don't have access to the internet, I can get distracted by tweaking my Emacs config, playing with one of my personal programming projects, organizing my files, or playing a video game I've already downloaded.

It's not just the internet - it's distractions in general, and the thought-patterns (or personality traits) that cause us to be distracted.

However, you might have noticed a theme with my modern set of distractions - they're all on a computer, despite my library of books and my ability to stare off into space whenever I want. This reinforces the idea that technological distraction is much greater in effectiveness than (most) non-technological means.
I think HN really hates the histrionics that started this thread, "They heroically died for our capitalist masters". When people talk about HN becoming Reddit, this is one of the things they are talking about.
Because it is misanthropic to talk about it that way. You're describing thinking conscious beings that have needs and that are born without their choosing. Construing people as an invasive species is not going to be productive or win you any points in a serious conversation on the subject.
It’s often less about the heat flow than simply the amount of heat contained in that volume of rock.

For your example: A 1/2 acre home is 2023 m2, 1kg of rock is ~2000j/degrees Celsius, 1 cubic meter of rock is ~2500 kg, down 1k = ~2000 j * 2500 * 2023 * 1000 / 60 / 60 / 1000 ~= 2,800,000 kWh per degC. If you’re talking 1kw of heat on average from that rock you only drop 1 degree after 300 years.

Of course 1km is a fairly deep, but if you’re using a heat pump chances are you’re averaging much less than 1kw over the entire year.
> If we had elected good officials at least.

That is the argument against it. If you had elected good officials they would have created regulations against this already. Fact is that we can't elect good officials in the current system. Either it is because people would rather have more goods instead of caring about nature, or the system is corrupt and politicians use their power to enrich themselves rather than doing what people wants. Either case those politicians wont be fixing the problems you care about.
If you're running Linux you can change some settings and boot to console instead of the GUI. The GUI is still there but you have to leave the console environment to get to it.

I'm not quite hardcore enough to actually do this though. I tend to do my personal browsing in Firefox, work browsing in Chromium, and media viewing in Chrome. By "work browsing" I mean only technical stuff directly related to my job - HN counts as personal. When I want to concentrate I just `pkill firefox` and all the distractions go away. Works pretty well most of the time.

Obviously I'm distracted right now.
> typically sugary drinks are chosen by families as they are cheaper than fresher alternatives

Sugary drinks are cheaper than water?

> Education about obesity and its effects seem non-existent

I really don't think that's true. The US (and to a lesser extent many other parts of the world) have had a growing obesity crisis for decades - everyone knows that eating too much food is bad for you, and that eating too much sugar results in obesity and diabetes. People buy these things because they are cheap and addictive - but they absolutely do know they are bad for them.

I'm of the opinion that the addictive nature of sugar means governments should be stepping in to take action, and I think dropping ridiculous subsidies for sugar and corn make a lot of sense, as well as a "sugar tax" for finished goods like fizzy drinks and candy. Education obviously must continue to play a part, but that alone simply isn't enough.
That's not really accurate. There are a number of ways that the moderators can put their thumb on the scale of the algorithm if they choose, by collapsing together submissions, changing titles, disabling flags, putting posts in the second-chance pool, etc.
I don't think this is quite the argument you make it out to be, as we already have higher insurance premiums for smokers. Likewise, high-risk people are ineligible for organ transplants.

Really, anything can be a slippery slope if we want to look at it through that lens, but it's often not appropriate. This is one of those cases.
> Do you think that maybe the agglomeration you describe is one of the reasons that post-Windows office tools seem to have worse productivity?

I think (and there were some productivity studies I remember seeing when DOS w/o Windows, Win 3.x, and MacOS were all popular that seemed to support this, IIRC) that WYSIWYG is the problem, distracting from substance with presentation continuously.
I don't know anything about Worldcoin specifically, but you could argue a case for an initial period of semi-centralized "fair" distribution, after which the protocol would (verifiably) cease to allow minting of new coins.
Definitely! Here's a Scribe I recently created to show all the different ways you can share your Scribe: https://scribehow.com/shared/Sharing-your-Scribe-with-others...

User accounts are not required to view Scribes, and yes, users are able to export and copy the created guides.
Stock is usually valued at 10x profits, so they just have to 10x production to be quite resonable (given your assumption).
Eh. We have to tax something. It seems better to get a given dollar of tax from cigarettes than income.

I'll also point out that commercially supplied addictive substances are never only "in their own house", in that the companies engineering and encouraging addiction are going to use profits to go and hook other people. So maybe look at this as a tax on the addictors and a barrier to generating new addicts.

Also, do you have data on this?

> People stopped smoking on planes and bars because of outright bans, not sin taxes.

My dad quit smoking before bans were common, and the (rising) cost was one of his motivations.
assuming you are comparing it to webgl. WebGPU has better compute support. in practice this means you can more effectively use shaders to perform things like physics, math heavy computation, or algorithms that benefit from massive concurrency. this puts the advantages way beyond just games.
New research has shown that winter cover cropping with hairy vetch will suppress fusarium.
Are the scribes hosted somewhere so that they can be linked? Would love this on a FAQ page for end users / customers.
Punishment via fines should be entirely replaced with something more generally equitable: time. $60 parking ticket should be replaced with 1 hour of community service, which (mostly) equally "inconveniences" a blue collar worker and CEO alike. Same scheme should apply to corporate crimes as well... when everybody's least favorite mega-bank gets caught defrauding customers, don't fine them, sentence the company to 1000 hours of community service, meaning every employee on the payroll has to do 1000 hours of community service and the company has to pay them their standard wages while doing it. That kind of loss would definitely change some board room attitudes.
20 years later, it's time to move on from mass surveillance
There's a phrase (every man I know knows it):

"Life sucks and then you die"

Which is in some ways a variant of Buddhism's "Life is pain".

At least for men, there are always a number of times in one's life when you start thinking these phrases to describe your life.

I've been pretty successful but I've also been divorced twice, bankrupted, made homeless, age-discriminated out of jobs, and bizarrely (even to me) I clawed my way back from each of these. Always thinking "Life sucks and then you die" to gather strength.

I can easily imagine most men being wiped out by merely experiencing ONE of these situations and never "coming back to bat" again.

And once you can imagine that, it's easy to imagine having zero of these or having even minor tragedies being overwhelmed from the get-go - it's all on a spectrum of individual constitutions and strengths that probably starts at "zero". I know plenty of men in that situation.

So as sad as this story is, I'm not surprised by it. It's way more common than a lot of people think. But that's precisely why such stories are so valuable - no one is born with an understanding of the realities of life. You can only learn things the hard way or learn from others' stories.
keeping very sick people alive if way more expensive than keeping older people alive.
Good article, I was looking for a resource like this when I was experimenting with WGSL. I ended up writing a short cheat sheet that might be useful to others here: https://github.com/paulgb/wgsl-cheat-sheet
This is sort of a tragedy-of-the-commons situation. Very few people want to stand up and be counted (Sparkfun aside), yet it's the few who do who keep the bottom feeders[0] in check.

[0] I've been advised by lawyers to just pay them off, as it's "cheaper than dealing with the bottom feeders". Some things matter more than money, and on the few occasions I've pushed it to the wire the chancers have slunk away. It's still expensive though - and maybe only small companies can do it, because for big companies it would be internally expensive/potentially ruinous/worries the C suite it might affect the share price.
What I always find dumb is when I see a swimming pool and an air conditioner without the two being one system.

Do Floridians at least install heat-pump pool heater systems indoors so the cold goes indoors?
There's a difference between malice and ignorance, though. My mom in her 70s is using Signal, and I don't think I can blame her for not realizing the vulnerability. I doubt most people will read the Element webside that carefully.
This would compete with Microsoft's port of OpenSSH.

C:\Users\v-fishecj>ssh -V
OpenSSH_for_Windows_8.1p1, LibreSSL 3.0.2
So they've spent $1.5 million out of an estimated $756 million. That seems like a reasonable startup cost for such a big project.
I had noticed this decline anecdotally previous years, and this summer made a concentrated effort to plant wildflowers to attract pollinators and it did wonderfully. I saw more bees and butterflies than ever.

I plan to do this as long as I can and would encourage others to do the same! I was amazed by the difference.
Time for "This retina does not exist"?
I suspect that US judges inflict AA-style rehab as punishment; my experience of USAians is that they tend to reach for punishment as their first resort (I have USAian relatives, and I've lived there). Having judges elected is part of the problem.

SMART recovery doesn't involve any religious beliefs, doesn't require you to deny that you have agency, and doesn't require you to say "recovering" if you've actually recovered. For some people, it works better than 12-step.
I don't know. To some extent I do agree with you that the social experience of attending university can be very valuable in ways that aren't easy to measure. But part of the reason for that is that university is pretty much the only socially acceptable way for 18-22 year olds to move away from their parents for the first time and spend 4 years burning huge amounts of money hanging out with other 18-22 year olds. And I mostly agree with the article's claim that "Most students attend college in order to get a better job with a higher salary," or at least that's the core reason why it's generally socially acceptable to attend a university. What if there were other socially acceptable ways for 18-22 year olds to hang out with peers, and get exposure to various fields of study and potential career paths, that had significantly different ROI factors than traditional universities?
Technological commentary aside, I have a nit to pick. Let's see... in the computing world there are many instances of the name "Elementary" in use, yet here we go again. Don't project creators do even minimal searches of proposed names?
Anecdotally the spiders here in Germany this year are insane.
A release and a distribution of a product have almost the same legal definition, but in both cases, the definition includes the product being available "for the consumer." If the license is poorly written to include anything else, then it is likely non-binding. But I think it is clear that his was not a public release for the intended audience, and I think it is entirely relevant what state the site was in when the alleged violations occurred.

I'm not asking about whether or not they violated AGPL on a narrow interpretation of the license from a single clause, but whether that caveat in the license is enforceable in this situation. I'm thinking they will have a hard time showing that this constituted a release or distribution under US law.

I was just wanting someone with more legal experience than me to weigh in.
I think it goes deeper than that, although you're making an incisive point.

The value is sort of in how the degrees are used as well. Increasingly, they're being seen as licenses of sort, even though that might not be the intent of the program or even reflect the actual experiences of the person in college. That is, the ROI is due as much to the marketplace as it is the degree itself. If HR departments decide that understanding of DL/AI requires a degree in comp sci, even if someone did an honors thesis on that as a psychology major, demonstrating a new proof-of-concept DL model, it doesn't matter what sort of talent is being recruited. Is it the degree holder, the degree, the program, or the employer?

I feel like college degrees have become this kind of signalling label, like much of the modern world, like clothing or something. That's not to discount the skills one obtains as part of a major, but it hurts the person who is going outside the box (in a good way). There's also something disingenuous then, about treating degrees as a resource to be obtained, when the value of that resource is entirely dependent on the way it is treated by others. That is, a hammer is more useful than a rotting stick, but if for whatever reasons there's rotting stick mania, the ROI will be greater for the latter. That doesn't mean the ROI analysis is wrong, but it might give a misleading impression about why.

I admit I didn't read this in enough detail, but I had other questions as well. For instance, in other similar analyses I've read in other outlets, they've explicitly ignored people who have graduate degrees, as it muddies interpretation. But isn't that important? What about the person who gets an undergrad degree in psychology, but then pursues symbolic logic programming and DL models in their master's program in comp sci? Or who goes on to medical school? Some of these degrees, like philosophy, are notorious for being pre-professional degrees, and comparing a BA-only philosophy grad to a BA-philosophy + JD is a little odd, both because it's unfair, but also because the person who gets a BA in philosophy and then stops is maybe different from the person who gets that degree as part of a longer-term plan that includes law school.
How many extent build-systems are there now for JS/TS? It's getting insane.
And so long as the tax is less than (typically very expensive!) black-market overhead, that's not a problem.
You should read about the Great Leap Forward and The Four Pests campaign that lead to the greatest famine in human history with up to 55 million people dead from starvation and bodies piling up on sides of roads.

Chairman Mao Zedong launched the campaign to reconstruct the country from an agrarian economy into a communist society through the formation of people's communes. Mao decreed increased efforts to multiply grain yields and bring industry to the countryside. Local officials were fearful of Anti-Rightist Campaigns and competed to fulfill or over-fulfill quotas based on Mao's exaggerated claims, collecting "surpluses" that in fact did not exist and leaving farmers to starve. Higher officials did not dare to report the economic disaster caused by these policies, and national officials, blaming bad weather for the decline in food output, took little or no action. The Great Leap resulted in tens of millions of deaths, with estimates ranging between 15 and 55 million deaths, making the Great Chinese Famine the largest famine in human history.

The Four Pests campaign (Chinese: 除四害; pinyin: Chú Sì Hài), was one of the first actions taken in the Great Leap Forward in China from 1958 to 1962. The four pests to be eliminated were rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows. The extermination of sparrows is also known as smash sparrows campaign (Chinese: 打麻雀运动; pinyin: Dǎ Máquè Yùndòng) or eliminate sparrows campaign (Chinese: 消灭麻雀运动; pinyin: Xiāomiè Máquè Yùndòng), which resulted in severe ecological imbalance, being one of the causes of the Great Chinese Famine. In 1960, Mao Zedong ended the campaign against sparrows and redirected the fourth focus to bed bugs.
Not sure this would hold true. The most efficient way to manage insects in a home (consumer) environment has nothing to do with pesticides.

For example: Ants are best managed caulking ingress points. Silverfish are best managed by reducing humidity. Bed bugs typically require professional fumigation. Flies & roaches by removing/storing food sources, etc.
I don't think you'd use a comma there in any circumstance. It's a list of two places, joining with a single and is appropriate.
Subscription pricing models are hardly unique to Adobe. I can’t even find any decent accounting software that doesn’t require some kind of a subscription. It’s pretty common, for better or for worse.
Now I've read a bit of those links and also read a bit of the following other links:

- https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/KernelRcuNocb...

- https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

- https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Setup

And I've changed the following line in my /etc/default/grub from:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

to

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rcu_nocbs=0-15 processor.max_cstate=5"

since my CPU has 16 threads. And I've saved it and have run

sudo update-grub

Now I'm about to reboot the computer and then hopefully it will be more stable from now on :)

Thanks again for the help bilange.
Maybe not a strategy, just survivorship bias?
Okay, please point to a time on HN that this was done to actively promote something harmful. Because that's really the only point here - the ethics of actively promoting something harmful since it makes money.

Facebook would not have developed the "Fix" if they didn't recognize the problem at hand. They just actively decided the problem was too profitable.
Well, China wasn't communist in 1930; that aside, I think it's tough to get an accurate idea of one specific time in the past, as such I think we're better off trying to understand the general situation over the situation over a longer-term in the USSR. Here is a quote from a self-professed socialist on a socialist website about the environmental situation there:

>"On this basis, let me agree with Adam that the damage done to the environment by the Soviet regime and its successor doesn’t remotely bear comparison with that in the West. It was, and remains, catastrophically worse. Particular countries elsewhere, especially in the developing world, have suffered one or another ecological disaster, sometimes of mind-bending dimensions. The USSR managed something in just about every sector of heavy industry to match the worst of them."

https://socialist-alliance.org/alliance-voices/ecological-di...
Not to say it can't happen, but there are quite a few new institutional and regulatory safeguards that (in spite of the attempts by some to neuter them) exist now that did not exist pre- and during the great depression that make such a thing happening again, or to the extent that it did, quite hard.

The more interesting question is whether there is the political will, let alone ability, to accurately and quickly respond to events as they are happening, rather than with extreme delay. Covid-19 (granted as much a public health crisis as an economic one) showed that American domestic problem solving has grown rather fragile and inflexible.
The United States at least is actively in a great depression. It's just being papered over with currency debasement so rich people don't notice.

But if you actually visit parts of this country that are outside of the wealthy, coastal bubbles, you'll see first hand the real world devastation that's happening to people. It's why there's a major opioid epidemic in the Midwest. It's why homelessness is exploding. It's why rampant, degenerate speculation in stocks and crypto is going crazy and rife with scams and conmen selling hope to the hopeless. It's why populists like Trump and Sanders have so much political energy behind them.

And all of this is pre pandemic. I'm sure the past two years have added a new level of devastation.

People are depressed and dying everywhere, but us winners in our gilded bubbles have the privilege of being able to look away and continue living in our illusory, drunken stupor.